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Music and Fireworks: Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular Concert

Music and Fireworks: Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular Concert

The 2022 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular concert on the banks of the Charles River. Photo: Matthew Teuten Photography

The 2022 Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular concert was back on the Charles River in downtown Boston for the first time since 2019, after being cancelled due to Covid in 2020 and performing at Tanglewood in 2021. The event is one of the most recognized Independence Day celebrations in the country, including its presentation of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture”—with real cannons—and spectacular fireworks display over the river.Read More »Music and Fireworks: Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular Concert

CPL Helps the Chill Factor for Tropic Fest Event

Celebrating the spirit, joie de vivre, color and vibrancy of live music, the arts, and the essence of in-person community – back enthusiastically after the pandemic – technical production specialist CPL coordinated and delivered staging, sound, video, lighting and other associated  infrastructure to Tropic Fest, a two-day festival style event staged in the beautiful grounds of the historic Chillington Hall in Staffordshire, UK.Read More »CPL Helps the Chill Factor for Tropic Fest Event

Lance ‘KC’ Jackson

Michael S. Eddy speaks with concert touring veteran Lance “KC” Jackson, who recently celebrated 44 consecutive years in the live entertainment industry, wearing many hats and mentoring others. Currently on the road as Production Stage Manager for Earth, Wind & Fire with Santana, Jackson is co-founder of Roadies of Color United.

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‘Bruce:’ Designing a Musical about Making a Movie

The design team for Seattle Repertory Theatre’s world-premiere of the musical “Bruce” had to take an audience from Hollywood studio offices to Martha’s Vineyard’s oceanfront in this look at the making of the movie “Jaws.” Scenic Designer, Jason Sherwood and Lighting Designer, Jeff Croiter tell us how they evoked these vastly different locales, including an ocean, on stage.

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Summer Stadium Tour Roundup

Debi Moen lets us know who is up to what in our industry this month with updates on LD David “Gig” Butzler (Garth Brooks); Production Designer Andy Ruiz (Grupo Firme); LDs Roland Greil and Patrick Woodroffe, and Production Designer Florian Wieder (Rammstein), Joel Wojcik (Train); Justin Collie (Nimblist) and Production Designer Es Devlin and LD Jason Baeri (The Weeknd).

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Unpaid Labor

Chris Lose wants to open a dialogue on unpaid labor in the industry. As demand is high for labor at the same time that budgets are tight, people are being asked to chip in a little extra. But where do we draw the line between being a team player and being taken advantage of on a show?

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Main Light adds More Elation Gear to Inventory in Form of Fuze MAX Spot™

One of the largest dry-hire rental houses in the United States, Main Light, has added Elation Professional’s new Fuze MAX Spot™ LED moving head to its growing inventory of high-quality lighting products. The full-color-spectrum automated LED Spot fixture is currently in stock and available to rent across all Main Light locations. Here’s a video from Main Light demonstrating the Fuze MAX Spot luminaire:

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