BIRMINGHAM, UK – The CHAUVET Professional Arena has always been a crowd pleaser at the BPM | PRO Show, but this year it broke all records for popularity. Aside from taking place at a new, larger and more impressive facility – the 16,000-capacity NEC Genting Arena – the event featured a stunningly bright and fast-moving […]
NEW YORK – Lighting designer Zach Bunner admits that some of his LD brethren might think that designing an arena tour for a two-time Grammy winner “without a rig full of beams and profile fixtures” would limit the looks of a show. However, Bunner proved otherwise by creating an intimate and immersive club-like feeling at […]
NEW YORK – Groundbreaking products call for an innovative marketing approach, which is precisely what Roland, a company known for redefining standards in digital music products, delivered with its “909 Day Celebration.” A nonstop 24-hour straight live streamed marathon with feeds from around the world, the widely anticipated event, saw the unveiling of 30 new […]
PHILADEPHIA – For the first 122 years of its existence, the distinct looking building on 11th and Spring Garden Streets in the City of Brotherly Love was never an entertainment venue. Its new owners were quick to make up for lost time, however, when they converted the former farmers’ market turned Reading Railroad luggage handling […]
ST. LOUIS – Describing El Monstero as a “tribute band” is akin to calling the $4 million Lamborghini Veneno a “sports car.” The group, which was formed in 1999 by former members of the Capital Recording Top 40 band Stir, pushes its Pink Floyd shows into overdrive, calling on a cast that reaches 75 to […]
We’re extremely honored that Luc Peumans of Painting with Light, a leading European designer used a plethora of our fixtures on the “Clouseau Danst,” tour by the Belgium super group Clouseau. With multiple chart-topping hits to their credit since the 1980s, Clouseau is one of Belgium’s most popular music acts. Well known for their penchant […]
PILTON, UK – Described as a “festival within a festival,” the Field of Avalon at Glastonbury has built a passionately loyal following with its comfortable soul nourishing mix of folk/roots music, wholesome food and communal vibes. This year, that welcoming atmosphere was enhanced by warm and engaging lighting, thanks to a carefully crafted kit by […]
WISCONSIN DELLS, WI – A youth group that has remained relevant to high school students in the United States for over 70 years must continue to come up with ways to keep its message fresh. The Career and Community Leaders of America has absorbed this lesson very well. Founded in 1945, this nonprofit organization has […]
CRANSTON, RI – It goes without saying that a floor package has to be quick and easy to set up and take down. But LD Freddy Thompson of JDI Productions was looking for more than speed when he put together the rig for the recent national tour by Killswitch Engage. In keeping with the hardcore […]
FISHERS, IN – They say history repeats itself. Such was the case one Sunday in 2013 when a group of worshippers gathered in the auditorium of Hamilton Southeastern Junior High School for the first service at Northview Church’s Fishers campus. In so doing, they were repeating steps taken 33 years earlier, when 30 people met […]
NEW STANTON, PA – Sometimes the tranquil leisurely pace of a small town can belie a tradition of change and innovation. At least that’s the case in New Stanton, home of New Stanton United Methodist Church, a house of worship with a new campus that has a state-of-the-art audio system and a versatile all-LED lighting […]
“All the world is a stage!” How right Shakespeare was when he penned these words. From warehouses to abandoned railroad depots — not to mention former courthouses, churches and barns — dramatic productions are being performed at a host of sites that were never intended to serve as theaters in the traditional sense of the […]