AMSTERDAM – From the outside, the sturdy three-story former church with a central clock just off Leidse Square looks much like any of the other majestic stone structures built in northern Europe during the late 19th century. Inside, though, this building’s walls reverberate with the echoes of a very unique musical heritage that began 55 […]
CHATANOOGA, TN – “You’ve got to go back if you want to go forward,” Snoop Dogg once wrote. The superstar rapper, music producer, and all around uber talent, is doing plenty of both on his current High School Reunion tour with Wiz Khalifa. Taking its name from the duo’s 2012 iconic film Mac & Devlin […]
SAN ANTONIO – Everything looks better in colorful light, even something as remarkably beautiful as a world-famous tourist attraction that draws some 34 million visitors a year. LD Systems demonstrated that recently when it transformed the city of San Antonio into a glittering field of brightness and color for the US Travel Association’s IPW 23 […]
MANCHESTER, TN – Moving lighting fixtures around at a festival often requires some careful logistics. Moving crews around calls for considerable skill too. George Cannon got a first hand view of both recently when he was hired by Harford Sound Ltd. to be the “house LD” at the THAT tent at Bonnaroo. “Harford Sound was […]
PILTON, UK – They might not have been as common as flags at Glastonbury, but CHAUVET Professional fixtures seemed to be everywhere one looked at Worthy Farm during the world-famous event. The company’s products were used to add extra colour and excitement to 17 of the festival’s stages. Included in the group were main attractions […]
MANCHESTER, TN – With stars like Zeds Dead, STS9, Louis The Child, Subronics, Liquid Stranger, Walker & Royce, and Alesso, The Other Stage at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival served up plenty of EDM firepower. Only a beefed up, high-intensity lighting rig could match the ferocity of this music – and that’s precisely what […]
Lil Wayne, Third Eye Blind, Wu-Tang Clan, Nile Rodgers, Babyface Ray, Maren Morris… There were plenty of stars at Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water festival, but sadly, there was plenty of water too. High winds and rains along the Atlantic coast battered the superstar’s three-day event; a tornado even touched down nearby. Things got […]
MANCHESTER, TN – The Band CAMINO has been on quite a roll of late, with an Elektra Records deal, a slew of charting hits like “The Last Man Standing,” and a European tour under their belts. This June, the rapidly-rising indie/rock trio from Nashville reach another milestone when they made their first appearance at the […]
LILLE, FRANCE – The Séries Mania Festival created a global buzz a few years ago when it hosted the world premiere of the long-awaited Netflix series “The Rain.” None of the 32 premieres showcased at the four-day festival this year had rain in their titles, but there was plenty of precipitation outside! The inclement weather […]
VIRGINIA BEACH – Lil Wayne, Third Eye Blind, Wu-Tang Clan, Nile Rodgers, Babyface Ray, Maren Morris… There were plenty of stars at Pharrell Williams’ Something in the Water festival, but sadly, there was plenty of water too. High winds and rains along the Atlantic coast battered the superstar’s three-day event; a tornado even touched down […]
NASHVILLE – Ingenuity, that distinctly human quality, often shines most brightly when one must figure out how to get around an obstacle or deal with a limitation. Mike Marcario faced the latter challenge when creating the lighting rig for Rend Collective’s 2023 Whosoever tour. The chart-topping Northern Irish Worship band decided that they would be […]
BROWNSBURG, IN – “Seldom is asymmetry merely the absence of symmetry,” wrote the German mathematician Herman Weyl. The famed theorist made this observation in relation to one of his landmark scientific and philosophical studies, but his words apply equally well to design. At their best, asymmetrical looks possess a unique power all their own to […]