Showing posts with label Music City props. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music City props. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

CMA Fest Underway!

CMA FEST Underway!


Our scenic crew started early this morning with the load in for a CMA FEST booth for Nashville's Big Machine Records. This is the third year we've created a booth for BMR which represents major artists like country superstar REBA McENTIRE and the recording industry's top phenom TAYLOR SWIFT. The booth was designed by Keith Brogdon in our graphics department and built by our scenic team lead by tech director Eric Cardwell. Operations Manager Chris Lyle and our ace scenic crew assembled on site. The project is coordinated by GMP producer BRANDON THOMAS for our clients Justin and Kelly from BMR. We'll post some more pics of the artists in the booth over the next few days...never know who you might see! Thanks to BMR for allowing us to be involved again this year.


CMA FEST is country music's largest celebration for the fans, with a week of fabulous concerts, autograph sessions, artist parties, and live music by the biggest stars in country music. This year is especially important to our home town as Nashville rebuilds from the devastating floods of last month. Downtown Nashville has made an amazing recovery thanks to the unequaled volunteer spirit of our Music City citizens. Come see us this week...its a BIG party!





Justin, Brandon, and Kelly in front of the booth in progress.


See anyone who looks familiar?
BIG Machine is BIG TIME!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Cydcor National Sales Conference

We had quite a week...two huge events back to back. This weekend we produced the Cydcor National Conference in association with Orion. It was a crazy load-in and load out. We had two major stage sets which meant very long days...but it was well worth it! One set was for the business meetingduring the day and the other was for the awards banquet that night.

The people at the convention center said it was the largest crowd they had served. There were almost 300 tables...set for 2556 people. Sheryl Thomas and her crew did linens and center pieces for all of the tables. It was a huge job!

Here are some pictures from the weekend...


Load-in and set up for the awards banquet



The set for the business meeting in the East Hall


Business set


Adam Bastien was on Sheryl's crew. Adam is one of our performers who lives in the area.


Glow sticks are fun!


Chris Lyle makes sure the guitars are ready to go


I love this guitar set. The cool thing is...the big microphone on stage is actually the lectern!


Glow sticks are glowing and ready!


A big concrete room is hard to transform. Gary used big LED light bars to up-light the posts.


birds-eye view

When the doors opened, the lights were turned down and everything was glowing.




A look back at the hall. 282 tables seemed like a sea...


The night was a huge success.

Kudos to the men and women of Cydcor. Thank you for allowing us to help you celebrate your successes!