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Elation Platinum FLX and ACL 360 Matrix premiere at Kaaboo Festival

Elation Platinum FLX and ACL 360 Matrix premiere at Kaaboo Festival
Elation Platinum FLX and ACL 360 Matrix premiere at Kaaboo Festival

LD Nook Schoenfeld was the first lighting designer to use Elation Professional’s Platinum FLX hybrid moving head, as well as the company’s new ACL 360 Matrix narrow-beam LED effect light. Both lights had their show premieres at a VIP-only Sheryl Crow concert held on the Trestles Stage just prior to the opening of the inaugural Kaaboo Festival in Del Mar, California.

 

“Being the first time anyone had used these fixtures I had to get a rushed fixture library to use in my console. So I was actually unsure of what I would see on stage for that evening’s performance as I wrote the entire light show in the light of the California sun,” Schoenfeld explains.

 

The Kaaboo Festival ran from September 18-20 at the Del Mar Racetrack and Fairgrounds just north of San Diego. Lighting design across the festival’s five outdoor and two indoor stages, all named after well-known California surfing spots, was by Chris Lisle and included ambient lighting from the roof of the grounds to the palm trees surrounding the track.

 

Lighting on the Trestles Stage consisted of 24 Platinum FLX, 24 ACL 360 Matrix and 10 Platinum Wash ZFX Pro fixtures. Erik Parker was the Associate Lighting Designer for the festival and LD for the Trestles Stage. The Platinum FLX and ACL 360 fixtures were positioned upstage, as well as on trusses flown on either side of the stage for a side wash.

 

The ACL 360 Matrix fixtures were hung from two upstage trusses. Included on the Trestles Stage front truss were Platinum Wash ZFX Pro’s. They were also utilized to light a building structure at the fairgrounds that served as upstage scenery.

 

Other Elation lighting (Platinum SBX, Platinum BX and Protron 3K LED Strobes) was used on several of the other stages at Kaaboo as well and many of the 100+ palm trees throughout the show site were lit with Elation ELAR 108 PARs. Production company Visions Lighting supplied the lighting gear to the Trestles Stage and three other stages - Humor Me, Encore and Zuma. Nathan Jones from Visions Lighting was the lighting tech.

 

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