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Pentatonix Christmas tour lit with Ayrton Khamsin-S

A cappella group Pentatonix just wrapped their 18-date Christmas tour where 45 Ayrton Khamsin-S profile luminaires served as the main fixtures for the show.

The tour kicked off November 27 in Baltimore and wrapped on December 23 in Grand Prairie, Texas. It was their first Christmas tour since 2019, the coronavirus pandemic having sidelined last year’s event. Production and lighting designer Travis Shirley, who heads Travis Shirley Live Design in Houston and Nashville, has been working with Pentatonix for the last nine years. He says the art direction of the latest Pentatonix album “Evergreen” informed the design of the show.

“Choreographers and creative directors Lindsey Blaufarb and Craig Hollaman and I were inspired by the album artwork, which pays homage to the 1960s with silver tinsel and retro clothes”, Shirley points out. “Then I channelled the look of The Johnny Carson Show and the Tom Hanks movie ‘That Thing You Do’ for the era’s lighting and scenography. We ended up designing around several curtain tracks starting with a metallic silver drape, then a vintage LED star drop and finally a red velour curtain.”

The Khamsin-S fixtures were the “workhorses of the show” which was built around a forced perspective proscenium. “Khamsins framed all the edges of the proscenium, and they ran the gamut of applications from aerial effects to lighting scenic and principal artists”, explains Shirley. Kyle Lonvin, whom Shirley brought on board for the 2018 Christmas tour, served as the new tour’s lighting director, Pentatonix tour veteran Chris Smith was the lighting programmer. Nashville-based Bandit Lites was the lighting vendor for the tour.

(Photos: Ben Hausdorff)

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