Michigan has more freshwater coastline than any other state, and that single fact dictates almost everything about flying a show here. Wind arriving off Lake Michigan has crossed sixty miles of open water with nothing to slow it down, so a beach that feels calm at ground level can have a very different story at […]
Minnesota asks a drone show operator to work in two completely different climates in the same year. A show in International Falls in January and a show in Mankato in July are not variations on a theme – they are separate engineering problems. The swing between them is wider than anywhere else we work in […]
If you want to know where the money for live entertainment sits in Mississippi, look at a twenty-six mile strip of US 90 between Bay St. Louis and Biloxi. The Gulf Coast casinos are the state’s most experienced entertainment buyers by a distance – they program year-round, they own their own ground, they have in-house […]
Missouri is a state built around where two enormous rivers meet. The Missouri joins the Mississippi just north of St. Louis, and almost everything about staging a show in the eastern half of the state traces back to that geography: the barge traffic, the floodplain, the bluffs, and a downtown anchored by a 630-foot stainless […]
Montana is about 630 miles across. Billings to Kalispell is a nine-hour drive on a good day, and there is no shortcut. That geography is not a colorful detail, it is a line item: crew travel, vehicle days, lodging and the repositioning time between sites are a real part of what a Montana show costs, […]