ZURICH – Except for some single-minded fans of genres like opera, or baroque chamber ensembles, it’s impossible for any music lovers of any stripe to attend the Zurich Open Air Festival and not find multiple performances to love. A musical melting pot, the three-day festival held in suburban Glattbrugg, features artists from an incredible array […]
LAS VEGAS – Creativity is set free when it reaches the edges of the physical world. This spirit is at the heart of CHAUVET Professional’s LDI booth (1261), which is dedicated to the goal of converging physical and digital worlds. Designed by Studio Lab, the booth utilizes disguise, Unreal Engine and other emerging virtual production […]
WINDOW ROCK, AZ – When asked what he attributes Megadeth’s enduring success to, Dave Mustaine, frontman and founder of the iconic, Grammy-winning band quips, “stubbornness.” Of course, fans, like the 10,000-plus who packed the fairgrounds at the 75th annual Navajo Nation Fair would respectfully disagree. For them, there’s much more than mere tenacity behind the […]
NASHVILLE – Color has always been “a huge part of our design process.” Dayne deHaven says of the work that he and his collaborator at the District 5 design studio, Tyler Shapard, have been doing for The Band Camino. Fans of the red-hot rock-pop trio would readily agree; the band’s music is so evocative, that […]
TORONTO – Alex Mungal readily admits it: he can get pretty nerdy when it comes to Star Trek. Metal music fans who packed venues in 33-cities for Motionless in White’s just-concluded Touring The End Of The World tour of North America can readily understand why. Channeling his fascination with all things Galactic, Mungal opened a […]
TA’IF, SAUDI ARABIA – It came as a surprise to many when USM Alger of Algeria upset heavily favored Al Ahly SC of Egypt at the TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup 2023 to be crowned the king of African football. The team from Cairo was established as a perennial football (soccer) power, and few expected they […]
LAS VEGAS – A lot can happen in a month. Just ask Antonio Herrera Pérez, better known to the world as Mexican music superstar Junior H. A few short years ago, as a high school student in Utah, the Guanajuato-born musician-singer uploaded some of his work on YouTube as “a hobby.” The daily flow of […]
LILLE, FRANCE – Wine is king in France… unless one happens to find oneself in beautiful Hauts-de-France near the border with Belgium. Thanks to its Flemish roots, the region has a strong beer culture, as evidenced by its myriad local microbreweries. Bière à Lille, a week-long festival in Lille celebrates this tradition with dozens of […]
MONTREAL – Matthieu Larivée and the team at Lüz Studio have been relentlessly pushing the envelope of late, driving technology in new directions to transform stages in ways that would have been unimaginable not long ago. So, it should come as no surprise that following their widely acclaimed work on last year’s Jason Aldean tour, […]
CHILLY-MAZARIN – “A painting without a frame is like a soul without a body”, wrote Vincent Van Gogh, who knew a thing or two about creating beautiful visuals with color and movement. The CHAUVET Professional team readily embraces the philosophy of the great impressionist, which is why it has built its spaces at JTSE around […]
NASHVILLE – Where does the design process begin? For Erich Bertti, the answer is clear. “When conceiving a design, my first concern is for it to be versatile,” said the Santos, Brazil-based designer. Bertti hooked up with the perfect creative soul twin this summer when he created the lightshow for Grammy-winning Swedish hard rockers Ghost […]
ROME – It may not have rivaled the 200,000 or so spectators who used to watch chariot races there in ancient times, but the 70,000 fans who turned out at the Circus Maximus for Imagine Dragons’ show recently constituted a pretty good-sized crowd! Making the only Italian stop on their Mercury World Tour, the Grammy- […]