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LD Gabe Hodge and ZZ Top

LD Gabe Hodge and ZZ Top

Tour: ZZ Top tour of North America, U.K. and Europe (May 30-Oct. 4, 2015)

Design Process: “ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons pays attention to all the production: I-Mag, video, lighting, sound. That’s awesome; it takes some of the guesswork out of it.”

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Sublime with Rome 2015 tour photo by Todd Kaplan

Sublime with Rome Tours with Clay Paky, grandMA2 Gear

KANSAS CITY, MO – Sublime with Rome has hit the road for a North American summer tour featuring 37 concerts coast to coast.  Lighting designer Scott Warner of Karate Pinky Visual Design, LLC, Pittsburgh, has selected Clay Paky Sharpys, Sharpy Washes and A.leda B-EYE K20s for the tour along with a grandMA2 light console for lighting control.  Both brands are distributed exclusively in North America by A.C.T Lighting, Inc.

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Opera Holland Park, lit with gear provided by HSL

HSL Lights Opera Holland Park Season

LONDON, UK – Lighting rental specialist HSL supplied stage lighting, sub-rigging and trussing, architectural and site-wide practical and decorative illumination, electrics, power distribution, and full public address announcement PA – for the 2015 Opera Holland Park festival season in west London.

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The main stage for the 2015 Innibos arts festival included Robe fixtures.

Innibos 2015 Festival Includes Robe Fixtures

NELSPRUIT, South Africa – The main stage for the 2015 Innibos arts festival – one of the largest Afrikaans events in South Africa drawing over 107,000 people over five days – staged at Hoërskool Bergvlam in Nelspruit, was lit for the eighth year by Pretoria, based LD Johan Ferriera. This year he chose to work with nearly 150 Robe moving lights, supplied to the event by Johannesburg based MGG, one of the country’s leading technical production specialists.

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Nook Schoenfeld

Shining in the Rain

It’s summertime in Mississippi. And to steal a quote, “it’s Africa hot.” So hot that rain is welcomed at this festival gig I’m lighting tonight. Except that my front lighting truss is exposed to the elements, and the rear truss is rigged off of the upstage roof edge, ensuring it will catch every drop of water that hits that canvas.

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