Learn more about Music Matters Productions, who are celebrating their 20th anniversary in business this year. From a middle school music education business, MMP has grown by leaps and bounds from small stages in the Atlanta, GA area to supporting festivals, productions, and tours across the U.S.
PLSN catches up with Lighting Director and Programmer Amy Melia who is building her career on a solid foundation with education and hard work. She is busy pursuing her ‘Plan A’ and setting her sights on a long career in lighting.
A look at some noteworthy books, including ‘The Production Manager’s Toolkit Second Edition,’ by Cary Gillett and Jay Sheehan; ‘The Projection Designer’s Toolkit,’ by Jeromy Hopgood; ‘Bloody Brilliant: How to Develop, Execute, and Clean Up Blood Effects for Live Performance,’ by Jennifer McClure; ‘Off Headset: Essays on Stage Management Work, Life, and Career,’ edited by Rafael Jaen and Christopher Sadler; ‘The Assistant Lighting Designer’s Toolkit,’ by Anne E. McMills; and ‘The Scenic Charge Artist’s Toolkit: Tips, Templates, and Techniques for Planning and Running a Successful Paint Shop in the Theatre and Performing Arts,’ by Jennifer Rose Ivey.
Debi Moen has the inside scoop on all the where, what and who hitting the road for an incredibly busy touring season.
Chris Lose looks at Green Riders for tours and how everyone has a part to play in going green on the bus, onstage and at the FOH.
Lighting & Video Company
Music Matters Productions
Venue
State Farm Arena
Atlanta, GA
Pantera loaded in at Armeets Arena in Sofia, Bulgaria for the first show of their first European tour in over 20 years. They will be touring Europe through June, ending in Bologna, Italy on July 2. They then return to the U.S. July 13 with dates through 2024.
Gateway Studios & Production Services brought the Dreams in Gold tour to life with a 4K video production set-up utilizing AV Stumpfl’s mobile Monoblox projection surfaces and frames.
AV Stumpfl’s industry-standard Monoblox projection screens helped deliver visual impact for Dreams in Gold, the latest, critically acclaimed world tour by Grammy-winning rock revivalists Greta Van Fleet.Read More »AV Stumpfl Screens are the Gold Standard for Greta Van Fleet
Atlanta’s House of Music Productions, an event production services company offering lighting, staging, A/V production, broadcast streaming and product rentals to a wide array of markets, has expanded its rental inventory of Claypaky fixtures and become a Claypaky partner for resale, installation and design projects in the southeastern US.Read More »Atlanta’s House of Music Productions Increases Claypaky Rental Inventory and Becomes a Claypaky Partner
Lewis Capaldi is currently touring the States, having recently completed his biggest European tour to date, visiting arenas in 32 cities over two months. Having played one of the last concerts before lockdown in March 2020, the Scot was out with a lighting package provided by Neg Earth, and new conceptual stage scenography orchestrated by Cassius Creative. This was constructed largely around GLP lighting solutions, notably a large grid of 102 JDC1 hybrid strobes.Read More »Lewis Capaldi Tours with over 170 GLP Flexible Hybrid LEDs
Folk-pop artist Maggie Rogers has wrapped up the first leg of her The Feral Joy Tour. The tour promoted her latest album Surrender and featured special guest Del Water Gap as an opener for the show. Production/Lighting Designers Tess Falcone and Dan Hadley of LXFC marked their first tour with the artist. Hadley had worked with Rogers’ management before and was invited to submit a design to work with the artist herself, executing an intimate rock-concert design for Rogers’ unique sound. Entertainment Technology Partners spoke with the LXFC partners about the tour’s design.Read More »2023 Maggie Rogers: LMG Touring Delivers Ultimate Rock Concert Feel
This month’s Featured Listings include the PICCOLA from hazebase and Tenore and Soprano from DTS, along with photos and info about new products from ADJ, CHAUVET, Elation, ETC, and SGM Light.