Billed as the world’s largest music festival, Summerfest drew
more than 800,000 people to the Henry Meier Festival Grounds on the shores of
Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Claypaky Scenius spot fixtures were on had for the 11-day event.
Summerfest marked its 49th year with performances by more than
800 acts representing alternative music, rock, country, R&B, pop, reggae
and more. Headliners this year included Paul McCartney, Luke Bryan and
Blake Shelton. Clearwing
Productions provided audio, lighting and backline across the Summerfest
grounds. The company supplemented the festival’s lighting rigs on some
stages and furnished full lighting rigs on others.
Claypaky Scenius spots made their debut at Summerfest
2016. Clearwing mounted a dozen fixtures on the Marcus Amphitheater’s
upstage and midstage trusses where they augmented the spot rig for Pitbull,
Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton/Alabama Shakes, Tim McGraw and Blink 182.
“We got a lot of good feedback about them; everyone seemed very happy with
Scenius,” notes Ania Dankow,
operations/logistics – lighting for Clearwing.
“Scenius is a well-built and versatile spot unit that was an
amazing complement to the other large moving heads in the rig,” says Clearwing lighting technician Sam McKeown.
“It harnesses a very smooth and well constructed color field that is bright,
vibrant and resonates well cutting through any gobo or simple air effect.
A very quick unit for its size, Scenius competes with smaller beam/profile
units built for speed. Every lighting designer who came through was
thrilled with the overall functionality of the unit and had very high regard
for what this bright, well-built, fast-moving spot fixture can do.”
Aaron Hubbard, western regional sales at A.C.T
Lighting,
notes that, “lighting designers commented on the expansive color rendering of
Scenius and the deep reds they hadn’t seen before in color mixing
systems. They could also see the light hitting the stage when they
focused the spots in daylight. Francesco Romagnoli, Claypaky Area Manager for
North and Latin America, added, “This is a very ambitious festival and we’re
glad our new Scenius fixtures excelled for Clearwing.”
