USA - Southern California-based Visions Lighting is one of the busiest production and lighting companies on the U.S. West Coast with an ever-growing client list that includes some of our industry's most influential events and artists. Serving major promotion companies like Insomniac Events, AEG and Goldenvoice, Visions has consistently turned to Elation lighting gear to fulfill lighting briefs and 2016 has been no exception with Elation products lighting this year's Coachella, StageCoach and Wango Tango festivals among other events.

Visions Lighting president Todd Roberts, who serves as the primary designer on many of the projects along with Visions' in-house drafting team of Jake Forbes and Nathan Jones, sums up the reason. "I continue to go with Elation because the products hold up well and they have great customer service."

Coachella delivered another eclectic experience across two weekends in April where Visions Lighting provided the stage, roof and lighting for the festival's second stage, the Outdoor Theatre. Some 50 Platinum Beam Extreme moving heads, 40 Colour Chorus 72 LED battens and 40 Protron 3K LED strobes provided the high-energy light show with fog and mid-air projection haze courtesy of four Antari HZ-500 hazers and four Antari F-7 Smaze fog/haze machines.

In a relatively short period of time, StageCoach has grown to become the U.S.'s biggest grossing country music festival. Held 29 April - 1 May at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, Todd Roberts handled lighting design duties for the Palomino Stage, which required the same big impact looks as you'd find on full on rock acts.

Visions used Platinum Beam Extremes, all flown on ladders upstage with some fixtures on the upstage floor, for all the artists on the Palomino Stage throughout the three days for eye-catching projections of narrow, dense beams. StageCoach is really the country music version of Coachella, which ended the weekend prior at the same location. "Although all weekends at both Coachella and StageCoach had dust storms, once again the gear all held up well and kept working like a champ," Roberts said.

Popular American DJ Kaskade played the Los Angeles Convention Centre on 7 May, his biggest solo show to date with 21,000+ attendees and the largest show of its kind ever held at the venue. No production element was spared to fill the space and mesmerize fans for this epic show. Visions supplied the production, which included 148 Platinum Beam Extremes mounted on 300ft long finger trusses that extended out over the audience, as well as on side trusses. Some 300 Epar Tri PAR lights were spaced on the finger trusses every 10 feet and used for truss toning. At the stage area, 40 Platinum BX beam lights powered out dense, long throw beams for spectacular mid-air looks while Lumina Strip


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