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Friday Rock and Roll – Kula Shaker Playing “Great Hosanna”

Posted on May 23, 2014

Happy Friday, lighting industry! Another weekend is upon us, this one being a special Memorial Day edition of the weekend — we hope that you’re either out there with friends and family or making plans for friends and family, or at least getting ready to rock sold-out crowds with the magic of light!

NEXUS Brings Output and Reliability to the Coachella Stage!

Posted on April 28, 2014

Did you go to Coachella?  Were you among the Coachella-goers who were rocked every night by the great line-up?  Check out how our NEXUS 4×4‘s performed during the two-week run out in Indio, California — they were all above the main rig, lighting the vibe!

YELLOWCARD and LD Cody James ROCK the LEGEND Line!

Posted on April 17, 2014

The band YELLOWCARD is out there right now with lighting designer Cody James, rocking the Legend 230 SR Beam and the Legend 412 LED wash from CHAUVET Professional.  Have you seen their show?  It’s energetic, the audiences love it, and the band brings a lighting performance that accentuates the wide scale of their talent!

Q-Wash Washes in Hot Colors Red Hot Chili Peppers

Posted on April 14, 2014
red hot chili peppers

RCHP Awesomeness! About 85 CHAUVET Professional luminaires took center stage with rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers for a fiery performance at Coliseo de Puerto Rico Jose Miguel Agrelot.  Musique Xpress Lights from Puerto Rico used 49 Q-Wash 560Z-LED & 35 Q-Wash 260-LED wash lights paced on high truss sticks throughout the set.

Lady Gaga + NEXUS + SXSW = EPIC WIN

Posted on April 11, 2014

Did you see Lady Gaga at South by Southwest in Austin (so sorry, SXSW!), lit by NEXUS 4×4?  Live Design wrote an awesome article about it, check it out!   From the article: “Originally Lady Gaga was slated to perform at Doritos’ large vending machine, and at the last minute the city denied Doritos the […]

Jeff Ravitz on “Riding the Springsteen Roller Coaster”

Posted on April 2, 2014

The LIGHTING INSIGHTS newsletter from CHAUVET Professional for April 2014 is hot off the presses! The first article in this month’s newsletter is about the man, the lighting legend, Jeff Ravitz — Jeff talks about his work and the magical ride that is lighting for THE BOSS — Bruce Springsteen! Check it out!  

CHAUVET Professional Shines with Eclipse in New Zealand

Posted on February 27, 2014

About 70 CHAUVET Professional fixtures lit the stage for a one-of-a-kind performance of Pink Floyd tribute band Eclipse, which gathered a crowd of 2,500 people at Stonehenge Aotearoa, a hilltop location overlooking the Wairarapa valley in New Zealand. CHAUVET Professional distributor MDR Sound & Lighting Limited supplied an extensive selection of products, like 24 Q-Wash 560Z-LED wash lights, 12 COLORado […]

Not All Awesome Shows Have Monster Production Budgets – Here’s Brothers Gow!

Posted on February 12, 2014

Here at CHAUVET Professional we often talk a lot about A-Market productions, whether it’s on an international tour, a worldwide televised event, or the like.  CHAUVET Professional products, like the Nexus family and the Legend series, are all over the lighting industry in major productions every week! Every day though, we know that a market […]

Collyns Stenzel, Life In Color’s Designer, Talks Light with CHAUVET Professional

Posted on February 11, 2014

This month in the CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights newsletter, there’s an excellent article and video with the Life In Color lighting and production designer, Collyns Stenzel, about what his challenges were to bring illumination among the same energy level of Electronic Dance Music and paint guns and thousands of people. A snippet from the article: […]

Life In Color Miami, Alive with CHAUVET Professional!

Posted on February 6, 2014

The world’s biggest paint party meets LED lighting and video from CHAUVET Professional! CHAUVET Professional presents an interview with Collyns Stenzel, lighting designer for the light, paint, and EDM party known as Life In Color.  Touted as the “World’s Largest Paint Party,” Life in Color recently toured Miami, Florida with an amazing, mind-bending production featuring […]

Beyonce, Jay-Z, The Grammy Awards, and NEXUS 4×4!

Posted on January 27, 2014

WOW!  Did you see Beyonce and Jay-Z last night onstage at the 2014 Grammy Awards?  What a performance!  Nexus 4×4 was there strutting its stuff right behind Bey and Jay, rocking the lumens as the music was pumping!