What’s in a name? Sometimes, just a glimpse of the total picture. Take the annual iHeartRadio Music Festival. Although it’s called a “festival,” this star-studded event is also, at is core, a nationally televised special. Tom Kenny always has this duality firmly planted in this mind when designing the lighting rig for this two-day series […]
LAS VEGAS – What’s in a name? Sometimes, just a glimpse of the total picture. Take the annual iHeartRadio Music Festival. Although it’s called a “festival,” this star-studded event is also, at its core, a nationally televised special. Tom Kenny always has this duality firmly planted in this mind when designing the lighting rig for […]
PHILADELPHIA – You better check your email right now! Patrick Dierson is no stranger to getting text messages like this when he’s on a job site, especially when he’s overseeing the production design at the Jay-Z curated Made in America festival. “I love this event, because it never fails to surprise with unexpected challenges,” he […]
LONG POND, PA – The fifth annual Elements Music and Arts Festival took place at a new site less than a two-hour drive from Mid-Town Manhattan, adjacent to the NASCAR Pocono Raceway, but as far as fans at this three-day event were concerned, it could have taken place a million miles from anywhere. Nestled within […]
BIRMINGHAM, AL – Ideally, change should put new ideas in motion. When it does, good results invariably happen. The production team that created dynamic looks for the Church of the Highland’s aptly named Motion Student Conference convincingly demonstrated this recently. For the first time in three years, the annual youth event returned to a familiar […]
Embarking on their first full-scale tour since the pandemic, the Black Keys were eager to get back to the basics, eliminating all distractions, and turning out rock infused blues with the free-flowing spontaneity that has made the duo from Ohio one of the most powerful forces in popular music. Patrick Carney, the band’s drummer described […]
Lately, Andrew Goedde has sometimes found himself feeling like a kid in a candy store. The lighting designer for Goose since 2018, he has been creating a procession of deeply evocative looks for the quintet from Connecticut as they’ve played live music venues and festivals. Life was good, but this year it got even better, […]
NEW YORK – Lately, Andrew Goedde has sometimes found himself feeling like a kid in a candy store. The lighting designer for Goose since 2018, he has been creating a procession of deeply evocative looks for the quintet from Connecticut as they’ve played live music venues and festivals. Life was good, but this year it […]
BOCA RATON, FL – The Florida Panthers are best known for their exploits on the ice, but when the hockey team wanted to celebrate with some of their best fans recently, they shed their skates and headed over to the soft pine wood lanes of Strike 10 Bowling. It’s easy to understand why too. Since […]
“I enjoy the music of the language,” 17-time Grammy winner Sting said of Spanish. “It’s an emotional quality that it gives me.” That emotional quality was there for all to enjoy on the evening of Thursday February 24, when the English-born legend performed his single “For Her Love” in Spanish as part of Univision’s broadcast […]
MIAMI – I enjoy the music of the language,” 17-time Grammy winner Sting said of Spanish. “It’s an emotional quality that it gives me.” That emotional quality was there for all to enjoy on the evening of Thursday, February 24, when the English-born legend performed his single “For Her Love” in Spanish as part of Univision’s […]
In the “About” section of its Facebook page, YC3 Lighting Design has a single declarative sentence: Being ecologically aware and cost-efficient has become an integral part of good design. A noble-sounding phrase? Sure, but for this innovative family-run design firm, it’s also a deeply held belief that shapes its way of doing business. An example […]