RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA — Stage drapery manufacturer, Sew What? Inc. has produced another unique opening show drape for this year’s Kenny Chesney’s “Spread the Love” Tour, which kicked off April 23 in Auburn, AL. The tour will support the artist’s Noise album, which is due out early this summer.
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PRETORIA, South Africa — For Mumford and Sons’ “Gentlemen of the Road” South African Tour 2016, LD Ed Warren’s rig included 26 Martin MAC Viper Profiles, 12 MAC Viper Washes, 22 MAC Quantum Washes, four JEM ZR44 smoke machines and two JEM K1 hazers.
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SUN VALLEY, CA – GLP has appointed the company Fourleaf Inc. to handle its market leading LED and discharge lighting fixtures in Japan. Described by GLP’s Sales Director, Asia, Søren Storm as “young, hungry and with a high energy level” he adds that Fourleaf has further credentials in that the company already has in-depth knowledge of the catalogue, and the existing users in the territory. Michael Muenz, GLP General Manager, Asia, is pictured here shaking hands with Fourleaf president and CEO, Shinichi Kikukawa.
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AUSTIN, TX – When Bud Light decided to throw a party at South by Southwest Music Festival, they went all out. Working with Mosaic and LiveNation, Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for both the Brazos Event Center and the rousing upstairs party, where musical performances throughout the weekend included Bleachers, A$AP Ferg, Yo Gotti, The Struts, MisterWives, Santigold, and Bloc Party, capping the festivities Saturday night with The Roots SXSW Jam featuring Big Grams (Big Boi and Phantogram) and other special guests.
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DELRAY BEACH, FL – The Ride Delray Indoor Cycling Studio turned to Jay Krause and his team at Sound and Lighting Solutions for a ‘wave wall’ made from Chauvet Professional and Iluminarc LED fixtures. The wall consists of 8 COLORdash Batten-Hex 8 linear washes and 12 Ilumipod LOGIC Tri-4 RGB color mixing fixtures.
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Laserworld’s EL-500RGB KeyTEX, the successor of the Laserworld ES-400RGB, has all the features seen previously in the ES-400RGB but also comes with a remote control plus a keyboard for entering text, animating it and doing color changes.
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LONDON – To promote British retailer VERY’s Spring 2016 fashion collection, Transition Video designed and fabricated a 5m x 5m LED cube clad with LED panels on three sides. Through their ad agency, St Luke’s, VERY turned to PrettyBird for creative content. Working with PrettyBird’s Dori Oskowitz, Mark Calvert from RES used Avolites’ Ai S6 server to pixel map and play back the digital content, which included a fast moving array of dancers surrounding the cube.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – MPH Australia is a busy lighting rental company based in Melbourne, headed by Matt Hansen (pictured here). The company has embraced Robe as an in-house brand, and now offers LEDWash 600s, MMX Spots, LEDBeam 100s and BMFL series fixtures to its clients.
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NEW YORK – LD Susan Nicholson used Elation Professional’s Platinum Spot 35 Pro moving heads for front lighting, backlighting and texturing on a recent Off Broadway production of the new musical drama, Death for Five Voices. Nicholson used the Platinum Spot 35 Pro for front light and highlights for the production, which was staged March 24 through April 17 at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New Yorky. The production was inspired by the life and work of Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo.
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Mega-Lite’s Baby Color VW is designed to serve as a bright variable white fixture that is ultra-compact in size. The unit is equipped with 7 5W LEDs and has less than a 5” square body. The fixture has a 20°beam angle and comes with a diffuser that increases the beam angle to 25°. The Baby Color VW is controllable via DMX 512 and has amber, warm white, cool white, dimmer, CTO and strobe channels. It also has the control options audio trigger and master slave. The Baby Color VW has a double mounting yoke so it can to be set on the floor or hang from a structure. It has a digital display designed for ease of use. And the unit is equipped with power con in and out and 3-pin or 5-pin XLR connections.
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INDIO, CA – At the Coachella Music and Arts Festival’s Gobi Tent, Sean Coates of RK Diversified Entertainment lit an eclectic array of performers with a design that included 15 Rogue R2 Beam fixtures from Chauvet Professional mounted on five “fingers” of overhead truss.
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Blizzard Lighting’s mini cube-shaped moving head, Snake Eyes Mini, brings the features of Blizzard’s larger Snake Eyes fixtures into a more compact package. Features include six 10-Watt CREE RGBW 4-in-1 LEDs with a 9° beam angle. The Snake Eyes Mini is also lined with 12 controllable RGB strips, and the compact fixture moves with 630°/540° pan and infinite tilt.
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