Drone Light Shows for Concert Tours

A tour lives and dies on its moments. The lights, the video wall, and the band hitting the downbeat together are what the crowd films and posts before they reach the parking lot. After a few cities, though, the crew knows every beat, and the real challenge becomes giving each new room something it has not seen. For a growing number of tours, that something is an indoor drone light show flown right over the stage.

A production element that flies over the crowd

An indoor drone show puts a fleet of small, lit drones in the air inside the arena. They form shapes, words, and color above the band and the audience, timed to the set. It is not a screen and it is not pyro. It is a moving picture built in the open air of the room, and for most of the people in the seats it is the first time they have seen one in person.

Why tours are adding it to the set

The appeal for a tour is that it travels. Once the show is designed, it can fly night after night in a new building on the same schedule as the rest of the production. It can carry the tour name, the album art, or a signature image in the air at the encore. It gives the headliner a finale the opener cannot match and the next tour through town will not have. In a business where the live experience is the product, a drone show is a reason to be in the room instead of watching the clip later.

Proven across a national arena tour

This is already running at the top level. Illuminate Drones has flown indoor drone shows for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra across a full arena tour, performing over the band in a different building every night for sold-out crowds. Flying indoors above a live audience on a tour schedule takes a team that has done it before and can set up, fly, and tear down safely in a new venue on a tight clock. That track record is what lets a production add it to the run of show with confidence instead of hoping it works.

Add it to your tour

If your tour needs a moment the crowd has not seen before, an indoor drone show is the act to build it around. See our indoor drone light shows, or request a quote for your tour. Indoor drone light shows start around $15,000 to $20,000.