MIAMI – How do you say goodbye to a legend? For the creative team involved in designing the production for Daddy Yankee’s La Ultima Vuelta tour, the answer was quite simple, you create something “fit for a king.” This was the directive that production designer Rodrigo Proal of Darmah Studios received when he was asked […]
BOSTON – When you come right down to it, every lighting designer starts a project with the same goal in mind: to reflect the client’s music in light. Sometimes this is done through a more literal representation of a song’s lyrics, at others it can be through conveying the underlying mood or the music or […]
OCALA, FL – When Mammoth WVH, the rock band formed by Eddie Van Halen’s son Wolfgang Van Halen, released their debut album in June 2021, their sound was hailed by critics as being, fresh, original and unique. Or, as one scribe described it, “no two tracks feel the same.” Around the same time, “Pawns and […]
NASHVILLE – It is every designer’s dream: to overcome the limitations of time and space and allow the creative vision that originally sparked a project to be expressed to its fullest. Steve Cohen and Bob Bonniol journeyed very far in the direction of this nirvanic state recently when they collaborated on the production and lighting […]
MONTERREY, MEXICO – “We have broken paradigms,” Sergio Lizárraga, leader of Banda MS once told an interviewer, referring to his band’s popularity, which has transcended all expectations to prove that banda music has unlimited appeal in today’s market beyond Mexico. Sold out shows before wildly appreciative crowds from Nashville to Las Vegas have provided convincing proof […]
LONDON – Bigger isn’t always necessarily better, but it certainly helps when you’re lighting an iconic multi-platinum band at a venue like OVO Wembley. Martin Dudley knows this, which is why he added eight recently acquired CHAUVET Professional Rogue R2X Wash fixtures to his floor package for UB40’s recent UK arena tour. “We just acquired […]
NASHVILLE – There is a powerfully moving beauty that arises when the human creative spirit transcends barriers of time and culture. Such was the case not long ago, when Rebecca and Megan Lovell, the Georgia-born sisters, better known as the widely acclaimed roots rock duo Larkin Poe, and their mother were reading “A Tale For […]
MEXICO CITY – Featuring hits like “Vete”, “Yo Perreo Sola”, “Safaera,” Bad Bunny’s two-hour show on the recent “World’s Hottest Tour” delivered all of the power-packed passion that fans have come to expect from this Puerto Rico-born superstar. The Latin American leg of his sold-out tour included stops in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, […]
MILWAUKEE – Some venues just lend themselves to creating evocative looks on stage, believes Glenn Ottenbachker. That’s one reason why the lighting designer from A.G. Entertainment USA was only too happy to take on the project of lighting a shared headline show at The Pabst Theatre recently. Opened in 1895, the Renaissance Revival style theatre […]
Willemstad, Curaçao – Singer Raynor “Raey” Laufer recently performed a song entitled “Kaminda tin Huma, Tin Kandela,” which translated from Papiamentu, the language of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao (the Caribbean’s “ABC Islands”), means “Were There is Smoke There is Fire.” Many were warmed by the glow of the Curaçan artist’s own fire when he performed […]
BUDAPEST – The worst band in Hungry! The popular quintet, Republic, has, on occasion, introduce themselves as such, tongue planted firmly in cheek. Of course, anyone familiar with this legendary group knows that this sort of ironic, self-deprecating humor, is in keeping with the freewheeling, let’s-not-take-things-(or ourselves)-too seriously attitude that has marked their stellar career. […]
LONDON – Stuck smack in the middle of the alphabet, the letter “M” has a bit of an identity crisis. Being the 13th letter, it’s sometimes associated with bad luck. Palm readers say it portends danger when it’s formed by the lines in your writing hand. On the other hand, though, it’s also a sign […]