A budget DIY lighting system for small venues and events

Ted Lehmann's perennially interesting blog (there's a permanent link to it in the right-hand column of the BIB) gives today details of an inexpensive lighting system that has worked well at the Newell Lodge bluegrass festival in Georgia. Incorporating top, side, and footlights, using components available at the local hardware or DIY store, it can easily be installed and worked, with minimal adjustments, by someone with basic electrics knowhow and common sense.

Ted also prints a photo he shot without flash one evening at the Newell Lodge stage, as an example of what this system can do, and adds a link to an inexpensive dimmer box as a possible extra, available from Amazon.