UK: Meyer Sound LEOPARD is the Choice for Passenger Live by ETA - December 16, 2016December 30, 2016 Photos credit: Stefan M. Prager Folk balladeer Passenger crafts delicate songs that tell stories. In his trademark raspy warble, he sings in vignettes, delivering lyrical beacons of truth within immersive narratives. Known off-stage as Michael David Rosenberg, the English musician began writing songs at around age 14, leaving school at the
USA: Maroon 5 and L-Acoustics Share “One More Night” Night After Night Live by ETA - October 18, 2016October 18, 2016 Ask FOH engineer Jim Ebdon about the configuration of the L-Acoustics line array sound system he’s been piloting for three-time Grammy Award winners Maroon 5 for nearly the last two years on a world tour and he’ll likely reply starting with the phrase, “Well, currently, at the moment…” That’s because
WORLD: Meyer Sound LEO Family Lends Intimacy to Celine Dion’s Transatlantic “Francophone” Tour Live by ETA - October 7, 2016October 4, 2016 Photos credit: Ralph Larmann For more than a quarter century, Celine Dion has captivated millions worldwide with music that reaches straight for the heart. On her recent arena-scale tour of French-speaking lands on both sides of the Atlantic, Dion relied on a Meyer Sound LEO Family reinforcement system to provide an
DEU: Silbermond tours with Ayrton Live by ETA - October 5, 2016October 4, 2016 Photos: Markus Wilmsmann 2016 German rock band, Silbermond, has embarked on a live tour in support of its recently released, fifth studio album, Leichtes Gepäck. Lighting Designer, Stephan Aue, has opted for two dominating lighting products from Ayrton, supplied by VisionStage of Germany, to play alongside them. Ayrton IntelliPix-R and Ayrton MagicRing-R9 create
WORLD: Robe Pointes to BMFLs for Laura Pausini Live by ETA - October 3, 2016 Photos : Camilla Alibrandi Multi award winning Italian singer / songwriter and music producer Laura Pausini started her 2016 world touring campaign in support of her new ‘Simili’ studio album with a brand new lighting design created by Alain Corthout and Ignace D’Haese from Belgian based creative visual design practice, Arf
ITA: A Tuscan night with Sting and GTO Live by ETA - September 29, 2016September 29, 2016 This summer, on the Florence date of Sting’s marathon “Back to Bass” tour (the tour originally started in 2011, coinciding with the release of two compilation albums commemorating the 25th anniversary of his solo career). The artist and his stellar band performed at the city’s Cascine Park for an ecstatic
Elation On The Road For Rascal Flatts “Rhythms & Roots” Tour Live by ETA - September 27, 2016September 27, 2016 Elation Professional’s ACL 360 Bar color-changing LED battens are being used by lighting designer Andy Knighton to add a flare of lighting dynamism to the Rascal Flatts “Rhythms & Roots” tour, a post-Vegas residency outing that has the country music trio on the road in the U.S. until mid-October. “The ACL
USA: HES Lighting Energizes ROCKSTAR’s Taste Of Chaos Tour Live by ETA - September 2, 2016September 1, 2016 Photography by Nick Siemens @ Visual Grunt Media The 2016 ROCKSTAR Taste Of Chaos Tour recently wrapped a six week run across the US, giving live music fans high energy festival performances from headliners Dashboard Confessional as well as Taking Back Sunday, Saosin and The Early November. With lighting and video
NA: Elation Lighting for Brit Floyd “Space and Time Continuum” Tour Live by ETA - August 18, 2016August 17, 2016 Following a successful world tour in 2015, the world’s greatest Pink Floyd tribute band, Brit Floyd, is on the road again, touring North America and Europe beneath an updated rig that includes Elation’s hybrid Platinum FLX among other Elation fixtures. The 2016 “Space and Time Continuum” tour recreates legendary Pink
INTL: Clay Paky Tours With The Scorpions Live by ETA - August 17, 2016August 16, 2016 Photos credit: Ralph@Larmann.com No German band can be compared to the Scorpions in terms of history, success and international popularity. The group was originally called "Nameless" and was formed in Sarstedt, in 1965, by guitarist Rudolf Schenker and drummer Wolfgang Dziony. The same year they adopted the name they became famous