Scottish singer-songwriter, Gerry Cinnamon, concluded his 10-date summer tour of the UK and Ireland with two sell out dates at his hometown stadium, the 50,000-capacity Hampden Park National Stadium in Glasgow, in mid-July and simultaneously made history as the first independent act—and the first Scot—to sell out multiple nights at the venue.Read More »Pete Hutchison Spices up Gerry Cinnamon’s Summer Tour with Ayrton
“I want to break barriers. I want to try new things.” Jubin Nautyal told an interviewer this summer. The 2022 IIFA Awards Playback Singer of the Year, has certainly done this with his music recently, moving gracefully through genres ranging from romantic Bollywood ballads to the foot tapping “Humma Song,” to his hit rap tune “Meethi Meethi.”Read More »Roosevelt Dsouza Creates Connectivity For Jubin Nautyal With CHAUVET Professional
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“My client wanted this to have the look and feel of a quintessential Christmas show.” Every lighting designer can relate to that this time of year. But in Nate Haber’s case, the request was made with a bit of a different twist. Instead of being asked to support standard holiday tunes, his design had to reflect the raw, merciless power of death metal music in a Yuletide setting.Read More »Nate Haber Adds Festive Touch to A Lorna Shore Christmas with CHAUVET Professional
“Billboard” magazine recently ranked tours around the world by total ticket sales from November 2021 through October 2022. The Showtime section within PLSN’s January 2023 issue focuses on the lighting, staging and video production teams and equipment supporting these tours.
As Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas steamed out of port December 7 for the Welcome To Jamrock Reggae Cruise, Nesta Garrick, Abbas Ritscher, and the entire team at The Design Oasis were grateful that they would be able to do something, they’d never done before: leave all their fixtures unbagged overnight. “This was the first time we didn’t have to worry about putting bags over our fixtures at the end of a long day,” said Ritscher, who oversaw the installation of the lighting rig on the ship. “That’s a tremendous time saver.”Read More »The Design Oasis Sails Smoothly at Jamrock Reggae Cruise with CHAUVET Professional IP65 Fixtures
“No winter lasts forever,” so goes a familiar adage intended to encourage optimism during dark times. The happy crowds that begin gathering at La Folie Douce Val d’Isère every December take a somewhat different view of winter. For them, the season cannot last long enough! Anyone who has ever visited this après ski get-away at the top of Daille cable car line can easily understand why they feel this way. Situated in the French Alps near the Italian border, this celebrated hot spot combines breathtaking views with world-class cuisine and lively entertainment.Read More »L&Db Professionnel Lumiere Reflects Style of La Folie Douce Val d’Isère with CHAUVET Professional
Lighting Designers Omer Israeli & Dor Aichner of Tel Aviv-based lighting and stage design company, LEAD, chose a large complement of Claypaky fixtures to illuminate the dynamic, futuristic Hack the Galaxy event held by Rapyd at the 2022 Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal. They utilized 96 Tambora Batten Square, 16 Mythos 2, and 48 Xtylos fixtures for the third and last event in Rapyd’s Hack the Galaxy campaign held at developer conferences in Europe in 2022. Previous events took place in Berlin, Germany and Zadar, Croatia. Lisbon’s Web Summit is an annual tech conference focusing on Internet technology, emerging technologies and venture capitalism. More than 70,000 attended the November 2022 gathering.Read More »Rapyd’s ‘Hack the Galaxy’ Event Shines with Claypaky Fixtures Chosen by Lighting Designers Omer Israeli and Dor Aichner
Janes Addiction were out supporting the Smashing Pumpkins beneath a lighting rig of Elation Artiste Monet™ and DARTZ 360™ LED moving heads designed, programmed and operated by Alex Picard. Lighting supply and support was from Legacy Production Group.Read More »Efficient, Effective Elation Gear on Janes Addiction ‘Spirits on Fire Tour’
Rising artist Riley Clemmons launched her first head-lining tour with a lighting system provided by Bandit Lites. With over 210 million global streams and 50 million YouTube video views since the beginning of her almost decade long career, Clemmons’s soaring vocals and touching lyrics have endeared her to millions of fans around the world. The First Christmas Tour is named for her hit Christmas song.Read More »Riley Clemmons Calls on Bandit Lites for ‘First Christmas Tour’
Rain can play havoc with any outdoor festival. That much is true, but in Phoenix AZ? The second driest city in the USA (only Las Vegas gets less precipitation), Phoenix has gone as long as 160 days without rain; that happened back in 1972. The organizers of the inaugural Zona Music festival had no such luck. On December 3, the day the festival opened, Mother Nature dropped .76 inches of rain down on the city, breaking a record that had stood for 115 years.Read More »Creative BackStage and CHAUVET Professional Brighten Up Zona Music Festival
When Allen Branton and the rest of the production team saw their design concept for the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction in place at the Microsoft Theater, their first reaction was something along the lines of “wow, this feels really modern!”Read More »Allen Branton’s Design for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Show Includes CHAUVET Professional Gear