Dave Matthews Band tours with Chorus Line
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The band’s first tour since 2016 runs through 10 September, with the final show at the Hollywood Bowl in LA. The tour is in support of the band's new album Come Tomorrow that debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts. Lighting design is by Fenton Williams together with Aaron Stinebrink of tour lighting vendor TMS of Omaha, Nebraska. Both Williams and TMS have been associated with the Dave Matthews Band for over two decades.
The designers use 30 Chorus Line 16 LED battens in the rig, 15 on the backdrop truss and another fifteen just downstage of the backdrop on the floor. Stinebrink calls the zoomable RGBW colour-changing linear bar light a dual purpose fixture. “We chose the Chorus Line due to the tight zoom angle you can achieve as well as being brighter than other products we tested,” he says.
“The intended use in this Dave Matthews Band design is to light the backdrop,” Stinebrink explains. “But then they also tilt towards the downstage edge to create a wall of light that projects over the top of the projection set piece. The Chorus Line floor units also shoot under the same set piece in the same manner. We also use the floor fixtures to create a silhouette of the band due to the incredible zoom the fixture has. In the end, the feature set in the Chorus Line gave us a lot of options to use in a multitude of ways.”
(Jim Evans)
