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Festival Spotlight

Ultra Music Festival

Ultra Music Festival returned to Miami’s Bayfront Park for its 25th anniversary, kicking off the spring festival season. We speak with Patrick Dierson, of The Activity, who served as Artist Technical Liaison, and Russell Felton, the Lighting Crew Chief, as well as with Ben Dalgleish of Human Person, who designed the bespoke set for Everything Always.

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The Festival Landscape

After two summers of waiting, festivals are once again flourishing, bringing musicians, fans and production partners together. But while their sudden return is a welcome development for the live event production industry, the festival landscape in 2022 is not without its challenges. PLSN shares current perspectives from designers Chris Lisle and Patrick Dierson and vendors including 3G Productions, 4Wall Entertainment, Bandit Lites, Brown Note Productions and Music Matters Productions.

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Day for Night Festival

At the Day for Night festival, which made good use of a disused Post Office building in Houston, Texas, light artists and robots shared the stages with the music makers. Planning and staging for the event was right in line with the festival’s creative aesthetic. The names of each of the four stages — two outdoor, two indoor — are representative of the RGBW color model spectrum, known to tech geeks and video and lighting designers the world over.

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