UK-based lighting designer Jon Smith has worked for the last seven years with one of the more brash and humorous pop punk bands around, Bowling for Soup. In late November and early December, the band played a string of festive UK gigs dubbed the “Almost Christmas” tour with Jon using an Elation lighting rig to light the shows. This run was a bit different for the LD however, as his own company...
New Albany High School in New Albany, Indiana, recently completed seven sold out performances of the timeless classic “The Wizard of Oz” and used their new rig of Elation Professional lighting fixtures to help bring the beloved musical to life. With three top-tier theatre programs only miles from each other, Southern Indiana is a proven mecca for high school theatre. After sister school Floyd...
All LED Elation rig, including new DARTZ 360™, used to light energetic shows. LD Megan Alksninis comments For post-hardcore music fans the summer of 2018 was something special as two of the genres best, New York-based Quicksand and Glassjaw, teamed up on a 20-date, co-headlining tour across the U.S. JDI Productions, Inc. of Rhode Island served as lighting vendor for Quicksand with an Elation...
IP65 lighting performs as spec’d, weathers pre-show storm. Bandit Lites supplies for three stages Alabama’s southern Gulf Coast was the scene of the Hangout Music Festival held May 18-20, where artists such as The Chainsmokers, Zedd, Halsy, ODESZA, Pussy Riot and others performed beneath a Bandit Lites-supplied lighting package that included all-weather Elation IP65-rated lighting. Nearly 40,000...
Chosen to pilot popular Disney musical, southern Indiana high school taking the play to The International Thespian Festival Southern Indiana’s Floyd Central High School puts a special emphasis on the performing arts, a focus that has produced one of America's premiere high school theatre programs. Last year, Floyd Central was one of a handful of schools across the U.S. selected by Disney...