Growing up in northeastern Louisiana, country superstar Tim McGraw was familiar with the kind of hot, humid night he encountered when he took the House of Power Stadium stage as the headliner presented by Orange Motorsports and Entertainment and House of Power Production at the at the Orange County Fairgrounds.
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Hard rock band Chevelle has embarked on a summer amphitheater tour in North America with Breaking Benjamin.
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Blackmagic Design today announced that a multicamera live production workflow, featuring the URSA Broadcast and URSA Mini Pro G2, was employed during the Holy Ghost Festival of Life
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WANTAGH, NY – Santana’s 2019 “Supernatural Now” tour visited venues across the U.S. with the Doobie Brothers along for the ride, marking 20 years since the release of Santana’s Supernatural album and 50 years since Woodstock. LD Michael Ledesma’s rig from Innovative Concert Lighting included Elation Protron Eclypse and Elation SEVEN Batten 14 LED strip lights. The tour ran from June 20-Aug. 20, with another show set for Nov. 12 at the new Chase Center in San Francisco.
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SHANGHAI, China – For GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in late June, designer Nick Ho used his ChamSys MagicQ MQ60 console for a work-around that helped him meet a tight deadline. “We used a feature in the ChamSys called the ‘Art-Net Retransmit.’ This allowed us to use the MQ60 to transmit the incoming LTC to Pangolin via Art-Net,” Ho said.
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VIENNA, Austria – Roland Greil and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design (WBD) specified Claypaky HY B-Eye K25, Scenius Unico, Mythos 2 and Sharpy fixtures for Rammstein’s 2019 summer stadium tour in Europe. WBD also did the tour’s show design, with Florian Wieder serving as production designer, Cuno Hahn as set designer and Faren Matern and Marc Brunkhardt as lighting directors. Neg Earth supplied the fixtures for the tour, which resumes next spring and summer.
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DORTMUND, Germany – For Udo Lindenberg’s Live 2019 tour, the veteran rocker, artist and activist toured his native Germany, energizing audiences with a spectacle that included up to 50 performers on stage. LD Günter Jäckle included 22 Vari-Lite VL6000 Beams in the rig, crediting the fixture as “retro,” but also “modern.”
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PRAGUE – For Let It Roll 2019, which drew 25,000 to Milovice Airfield, a former Soviet-era airbase north of Prague in the Czech Republic, a lighting rig with nearly 100 Robe fixtures adorned the main stage, a.k.a. Mothership, during the festival, devoted to drum and bass sounds. They included Pointes, MegaPointes, Spiiders, Tarrantulas, CitySkape Xtremes and BMFL Blades, all supplied by JESA.
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Born out of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1993, the Sziget Festival has blossomed into one of the largest events of its kind in Europe.
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Chart-topping, multi-award-winning and massively popular Mexican singer Ana Gabriel hit the road on her “Estamos A Tiempo” (We Are On Time) world tour last year at the National Auditorium in Mexico City
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This year many thousands of fans descended on Middlesbrough to enjoy the annual BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend music festival.
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CAMDEN, NJ – Halestorm teamed up with Alice Cooper for a 20-city co-headlining tour this summer with a lighting rig provided by Bandit Lites. The rig included 52 fixtures from Chauvet Professional, which added intensity to LD Craig Richter’s powerful looks.
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