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MLB All-Star FanFest Lit with Elation Platinum Series Fixtures

MLB All Star Bash

MLB All-Star FanFest Lit with Elation Platinum Series Fixtures

SAN DIEGO — Major League Baseball’s All-Star FanFest took place the week leading up to the 2016 All-Star Game on July 12 at Petco Park in San Diego. One of the FanFest’s most popular events was the MLB All-Star Bash. A lineup of acts including Akon, Fall Out Boy and DJ Vice performed beneath a lighting rig that featured Platinum Series moving heads, ACL Bar 360 LED effect lights and Colour Chorus Series LED battens from Elation Professional.

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Maestra Provided Gear

Reply SpA Stages IT Event in London with Assist from Maestra

LONDON – Event production specialist Maestra London worked with set and staging company Firecracker to support ‘Reply Exchange,’ a one-day conference sponsored by Italian IT giants Reply SpA. Gruppo Peroni staged the event and Toria Richardson was the event’s producer. The event was held in London’s 155 Bishopsgate venue. Along with a large conference space, attendees met in three breakout areas and at an exhibition section.

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Shinedown using the Rogue R1 FX-B

LD Sooner Routhier Uses Bandit Lites’ New Chauvet Rogue R1 FX-B Fixtures for Shinedown Tour

KNOXVILLE, TN – For Shinedown’s “Carnival of Madness” tour, Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of lighting design firm SRae Productions worked with lighting director Carter Fulghum used Bandit Lites’ recently-acquired Chauvet Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures. Bandit Lites notes that their company is the first in the world to take these new fixtures out on tour. The Chauvet Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures give lighting designers and crew the ability to leverage a row of five individually controlled heads for new lighting looks.

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Sigur Rós

LD Bruno Poet Opts for GLP X4 Bars for Sigur Rós Concerts and Brian Friel’s Play, ‘Faith Healer’

LONDON – Bruno Poet has turned to GLP’s impression X4 Bars for concerts featuring Icelandic cult band Sigur Rós and other live events, including Brian Friel’s play, “Faith Healer,” at Donmar Warehouse in London. He was introduced to the fixtures by White Light’s Dave Isherwood, and used 16 for “Faith Healer” and 18 for Sigur Rós.

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Open House at Main Light

High End Systems Announces Main Light Industries Open House

WILMINGTON, DE. – High End Systems, a Barco Company, will be hosting an open house at Main Light Industries.  This event will allow customers to see and experience the latest technology from High End Systems, including SHAPESHIFTER, SolaSpot Pro 1000, SolaWash FX 1000, SolaSpot Pro 1500, SolaSpot Pro 2000, SolaWash Pro 2000, Uno, the Hog4 line of consoles and more.

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Ovation_B-2805

New Ovation Batten Style Fixtures Feature RGBA-Lime Color Mixing

SUNRISE, FL – CHAUVET Professional is spreading rich vivid colors to more places. Following up on its popular Ovation E-910FC RGBA-Lime ellipsoidal, the company is raising the bar in color wash and cyc lighting with the introduction of the first Ovation batten style fixtures. Like their ellipsoidal forbearer, the new Ovation B-2805FC and Ovation B-565FC battens feature an RGBA-Lime LED system that creates bolder, more vivid colors and brighter whites.

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The AV company invested in 80 square meters of new ROE Black OnyX 3.4 mm LED screen plus ROE LED strip product.

CPL Makes LED Screen Investment

BIRMINGHAM, U.K. – Event technical production specialist Central Presentations Limited (CPL) has invested in 80 square meters of new ROE Black OnyX 3.4 mm LED screen plus ROE LED strip product … both of which are going directly onto a job in London and will then be available from the west Midlands, UK based company’s rental stock. CPL project manager Simon Haydon explains that this screen was chosen because as a high quality HD indoor product and in keeping with the company’s commitment to stocking premium brands.

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Axioms at Park Music Festival

Matrixx at the Park Music Festival in the Netherlands Features Martin Stage Lighting

NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands —Sound and lighting provider Focus Amsterdam used Martin MAC Axiom Hybrid fixtures (pictured here) and Atomic strobes at Matrixx at the Park, a seven-day (July 16-22) music festival held in conjunction with the annual International Four Days Marches Nijmegen (July 19-22). The Four Day March invites crowds to gather for a leisurely multi-day walk along a scenic byway. Participants get a medal upon completion of the journey. For the 2016 event, the 100th year for this event, 42,557 participaed. To mark this milestone, the stage at Matrixx at the Park was decorated with a collage of Nijmegen’s most famous landmarks. 

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Russia-based LDs Alexandr Letcius and Alexandr Sinitsa used 34 Pointes and 10 Robe Strobes for 'Hyperjump'

Light Sculpture at MIRA Festival in Berlin Uses Robe Fixtures

BERLIN – The MIRA digital arts festival, held June 11 at the Funkhaus Berlin, focused on both electronic music and live visuals, and the creative lighting designs on display included the use of Robe fixtures. For the large scale sound and lighting sculpture, “Hyperjump,” featuring the work of Russia-based LDs Alexandr Letcius and Alexandr Sinitsa, the setup included 34 Pointes and 10 Robe Strobes.

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