NASHVILLE – Three-time Grammy award winning artist Jill Scott kicked off her 25-city summer tour in June. Designers Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of SRae Productions were tasked with creating a lighting design for the singer-songwriter with gear provided by 4Wall Nashville.
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BLOOMINGTON, MN – Love, hope and beauty have a way of transcending time, place and culture. This eternal alchemy is at the heart of The Secret Garden, the Tony Award winning musical that follows the transformational journey of Mary Lenox, a young British girl, who moves from India to England after being orphaned and opens a window into a new life by rescuing an abandoned garden at her reclusive uncle’s estate. This metamorphic passage is conveyed in light at the Artistry group’s 2017 revival of the Marsha Norman- Lucy Simon classic with help from a collection of CHAUVET Professional Rogues supplied by Monkey Wrench Productions.
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NEW YORK – With investors still seeking clarity on what happened to more than a half a million dollars they provided to Billy McFarland’s Fyre Media Inc. to fund the inaugural Fyre Festival in the Bahamas this year, a federal judge has ordered that Fyre Festival LLC file for chapter seven bankruptcy, according to reports.
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NASHVILLE – Jeff Mathews of Borealis Stage Lighting has been lighting country duo Dan + Shay since early 2016. For this year’s tour, the setup includes a ChamSys MagicQ MQ 80 and an extra wing to control an expandable rig featuring Chauvet Professional Strike 1 warm white LED blinders.
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SAN FERNANDO, CA – Legendary industrial rock pioneers Nine Inch Nails (NIN), led by the charismatic Trent Reznor, are back on the touring circuit, with a series of Summer and Fall Festival dates. Their long serving lighting designer, Paul ‘Arlo’ Guthrie, has extended his association with German LED moving head pioneers GLP, and their unique solutions — in particular the new JDC1 LED hybrid strobe — dominate a full production inventory. This has been supplied by Curry Grant at PRG.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – When fans of American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw arrive at a show of his, they can anticipate the Grammy-nominated artist to play all his hits, albeit with one notable modification: a pared down band. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the production, and while previous tours elicited more of a rock show feel, the Gavin DeGRAW TOUR utilizes a three-piece band to give a much more stripped back, intimate feel. “We wanted a classic and intimate look to fit this show,” said Production Manager Mitch Vanhoose. “Also going into smaller venues, we wanted to keep it somewhat scalable. What we ended up with is a simple yet elegant look.”
ADDISON, TX – Everyday, millions of people around the world get on cycles, pedal diligently, and go nowhere. They aren’t complaining though. Indoor cycling (or spinning), where participants in group sessions pedal stationary bikes with flywheels under the watchful eye of a trainer, has taken off like a rocket, passing running and swimming as a fitness activity in the US, according to a recent Nielsen Survey. A key reason why cycling centers are powering their way into the hearts of so many people is because they offer immersive multi-sensory experiences that make it fun to stay fit.
BURLINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA — When steady growth in attendance at The Lamb’s Chapel in Haw River, North Carolina began causing traffic snarls on the one-lane roads leading to its Sunday worship services, the church knew it was time to expand with an additional location for its attendees making the drive in from nearby Burlington. That new second location, called the Airport Campus and located 10 miles to the west, opened its doors this summer and now welcomes parishioners on that side of the county to a modern, 2,100-seat auditorium featuring a large stage for worship services and community events, including weddings, funerals, graduations, conferences and more.
HOUSTON – For the North American leg of Queen + Adam Lambert’s 2017 world tour, Upstaging provided a large complement of Claypaky Scenius Unico, Mythos and Sharpy Wash fixtures. Rob Sinclair used them to create the big looks that Queen fans have come to expect from the band. The tour leg began June 23 in the Phoenix area and wrapped up Aug. 5 in Houston.
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DALLAS – From Soulfest to the Awakening Conference, Tim Messina and his team at Events United have designed lighting and video for some of the largest faith-based events in the US. They will be sharing the knowledge gained from these events as well as from their work at hundreds of churches at a WFX learning session sponsored by CHAUVET Professional on Wednesday, October 11 from 3:30 to 4:15 pm. Taking place in Room C-145 at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Dallas, the seminar “Balancing Stage Lighting, Video Walls and Projection,” will present a guide to creating powerful stage presentations at worship services, conferences, and youth rallies.
MORRISON, CO – For a Trey Anastasio Band (TAB) gig at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on May 31, LD Marc Janowitz used Robe BMFL Spots to highlight the rock formations at the back of the stage. Janowitz, who has worked with the Phish alumnus since 2012, is currently on his third tour with TAB. This time, the design brief was to break everything right down to basics and take a pure-lighting approach with no video, scenic or backdrops. The touring lighting package also had to fit into a 15-foot trailer towed behind the bus and dovetail into a “top” package being supplied by the local promoters at each venue. So Janowitz looked for small, light and bright fixtures and chose 25 Robe Spikies and 13 Spiiders.
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