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Time & Place Jason Goers – Shawne Cave

As a lighting designer for 13 years, Jason Goers has seen his share of unique and impressive venues. He’s been to Red Rock Amphitheatre multiple times with bands like Leftover Salmon, Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band, Dark Star Orchestra, The Motet and other clients. He’s also had stops at places ranging from Ryman […]

Lüz Studio Triggers Creativity For Jason Aldean

Matthieu Larivée and the team at Lüz Studio have been relentlessly pushing the envelope of late, driving technology in new directions to transform stages in ways that would have been unimaginable not long ago. So, it should come as  no surprise that following their widely acclaimed work on last year’s Jason Aldean tour, when they […]

Anatomy of a Rig John Garberson Zona Festival

  If there’s one thing constant about the weather, it’s that nothing about it is constant. John Garberson and the production team at Creative BackStage learned this less first hand at Phoenix’s Zona festival.   According to the National Weather Bureau, Phoenix is the second driest city in the USA, trailing only Las Vegas. Back in […]

Scott Holthaus – Moving Light

Creativity is always in motion. The willingness to move with its relentless flow is what spells the difference between art and imitation. Like a long line of creatives in every field before him, Scott Holthaus has embraced this principle to its core. Following it has helped him take his lighting designs to bold new places […]

SJ Grevett – Unstoppable Light

Light doesn’t stop until it hits a solid object. This UK creative pointed this out to us when discussing his penchant for incorporating multiple surfaces into his lighting designs. It was an apt metaphor for his all-embracive style, which is often characterized by features like fully-integrated wrap around video walls, towering geometric structures, and floor-to-ceiling […]

I’m With The Band – Cody James and Yellowcard

Light a band for any length of time, and some of their songs are bound to stand out as your favorites. For Yellowcard’s designer Cody James that top tune is “Holly Wood Died.” The song was released in 2006, six years before James hooked up with the Billboard Award winning rock icons. It is raw […]

David Howard’s Patterns in Light

Shapes have a language all their own. And, like every language, it is one marked by a vast web of meanings and complexities. After all, it is no accident that we explain the most abstract of all concepts, infinity, with a shape… Or, that we readily associate major religions with simple shapes. David Howard understands […]

Time and Place – Matt Row at Red Rocks

There are few venues anywhere that rival the natural wonders of the Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre. Carved into the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, the site presents lighting designers with a canvas that inspires creativity in untold ways. Beyond that, however, these surroundings turn designers and their clients into, not just professionals, but […]