LOS ANGELES – For Guns N’ Roses’ current ‘Not In This Lifetime’ world tour, LD Phil Ealy included more than 150 GLP fixtures in the rig, including GLP’s impression X4 and X4 Bar 10’s. Upstaging is providing the fixtures, which are arranged into pods, and lighting director Rob Koenig worked with Ealy on programming the looks.
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ITALY – Following the extraordinary success of their summer tour, and after winning the 65th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival and representing Italy in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, Il Volo have given a long series of performances in Italy and abroad this year. Show designer Francesco De Cave, who was called upon by the production team to create a new show image, used Claypaky lights to illuminate the young tenors’ world tour dates.
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ST LOUIS, MO – Peter Sargent, founding Dean of Webster University’s Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts and its Lighting Design and Stage Management programs, has been chosen to receive the 2017 Thomas DeGaetani Award from USITT. USITT annually honors an outstanding lifetime contribution to the performing arts or entertainment industry by an individual or organization near the location of the Annual Conference & Stage Expo. The USITT 2017 conference will be held in St. Louis March 8-11, 2017.
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Blizzard Lighting is calling its new PixelStorm™ COB Mini the “smaller, cuter” version of its PixelStorm™ COB. Measuring half a meter in length, the PixelStorm COB Mini is powered by six 25-watt high RGBAW COB LEDs.
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OWATONNA, MN – Although North America and Europe have long been leaders in building signature performing arts facilities, one of Wenger Corporation’s partners in Latin America is helping raise this region’s profile through a number of notable projects. “For years a trend of theater renovation has been growing in Latin America,” says Juan Pablo Rozo, architect and founder of Arquitorium in Bogotá, Colombia. “Many iconic 19th and 20th century buildings with obsolete and unreliable technologies are being renovated.”
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NASHVILLE – It is not every day a country icon turns 80 years old, so Charlie Daniels did it up big with a massive concert, not only to celebrate, but to give back to a great cause. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the 41st Volunteer Jam which featured performances by the fiddle legend himself, Charlie Daniels, along with Luke Bryan, Three Doors Down, Kid Rock, Larry the Cable Guy, Chris Stapleton and Travis Tritt.
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SKB recently introduced their 3RR Series 20″ Deep Shock Rack Transport Cases with removable racks. Canyonwest Cases is making them available to military and commercial customers needing indestructible cases to transport sensitive electronic equipment. These new Removable Shock Rack Cases are 20″ deep from rail to rail, lightweight, shockproof, watertight, dustproof, heat and chemical-resistant.
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OAKLAND, CA – Airstar’s high tech lighting balloons played a major role for Urban Shield, a yearly gathering for the main U.S. task forces and rescue teams, as well as overseas delegations. The French RAID was the first to be invited in 2009. This year, Mexico and Taiwan participated in the event. The competition took place from Sept. 9-12 in Alameda County, East of the San Francisco Bay.
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WOKINGHAM, U.K. — Yes Events Ltd has been investing in Elation Professional products for years to service a huge variety of applications. Recently, the company, based just west of London, chose to further strengthen its stock with several of Elation’s newest offerings – the Fuze Wash Z350™, Fuze Wash Z120™, Platinum HFX™ and Satura Spot CMY Pro™. Fuze Series fixtures’ non-pixel lens face and ability to wash without multi-shadows are striking a chord with LDs looking for that classic wash look from an LED light.
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ITALY – PAR Cans, the most widespread lighting fixtures in the world, were the evolution core of the live show, theatre and TV performances for the last decades, in spite of their simplicity. DTS owes a lot of their success in their 30 years because of all their activity. The first PAR was made in 1982 and since then over 8 million parts of pars were made. During this long period, DTS’s PARs became a market standards for their resilience and quality, as well as their price, outcome of high production automation level and fully robotized workstations.
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EUROPE – Kinesys automation is central to show designer Jvan Morandi’s visual concept for the current Placebo “Retrospective” tour, which features some of the musical highlights and moments from 20 years on the indie rock frontline for the band, known for their intelligent visceral, raw and creative approach to live performance. Ten Kinesys Elevation 1+ vari-speed drive units, used with 10 x half ton Liftket motors and Kinesys Vector control are being used to move five I-shaped trussing pods rigged in the roof above the stage.
MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE -– “Jazz music is the power of now,” Wynton Marsalis once observed. If that is the case, then Maputo is flourishing in the moment. A bustling city of gleaming new high-rises, Mediterranean-style villas and wide boulevards lined with jacaranda and flame trees, the Mozambique capital teems with the sound of jazz from its lively club scene and internationally acclaimed festivals.