PHILADELPHIA – You better check your email right now! Patrick Dierson is no stranger to getting text messages like this when he’s on a job site, especially when he’s overseeing the production design at the Jay-Z curated Made in America festival. “I love this event, because it never fails to surprise with unexpected challenges,” he […]
NEW YORK – Lighting a coheadline tour can, at times, be a tricky proposition, especially when one of the acts wants to build its show around a car wash theme, complete with a sawed-off Corvette on stage, while the other opts for a more romantic setting. Richard Fong faced this situation when he was called […]
LOS ANGELES – Collaboration’s wings take creativity to new heights. The wisdom of this adage was on full display at the 2022 iHeart Radio Music Awards when superstars John Legend and Charlie Puth sat down at dueling pianos to banter and play a five-minute mash-up of each other’s hits, before announcing plans to record a […]
MIAMI – I enjoy the music of the language,” 17-time Grammy winner Sting said of Spanish. “It’s an emotional quality that it gives me.” That emotional quality was there for all to enjoy on the evening of Thursday, February 24, when the English-born legend performed his single “For Her Love” in Spanish as part of Univision’s […]
LONDON — Spice, the mystical matter found on the planet Arrakis in the film Dune, possesses some incredible powers, such as enabling travel at speeds faster than light. But even this potent substance, as impressive as it is, was apparently no match for London’s rain. There were some showers during the glitzy red carpet premiere […]
NEW ORLEANS– (For Immediate Release) — Sometimes what is old can become new again. Such was the case with the red brick building at 3700 Canal Street in the historic Mid-City neighborhood. Recognized by the New Orleans Historic District Landmark Commission, the building had been a church for six decades, until it was closed in […]
CLEVELAND– At its best, live music, particularly rock and roll, is driven by a deep personal connection between fans and the artist on stage. TV viewers who tuned into HBO’s recent broadcast of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony were reminded of this time and again during the broadcast, even though the […]
NASHVILLE – There were two superstars on the set when Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood performed their hauntingly moving hit “If I Didn’t Love You” for the American Music Awards 2021 broadcast. But as Keith Hoagland saw it, there were really “three artists” he wanted to light. “The thing that leant a beautiful, extra dimension to […]
LONDON – The Maverick Silens 2 Profile doesn’t attract attention to itself because of its sound; the 100-percent convection-cooled LED PCB fixture operates in virtual silence. However, the versatile 560W luminaire did make waves recently when it was honored with a 2021 PLASA Award For Innovation. The only moving fixture (and one of two […]
NEW YORK– (For Immediate Release) — It may well go down as one of the most moving live music moments never seen. At the conclusion of the We Love NYC: The Homecoming Concert, after a bountiful feast of big looks, New York’s own Paul Simon was to take the stage to sing “The Boxer,” lit […]
BRUSSELS – If the past is indeed prologue as the great Shakespeare wrote, then the way a society treats its historic structures should foretell something about the way it will build its future. In keeping with this principle, those who participated in a recent online event organized by the Belgian Building Research Institute to discuss […]
LONDERZEEL, BELGIUM – Innovation doesn’t always mean reinventing the wheel; sometimes it just involves turning it in a different fashion believes Jonas Weyn of Art & Yes. He and his team demonstrated the value of this type of ingenuity recently when creating a new lighting and set design for Campus Cup, a popular game show […]