In answer to a number of questions or issues, Terry, It is my do-wop group ( sorry to say it is not trad) The illumination is so the audience can see us. We need no illumination to read music, it is memorized, gargoyle. Some of these venues will be outdoors, so I need to have a predictable system to hang the lights, ie a high stand of some sort. I have found a lot od this material at theater lighting sites, but I just wondered if anyone had rigged up a series of floods or spots on a board and hung them from a tall speaker stand or some such thing? Light trees are several hundred dollars. We don't mkes much per gig, $500-$750, and most goes to our back up band. Little left over for equipment. However, if I can get something rigged up, my folk group would also utilise this equipment as we also do outdoor jobs in the dark.