ChamSys powers Koe Wetzel tour

USA - Jimmy Davidson, the owner of Wiggly Lights started designing shows for bull-rider-turned-country-musician Cody Johnson. Things were lean at first, but Johnson’s career took off like a rocket with a string of Top Ten Billboard hits and sold out arena dates. Now, Davidson (who still works for Cody Johnson) has begun designing for another rising East Texas country star, Koe Wetzel.
On 28 February, Davidson created an intense lightshow for his new client. Unlike Johnson’s concerts, which take place at larger venues, the Koe Wetzel shows happen at smaller, but packed music halls. Size of the venue notwithstanding though, Davidson is delivering big-time excitement, running a non-stop lighting panorama with his new ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium.
“The first show I did for Koe was my third time out with my MQ500,” said Davidson. “I had been reading about this console and hearing about it. As my shows for Cody Johnson became more elaborate, I wanted a console that was capable of running more without external processing nodes. The MQ500 fits the bill very well.”
Davidson’s floor package for Koe Wetzel’s shows is built around eight Rogue R2 Wash and four COLORdash Batten-Quad 12 fixtures from Chauvet Professional, as well as eight Intimidator Wash Zoom 450 IRC, two Intimidator Beam 355 IRC and two COLORband PiX USB units from CHAUVET DJ.
“Our goal is to create a really bright wall of colour around the band, accented with pixel mapping,” said Davidson. “We also focus on hitting the audience with some intense light, since that is the nature of this show.”
(Jim Evans)

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