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Chauvet equips Tenth Avenue North’s Christmas tour

Christian band Tenth Avenue North’s current ‘Decade The Halls’ tour features a decade-by-decade cornucopia of Christmas music covering more than a half century. Supporting this musical mix with colored visuals that evoke images of different Christmases from times past is a Mike Marcario lighting design that features Chauvet Professional Rogue and Nexus fixtures, supplied by Bandit Lites.

Marcario’s transformative lighting seems to move through time with the music, changing colors and the tempo of its movement to reflect the passage of holiday seasons through the years. “We change up the kinds of colors and gobos we use for different decades,” Marcario explains. “The show begins very warm with little movement, but as we approach the 1990s and 2000s, we have added more aerial effects and color, also pulling out more tricks from the fixtures to create a contemporary feel, while still maintaining a holiday mood throughout the entire show.”

Helping Marcario achieve his design goals are the six Rogue RH1 Hybrid fixtures in his rig. Positioning four of the 330 W beam/spot movers on the downstage edge of two 8’ x 8’ risers, and two on upstage road cases, he has them fill a variety of roles. For key lighting and front color washes, Marcario uses the Nexus 4x1. “Given that the tour stops at churches, we don’t always have downstage front lighting or spots,” he says.

A 16’ x 8’ video wall hung from upstage truss is at the center of Marcario’s design. Although conveying the mood of different decades, the wall inevitably creates dead space in the area around it. Marcario addressed this issue by filling in this space with 15-meter strands of Chauvet DJ Festoon hanging décor lights. The Festoon strands also create starry night effects.

(Photos: Dan Kazinski)

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