CALVIN HARRIS Unveils New Show At First Ever DJ Headlined COACHELLA Performance!

Posted On 26 Apr 2016

Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum selling artist CALVIN HARRIS unveiled his new touring production show at Coachella on Sunday night, April 17^th. His landmark headlining slot at the festival on the main stage was met with adoring fans and festival goers, and featured guest performances by Rihanna, Big Sean and John Newman. The show fused stadium scale live show production with DJ worldflow. Using uniquely customized software, Calvin was able to play any track from his record box and still have bespoke programmed lights, video, lasers and sfx.

The visionary design featured the largest concentration of light ever used in any show, so much so that Calvin’s team secured every single Solaris Flare lighting fixture available in the United States. The show also featured two unique elements specific to Coachella that took months of negotiating with festival owners and production teams to achieve.

Calvin commented:

“I’m very proud of the new stage show we’ve put together and couldn’t be more thankful to everyone who stayed out to party last night.”

Paul Macrae, Head of Touring at Three Six Zero shared:

“We wanted to deliver an innovative and immersive show that compliments Calvin’s performance. It was very important for him to maintain his DJ workflow rather than playing back a time coded track. We gave him this flexibility along with pinpoint timing on all lighting and video cues, something rarely achieved.”

CALVIN HARRIS made history as the first DJ to be billed as a premiere headliner at the globally renowned music festival, performing on both Sunday night dates (April 17^th and April 24^th). The groundbreaking performance was not Harris’s first Coachella performance – in his last in 2014, the festival drew one of the largest crowd’s in Coachella’s history.

Harris recently won the iHeartRadio Award for Dance Artist of the Year (2016). The Scottish Producer/DJ recently extended his residency deal at the OMNIA Nightclub at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, where he will play Friday night performances on select dates throughout 2016.

Tickets for Calvin Harris’s Las Vegas residency are currently available for purchase for dates through September 2016 by visiting omnianightclub.com.

Pictures Courtesy of: 42West

For more information, please visit:

www.calvinharris.com

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Nicole DeRosa joined the All Access Music Group family in February 2012. She loves the infectious energy and enthusiasm of the music industry and she feels right at home having music compliment her every day. Nicole blends her experience and skills which she has culled from her time working in New York as a photo researcher and editor at Entertainment Weekly and Harpers Bazaar Magazine. After New York, Nicole moved to London for school and there she stood in line for hours on Oxford Street to hear Paul McCartney play an impromptu concert on a rooftop. Another notable experience while living in London was her first time ever calling into a radio station, she won an invite to a record release party with the Beastie Boys for their album 'Ill Communication'. "I love London as it has such a vibrant and diverse music scene and I couldn't help but go out every night to check out gig after gig. It was a wonderful time." Living near the notable Sherpards Bush Empire music venue one of her most favorite concerts to date was seeing Bjork. Nicole has also worked for Walt Disney World in Product Development and later went on to work at Disney's Feature Animation Archives in Florida. Nicole has a passion for travel and adventure and has always wanted to live in California so she packed up and moved four years ago to the "left coast" and has been loving it ever since.