WHAT WAS SHOWCO?

SHOWCO WAS THE LITTLE COMPANY FROM DALLAS THAT HELPED CHANGE LIVE MUSIC FOREVER.

Founded in 1970, Showco revolutionized concert sound and touring production — pioneering innovations that transformed the live music experience for artists, crews, and audiences around the world.

But behind the stages, spotlights, and arena tours were the people who built it all:
the engineers, technicians, road crews, families, and lifelong relationships that helped define an entire era of live music culture.

SHOWCO ARCHIVES EXISTS TO PRESERVE THEIR STORY.

Built from years of oral histories, interviews, archival research, and alumni collaboration originally gathered for documentary and book projects, Showco Archives evolved into a living preservation project dedicated to protecting the human side of touring history before it disappears.

More than nostalgia, Showco Archives is dedicated to preserving:

The Family Behind the Music.

Showco Archives is run by Indigo Kretzschmar-May, whose father Donnie "DK" Kretzschmar was a Showco senior sound engineer and Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash survivor.