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Alan Jackson on tour with Elation’s Platinum FLX

Alan Jackson on tour with Elation’s Platinum FLX

For country music singer Alan Jackson’s 2016 ‘Still Keepin’ it Country’ tour, which started in April and will play festival and arena dates until November, production and lighting designer Craig Rutherford (of Blueshift Design) has chosen Elation Professional’s Platinum FLX. Nashville-based Elite Multimedia Productions is handling all the lighting, video and LED for the tour.

 

Rutherford, who has been with Jackson for over two years, used Sharpys on last year’s tour but says he wanted something that could do more for this current outing. “I wanted to use something with gobos and color mixing that complemented the other fixtures in the rig,” he states. “We have 1200 W spot movers and I needed a fixture that could keep up with that.”

 

He uses the hybrid FLX fixtures as beams and spots for big gobo pattern looks and narrow beam effects and will use a frosted beam effect on certain songs. Besides keeping up with the larger wattage fixtures, Rutherford says the FLX fixtures can also cut through the upstage video wall. “I use them mostly in spot mode for mid-air aerial effects,” he states.

 

Rutherford, who used Elation-distributed Capture lighting design software to pre-visualize the show and do all the plotting, positioned FLX fixtures in each of four truss fingers over the stage, as well as on top of each of four upstage towers.

 

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Alan Jackson on tour with Elation’s Platinum FLXAlan Jackson on tour with Elation’s Platinum FLX

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