LAS VEGAS – A “spirit of joy,” as one critic described it, runs through the music of Marca MP. Anyone who’s ever listened to this California-based band would find it next to impossible not to agree with that assessment. The quartet’s lively blend of banda, mariachi, and ranchera has an uplifting effect on fans, getting […]
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 & […]
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 […]
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – (For Immediate Release) — Although he’s kept up with the latest in lighting technology, John Garberson readily admits that at heart, he really likes old school looks with their big ACL specials, deep colors, and dimming curves. In other words, good downhome traditional rock and roll lighting. The GM of Creative […]
BRISTOL, UK – New art and cultural movements seem to blossom most rapidly (and colorfully!) outside the grip of commercial interests. Such was the case in 1988, when the so-called “Second Summer of Love,” sprang up virally in Bristol and other UK cities, as young people flocked to clandestine rave clubs that opened in abandoned […]
HULL, UK – During a game of racketball in the 1830s, a group of London schoolboys noticed that a punctured ball, which “squashed” on impact with the wall, offered more variety and more intensity of play than its intact counterpart. Thus, to the delight of millions of fans ever since, the game of Squash was […]
Collaboration’s wings take creativity to new heights. The wisdom of this adage was on full display at the 2022 iHeart Radio Music Awards when superstars John Legend and Charlie Puth sat down at dueling pianos to banter and play a five-minute mash up of one another’s hits, before announcing plans to record a song together. […]
ONTARIO, CA – Like all artistic achievements, every lighting design, no matter how elaborate and complex it becomes, begins inside someone’s head. The creativity that spawns this process is impossible to define, so too is the feeling that one gets when seeing the final result come to life in the real world. Gus Martinez knows […]
CHICAGO – The band played mostly Cheap Trick songs during its hour-long set, but this was no ordinary tribute show. In fact, it wasn’t an ordinary concert of any kind, taking place as it did in a private airport hangar with no live audience. Still, once the music started, both of those things were quickly […]
HARARE, ZIMBABWE – Throughout her career spanning 15 years and nine studio albums, Sinach has garnered recognition far beyond the borders of her native Nigeria. Take her 2015 hit “Way Maker;” aside from being covered by over 60 international Christian artists, such as Michael W. Smith and Darlene Zschech, it was also named “Song of […]
LOS ANGELES – Collaboration’s wings take creativity to new heights. The wisdom of this adage was on full display at the 2022 iHeart Radio Music Awards when superstars John Legend and Charlie Puth sat down at dueling pianos to banter and play a five-minute mash-up of each other’s hits, before announcing plans to record a […]
NOVI SAD, SERBIA – “Migration” comes from the Latin word Migrare, which means to move to a new place. Many are hoping that, despite all the obstacles put in its way, the world today is indeed moving to a new and better place through the migration of different cultures, ideas, and forms of artistic expression. […]