DALLAS – One of the last of the season’s major US music festivals takes place October 2-4 and October 9-11 in Austin, TX. Syncrolite returns to the Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) in a big way by providing SXL automated skylights that will be filling the night sky over Zilker Park with dancing beams of light and ArenaColor wash fixtures illuminating the stage scrims.
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WASHINGTON D.C. – It was a music festival unlike any other: in the shadows of the Nation’s iconic monuments and steps away from The Reflecting Pool, tens of thousands gathered at the inaugural Landmark Music Festival. Bandit Lites provided the festival lighting for the event which worked to raise awareness for the upkeep of the National Park’s monuments.
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LAS VEGAS — And the winners are…Well, the votes are in — voting from readers of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines wrapped up on Sept. 30. But you’ll just have to wait until the night of the show – Oct. 24 – before all the 2015 Parnelli Awards winners are announced. For now, we can divulge the names of three of the 2015 Parnelli Awards recipients: Chris Lamb, David Cunningham and Pat Quilter, who are being honored, respectively, with Parnelli Lifetime Achievement, Visionary and Audio Innovator awards.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Online registration for USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City is officially open! Register & find hotel housing at our link below. USITT’s 2016 Annual Conference & Stage Expo runs March 16-19 in Salt Lake City. Very early registration – by Dec. 3 – saves the most money, with the lowest rates.
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WILKES BARRE, PA. – Mountain Productions’ Online Rigging Shop, which offers an extensive inventory of entertainment rigging products, including chain hoists, hardware, cables, chain bags, fall protection, CM replacement parts and much more, is open for business. Among the many products that can be ordered on the site are Kask helmets, pictured here.
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LONDON – Twelve Clay Paky Mythos fixtures projected text and images onto the Tower of London in September as part of a celebrity charity event honoring wounded armed forces veterans. The initiative was launched to raise awareness of the Haig Housing Trust, which offers housing assistance to ex-service people. The week culminated in a fundraising event, ‘For Queen and Country’, to mark the charity’s centenary.
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LAS VEGAS – At LDI 2015, DNJ Pro will present the world with Italian lighting manufacturer, Novalight’s, latest cutting-edge creation, the Nova-Scope. The Novalight Nova-Scope combines a HTI 2000W/D10/60 lamp with a unique reflector setup to provide an extremely high output mid air effects solution.
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WHITE PLAINS, NY – For the the recent Motown Legends Show pairing the Jacksons and the Temptations, LD Jason “Blends” Ayala of ProSho (New York) supported each group with a light show that fit its individual sound using a rig centered on fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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UK – The eighth Knight of Illumination Awards (KOI) ceremony was held on Sunday 4th October at London’s glamorous art deco Troxy to sparkling success. Once more it saw representatives from the professional entertainment lighting and video industry come together to celebrate the creative achievements of lighting and video professionals working on shows across the UK.
More details from KOL (www.knight-of-illumination.com):
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