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Shrewsbury Folk Festival Goes Yellow
Yellow Events, a new major player in the corporate event and live design industry recently supplied the full technical production and management for a major UK folk festival. Now in its 13th year The Shrewsbury Folk Festival is growing from strength to strength and despite the current economic climate sold out weeks beforehand. Yellow Events, the brain-child of Tim Soden and Rob Lloyd provided the staging, drapery, lighting and rigging for all three venues as well as site wide power and distribution and full technical management. This was Yellow Events third year at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival but Tim Soden has been involved since 2001 and has been an integral part of overseeing the events growth from 1000 visitors in 2001 to over 4500 this year. Event organiser Alan Surtees said: "I simply couldn't do it without them now, their professionalism and dedication to the cause is unfaltering. I just give them the specifications and then forget about it until show-time!"
Yellow events once again worked closely with Essential Lighting to realise their ideas for this year's festival. ‘We've used Essential now for a number of years, as the festival has grown rapidly our designs have had to reflect that. Essential's service and prep is always second to none, I wouldn't use anyone else. I have been involved with The Shrewsbury Folk Festival for nine years and since the collaboration with Essential Lighting the growth has been seamless.' comments Soden.
The main stage played host to such diverse acts as Ollabelle, The Spooky Men's Chorale and Eric Bibb with the Proclaimers headlining on the last day and the lighting rig therefore had to be flexible enough to cope with tradition folk bands right up to the full production show for the Proclaimers. The rig consisted of 4 x MAC2000 Profiles, 4 x MAC700 Washes, 8 x MAC250 Washes and 25 x Components Co LF500 LED Battens in a 5 x 5 Matrix all controlled from a Avolites Pearl Expert. The main stage also provided Components Co's new totally wireless LEDs called the RD-2 with their UK stage debut. Lighting designer Rob Lloyd commented: "The RD-2's are fantastic, with no wires I just chucked them on stage wherever I fancied, on a drum riser, across the front of stage and with the adjustable batten we could use them horizontally, vertically or diagonally to provide different dynamics throughout the shows and because the unit is fundamentally the LF500 on a wireless box the colour match with the rest of the rig was spot on."
16th September 2009
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