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I’m With Her on tour with Chauvet Maverick fixtures

William Succoso has lit the Americana band I’m With Her on their winter tour, which ended in Chicago in early March 2019. Using Austrian drapes as the backdrop for the group, the Long Island-based designer accented them with colors from four Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures.

“I went with a pipe and drape design, rather than flat hanging the fabric, because I wanted to create enclosed space between the folds for the light to play in,” Succoso explains. “I also went with a silvery color to better reflect the light. My Mavericks were evenly spaced behind the women in the trio to match the angle of the pipe and drape.” Succoso also used six Chauvet DJ Shocker 2 fixtures in his rig. He positioned six of these units in a semicircle behind the trio.

“I pretty much stuck between a nice warm palette of ambers/blinders, with some overhead blues to help not wash it out too much,” Succoso continues. “I also had a combo of blues, cyans and whites for the more cool numbers. I do have to point out that this was the first show that I’ve actually had a green song. This was ‘Apple Tree’. I went with a red/green look on the drop (on the nose with red and green apples) and then a nice gobo break-up from above with almost no front light to give the impression of shade.”

He ran the boards while touring with the band, cue stacking the floor package and punting with the house lights. Occasionally, his clients would play something off the set list and he would punt along. “From concept/rendering to show, this design for me came out as I had envisioned,” Succoso concludes. “A lot of credit goes to the team here: Tim Reitnouer at FOH, and Ashley ‘PK’ Mogayzel.”

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