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Stadium Opens in Lyon, France with Lighting Display Featuring 230+ Robe Fixtures

Grande Stade de Lyon in France

Stadium Opens in Lyon, France with Lighting Display Featuring 230+ Robe Fixtures

LYON, France – A total of 232 Robe moving lights – including 80 BMFL Blades, 70 LEDWash 1200s, 84  Pointes and eight LEDWash 300s – were part of a colorful opening ceremony for the new 415 million euro Grande Stade de Lyon in France. Lighting designer Tony Anzalone was working for Lyon based GL events Audiovisual, who coordinated and supplied the high profile event’s technical production.The grand opening show featured a high energy son et lumière with a cast of 1500 people culminated in a show-stopping performance by rapper will.i.am.

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Nashville's Ryman Auditorium

Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium

Veteran country music artist Marty Stuart once declared, “If country music had a Vatican, it would be the Ryman.” The venerated venue in Nashville has attracted a multi-generational cornucopia of music biz names to play its hallowed hall, which is known for its great acoustics. Everyone from Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs and Robert Earl Keen to Aretha Franklin, ZZ Top and the Zac Brown Band has played there. It is often called the “Mother Church of Country Music” with good reason, and a recent expansion will help keep it an alluring Mecca for tourists and music fans alike.

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Nook Schoenfeld

Where is the Love?

In this current world of hate, it’s really nice to be able to put out an issue that’s taking a month to focus on Nashville. That’s because nowhere else in the world do I see so many people smiling all day as in Music City. Whether people are working the scene or just hanging at a honkytonk, the folks from this town always smile and greet me with open arms.

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Preston Hoffman photo by Debi Moen

LD Preston Hoffman with Grace Potter

TOUR: July 2015 to Feb. 13, 2016

THE DESIGN: “Grace improvises, she loves spontaneity. She likes to lead the audience somewhere. I like those unscripted moments. Sometimes it’s a moody show, and it goes from heavy pop songs to a psychedelic feel. She dances, weaving in and out of shadows and light. It’s viscerally exciting and keeps me on my toes, as I can’t cue stack the show. She is legally blind, so followspots are an impossibility as she can’t see with them — she would literally walk off the stage, so I had to create a system for her to be seen on the downstage edge which she inhabits. I use LED side bars on each side of the downstage. There’s not a lot of light spillage, it’s more narrow. I’ve also played with colors more so she knows where the light is and will lean into it. We use tape to outline the stage.”

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Oli Metcalfe photo by Steve Jennings

MUSE: ‘Drones’ World Tour

For the Muse Drones world tour, which started in 2015 and continues into 2016, lighting designer and director Oli Metcalfe was asked to deliver a production design that placed the band in the middle of an arena floor for an in-the-round delivery. Included in the master plan was the existence of flying drones in the show.

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Tool tour photo by Steve Jennings

TOOL 2016 Tour

Tool performed 17 dates for the month of January 2016 using a rig that still had its foundations in a design from 2006, with bits and pieces added and shuffled around, but some of the same infrastructure underneath. We spoke with the band’s designers —Mark ”Junior” Jacobson (lighting designer & director) and Breckinridge ”Breck” Haggerty (video designer & director). We also touched base with Howard Ungerleider (Production Design International) about the laser aspect of the tour and Delicate Productions rep Jason Alt.

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