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Bobby Glowacki lights Brett Eldredge using a rig from Elation Professional

Bobby Glowacki does a bit of everything on country music artist Brett Eldredge’s current “Songs About You” U.S. tour - production design, lighting design, lighting programming, lighting operation, and lighting tech.

Glowacki, who shares production designer duties with Bryan Bobbys, has been working with Eldredge for the past few years. He lights the current show using an Elation lighting package of 32 Dartz 360 narrow beam moving heads, twelve Paladin Panel flood and effect lights, eight ZW37 beam/wash moving heads, and a pair of SixPar 200 IP. Lighting supply is by Christie Lites North America (account rep Rod Gibson).

Brett Eldredge released his latest album “Songs About You” in mid-June before kicking off his new tour July 22. He’ll be playing dates through November. The design, a semi-circle setup backed by four 16-foot towers, gives the artist room to play while engaging with his audience. Each tower houses eight Dartz fixtures along with three Paladin Panels and linear LED bars.

Glowacki says the backdrop ties in well with the variety of house rigs they see day to day on tour: “It’s really fixture de jour and is different every day depending on where we play. It ranges from a purely PAR Can rig with no movers to shows at the Venetian that have over two hundred movers. The Elation products we’re touring with fit right in there seamlessly.”

The Paladin Panel, an outdoor rated floodlight with 50 x 15 W RGBW cells, serves a number of roles for the LD. “I use them for specific eye candy effects, for big punch blinder moments, as strobes, and for washes”, he says. Providing all of the side light for the show are Elation ZW37 LED beam/wash moving heads, a fixture Glowacki is familiar with from working on auto shows in years past. The LD has used Elation gear for years but this was his first time using the Dartz and Paladin Panels.

Lastly, a pair of SixPar 200 IP LED PAR lights sit on the downstage to uplight the artist. “It’s a low profile fixture that we have nestled into either side of his monitor so you almost don’t know they are there”, Glowacki explains. The LD used the Capture software when creating his design.

(Photos: Elation Professional)

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