SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Playing bars and clubs in their native Des Moines, Iowa in the 1990s, Stone Sour got their name from a popular drink that mixed one-part whiskey with one-part orange juice and a splash of sour mix. In the years that followed, the Grammy-nominated multi-platinum band has attracted a global fan base with […]
BOGATA, COLOMBIA – Among the most important things to keep in mind when running a lightshow, believes Milton de la Cruz, is “to know your key moments.” The Jamundí, Colombia-based LD had more than a few dramatic high points to light in December when working the annual main show of Ensálsate, a Salsa Caleña cabaret […]
LEICESTER, UK – Beautiful beaches, tasty Caipirinhas and soulful music: probably enough reasons to justify why over 2 million people travel to the Rio de Janeiro carnival in Brazil each year. Naturally, when the team at Vivid Experience decided upon this exotic South American festival atmosphere as the theme for the Athena Christmas party in […]
KANSAS CITY, MO – When Eric Cathcart got the call to create a lighting design for Greta Van Fleet, he didn’t view it as an open-ended gig. “My friends from Premier Global Productions brought me to the table to design and program a show. At the time, the idea was to turn it over to […]
NEW YORK – Damien Escobar concerts invariably draw a diverse audience that includes classical music aficionados and hip-hop fans. That’s not surprising. Spanning centuries and cultures, the Julliard-educated Emmy-Award winner pushes his violin in ways that Bach and Vivaldi probably never imagined, as he weaves between old and new musical genres to create a richly […]
HIDALGO, TX – Since arriving on the music scene in 2010, Gerardo Ortiz has released more than an album a year, starred in two feature films and maintained a relentless touring schedule. This has led some to wonder how he manages to keep up this frantic pace. Wonder that is, until they see this 29-year-old […]
MINNEAPOLIS – Glenn Ottenbacher couldn’t understand many of the words Sudden Rush was singing when the rock band performed before a sold-out crowd at the Muse Event Center. But the lighting designer and owner of AGS Event Productions felt the passion of the Hmong quintet’s music, which was honed by centuries of diaspora, struggle, and […]
MILWAUKEE – From wireless headsets to miniaturized cameras, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been an incubator of innovation since it started 76 years ago. But none of the ideas to come out of the agency has been a quite like the one Edmundo Gómez Moreno thought up. While working for NASA, he […]
MANCHESTER, NH – Over 6,000 people attended Manchester Christian Church’s “Christmas at the Arena” celebration last year. It’s hard to imagine that even a single one of them left the spacious Southern New Hampshire University Arena feeling anything less than awestruck by the video and lighting display created by Events United. Still, like an artist […]
COLUMBUS, OH – Dustin Bates, frontman for the wildly popular Sci-Fi rockers Starset, tells a story about the quartet’s formation in 2013. The band, it seems, was created by the Starset Society, an organization dedicated to alerting the public about “The Message,” a cyrptic signal they picked up from the outer reaches of space. A […]
MONTERREY, MEXICO – Nothing was held back at the Tecate Mother of All Rock Fest 2018. Bands like Whitesnake and Garbage gave full-throated performances. Headliner Guns N’ Roses turned up with the legendary Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, accompanied by Dizzy Reed, Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer and Melissa Reese, and roared through an intense […]
NORWICH, UK – Back in the late 1530s, Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries that had been familiar fixtures on the English landscape prior to the Reformation. Most of the stately buildings were destroyed, their material scavenged for other purposes. But one survived thanks to the intervention of Augustine Steward, Mayor of Norwich, who convinced the […]