Set against the backdrop of Glacier National Park, Under the Big Sky Festival has grown into one of the country's premier destinations for country, americana and bluegrass music. The three-day event draws more than 20,000 fans each summer to Big Mountain Ranch outside Whitefish, Montana, where this year's lineup featured dozens of top country and americana artists across two outdoor stages. To support performances on the Big Mountain Stage, Show Imaging deployed a JBL Professi

M Suite is a Karaoke Television (KTV) entertainment venue in Ho Chi Minh City designed around private karaoke experiences for groups of different sizes. With music and vocal performance at the center of the guest experience, the audio system needed to deliver the clarity, output and low-frequency impact expected from karaoke while adapting to thedifferent scale and layout of each room. Rather than repeating the same loudspeaker configuration throughout the venue, M Suite worked

Bring Powerful Switching and Intuitive Control Together Live productions rarely stand still. From corporate events and exhibition stages to product launches, concerts and multi-screen productions, every show brings a different combination of sources, displays, layouts and operational demands.As productions grow in scale and complexity, operators need more than processing power alone. They also need a control experience that keeps the workflow clear, responsive and close at hand

Combines Profile and Fresnel Wash Roles in One Adaptable Fixture Elation is pleased to offer Fuze Profile+, a high-output LED framing profile luminaire that combines the capabilities of a full-featured Profile and a true Fresnel Wash in one adaptable platform. With intelligent Lens Swap, powerful RGBMA color, and a comprehensive framing and effects system, Fuze Profile+ delivers two essential fixture roles without compromising creative capability. One Fixture. Two Roles. No Compromis

The Maatea (main) Stage at the 2026 Moorea Festival in France featured an impressive array of international electronic and EDM artists and an equally dazzling lighting design by Loic Esparraga – of Paris-based design studio MIND – with 48 x Robe GigaPointe moving lights at the core of the aesthetic. Loic worked closely with Corentin Poirier, the festival’s creative & executive director and founder, who designed the Maatea Stage’s dramatic scenography, based on a tall LED sc

Mojo Rental Southeast Europe from Croatia were the first company in the Balkans to invest in Robe’s new GigaPointe laser-phosphor source multipurpose luminaire, with a purchase of 24 fixtures. These were delivered – direct from the factory in Czechia – to the get-in of two massive shows at Zagreb Arena for Croatia’s latest pop and internet sensation, Jakov Jozinović. The GigaPointes were right at the heart of a highly dynamic lighting and stage design by Sven Kučinić from LumiL

Photo © Pontio Arts Bangor University’s Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre, North Wales, recentlycompleted a major upgrade to its theatre and studio lighting systems with Elation KL Series fixtures to move toward a more sustainable technical infrastructure. Lighting specialist White Light supplied and facilitated onsite demonstrations as well as provided technical guidance to Pontio’s in-house team, who carried out the full installation. The majority of Pontio’s traditional tu

The 2026 Double Trouble Double Vision Tour has brought Lynyrd Skynyrd and Foreigner together for a summer run of North American amphitheater dates, with the VOLUX Phantom playing a key role in the lighting production while delivering the performance and flexibility demanded by the tour. The tour has featured a shared staging environment built around large-format LED video and a flexible lightingsystem designed to accommodate the needs of both acts. With the same core infrastr

When Pacha New York brought its iconic cherries to New York City for its inaugural summer season, it did so with a lighting system thoughtfully designed to meet the demanding technical and creative standards of the world-class club and event venue. The lighting system, designed and developed in close collaboration with the Pacha production team, is built around Ayrton Veloce fixtures complemented by MA Lighting grandMA3 consoles. These were supplied, integrated and installed b

Over 250 Robe moving lights – 264 to beprecise– including 54of the brand’s new laser-source GigaPointes – took centre stage at ULTRA Europe 2026, assisting the spectacular visual experience across the festival's Main and RESISTANCE stages in Split,Croatia. ULTRA Europe’s Main Stage production design is created by Richard Milstein and Ray Steinman, with Ray also taking on the roles of production manager and executive producer, working closely with MOJO Rental Southeast Europe

Full-service production company Illuminate had a busy Freedom 250, providing lighting for two of the nation’s most high-profile celebrations. One of those was the Freedom 250 event at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on July 3, where a dynamic Elation lighting system complemented a spectacular fireworks display beneath the iconic memorial. Pyro Spectaculars produced the fireworks design and production, while Illuminate’s Caleb Franke designed and programmed the c

When Wu-Tang Clan brought The Final Chamber European Tour to arenas across the continent this spring, the creative team faced a project that was equal parts design challenge and cultural responsibility. The answer came through carefully crafted lighting design that included 79GLPJDC Burst1 fixtures and 36 GLP impression X5 Bar 1000 battens. Lighting designer Ben Walton led the design, working under the creative direction of Jen Bui, with Jack Cannon serving as lighting directo

Live Events (New Castle, PA), which offers end-to-end production capabilities and production equipment rental with locations in Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Orlando, has expanded its Ayrton lighting inventory with an extensive number of Rivale fixtures. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America. “We’re excited to have Rivale added to our inventory. Our existing inventory of Ayrton fixtures has performed well and reliably, and the Riv

German Sevillano, owner and CEO of Mexican technical production and rental company Meridian, is a shrewd operator with a keen eye for spotting trends and listening to what the market and his customers want, and this has driven his steady investment in Robe moving lights over the years, with the latest purchase being 50 x iFORTE LTX fixtures. These are added to his four RoboSpot systems, also purchased in the last year, together with a fleet of older but still active Robe produc

Elation Professional is pleased to announce that the patent infringement lawsuit brought against Elation by Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc. (ETC) has been dismissed with prejudice following a significant claim-construction ruling by the United States District Court for the Central District of California. ETC filed the lawsuit in January 2025, alleging that Elation infringed three ETC patents relating to entertainment lighting technology. In its August 17 claim-construction

When Brighton rock trio Tigercub took to the stage at London’s KOKO earlier this year to headline their biggest show to date, the lighting design had to deliver on every front. Lighting designer John Rogers met the occasion with arig built around a single fixture, the GLP JDC Burst 1. Rogers, a London-based lighting designer and director with decades of touring experience, was brought onto the project through a recommendation to the band’s management. His brief was unambiguou

A wide array of Ayrton fixtures, a zactrack automated follow system, Green Hippo media servers and grandMA3 consoles hit the road with Lionel Richie this summer when he co‐headlined the “Sing A Song All Night Long Tour” across North America with legendary band Earth, Wind & Fire, bringing both arsts’ classic catalogues to arenas and major venues. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of all of the aforemenoned brands in North America. Eric Wade, one of the Partners a

Theater de Kampanje in the northern Netherlands city of Den Helder is a vibrantenvironmentrunningadiverse andinterestingprogrammeofdramas, musicals,comedy,musicconcerts,and touring shows across its three performance venues. Also hosting business and corporate events, the annual schedule presents around 500 shows / events a year. In a quest to transition to more sustainable LED lighting, the venue has recently invested in Robe LED products, starting with the purchase of 12 x T

Indie band Mt. Joy is bringing its dynamic live show to audiences across the U.S. on the “Hope We Have Fun Tour: Part 2,” with a lighting design from Lightswitch that is as fluid and diverse as the band’s music. Playing a central role are Elation Proteus Maximus LED profile fixtures,delivering the consistent key light that keeps the five-member band cleanly defined and naturally lit as the visual environment shifts around them. The tour marks the first collaboration between Mt. Joy

Soundcraft has announced the launch of its Signature Plus Series Analog Connected Mixing Consoles. As the next generation of the acclaimed Signature Series, it adds more professional workflows and flagship features. Its unprecedented feature set and unmatched price point make it the ideal solution for studio engineers, liveperformers, podcasters, and content creators alike. Available in 12-, 16-, 22-, and 32-channel configurations, each model offers consistent audio performance