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MDG Features 8-Nozzle Me8, Other Hazers and Foggers at Prolight+ Sound 2016

MDG's newly designed booth at PL+S 2016

MDG Features 8-Nozzle Me8, Other Hazers and Foggers at Prolight+ Sound 2016

FRANKFURT, Germany – At Prolight + Sound earlier this month, MDG’s new stand featured atmosphere generation products that included demos for the company’s new Atmosphere range, the Me Family, the IceFog Series of low-fog generators and their award-winning product, theOne. The booth also featured videos showing how to unleash the full potential of some of the larger generators that the environs of a trade show were not able to accommodate. The highlight of the show was the intro for the company’s “8-nozzled monster,” the Me8.

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Crown Design Group steered the church toward the RGB fixtures.

Crown Design Group Gives Coastlife Church Auditorium Distinctive House Lighting Looks with Elation Colour Pendants

VENICE, FL – Coastlife Church recently added a new 400+ seat auditorium to its property. AVL integration company Crown Design Group outfitted the space with 33 Elation Colour Pendant color-changing LED luminaires. Opened in time for Easter services, the new house lighting system is both white-light functional and creatively full-color immersive when required.

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PR XR 440 Beam

PR XR 440 Beam

PR Lighting’s new XR 440 Beam, featured at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this month, houses the new Osram Sirius HRI 440W discharge lamp, outputting 22,000 lumens. As such it promises to serve as a powerful powerful beam light, with a superbly designed optical path, excellent color and comprehensive and number of effects.

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PR Lighting XR 440 BWS

PR Lighting XR 440 BWS

PR Lighting’s XR 440 BWS joins last year’s XR 330 BWS in the BWS (Beam Wash Spot) hybrid category. The fixture was featured at both the recent GET Show in Guangzhou and Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. The XR 440 BWS’s many features start with Osram’s Sirius HRI 440W lamp as the light source.

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The new lasers promise to give designers access to new visual effects.

Laserworld Details New Visual Possibilities Enabled by RTI NEO SIX RGB Units Featured at PL+S

FRANKFURT, Germany – Laserworld Group detailed some of the new laser gear and technologies deployed at the Prolight+Sound exhibition in Frankfurt earlier this month including the twelve RTI NEO SIX RGB units on the PRG/LEA Stage. With 12 beam arrays, LD Jerry P. Appelt was able to control a total of 72 individual laser beams via DMX in 16bit fine positioning mode. Along with the new RTI units, Laserworld-owned tarm lasers were featured. The laser show was controlled through Lasergraph DSP laser control software and hardware, in combination with grandMA2 consoles.

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Ljubljana Castle

Ljubljana Castle in Slovenia Adds More Robes

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia —Ljubljana Castle, a tourist attraction in the Slovenian capital, also draws crowds with multiple venues that are used for a variety of conferences, meetings, presentations and theatre and music productions. These are now equipped with Robe fixtures, including CycFX 8s, LEDBeam 100s and six Robe LightWare HO battery powered up-lighting LED units.

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ITV Commercial's ‘Big Day Out’

ITV Commercial’s ‘Big Day Out’ Gets Video, Lighting Assist from CPL

OXFORDSHIRE, U.K. – Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) provided a widescreen projection system plus lighting and sound production for ‘Big Day Out’, an event for ITV Commercial sales teams staged at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire. The event, which included series of motivational talks and presentations interspersed with choreographed entertainment and magicians, took place in the venue’s Lecture Theatre. CPL supplied a 12 by 4 meter (WxH) projection screen, fed by Panasonic 12K laser projectors.

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Photo courtesy of Phil Weedon

White Light Provides Lighting Gear for Musical Based on British Mod Group, The Small Faces

LONDON – All or Nothing, a musical that opened recently at The Vaults in London, is based on the life and music of British Mod group The Small Faces. White Light provided a lighting rig that includes 52 Par 64s and two ETC Source Four Revolutions specified by LD Peter Small. Small also used Look Solutions Unique 2.1 Haze Machine, CCT Minuette Fresnels and ETC Source Fours for the show. White Light supplied the gear.

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The event was held 1,000 feet underground.

Miners’ Day Celebration in Russia Goes Deep with Martin Fixtures

MURMANSK REGION, Russia –– MuzTrade, an authorized distributor of Harman’s Martin lighting products in the Murmansk region, an area that borders Finland and Norway north of the Arctic Circle, provided Martin lighting fixtures for an event held 1,000 feet beneath the ground. Marking Russian Miners’ Day, the celebration also heralded the launch of Main Shaft No. 2 in the Kirovsk mine. MuzTrade turned to Martin’s MAC 101, MAC 700 Profile and MAC Aura fixtures to meet the unique needs of this event.

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Richard Fernandez

Tour Manager Richard Fernandez to Receive 2016 Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award

LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that Richard Fernandez will be honored with the 2016 Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award. During an enviable 40-plus year career in the live entertainment business, Fernandez served as tour manager for the Faces, the Eagles, Bob Dylan, the New Barbarians, Frank Zappa, Crosby Stills & Nash and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers among others, traveling around the world and back scores of times.

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