Penn State University’s Movin’ On festival is one of the top 5 largest student-run music festivals in the country. Mountain Productions set the main and side stages for the 2016 Movin’ On festival, along with a front of house and barricade. PSU’s Movin’ On festival is in its 41st year, and welcomed musical artists Nelly, Walk the Moon, Misterwives and more.
Mountain Productions is proud to have provided the main stage and multiple ancillary structures for the NFL Draft Selection Square in Chicago, IL. The NFL Draft is one of the biggest events in sports of the year (last year it was watched by a record 45.7 million viewers!) It just makes sense that Mountain Productions was asked to engineer and build one of the largest stage structures that we’ve ever built for this major NFL event.
Mountain Productions is proud to have been involved in the world’s largest center-hung jumbotron in the world at Bristol Motor Speedway for the Food City 500. This past weekend, the “Colossus TV” was hung at Bristol Motor Speedway with massive 30’ x 60’ video screens and a 60’ diameter circle LED ribbon board.
Mountain provided 40 CM 1-Ton Lodestar chain hoists for the project, as well as the Limpet height safety system for access to the screen level and emergency descent if needed. We have some breathtaking photos of this impressive project below, as well as timelapse videos of the build taken from Fox Sports and Bristol Motor Speedway. Take a look!
Springtime is here, but in Vermont, avid skiers and snowboarders are still hitting the mountains for as long as they can. This year, Stratton Mountain Resort hosted the Minus Zero Winter Sports & Music Festival on April 9 & 10. The Minus Zero Fest is a dynamic show, with main stage set up right at the bottom of the mountain (quite the scenic view for a festival!). Skiers, snowboarders, and guests enjoyed 2 great days of riding, day-time relaxing, and late-night partying with Minus Zero’s electrifying DJ lineup. Mountain Productions provided staging for the festival, and provided mobile stages for the main performance area.
Minus Zero Festival – preparing for the crowd
ShamrockFest welcomes thousands of fans to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at the “largest St. Paddy’s Day Festival” of the year. The 2016 ShamrockFest took place this past Saturday, March 12th at RFK Stadium, and hosted 30+ bands, DJs & performers, multiple stages, carnival rides and much more. Mountain Productions has provided staging for the festival multiple times throughout the years, and returned again this year to join in on the fun.
The “World’s Largest Paint Party” is maintaining its momentum as a fast growing, “must-see” EDM experience. The Life in Color festival tour life travels all over the world, with stops in major cities like Denver, Sacramento, Philadelphia & Chicago, all the way overseas in Manchester, Guatemala, & Turkey. Mountain Productions has staged many of the Life in Color events over the past few years, and is proud to have provided staging to the 2016 Miami Life in Color event.
For the past several years, Mountain Productions has brought in the new year in Times Square, staging the New Year’s Eve ball drop and Rockin’ NYE show. This year, we also traveled to Chicago to build a truss grid stage for Chi-Town Rising. Here’s a few pictures of those events below. Big thanks to 8 Hands High for providing the images of Times Square. Hope you are having an amazing start to 2016!
Mountain Productions collaborated with V7 Entertainment Group to figure it out. For the TCS New York City Marathon, V7 and ASICS wanted to build the selfie stick to capture this legendary event from a brand new perspective. It took many hours of careful planning, research & development and test builds, but the project was executed perfectly and created a memorable experience for the marathon’s runners.
Located just a little over an hour away from Mountain Productions’ premises, Musikfest is one of the largest and most diverse music festivals in the nation. Their website states there are “…500-plus shows on 14 stages over 10 days”. The festival draws more than 900,000 people to its picturesque setting by the historic Bethlehem Steel Stacks. This is one of the most unique locations to watch a concert in the nation, as the Steel Stacks stand tall in the festival grounds, reminding us all of the industrial and cultural impact that Bethlehem Steel had on industrial manufacturing. (Fun fact: Bethlehem Steel was America’s second-largest steel producer and its largest shipbuilder!)
One of the shows we provided staging for on the 4th of July was for the Foo Fighters at RFK Stadium. We built our biggest system, the Mountain Truss for the main stage, as well as delay towers, ADA platforms, mix positions and camera platforms. The Mountain Truss stage stood 80’ tall with 40’ wide sound wings and a 60’ turntable onstage. For the delay/spot towers, Mountain Productions built their newest delay tower design, utilizing our Mountain Truss towers. The 2 support structures were 70’ tall with 3 spot baskets integrated into each tower. This new design provides a sleek, unobtrusive tower design with impressive capacity.