The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is an annual music and arts festival held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert. This year, after several postponements due to the pandemic, the festival was back in full swing in April 2022, with PRG providing all lighting and video for the Main Stage, in addition to supplemental gear for artists including Harry Styles, Flume, Doja Cat, Swedish House Mafia, Lil Baby, Billie Eilish, IDLES, Stromae, and Fred Again.
For the massive main stage, 1,180 active tiles of ROE Carbon CB8, encased in PRG's proprietary SpaceFrame® were controlled from a mobile video truck, souped up with disguise vx2, gx2c and vx4 media servers, two MA Lighting grandMA2 Lite consoles for server control and programming, and three Christie x80 Spyders for primary and backup show control and truck video wall control. For signal routing, Extron XTP II multi format routers and Reidel MediorNets were employed.
The Main Stage lighting order was comprised of more than 250 lighting fixtures including PRG's Best Boy HP and GroundControl Followspot System.
Video Equipment:
1,180 active tiles of ROE Carbon CB8
4 Brompton Tessera SX40 processors
Media Servers:
disguise: 1 vx2; 2 gx2c; 3 vx4
2 MA Lighting grandMA2 Lite consoles for server control and programming
Screens Control:
3 Christie x80 Spyders (Primary & Backup show control, 1x for truck video wall control)
Signal Routing:
Extron XTP II multi format routers: 1 64x; 1 32x; 2 16x
Reidel MediorNet: 1 Metron, 3x Micron; 4 Compact Pro
Lighting Equipment:
70 PRG Best Boy HP
62 Clay Paky Mythos2
28 Vari-Lite VL6000
48 GLP JDC1
26 TMB Solaris Flare
51 Chauvet Strike 4 4x – PRG GroundControl Followspots Longthrow 5x –GroundControl Followspot Best Boy Spot HP
Effects:
18 DF-50 with DMX Fans
4 Jem ZR-44
Control:
2 MA Lighting grandMA2 Full Console
12 MA Lighting grandMA2 NPUs 20x – PRG Super Node
Truss: 18x – 8’ PRG BAT Truss Pre-Rigged 15”x24” 8x – 10’ PRG BAT Truss Pre-Rigged 15”x24”
PRG Production Management:
VP of Global Accounts: Bobby Allen
Coachella Project Manager: Bryan Barry
Production Coordinator: Felicia Burr
Production Coordinator: Brooke Hershey
Stagecoach Project Manager: Scotty Waller
Project Manager Video: Jeff Gainer
Project Manager Lighting: Daniel Sanchez
Sales Coordinator: Chelsey Jensen
PRG Runner: Jen Jendrzejczyk
PRG Mainstage Video:
Screens Producer: Tim Nauss
Lead Screen Engineer: Anthony Wilson
Screen Engineer: Josh Fleitell
D3 Programmer: Ben Roy
Spyder Op: Sean Green
Trailer Tech: Jose Pacheco
Video Crew Chief: Maarten Deschacht
Video Crew Chief: Robert Seagert
LED Lead: Humberto Murillo
LED Tech 2: James Forbes
LED Tech 3: Casey Bowen
LED Tech 4: Larry Linda
LED Tech 5: Cole Peterson
LED Tech 6: Brandon Buendia
Chief LED Engineer: Eric Geiger
PRG Mainstage Lighting:
Crew Chief: Thomas Walls
Nightime FOH Tech: Patrick Seig
Daytime FOH Tech: Giovanny Carvajal
Daytime Dimmer: Chuck Meyers
Lighting Tech: Randy Thomas Foote
Lighting Tech: Andie Szekely
Lighting Tech: Robbie Winfree
Nightime Dimmers: Ryan Le Comte
Lighting Tech: Max Misemer
Ground Control Tech: Rob Simoneaux
PRG Mainstage Rigging:
Rigging Lead: George Wilson
Mainstage Rigger: James Costa
Mainstage Rigger: Paul "PJ" Armellino
Stay tuned for Live Design's coverage of Coachella via interviews with the production designers from Silent House, and others.