MILAN – A multi-platinum recording artist. A super model who has graced campaigns by brands like Versace, Sephora, Calvin Klein and Bulgari. An actress who has won numerous film industry awards… Elodie’s talents are as multi-faceted as a diamond. On May 12th, her gifts shined as brightly as this precious stone too, as she performed […]
LOS ANGELES – Remember the first time you saw Bruce Springsteen in concert? If you fall within a certain age group (and a very wide one at that!), there’s an excellent chance you do. Such is the depth of the personal connection, that this New Jersey born superstar has made with fans during the course […]
LOS ANGELES – Speaking about his work as lighting director and programmer for the 10th annual iHeartRadio Music Awards, Felix Peralta observed, “it’s all about the art.” Art… that powerful force that “washes away the dust of everyday life,” as Pablo Picasso observed was everywhere to be seen at the Dolby Theatre during this star-studded […]
MIAMI – There is no shortage of glitz at the red-carpet festivities that precede the Premios Los Nuestro Awards. Year after year, many of Latin Music’s biggest stars dazzle the assembled crowd, as well as a large TV audience, with outfits that surprise and delight with their bold color combinations and stylistic flourishes. The 2023 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Mike Grabowski was thrilled with his experience designing the multiple stages under his purview for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” in Times Square this year, except for one thing. His single regret didn’t involve the rain that fell for much of the evening, either. After all, the “unpredictability of nature,” comes […]
LOS ANGELES – For Patrick Dierson, it was a case of really bad timing. The day before he was scheduled to travel to The Kia Forum for the iHeartRadio ALTer Ego concert, he had to cancel his flight after testing positive for COVID. “It was a real bummer, as this is one of my favorite […]
LAS VEGAS – The 23rd The Latin Grammy Awards, which took place at the Mandalay Bay Resort’s Michelob Ultra Arena, defied easy categorization, being big, bold, and sensuously stunning one moment, then delivering soft, intimate moments the next. This was evident right from the start of the three-hour show, as it began with a brief, […]
LOS ANGELES – 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!” This might have come as a surprise to […]
BERLIN – After more than 25 years on the road, iconic Ontario pop-punkers Sum 41 still have an insatiable hunger for touring, rolling through one-night stands like so many all-night drive-thrus. The Grammy-nominated and Juno Award-winning quintet, which has played as many as 300 nights in a year, is showing no signs of travel-fatigue on […]