It was a magical journey for the thousands of fans who spent five days cruising on The Royal Caribbean Freedom and taking in live performances by the likes of Damian and Stephen Marley, Burning Spear, Ding Dong and Shabba Ranks. Underlying the carefree fun however, was an intense, carefully planned, and well-executed effort on the […]

Seth Jackson might not have expected his conversation with Barry Manilow to end quite the way it did when the singer called him at home one day in 1998. The highly acclaimed lighting designer had been touring South America with Kenny G when Manilow’s tour manager contacted him at his hotel and asked if he […]

Mike Grabowski was thrilled with his experience designing the multiple stages under his purview for “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” in Times Square this year, except for one thing. His single regret didn’t involve the rain that fell for much of the evening, either. After all, the “unpredictability of nature,” comes […]

LOS ANGELES – For Patrick Dierson, it was a case of really bad timing. The day before he was scheduled to travel to The Kia Forum for the iHeartRadio ALTer Ego concert, he had to cancel his flight after testing positive for COVID. “It was a real bummer, as this is one of my favorite […]

SUNRISE, FL – As part of its initiative to increase its level of service and product availability throughout the world, CHAUVET Professional has appointed Zalight the exclusive distributor of its products in Italy. “The timing of Chauvet and Zalight joining forces to develop the Italian market is spot on, as both companies share a similar […]

SUNRISE, FL – Inspired designs come in all sizes. Now so too do fully featured LED ellipsoidal spotlights that can help turn those visions into reality, thanks to the new Ovation E-2 FC from CHAUVET Professional. With an RGBAL engine that delivers richly textured colors and smooth, even whites (it has a CRI of 93), […]

BRUSSELS – What would Leonardo da Vinci think if he were brought here? Mathias Roelandt pondered that question recently as he walked through the cavernous North Hall of Koninklijk Legermuseum – Musée royal de l’Armée (Royal Military Museum) where a wide collection of aircraft from different eras remains frozen in time. “People have always dreamed […]

NASHVILLE  – Location, they say, “is everything” in retailing; well, it’s pretty important in live touring too. Just ask Alec Takahashi, the  long- time lighting designer for country superstar Thomas Rhett. Lighting the multi-platinum singer/songwriter’s “Bring The Bar To You” tour, the LD could sense the crowd enter different emotional spaces as his client moved […]

DORSET, UK – Ollie Titterington of O T Events Technicians knows every inch of the path that winds through Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens for ILLUMINATE. That’s not surprising; after three years of working on this winter light celebration at the historic garden (it dates back to 1756), he’s traversed the event’s well-planned route time and time again, […]

BARCELONA – The CHAUVET Professional stand will be more than a product showcase at ISE, it will also serve as a “storytelling platform,” one designed to stimulate ideas and invite visitors to imagine how the company’s fixtures can transform a variety of spaces. Moving beyond standard tradeshow concepts, CHAUVET Professional is devoting much of ISE […]

LONDON – Imagination sets sail in the sea, according to a familiar poetic refrain. This creative spirit was unfurled recently for Bellowhead’s UK tour, a magical 18-city voyage that celebrated the tenth anniversary of the band’s iconic Broadside album. Reflecting the nautical theme of that seminal recording, the stage and backdrop on this tour were […]

LAS VEGAS – The 23rd The Latin Grammy Awards, which took place at the Mandalay Bay Resort’s Michelob Ultra Arena, defied easy categorization, being big, bold, and sensuously stunning one moment, then delivering soft, intimate moments the next. This was evident right from the start of the three-hour show, as it began with a brief, […]