NORTH CREEK, NY – Jamey Brock has joined Creative Stage Lighting as Southeast regional sales manager. Brock is a senior level sales professional with many years of experience in entertainment and architectural lighting, including positions at Martin and Chauvet.
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NEW YORK — 4Wall named industry veteran Bill Groener general manager of its Systems & Design division. Groener will be responsible for the Systems team on a national level, overseeing design and installation projects taking place at all five 4Wall locations. Groener’s background includes more than 30 years of lighting design, production and management roles within the industry.
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BURBANK, CA – Chaos Visual Productions is providing video to Maroon 5 as they launch the spring leg of their 2013 Overexposed North American tour. The show is conceived, created and designed by Demfis Fyssicopulos, the tour’s production designer and artistic director, along with Maroon 5.
Read More »MOORESTOWN, NJ — Starlite Productions, which acquired 80 Sharpy fixtures from Clay Paky last year, recently took delivery of new grandMA2 lighting consoles at the company’s 53,000-square-foot facility here. The company also expanded its audio inventory, including more than 60 Shure ULX-P wireless microphone systems in anticipation of the 2013 outdoor concert season.
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FOLSOM, CA – Stage 1, Inc., based here, recently announced the expansion of its service area throughout the West Coast, including all of California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon and Washington. The company is also gearing up to serve customers on special projects in the Midwest and abroad.
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NEW YORK — HLB Lighting Design, an architectural lighting designer firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston, announced several staff promotions recently, including new senior associates, new associates and new senior designers.
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LONDON – For the third consecutive year, Stage Technologies is supplying the overhead automation for Pink’s The Truth About Love US and European tours. The show, directed by Baz Halpin, incorporates aerial performances during a number of tracks, including “Glitter in the Air,” in which the star is dipped into a small pool of water onstage before being drawn up again for acrobatics involving an aerial hammock.
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WALTBUTTELBRUNN, Germany – Steinigke Showtechnic is introducing the Futurelight DMH-150 for bigger stages and a smaller version, the DMH-60, suited for clubs and smaller venues.
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FRANCE – OXO Light is lauching its LED Funstrip, an energy-saving LED version of its Funstrip batten. LED Funstrip replaces the traditional MR16 lamps of Funstrip with 10 x 9W warm white LED sources, each of which can be controlled individually. The long LED life (50,000 hours) means the lightsources are replaced less often, saving on material and labor costs, especially beneficial in fixed installations such as television studios or display lighting.
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EUROPE – LD Luc Lafortune traveled to Paris, Bergamo and Madrid during his cycle of his “Art and Poetry in Stage Lighting” events. The conferences were centered around two of Cirque du Soleil’s most successful shows, Kà and “O.” Lafortune got right down to the roots of the creative process, and shared many behind the scenes stories as well.
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