Canadas Queen of Pop is back on the road again: Celine Dion tours with grandMA

Photo: Copyright – Louise Stickland/ courtesy of MA Lighting Technology.

Lighting Product Stories Published: 10 january 2009
Success is often proven by numbers and 200 million albums sold is a testament to the Franco-Canadian artist Celine Dion. With her current album “Taking Chances” Dion completed her five year run at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace and is back on the road travelling around the globe again. Her world tour leads to five continents, 24 countries, 84 towns and features 124 shows. Lighting Designer Yves Aucoin uses for the show an MA Lighting grandMA system composed of one grandMA full-size plus one as back-up, one grandMA replay-unit, seven MA NSPs and four MA 2Port Nodes.

The lighting rig controlled by the grandMA is impressive: 188 x Ayrton Dreampanel Floor 256, 122 x Ayrton Moduled 150 AWW, 48 x Ayrton Arcaline 50 RGB, 24 x Ayrton Dreampanel Wall 64, 1.080 x Element Labs Stealth LED-modules, 88 x Vari*Lite VL3000 Spot, 32 x VL2500 spot, 22 x VL3500 wash, 18 x VL3000 Wash and 8 x Robert Juliat Cyrano follow spots are used to light the show.

Jamie King works as show director, Louis-Philippe Gaudreau operates the grandMA. Francois “Frankie” Desjardins is working as FOH-technician. Solotech delivered the lighting equipment. David Bergeron is the project manager for Solotech. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting in North America.

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MA Lighting Technology