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Arizona Bike Week lit with Chauvet  

Arizona Bike Week, a five-day celebration of motorcycles and music held at Westworld of Scottsdale in early April 2024, featured plenty of light and video on its 50’ wide by 40’ deep stage - from the 3D video screen with its bold images, to the colorful pixel mapped effects and intense color washes, the show immersed on many levels. Half a million visitors attended this year’s edition of the annual festival.

John Garberson and his team at Creative Backstage designed the stage using fixtures from their own inventory as well as gear supplied by LIT Lighting. The production team’s effort provided a canvas for LDs from Godsmack, Yelawolf, Brantley Gilber, Everclear, and George Thorogood & The Destroyers.

As part of their plan to create a larger impression during the festival, Arizona Bike Week organizers asked Garberson to have larger IMAG Side screens. At the same time the bands had their own requests. As Garberson recalls it: “Our client wanted to beef up the side screens from last year, while the production teams from the bands kept asking for larger back screens.”

The result was a massive video screen presence that enveloped the stage with images. For added effect, there was a generous amount of fog on stage. Nevertheless, the lights rig’s output came shining through. “Its output was more than up to the task”, says Garberson.

Anchoring this were ten Maverick MK2 Washes, ten Strike 4 blinders and thirty-two Rogue R2 Wash units from Chauvet Professional. The Maverick and Strike units were flown on front truss to provide front washes and audience lighting. As for the Rogues, they served as the workhouse of the rig, being positioned throughout the stage to provide top and side washes, pixel mapped effects, and crossing patterns.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional/Creative Backstage)

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