Bellamy Brothers Increase Danley Rig with New Monitors Live by Thomas Richard - July 15, 2019 With over fifty charting hits, over fifty albums, over fifty years in the business, and a firmly-anchored classic in “Let Your Love Flow,” The Bellamy Brothers are a living example of every musician’s dream. These days, the brothers and their band play around 150 shows a year and are about to
Vari-Lite Profiles impress at Cleveland Orchestra Live by Thomas Richard - July 15, 2019 The compact, feature-rich VL2600 Profile luminaire from Vari-Lite, a Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) entertainment lighting brand, met some crucial needs for lighting designer Alexander V. Nichols in his design for a production of Richard Strauss’s comic opera, Ariadne auf Naxos, by the renowned Cleveland Orchestra. As one of the USA’s older concert
Jazz in Duketown Does it Again with dBTechnologies VIO L212 Live by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 Dutch Jazz Festival “Jazz in Duketown” in ‘s-Hertogenbosch is the largest event of its kind in the Netherlands using 9 stages and attracting over 175,000 visitors. Once again this year, the international stars playing on the Main-Stage on the city’s marketplace and attracting the largest crowds could rely on excellent
Elation DARTZ Fulfill Kelly Clarkson’s “Meaning of Life” Tour Live by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 Kelly Clarkson has proved to be a multi-talented star since winning the inaugural season of "American Idol" in 2002. Besides charting consistently ever since, she has been a regular coach on “The Voice” and is set to host “The Kelly Clarkson Show” in September. Before that though, she hit the
ZZ Top Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Tour with L-Acoustics Live by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill (left) and Billy Gibbons (right) kicking off the band’s 50th anniversary world tour in their home state of Texas Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, ZZ Top —long comprised of the classic trio of Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard—is celebrating
Sam Parker Lends Galactic Touch To Passion Pit Tour With CHAUVET Professional Live by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 Sam Parker described the look he devised for Passion Pit’s Manners 10th Anniversary Tour as resembling a “space station command pit.” Like an inter-galactical craft, which turns reality on its head as it approaches the speed of light and enters the darker realm of quantum physics, Parker’s rig expanded creative
Snow Patrol Tours with Outline Newton Live by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 Snow Patrol returned to the road, after a seven-year break, with their 2018 album Wildness. Audio provider Adlib used the Outline Newton multi-source processor at the front end of their systems. The Newton is fast becoming an Adlib standard for audio processing and this sold-out UK arena tour was no
ZDF Hitparade Reaches 50 with GLP Setting the Old Show in a New Light Live by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 Like many people, lighting designer Thomas Gerdon delighted in sitting on the couch with his parents in Germany, watching ZDF Hitparade on a tube TV. Remembering the great TV format he was overjoyed when the offer was presented to him to design the lighting for the show to celebrate the 50th
Dutch Theater Complex Adds Claypaky Axcor Spot 400s Install by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 The Kunstlinie Almere Flevoland (KAF) in Almere, the Netherlands, recently installed 16 x Claypaky Axcor Spot 400 fixtures in its theatre. Claypaky distributor AED Nederland provided the compact, bright LED moving spotlights. KAF is a theatre and exhibition centre in Almere, which opened in 2007 and was renovated and took its
VUE’s Acoustic Linearity Lights up Neon Carnival 2019 Live by Thomas Richard - July 9, 2019 In celebration of its 10th year as the unofficial Coachella A-list after party, Neon Carnival expanded this year to include a second weekend to coincide with the Stagecoach country music festival. After its initial outing on the second night of Coachella — the Carnival returned for a second, country-tinted outing