March Madness Music Festival Rig Includes Chauvet Professional Next NXT-1 Fixtures

HOUSTON -– The 2016 NCAA March Madness Music Festival, offering three days of music April 1-3 to Houston’s Discovery Green just prior to the April 4 final matchup between Villanova and North Carolina, drew huge crowds with a roster of headliners that included Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy and Pitbull, among others. John Dickson of LD Systems in Houston worked with Turner Live Events to create the rig with programming done by individual band LDs. Throughout the festival, the high-impact show gained energy from the rapid movements of the rig’s 32 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels from Chauvet Professional.

LONDON – For the annual Classical Spectacular at London’s Royal Albert Hall March 17-20, LD Durham Marenghi used a symphony of Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy, Sharpy Wash, Alpha Spot HPE 1500 and Alpha Spot HPE 700 fixtures to create a dynamic lighting show. Put on by the legendary classic music promoter Raymond Gubbay, the dramatic overtures were complemented by cannons, guns and 2,000 indoor fireworks, which brought the show to a thundering finale.

LOS ANGELES – The MAC Axiom Hybrid U.S. Launch Tour will bring new gear from Martin Professional to eight U.S. cities in May and June. Starting in Los Angeles, the tour continues to Las Vegas, Dallas, Nashville, TN, Atlanta, Chicago, Wilmington, DE and ends in New York City. Featured products include Martin’s MAC Axiom Hybrid, which was also showcased at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this month.

NORWALK, CT – Tony Award-winning production manager and founder of Aurora Productions, Gene O’Donovan, joined Theatre Projects’ staff recently as part of the company’s ongoing guest speaker series. Theatre Projects’ speaker series invites accomplished performing arts professionals to share their insights, history, and philosophy, and engage in a back-and-forth conversation with staff in order to better understand the challenges they’ve faced, the facilities they operate in, and the trajectory of the performing arts.

INDIO, CA – Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting added an extra dimension to the DJ booth at the Yuma tent during the 17th Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival by using Geyser RGB LED foggers from CHAUVET DJ. The DMX-controlled foggers released their jet-like plumes at critical times during performances by the likes of DJ Koze, John Digweed, George Fitzgerald, Black Coffee and The Black Madonna.

NEW ORLEANS – Held March 11-12 at Mardi Gras World on the New Orleans Mississippi riverfront, the Buku Music + Art Project is one of the city’s most thriving music festivals, underscored with public art demonstrations from prevalent local and national artists. This year’s event featured EDM and hip-hop acts playing across four stages, two of which featured lighting gear from Elation Professional. Raven Production Management Group provided Elation Rayzor Q12 Zoom and Platinum Beam 5R Extreme fixtures for the Float Den and Ballroom Stages.

CHICAGO – JR Lighting Design, Inc. has added two grandMA2 light consoles to its production rental inventory. The company offers equipment sales, production rentals, integration and systems design to the house of worship, architainment, regional production, national touring, theatrical, live music, museum and educational markets.