The first of many seamless updates to Current RMS scheduled for 2018, January saw the release of Choosing Accessories, the most voted for idea on Current’s Customer Wishlist.
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Two concerts organized by AMP Events at the newly-opened, 10,000-capacity Sun Arena in South African capital Pretoria were chosen to record a live DVD for American rock band LĪVE.
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Freelance Scenic Designer Paige Hathaway will receive USITT’s 2018 Rising Star Award.
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Award winning English jazz and soul singer and songwriter Joss Stone visited Namibia for the first time – and for one night only – as part of her ongoing Total world tour, making an appearance in the intimate environs of the Warehouse Theatre in vibrant capital Windhoek.
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Seoul Semiconductor, a global innovator of LED products and technology, will participate in the annual Strategies in Light conference and exhibit, one of the leading conferences for the international LED lighting industry, scheduled for February 13 – 15, 2018 in Long Beach, CA.
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The Winter Jam Tour Spectacular, Christian music’s largest annual tour, is traveling the East Coast with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites.
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MENTOR, OH — Magic Gives Back, an organization that stages pro-bono magic shows at schools across the U.S. to raise money for education projects, was founded by celebrity magician and illusionist Rick Smith Jr. For a fundraising show on Jan. 27 at the 1,500-seat Mentor Schools Fine Arts Center outside Cleveland, Brent Smith and his team at B Productions used four Rogue R1 Spot and four Rogue R1 Wash fixtures along with two Ovation E-190WW ellipsoidal units and other products from Chauvet Professional and Chauvet DJ.
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High End Systems is pleased to announce the release of Hog 4 v.3.8.0 software for the Hog 4 console range. The release includes several new features and bug fixes.
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NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected Lawo to provide VSM (Virtual Studio Manager) Broadcast Control and Monitoring solutions, as well as IP Commentary systems, for its production of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
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PLANO, TX — Prestonwood Baptist Church’s annual holiday spectacle, The Gift of Christmas, is known for cutting-edge technical innovation, and the most recent extravaganza did not disappoint. The show, staged in Dec. 2018, got a design assist from collaborators UVLD, who made use of Claypaky Scenius Profiles, Mythos2 fixtures, Follow-Me software and grandMA2 consoles for the 90-minute multimedia production. The products were all sourced via ACT Lighting.
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The complete trust that Neg Earth Lights (www.negearth.com) have put into EXE Technology products was clearly demonstrated last year when they purchased over 200 new EXE-RISE units within a six-month period.
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PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico — J&S Audio Visual took delivery of 12 new Elation Professional Proteus Hybrid fixtures in December and immediately put the IP65-rated moving heads to work on an outdoor show. As it turned out, the gig — a private concert staged in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on Dec. 14 — was hit by a torrential downpour. LD Edgar Negron noted that the rain fell before, during and after the event. If a lesser fixture might have been doused, Negron was able to use them for ambience lighting and effects onto a Magic Sky umbrella for the event, which featured a performance by Ne-Yo.
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