Apocalyptica, a Finnish trio, are three classically trained musicians who fuse two different worlds, playing metal rock. Lighting Designer Mikki Kunttu has worked with them on a few occasion…
Metal rockers, Beartooth, kicked off 2025 with a January 18 homecoming concert at Columbus Ohio's Schottenstein Center. Immersing the crowd deeper into this experience was a potent lighting …
A.C. Lighting, a distributor of world-class lighting and rigging technologies, is pleased to announce its partnership with MossLED, who manufactures flexible LED lighting, dimmers, power sup…
Country Music Hall of Fame member and 15-time Grammy winner Ricky Skaggs spent December sharing the gift of bluegrass on the Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Christmas holiday show. Bandi…
The rebrand of Touring Career Workshop to ECCHO Live reflects the nonprofit's rapid growth. The focus of the organization remains empowering live event professionals with the essential skill…
Gateway Studios & Production Services (GSPS) will open its cutting-edge rehearsal and production studio complex in May 2025. Situated on a sprawling 32-acre campus in Chesterfield, MO, w…
Accenting that music of the Kappa FuturFestival with a bold, futuristic lighting design that incorporated the gripping architectural elements of Parco Dora, was Giovanni Ricciardi. Helping R…
Even as fans who flocked to see Imminence, the quintet from Sweden became more immersed in the show, the audience didn't always get to "see" the band members, at least not in the literal sen…
 John "Two Dogs" Saner has finally gone to that big, long rigging call in the sky after a long battle with Ankylosing Spondylitis (a severe form of arthritis in the spine and joints) fol…
The touring industry's best gathered for the 23rd Annual Parnelli Awards during NAMM 2025 and Bandit Lites was proud to once again be awarded Lighting Company of the Year. Bandit Chair and f…
"Everybody, up on stage!" There was a laugh, and then some looks when Parnelli Audio Innovator honoree Dave Rat called that out from the stage. But when he did again and began flapping his a…
Houston-based Next Audio Visual Productions brought the inaugural 'Snow Glow on the Bayou' to life with a ten-day nightly water projection show on Buffalo Bayou in Downtown Houston. The even…
At its NAMM U breakfast session on Jan. 23, NAMM president and CEO John Mlynczak presented Lana Negrete with a big check for $10,000 out of its recently-formed fund for California wildfire r…
In a move that continues to expand its capabilities to offer complete lighting solutions, Chauvet has announced that it has acquired LiteGear, a leading manufacturer of film and broadcast LE…
Brompton Technology, a global leader in LED video processing technology, recently celebrated its inclusion in the inaugural edition of The Sunday Times 100 Tech with a visit from Deput…
Goldrush 2024, the first event in Arizona's fall festival season, was held for two days between 5pm and 2am. The Relentless Beats event highlighted almost every imaginable subset of EDM musi…
To say Kent Shafferman was Bandit Lites is an understatement. Sadly, Kent passed away early in the morning January 22nd, 2025. Kent started at Bandit in 1976 at the ripe old age of 16. His f…
ROE Visual proudly collaborated with Solotech to bring DISCOSHOW"a dazzling LED masterpiece that redefines immersive entertainment"to life. Blending cutting-edge LED technology with the infe…
Lighting Designer Matthaus Scheuerer used Claypaky Arolla Aqua Spots for four weeks on the last tour he did with German thrash metal band Kreator and gives the fixtures rave r…
The award-winning Festival du Cirque International des Mureaux, one of the world's preeminent circuses. This was brilliantly evident this fall at the Parc du Sautour in Les Mureaux. Co…
Veteran media server programmer John Mims, Owner of Texas-based J3 Consulting, LLC, served as the Disguise Programmer for global production agency Space Created, Inc. on Oracle SuiteWorld…
Allround Lyd & Lys (Light & Sound) based in Struer, Denmark, purchased Robe iFORTE LTX Follow Spots ahead of their busy 2024 festival season, so " in conjunction with their existing …
The countdown to Showlight 2025 is upon us and it's time to announce the next round of speakers engaged to share their experiences over three glorious days in Dijon this May. Showlight takes…
Stage 4, a thriving rental company based in Singapore, joins the growing list of Singaporean rental companies to use Ayrton products and the first in Singapore to invest in Rivale Profiles. …
The Behind the Scenes Mental Health Initiative announces a new webinar Dealing with Substance Use in the Workplace: Why and How We Should Help. We have all come across a situation where some…