Alexander Lehman Keeps Pace with Gavin Adcock on Need To Know Tour with CHAUVET Professional

	The rig's 16 high-output STRIKE 1 fixtures and eight Color STRIKE M motorized strobe-washes were there to connect the artist to his fans.

On Gavin Adcock's sold-out Need to Know Tour, which closed its fall run on October 17 at Georgia's Classic Center Arena, lighting designer Alexander Lehman conjured up immersive down-home country looks that fit Adcock's music like well-worn leather gloves.

"We're playing a wide variety of venues, including arenas, on this tour with the same rig," Lehman says. "When we are at the larger spaces, I love adding curtains of light when I can to create the 'illusion' that we have more light and gear than we actually have in our rig."

Helping Lehman convey this impression are 18 CHAUVET Professional COLORado PXL Curves and 14 COLORado PXL Bar 16 motorized battens, which, like the rest of his rig, were supplied by Premier Global Productions.

"We had 12 PXL Curves in our flown mid-stage truss and four on the floor in front of our band risers," details Lehman. "The curves truly were what carried the show this time around. They were the staple fixture of the show, creating dynamic, fun looks in high-energy moments, and then giving us soft, gentle looks in the more intimate songs. I really loved using those fixtures on this rig."

As for his 14 PXL Bar 16 fixtures, which were positioned on the downstage edges, Lehman drew on their flexible output and high (5.8 degrees to 47.9 degrees) zoom range to reflect the wide variety of moods and onstage antics embodied in a Gavin Adcock show. "I used the bars as uplights for those softer tunes but then turned to them for eye candy when Gavin cut loose."

The rig's 16 high-output STRIKE 1 fixtures and eight Color STRIKE M motorized strobe-washes were there to connect the artist to his fans.

"I had the privilege of working with a great group of people," he says. "I couldn't have done this tour without our PM Keegan Hughes, the guys at PGP - Quiz (Brandon Quisberg) and Joe Birdsong -- as well as my lighting tech Omar, and the rest of the crew. Then, of course, there was Gavin and his connection to the crowd.

"Gavin loves having plenty of moments where we light the crowd," continues Lehman. "So, we had 12 STRIKE fixtures on our flown torm trusses and the rest on 10' towers. Gavin is big on filming videos for social media that show the crowd, and the blinders allowed folks in the audience to shine during sing-along moments."