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Another Successful Festival for Bonnaroo and Bandit Lites
Bandit recently wrapped up another successful partnership with the world’s top-grossing outdoor music festival, Bonnaroo. In its sixth year, the annual four-day event was held June 14-17 on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, TN.
As stated by the New York Times, Bonnaroo is “a festival with more than just jambands”. In fact, Bonnaroo provides multiple stages of live music, including everything from world music, electronica, hip-hop and jazz to bluegrass, country, folk, gospel, reggae, and alternative.
This year the music started at 7:15pm on Thursday night with Ryan Shaw and finished at 11:30 p.m. Sunday with Widespread Panic. The 2007 artist lineup included The Police, Tool, Widespread Panic, The White Stripes, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, The String Cheese Incident, The Roots, DJ Shadow, Franz Ferdinand, Fountains Of Wayne, Dierks Bentley, the Flaming Lips, plus many more.
Production guru Hadden Hippsley again oversaw the show design with help from stage managers Mark Reinke and Joel Carmichael. Hippsley chose to use a very custom rig to suit the event, which incorporated the Bonnaroo logo with three circles constructed out of circular truss hanging over center stage. The rig was structured so that the middle circle would provide an intimate setting for smaller acts while the three-circle piece could cover the entire stage for larger bands.
A substantial number of PAR cans were used for washes, as they are a good ‘one size fits all’ tool. The moving lights included five Martin MAC 500’s, 18 MAC 600’s and 20 MAC 2000 Profiles. ETC Source Fours finished off the equipment list. Lighting was controlled by two High End Systems Whole Hog IIs and Wings.
Bandit veteran crew chief, Eric Shafferman worked with lighting technicians, Greg Shipley, Jason Workman, Marcus Wade and programmer Chip Perry to keep things running smoothly.
Bandit general manager, Steve Powell added: “An event of this magnitude would not be successful if it were not for the continued efforts of Hadden Hippsley, Anne Dennhardt and Leslie Radigan as well as the entire Bonnaroo production crew.”
27th June 2007
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