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MORRISON, CO – The Tedeschi Trucks Band hit the road again in 2018 with their “Wheels Of Soul” tour. The summer trek launched in Jacksonville, FL in late June and wrapped up with two nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO July 28-29. Lighting director Brian Pirrone used an all-LED rig supplied by BML Blackbird that included Martin, Claypaky and Chauvet fixtures.

HOLMDEL, NJ – The Counting Crows are out on their current “25 Years and Counting” tour with opening act Live, a trek that is taking the Berkeley, CA-based band from the West Coast across the heartland, then from the East Coast and back to the Midwest from late June through late September. LD Mike Zielinski is using Chauvet Strike 1 fixtures for three key roles: accent lighting, backlighting and blinders. Upstaging is supplying the lighting for the tour.

Federal Hill Commons, a 6.5 acre multi-use site just north of Indianapolis in Noblesville, Indiana, recently opened a community amphitheater designed to hold any and every type of outdoor event.

PHILADELPHIA – Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods world tour kicked off in mid-March, a month after his halftime show at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis. After the first North American leg, the tour headed to Europe for the summer and returns to the U.S. and Canada this fall and winter. Nick Whitehouse’s lighting design includes Claypaky Scenius Unicos, grandMA2 consoles and MDG theONE hazers/foggers.

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – Jeremy Lechterman and Jackson Gallagher from design firm FragmentNine specified Robe fixtures for country singer Keith Urban’s current world tour in support of his 10th album, Graffiti U. The tour launched in mid-June and has an extensive run through North America until early November. Urban then hops the Pacific for a run of shows in Australia in January and February, 2019.

MILWAUKEE, WI – Last year’s 40th Anniversary Tour was by no means a farewell tour for iconic 70’s/80’s rock band Foreigner. It’s now been 41 years since their debut album, and the band hit the road again in June, kicking off a 30-show “Juke Box Heroes” U.S. tour. LD Dan Lastovka has updated the classic rock design from last year’s tour with Elation Rayzor 360Z LED beam moving effects fixtures.

KANSAS CITY – Before Aron Altmark, creative director of Visual Endeavors, crafted the looks for Logic’s “Bobby Tarantino vs Everybody” tour, he customized the Avolites Ai servers that he uses in his visual workshop. For the tour, there are also two servers for full backup capabilities. Each has an Ai Bondi and Notch Playback license attached.