DORTMUND, Germany – The Reggae Summer Festival brought the sound of Jamaica to Revierpark Wischlingen in Dortmund, Germany. Simon Sonnenschmidt lit up the Dancehall Soundsystem Arena with three Clay Paky Sharpys, four Spheriscans and four Supersharpys, using a dot2 core plus and dot2 F-wing for control.
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MILWAUKEE— Clearwing Productions augmented its rental lighting inventory with 76 new Martin MAC Axiom Hybrids and deployed them, along with other fixtures, in the rigs for many of the stages of the biggest annual music festival in the world, Summerfest. They were used on six of the festival’s 11 permanent stages, playing a prominent role in the lighting for the BMO Harris Pavilion, the Miller Lite Oasis and the Briggs & Stratton Big Backyard stage, among others.
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NANCHANG, China – The Wanda Cultural Tourism City complex in Nanchang, China packs a theme park, movie park, aquarium, hotels and retail stores within an area measuring two square kilometers. It is expected to attract 10 million visitors a year to the southeastern Chinese city. The Flying Theater and Interactive Theater in the Wanda Movie Park and the Domed Theater in the Wanda Aquarium feature Alcorn McBride A/V, lighting and show control equipment.
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BENSALEM, PA — A couple of nights a week at select Sky Zone Trampoline Parks, the main lights are switched off—and new elektraLite eyeBall UV fixtures are turned on—for an event called “Glow” where participants wear neon clothing and bring or buy glowing swag items to engage in the interactive games at the park in the dark.
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DUBLIN – HSL supplied lighting, rigging and a Kinesys automation system for the European leg of Chris Brown’s “One Hell of a Nite” tour, working for production designer and manager Tom E. Marzullo from Out Of Our Minds Creative Services, LLC. HSL project managers John Slevin and Jordan Hanson coordinated everything for the Blackburn, U.K.-based rental company and ensured that the production design, created collectively by Tom E with input from Christie Lites’ Robert Roth and Robert Achlimbari from All Access, was supplied with all the lighting, rigging and automation elements it needed. The Europen shows took place in May and June, 2016.
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SURFERS PARADISE, Australia – To herald the launch the new 7 Gold Coast News operation, LD Adam Volz of TLD Services used Robe BMFL Spots positioned near the top of the the 322 meter high Q1 building to project four 24 meter wide gobo images onto the beach below. Pete Coorey from Select Audio-Visual Hire in Brisbane, Australia helped with the project as well.
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ELGIN, IL and MEXICO CITY – In late July, Harting North America opened a sales office in Mexico City and a manufacturing facility in Silao, Mexico, The Mexico City office is in the Miguel Hidalgo borough, in the Torre Virreyes skyscraper center. The manufacturing plant, the company’s 14th, opened a day later in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, about 375km northwest of Mexico City. The formal name for the Mexico-based business unit is Harting Mexico Sales S.A. de C.V.
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ORLANDO, FL — After expanding its Southeast reach from Orlando, Florida, to Atlanta, Georgia, just a few short years ago, Evolve Media Group has grown again, opening a third location in one of the busiest convention destinations in the world, Las Vegas, Nevada. “We’ve always served a broad US market, but West Coast destinations were always slightly challenging,” said Tyler Mayne, CEO of Evolve Media Group. “With Evolve West Coast now open in Las Vegas, the sky’s the limit.”
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WILKES-BARRE, PA – Mountain Productions named Lejan as its dealer representative for the MTN BOX line of cases in Europe. Based in the Netherlands, Lejan has been proding a variety of flight cases, bags, and transport cases for 80 years. Pictured here are the MTN BOX Spectrum Series Large (LG) and Small (SM) road cases.
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SAARBRUCKEN, Germany — LD and production designer Bertil Mark has been crafting the looks for German pop and R&B singer Sarah Connor’s recent shows using a combination of GLP’s X4 (Tunable White) LED fixtures and 32 of the new X4 Bar 20 battens. Connor has been touring in support of her most recent album, Muttersprache (Mother Tongue), which has gone triple platinum since its release in May 2015.
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