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Video of the Week: Editor’s Note, Dec. 2013 Issue

Latvian Song and Dance Festival Lit with Philips Vari-Lite Fixtures

Latvian Song and Dance Festival Lit with Philips Vari-Lite Fixtures

RIGA, Latvia — LD Normunds Blasans specified Philips Vari-Lite’s VL3015LT Spots, VL3500 and VL3000 Washes for an open-air event featuring music from 20,000 performers celebrating Latvian culture here recently. NA Stage & Light supplied 20 VL3015LT Spot luminaires, 16 VL3000 Washes, and 24 VL3500 Wash fixtures for the 25th Latvian Song and Dance Festival, which drew an audience of more than 40,000.

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Rose Brand Smart Commando cloth

Rose Brand Smart Commando Cloth

Rose Brand’s Smart Commando Cloth is nearly 100% opaque, weighs just 12 ounces and has a very dark, rich black color, the company says. More opaque than traditional Light Weight Commando and less expensive than its 16 oz. product, Smart Commando promises to serve as a sensible, economical alternative for masking large spaces and objects. Excellent draping characteristics also enable it to be sewn into an inexpensive black curtain.

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Zig Zag Lighting provided Robe Pointe, LEDBeam 100, LEDWash 600 and Robin 600E Spot fixtures for Jamie Cullum’s recent tour of the U.K. and Europe

Jamie Cullum Tours with Robe Gear

LONDON — Mood, drama, invention and Robe moving lights were at the heart of the elegant, intricate lighting design created by Rich George from 3DL&S for jazz-pop singer and songwriter Jamie Cullum’s Momentum tour, which recently completed its first U.K. leg before heading to Europe. Leeds, U.K.-based Zig Zag Lighting is providing the gear.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Tour Lit with Philips Showline's SL PAR 150 Zoom luminaires

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Tour Lit with Philips Showline Fixtures

LIVERPOOL, U.K. — LD Nick Richings specified Showline’s SL PAR 150 Zoom luminaires for the current musical tour of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. White Light is supplying the gear for the tour, with stops at theatres across the U.K. including Glasgow’s King’s Theatre, the Bristol Hippodrome and the Liverpool Empire. The tour will continue through May 2014.

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dbn Lighting provided lighting and video support for The Warehouse EDM gigs in Manchester, U.K. in 2013

Warehouse Project EDM Events in U.K. Lit by dbn

MANCHESTER, U.K. — dbn Lighting, based here, once again supplied lighting and LED screens to the Warehouse Project (WHP), a series of EDM events founded by Sacha Lord-Marchionne and Sam Kandel. WHP operates for two regular nights each week from September to New Year’s Eve on a timeline coinciding with university and college schedules. It attracts international EDM DJs and live acts and sells out months in advance. This was the second year the club has operating out of the Victoria Warehouse venue in Trafford Park. dbn’s Pete Robinson has been involved with WHP from the start. This year he created the production and lighting design for all three rooms in the space.

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AV Concepts provided ghostly apparitions for Dollywood's Smoky Mountains Christmas presented by Humana celebration.

AV Concepts Adds Ghostly Touch to Dollywood’s “A Christmas Carol”

PIGEON FORGE, TN — AV Concepts worked with the Dollywood theme park here and Fred Blurton Productions to integrate holographic technology into its first production of Dollywood’s A Christmas Carol as part of the annual annual Smoky Mountain Christmas presented by Humana celebration. Adapted from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, the show, which debuted Nov. 9, includes four holographic characters.

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Alice in Chains lit with High End Systems gear

LD Marty Postma Backs Alice In Chains with HES Gear

AUSTIN, TX — LD Marty Postma, who has been tinkering with the idea of wrapping and enveloping the rock band Alice In Chains with a lighting rig that surrounds them “like a shell” for several years, got the chance to “make it happen on a large scale” with gigs earlier this year. The fixtures specified for these shows centered on gear from High End Systems, including their ShowGun, Cyberlight 2.0, Intellaspot and TechnoArc units.

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