Bandit lights annual Black Music Honours
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“On this show, the award winners/honorees are the true stars of the show,” says lighting designer Mark Carver. “The idea is to showcase their body of work through various musical artists, and both work hand in hand so that the music and the award fit the genre of each particular honorees, giving them a true honor for their body of work.”
Bandit Lites supplied nearly 200 fixtures for the soirée including GLP X4S, Elation ACL 360 Bars, Chavuet Rogue RH1 Hybrids, Robe BMFLs, Claypaky B-EYE K20 and Bandit’s exclusive GRNLite Moving Washes.
Carver utilized the B-EYE K20s to tone and color the band and stage, setting the color palettes for each musical number, whether it was Bell, Biv, Devoe performing the hits of Bobby Brown or Jonathan McReynolds, Tasha Page-Lockheart, Kierra Sheard and Donnie McClurkin singing I’ll Take You There. Robe BMFLs provided hard edge gobo air effects along with modelling to the set and stage floor.
“The Rogue Hybrids were used for air beam effects, and the Elation 360 Bars were very versatile in offering music colour effects, strobe effects and adding energy,” Carver explains.
“I really enjoyed working with vice president Mike Golden and project manager Gene Brian, who delivered a well prepped package exactly fitting our lighting spec,” Carver says. “Susan Rose was the lighting programmer, Aaron Swetland acted as crew chief and media content programmer, George (Buddy) Lunn served as gaffer and Luke Carver was the associate lighting director. Sam Morgan was our Bandit stage tech, and all delivered a one hundred percent rig that performed flawlessly for the show run.”
The show set is set to air on broadcast syndication. Proceeds from the tickets sales benefit the National Museum of African American Music, scheduled to open in Nashville, TN, in 2019.
(Jim Evans)
