The Design Oasis Supplies Dynamic Rig for Buju Banton's Overcome Tour with CHAUVET Professional

	The fixtures on the overhead five-fingered truss configuration are used deliver down lighting, often in intense white.

Back in July, Grammy Award winning Jamaican reggae legend Buju Banton returned to the US for the first time in 13 years when he performed two back-to-back shows at New York's UBS Arena, delivering what Billboard described as "a masterclass in stage performance," his 90-minute set, chock filled with much-loved anthems like "Champion" and "Wanna Be Loved."

Not long after that appearance, Buju Banton announced that he would do a 14-city US arena trek called The Overcome Tour. Kicked off on August 24 at the Amerant Bank Arena in Fort Lauderdale, the tour is scheduled to concluded November 17 at Barclay Center in Brooklyn.

Contributing to this heady atmosphere on the tour is a John Dacosta lighting design that draws on a flexible, high output rig curated and supplied by Abbas Ritscher and his team at The Design Oasis.

Brought into the tour design project by Gavin Hayden and Off The Wall Sound, Ritscher and his team focused on putting together a collection of lighting fixtures and video panels that had the power to reflect the energy of Banton's music through brightness, intensity, and movement. "Gavin had a lot to manage on this tour and needed lighting and Video just to go up and work, so the band could work their magic," explains Ritscher.

Critical to helping the design team achieve this vision is a collection of over 110 CHAUVET Professional fixtures. Included in this mix are 33 Color STRIKE M motorized strobe washes, 16 Maverick Storm 1 Hybrids, 30 Maverick Storm 2 BeamWashes, and 32 Maverick Storm 2 Profiles.

The fixtures are arranged on a rig that was designed to deliver maximum coverage on stage and through the large venues on the tour. At the heart of this rig is a five-fingered overhead truss structure. Below this is a horizontal bar of US truss that runs the width of the stage. There are also eight rows of horizontal truss of varying lengths. A pair of these units are used to divide the video wall background into three distinct sections.

This rig was designed to open this way to creating big looks that match the stature of the music being performed on stage and the size of the tour's venues. The fixtures on the overhead five-fingered truss configuration are used deliver down lighting, often in intense white. This lighting imparts a stark, other-worldly aura to the stage, helping the superstar stand out more dramatically, the company says.