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IPS and Chauvet help Scott Cunningham create looks for Russell Dickerson

For rapidly rising country star Russell Dickerson’s 2025 tour, the production and lighting design came from Scott Cunningham, Production/Lighting Designer at Cut2Black Designs, with support from IPS (Integrated Production Solutions).

Cunningham reflects on the collaboration behind the “Russell Mania” tour: “The teamwork behind the entire tour has been an inspiring collective, with many thanks to LD Nate Augustyn, tour PM Chris Lee, Associate Programmer Luke Elrod, Video Programmer Alex Talbot, and especially Nick Brown and his team at IPS. They made sure we had a rig that could travel well, handle all the different demands placed on it, and deliver powerful looks.”

Playing a key role in delivering those looks are nineteen Chauvet Professional fixtures from IPS’s inventory. A collection of Colorado PXL Bar16 motorized battens, five units across the upstage truss and eight across the upstage edge of the set, are creating big walls that border the top and bottom of the stage and make it stand out. The design team is relying on the color rendering prowess of the battens’ pixel mappable RGBW LEDs to create dynamic sweeps and accents that match Dickerson’s high energy performance.

Joining the battens in whipping up fresh, original visuals are the rig’s six Rogue Outcast 2X wash fixtures, whose high output wash is accenting the show’s creative set pieces, including its triangular movie-theatre-themed riser, while also bathing the stage in rich, realistic colors, most notably red.

“RD loves the warm red/amber tones as long as they aren’t too overwhelming”, says Cunningham of his palette choices. “So, as we were programming, we made sure to take a very intentional approach to our use of color. It’s one of my most ‘picky’ things about the show - using color to express emotion, energy and all the other intangible qualities that go into making a show like this.”

Alongside the Chauvet fixtures, twenty Elation Smarty Hybrid, six American DJ Jolt PanelFX, one GrandMA3 Light, one GrandMA3 M PU, one Mbox Media Server, and 128 SquareV V7w Panels are being used on this tour.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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