Willemstad, Curaçao – The music, dancing, and partying never stop during Hak’e, a Curaçao Summer Festival that’s a highlight of one of the Caribbean’s largest carnivals. By the time summer rolls around, the carnival season is long past, but even so, the partying never stops on the island. This year, the producers of Hak’e Jump-In […]

SUNRISE, FL – With their IP65 rating, the just-introduced Rogue Outcast 1L Beam and Rogue Outcast 2X Wash are designed to excel outdoors in all weather conditions… but that’s just the beginning! Thanks to their innovative lightweight aluminum-magnesium alloy housing, these newcomers are also ideally suited to deliver stellar results indoors at clubs, conference centers, […]

SENTA, SERBIA – When they entered the pastoral grounds of the ÁRKÁD Green Future Festival with its wide open meadows and forested trails on the banks of the Tisa River, visitors experienced an immediate sense of freedom. It was a welcomed, liberating mood that would later be heightened by the music performed on the event’s […]

CHESHIRE, UK — Reality has a way of interfering with even the most carefully laid out plans. Elliot Banes was reminded of this late last month when he arrived at the stately Cholmondeley Castle to light the main stage at the Outlook festival. Tasked with lighting dozens of different acts across the jungle, drum & […]

HILDESHEIM, DE – Flexibility is a valuable attribute, not only in a lighting rig, but also in the designer who creates it. Cevin Richter offered convincing proof of that this August at the M’era Luna alternative music festival. Tasked with lighting “The Disco Hangar” a large space within the two-day festival (it takes place in […]

HARARE, ZIMBABWE – The sprawling Belgravia Sports Club was packed with fans this summer when Grammy winner Burna Boy stepped onto the stage a little after 10:30 as part of his Space Drift Tour. It didn’t take long, however, for the mood at the big outdoor facility to take on the intimate air of a […]

BELMONT, OH – Adaptability is one of the most valuable virtues. Zakk Bosserman has no argument with that time-honored adage. As the lighting designer for the prolifically touring country star Chase Rice, he has become a master at molding a wide variety of house and festival rigs to fit his client’s versatile blend of music. […]

GHENT, BELGIUM – The industrial revolution was just kicking into high gear in the mid-19th century, and a group of Belgian factory owners were concerned about the prolonged effect that the country’s long stretch of summer festivals was having on attendance at their plants. Rather than having these celebrations play out all season, they reasoned, […]

LANCASHIRE, UK – When Doc and Marty hop in their DeLorean time machine in the 1980s classic “Back To The Future” and journey to our own era, they find some strange and wonderous things waiting for them. But missing among all the flying cars, Hoverboards, and other wonders is LED lighting. Pity, because had they […]

NEW YORK – Like some ancient deity of the underworld, Quintillian Speakers are shrouded in mystery. Even readers engrossed in the Vaxis 2 story, from which they sprang, know little about this ancient race of beings, other than that they are made of energy, and can turn up anywhere… even at this summer’s Coheed and […]

LONDON – Rock N’ Roll is an attitude, as much as a musical genre, according to many social historians. This attitude was on full display in all of its free-thinking, glory at the 02 Intercontinental Hotel recently as the famed site hosted the World Procurement Awards. Organizers of the event, which celebrates the achievements of […]

CHICAGO – There are many reasons why Dustin L. Derry always embraces the opportunity to light dance performances. High on this list is the opportunity it affords him to depart from the conventional use of colors and patterns. “What’s nice about dance is you don’t have to think so literally about ‘natural’ lighting,” said the […]