The 2018 Old Dominion tour, Happy Endings, kicked off on 1 February 2018 and played dates in North America, the UK, Ireland and Australia.
Full service production company Morris Light & Sound of Nashville, Tennessee, supplied the lighting for the tour, a large rig that included Elation Professional Chorus Line 16 LED pixel bar luminaires used to line the mid-stage and upstage, as well as Cuepix Blinder WW2 white light LED blinders in the overhead truss and on the back wall. Lighting design was by Travis Shirley.
The Elation Professional Chorus Line 16 pixel bar houses 16 40W RGBW LEDs that allows for use on large stage performances and has enough punch to compete with high-lumen lighting and bright LED video screens. It is an ideal stage wash or foot light solution and features full pixel control for direct eye-candy looks.
David Haskell, President of Morris, commented: “The Chorus Line 16 has great performance with a good zoom function and the reliability is fantastic. The brightness of the LED is excellent and when viewed head-on, it is aesthetically pleasing to look at.”
The fixture also includes motorised zoom optics so it can be used to light set objects and cycs and a 220° tilt motor function let designers position the unit dynamically during a show.
Audience lighting is an important element on many shows, especially country artists who often have a passion to connect with their audience. The Elation Professional Cuepix Blinder WW2 gives the classic look of the 2-lite but with a fraction of the power requirements and with powercon in and out, the fixtures can be placed throughout a lighting rig without having to run separate 120v cables.
About the Elation Professional Cuepix Blinders, Haskell stated: “We’ve used Cuepix Blinders for years and over the course of multiple tours and countless productions we stay continually impressed by them.” The Elation Professional Cuepix Blinder WW2 houses 2 long-life 100W warm white 3,200K COB LEDs and gives a bright, high-density output that mimics the look of an incandescent source.