Ayrton Rivale light up Red Rocks Amphitheatre for three nights of Brandi Carlile in Concert
- juliana6232
- Jan 6
- 1 min read
Award-winning singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile returned to Morrison, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre for three back-to-back concerts on 5-7 September. André Petrus acted as lighting designer and programmer for the shows, which featured 88 Ayrton Rivale provided by Brown Note Productions in Thornton, Colorado.
ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America.
Petrus, a lighting and production designer who heads Nashville-based Outrage Media Group, has been using Ayrton fixtures for at least a decade but had not previously deployed Rivale. “I actually asked for a different fixture, but Brown Note recommended Rivale,” says Petrus. “I’m cool with anything from Ayrton and had heard only good things about Rivale so I knew they would do what I needed to do.”
The 88 Rivale were the rig’s main moving lights and were positioned “everywhere,” according to Petrus. “They were shin lights, they were upstage in a ground row to give depth, they acted as the main key and back lights.
Rivale were also mounted on three layers of truss running upstage to downstage to give yet another layer of depth and texture.” Petrus’s first experience with Rivale won’t be his last. “For their size they are a great solution for medium to large-scale shows. The optics are great and so is the colour saturation. They lit the scenery very well, and I was super pleased with what I got. I only wish we had a controlled environment using atmosphere would have showcased the fixtures even more.”
Brown Note also supplied Petrus with active and backup full-size grandMA3 consoles with three medium PUs. “I’ve used grandMA for most of my professional career and have my own grandMA3 for programming in my studio.”
Photos © J Siegel
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