Jon Dunmore
Lighting Designer, Lighting Director
 San Fernando Valley, CA.

Available for hire as: Lighting Designer, Lighting Director / Operator.
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TECHNICAL RIDER RIG CONFIGURATIONS  

June 2004: Jon does a short stint in Europe with Nancy Sinatra, designing & directing lightshows at the Royal Festival Hall in London and Club X-Tra in Zurich.

Thrown into the Lighting Director's position in the mid-90's, Jon started his impromptu lighting career by touring Malaysia and Singapore with Caesar's Palace house band Anita Sarawak & The American Dream. Since then, his regular clientele have been Stay Tuned and Upstage Events, whose occasional corporate gigs keep Jon at the lighting console and shouting at followspots across the States.

CLIENTS:    

Nancy Sinatra (Boots Enterprises)
Anita Sarawak & The American Dream
Celebrities Onstage
Gillette
Stay Tuned Productions (Idiom Prods.)
Larry Friel's Upstage Events
Oil

   
  VENUES:
  Designed & directed lightshows at these venues:

Royal Festival Hall, London England
Celebrity Theater, Phoenix AZ
Charlotte Convention Center, NC
Hilton, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Hilton, Singapore, Singapore
QVC Arena, PA
Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas NV
X-Tra, Zurich Switzerland

Operated lightshows at these venues:

Universal Amphitheater, Universal City CA
Roxy Theatre, West Hollywood
Troubadour, West Hollywood
The Gig, West Hollywood
The Whiskey, West Hollywood

 
 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     

CLIENT: Nancy Sinatra.
20 June 2004, London England.
Nancy Sinatra performs a sold-out show at London's Royal Festival Hall.

Photos from RFH, taken from Movin With Nancy UK website.

THE RIG: In this picture, you can see the two downstage vertical parbars, one of the upstage vertical bars and a few beams from the truss cans and the Mac 500's.

Though the fans went wild, they would never know how quickly this show had to be put together by the production crew (sound & lights), due to the RFH's tight schedule. Meaning that I could not even spare the time to take pictures myself. At this date, there are no full stage pictures that I have been able to acquire.

Behind Nancy, on guitar, our Egomania Records hired gun, John DePatie. [Click his name to see his bio on this website.]


CLIENT: Nancy Sinatra.
22 June 2004, Zurich, Switzerland.
THE RIG: 8 parbars, 10 front truss cans, 8 parcans in front of drums (along the floor), 16 ACL's, 2 audience blinders, 8 Martin Mac 500's, 4 Mac 600's. 2 parbars suspended vertically, 2 parbars angled diagonally.


All Photos: Jon Dunmore, except where indicated.
The crew, fresh-scented in lavender and amber.


...more like The Four Bottoms.

Photo: X-Tra staff.
Hewn from the very living steel of pipe truss and parcan, behold, I bring you LIGHT!!!!....

Photo: Keith Barrows
Nancy Sinatra & Her Band.
THE SHOW: My operating position (the console) was on a podium which, unbeknownst to me, was minutely vibrating with the sound of the band. So here I am blazing away with my little automatic camera, which, due to the distance to the stage and the vibrations, never stood a chance...nonetheless, these various lighting "scenes" are quite apparent.


CLIENT: Anita Sarawak & American Dream.
A syrupy confection of swirling marshmallow delight: 96 x par-64 cans; 8 cyberlights, 8 ACL’s, 3 pinspots and two audience-wash units. Operated by a Jands console and Hog board.

Lost amongst the multicolored cyclorama and instrumental gear onstage is the band. At that time (1997), American Dream were performing 6 nights a week at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, with the occasional hiatus from Caesar’s to do short tours overseas.

Photo: Jon Dunmore
Dunmore’s Crew on comm: two spotlight operators, one tech (including cyberlight op.), two riggers, one stagehand. Also on comm to: Sound Engineer, Stage Manager.

A moody scene whilst the vocalist moves amongst the crowd offstage. Anita would frequently bring audience members onstage, so I arranged for special stage markings, so that they would reap the benefit of specially-focused lights.

Photo: Jon Dunmore
THE RIG: Black and silver par-bars shadow The Dunmore. This picture was taken in the last hour before downbeat on the first night in Malaysia, after I had spent the last four hours coordinating the rigging and focus, with the audience clamoring at the velvet ropes outside, our plane having landed just five short hours before, with me not having slept for one whole day. Aahh, how I relish that healthy lifestyle…

Photo: Jay, Crew member.
CLIENT: Vangard/ Larry Friels' Celebrities Onstage.
A shot of the upstage truss: black...
All Photos: Jon Dunmore, except where indicated.
...and bright.

THE RIG: 84 cans for the deck, 8 cyberlights suspended from stage truss; 8 cyberlights suspended throughout arena, 8 ACLs, two audience washes, two spotlights.

Setup: Downstage truss, 4 par bars; upstage truss, 8 par bars, with two outside bars suspended vertically, four inside bars in diamond shape; downstage on deck, a vertical par bar on either corner; 8 ACLs across foot of drums. Symmetrical channel assignation in pairs.

An indication of the sweep of the arena, from lighting console to stage. The sound and light desks were situated midway to the back of the room, off to one side, line of sight obscured by thin foundation poles.

So, who do we gotta grease for BETTER SEATS???
Photo: Keith Barrows.
Dunmore bathed in half the rig’s light. The cyclorama is made up of two black fiber-optic curtains.
Photo: Keith Barrows.
THE SHOW: Celebrities Onstage featured celebrity lookalikes – Cookie as Tina Turner powers into her set. In this shot, we see the two repeater screens on either side of the stage, with stage fully lit and arena peopled.

Cookie again – showing a lighting scene, the fiber-optic curtain, the downstage truss.

The Four Tops Tribute slay smoothly and glow brightly, as two spotties on wide focus capture two Tops each.

Finale, with full cast.

CLIENT: Gillette / Celebrities Onstage.
Gillette throws a corporate pool party – on the 4th Floor of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Celebrities Onstage provided lookalikes to perform at this event. Here, "Elton" crocodile rocks under the 72-can lightshow, with 4 intellibeams and two spotties; two repeater screens were placed midway to the back of this open-air venue.

All Photos by Crew.
"Elton" - bathed in blue.

Chicks in leathuuuur... 'nuff said!

The fourth floor of The Venetian is an outdoor Pool Deck; you can see the upper floors of the hotel loom in the background.

Ahh, there’s nothing like Vegas to bring out the showgirl flesh in all of us. (l to r): Keith Barrows, showgirl, Tina, showgirl, Madonna, Elvis, Celine, Elton, showgirl, Dunmore, showgirl.