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Chris Reade lights Dierks Bentley tour with Chauvet

Dierks Bentley’s “Beers On Me” tour, the singer-songwriter’s return to the stage after a long lockdown, features a Bruce Rodgers production design, lit by Chris Reade (KYVA Design, LLC) with help from Chauvet Professional fixtures supplied by Christie Lites.

A key component of the set design is a V-shaped video wall. Roughly 50-feet wide at its widest point, the LED wall is used to show a mix of upbeat content, IMAG images and textures patterns. “Sometimes we are unable to hang the video wall in the way it’s intended, which is like looking down into a V”, says Reade. “So,  working within the angles of the set and the architecture of the lighting design, we make adjustments when necessary, but we always stick to that motif.”

Complementing the colorful video images and washes on the stage is Reade’s mix of cool and warm white light. Throughout the set are crossing bars of cool light, punctuating them with warm white fixtures in various configurations. A key role making this overall design concept come to life is a collection of Strike 1 fixtures, positioned on truss fingers that fan out over the stage in a V-formation.

Reade is feeling good about being back on tour again. He is running the boards for “Beers On Me” in addition to being its lighting designer. “It’s great to be out”, he says. “This is especially true when you have a crew like we do including Marc ‘Chainsaw’ Wuchter,  Timothy ‘Tim Possible’ Lighthall, Cecil Palmer, and Andrew Heid. Of course, our Christie Lites rep Rod ‘Red’ Gibson also made things a lot easier.”

(Photos: Todd Kaplan)

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