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Online Exclusive: Seinfeld/Gaffigan Co-Headlining Tour Ends with “Experiment” in St. Louis

Online Exclusive: Seinfeld/Gaffigan Co-Headlining Tour Ends with “Experiment” in St. Louis

Photo by Justin Shubert with Studio Moderne

Top-Level comedians have been increasingly getting out of those 3,000-5,000 seat theaters and trying their jokes out in arenas and stadiums. Two of the biggest – Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan – thought they would pair up in a co-headliner mini-tour of just four cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and St. Louis. For the last show in St. Louis, they experimented with leaving the full theater curtain package set on the truck and seeing if they could pull it off selling seats on the extreme sides and behind them to increase ticket sales further. Halifax-based Tour Tech East made it work.Read More »Online Exclusive: Seinfeld/Gaffigan Co-Headlining Tour Ends with “Experiment” in St. Louis

Bill Groener Joins Altman Lighting as Chief Operating Officer

Bill Groener

Altman Lighting Inc. announces that Bill Groener has joined the company as its new Chief Operating Officer. Groener’s distinguished career spans more than 40 years in the entertainment, themed, and architectural technology sectors. Before joining Altman, Groener was the COO of The Lighting Design Group, President of Vincent Lighting Systems and the VP of National Business Development for 4Wall Entertainment. Furthermore, Groener held key positions with Color Kinetics, Barbizon, Elliptipar, and Strand Lighting. He was also the principal and sole owner of BGr + A, a sales agency covering the Metro New York area that was dedicated to meeting the diverse lighting needs of the theatre, television, film, and architectural markets. Read More »Bill Groener Joins Altman Lighting as Chief Operating Officer

Seriously Magical New Tech for Robe at LDI

Robe launches four new products on Booth 911A at the LDI 2023 expo in Las Vegas next week – the iT12 Profile™, the T32 Cyc™, and two new variants of the cool and successful PATT series of scenic illumination, the HolyPATT™ and the MolyPATT™. Additionally, shown for the first time at an expo in North America will be Robe’s new iSeries of IP rated and robustly weatherized moving lights – the incredible iFORTE LTX® currently the most powerful LED moving head on the market – together with iESPRITE®, iPAINTE®, iTetra2™ and iBeam350™ luminaires, all of which are expected to attract huge interest in North America.Read More »Seriously Magical New Tech for Robe at LDI

AV Stumpfl Opens PIXERA Office in Los Angeles

PIXERA’s Conor McGill has been promoted to Director, PIXERA USA and is opening a new office in Santa Monica, CA

Following the opening of the new PIXERA UK office in London last month, AV Stumpfl announced that PIXERA, its real-time media server platform, is expanding its physical presence in North America as well. The company recently opened a new office in Los Angeles, dedicated exclusively to its PIXERA media server platform, and Conor McGill has been promoted to Director, PIXERA USARead More »AV Stumpfl Opens PIXERA Office in Los Angeles

Bandit Lites Partners with Belmont’s Student-Run Pop Showcase

The Belmont University Pop Showcase, an annual concert featuring Belmont’s best pop acts, returned to the Curb Event Center October 28th with a lighting system provided by Bandit Lites. The concert acts as a competition, with the artists who perform having underwent a rigorous evaluation including demo submissions and live auditions. The day of the event, the four finalist perform to both students and the public, and a panel of industry experts choose the winner.Read More »Bandit Lites Partners with Belmont’s Student-Run Pop Showcase

Bruce Springsteen Takes the E Street Band Back On the Road with Martin Lighting Solutions

Photo by Steve Jennings

To deliver a fresh and revamped visual aesthetic for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023 Tour of North America and Europe, Lighting Designer Jeff Ravitz selected and deployed an array of Martin lighting fixtures to create a versatile and powerful stadium rig. Read More »Bruce Springsteen Takes the E Street Band Back On the Road with Martin Lighting Solutions

A Simple and Affordable VP Studio Solution

At Tokyo-based PANDASTUDIO.TV, Blackmagic Design products serve as the primary equipment in Studio 2 and Studio 4, with multiple Blackmagic Studio Camera 4K Pro G2s installed. “When you build your system entirely with Blackmagic products, you can control all the cameras and recorders. By mounting them in a rack, you have an all-in-one system for shooting, streaming, and recording, which is very cost effective,” said PANDASTUDIO.TV’S Orio Nakamura.

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District 5 Colorizes The Band Camino’s Screaming in the Dark Tour with CHAUVET Professional

Color has always been “a huge part of our design process,” Dayne deHaven says of the work that he and his collaborator at the District 5 design studio, Tyler Shapard, have been doing for The Band Camino. Fans of the red-hot rock-pop trio would readily agree; the band’s music is so evocative, that each song calls out for its own distinct color signature. Ironically, though, on the band’s recently concluded 25-date tour, the show begins in virtual darkness, as eerie electronic sounds resonate over a blacked-out stage. That’s only fitting, since the tour was called Screaming in the Dark, a nod to the group’s latest hit album The Dark.Read More »District 5 Colorizes The Band Camino’s Screaming in the Dark Tour with CHAUVET Professional