Salsa in San Juan
Puerto Rico - Chauvet Professional lights accompanied Gilberto Santa Rosa, bandleader and singer of salsa and bolero, during the first concert of his tour at Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferre. David Ayala designed the lighting for the 36 Chauvet lights, provided by rental company Musique Xpress.

The all-girl band backing up Santa Rosa's performance played from circular podiums of different heights placed in two groups of four on each half of the stage. Behind these podiums, on the floor, Ayala placed 12 Q-Wash 560Z-LED wash fixtures, lighting the band while shooting bright beams towards the ceiling.

Ayala placed six COLORado Batten 72 Tour linear wash lights at the front of the stage bathing the floor and singer in colour. Placed at the base of the podiums other four COLORado Batten 72 Tour fixtures discretely lit the instrumentalists. Ayala programmed each grouping separately, bringing different colors to its design.

Above a central video wall, Ayala placed six Q-Wash 260-LED compact moving head lights high on trussing, which intensely downlit the performers. Installed above smaller video panels connected to the central one, eight COLORado 3p IP wash banks downlit the stage area from the upper truss.

Ayala was impressed with the performance of the high-power wash Q-Wash 560Z-LED. "I love its colours; it has a great zoom and low power consumption," he declared.

(Jim Evans)


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