Morpheus Helps Kick Off ‘Wrecking Ball’ Tour in North America

BOSTON – Morpheus Lights helped Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band kick off its “Wrecking Ball” North American Stadium Tour at Boston’s Fenway Park on Aug. 14. Morpheus Lights is the lighting contractor, supplying the lighting system designed by Jeff Ravitz of Intensity Advisors. Lighting Director Todd Ricci and Crew Chief Brad Brown lead Morpheus’ nine-man technical crew. The tour plays stadiums through the end of September, and then heads back indoors for arena performances to the year’s end.

BROOMFIELD, CO – Pastor Richie Furay, a past member of Poco and Buffalo Springfield, has made music a big part of the church’s ministry at Calvary Chapel. Until recently, the sanctuary stage lighting was not at all reflective of the meaningful messages and music. The decision was made to install 12 Cygnus 100 Watt LED Color Wash luminaires, replacing the outdated incandescent system.  The Cygnus fixtures were hung to light the stage and pulpit from above and as side lighting.

LOS ANGELES – LD Michael Veerkamp recently specified Chroma-Q Color Force Compact fixtures and Color Force 48 LED battens to light the first series of “Are You Normal America?” (AYNA), a new TV game show on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Recorded at Culver City Studios in California, the Color Force fixtures were used for lighting most aspects of the vibrant AYNA set, designed by Anton Goss of Consortium Studios, LA.

SAN DIEGO – The annual Cisco Live convention is described as the Woodstock of informational technology and networking conferences. This year’s US event featured lighting design by Paul Efron of Seeing Eye Lighting Design and lighting equipment from 4Wall Las Vegas. The opener presented a lighting challenge, featuring BMX stunt bike rider Danny Macaskill seen on video, followed by five live BMX riders entering from various locations around the room.

NASHVILLE – Having maintained a long relationship with GLP Inc. since the original impression 90 (first used on the WWE circuit), Bandit Lites has embraced every subsequent generation of the German company’s LED platform. Recently they invested in next-generation Spot One technology. The new LED moving heads have already been out with Crosby, Stills, and Nash (with Jimmy Hatten as LD) with further tours of duty with Jackson Browne (LD Steve Comer).