ADJ Lighting Powers Music in the Mountains Concert Series In Big Sky Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Montana’s Rocky Mountains, Music in the Mountains brings live music and community together every summer in Big Sky. For the 2026 season, local production company Jereco deployed an almost exclusively ADJ lighting rig to provide a versatile, high-impact house system capable of supporting a diverse lineup of regional and touring artists throughout the summer.
Held every Thursday at Len Hill Park in the heart of Big Sky Town Center, Music in the Mountains is a free, family-friendly concert series that has become a popular fixture in the local community. With a different artist lineup each week, the event requires a lighting system that can deliver everything from subtle, atmospheric looks to high-energy concert effects, while also withstanding the demands of an outdoor summer production.Jereco has been responsible for the technical production of Music in the Mountains since the event was launched more than a decade ago. For the 2026 season, Head of Lighting Jesse Emby and Stage Designer Brady Cool selected a rig almost exclusively comprised of ADJ fixtures to form the event’s house lighting system, which remains installed on the stage throughout the summer.
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At the heart of the design were 16 of ADJ’s Hydro Beam CMY automated beam luminaires, a recent addition to Jereco’s inventory. The fixtures were split between two prominent mid-stage trusses, each flown at an angle to create a distinctive V-shaped structure above the stage.Offering power, precision and reliability, the Hydro Beam CMY is an IP65-rated moving head beam designed for demanding indoor and outdoor applications. Powered by an OSRAM Sirius HRI 310W PRO discharge lamp combined with precision-engineered optics, it produces a razor-sharp 2-degree beam. Its extensive feature set includes CMY color mixing, 17 static GOBOs, two rotating prisms, a frost filter and integrated Aria X2 wireless DMX control and remote fixture management.“The Hydro Beam CMY is a fantastic beam fixture,” comments Brady, “it outperforms our previous beam fixture in every way and its intensity really is phenomenal.
I particularly like the multicolour effect – which works very well when combined with one of the prism options – and the frost filter is fantastic. It allowed me to generate a nice, soft back wash effect at Music in the Mountains that was perfect for more laid-back moments. The build quality is also very good, they’ve been in pretty harsh conditions all summer and we’ve not had a single problem. In fact, the only compliant we’ve had is that the stage could get quite warm with sixteen of those fixtures mounted so close to the performers!”“We’ve been very pleased with our investment in the Hydro Beam CMYs so far,” adds Jesse. “They’re bright, punchy, but not crazy heavy on power and are just all-round great fixtures to work with.
We’ve got some good designs going for shows coming up in the fall and we’re excited to let them loose on some bigger stages!”For performer illumination, eight ADJ Encore LP12Z IP LED-powered zoom pars were rigged to the downstage truss. Featuring an IP65-rated housing and motorized zoom, the fixture provides a variable beam angle from 5 to 30 degrees.
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