Eaux Claires Musical Festival 2015
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.” Read More »
Swatch Freeride World Tour in Alaska Televised with Blackmagic Design 4K Gear
ALASKA – Blackmagic Design noted that the Alaska leg of the Swatch Freeride World Tour was broadcast globally with the help of some of the company’s Design 4K products, provided Fountain Media Group (FMG). The products included production switchers, monitors, converters and SSD recorders.
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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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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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Triple E’s Alex Kusztelan Receives Engineering PhD
UK – Triple E noted that its design engineer, Alex Kusztelan, has received his Engineering PhD research degree. Kusztelan is part of Triple E’s team working alongside founder and managing director, David Edelstein.
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Innibos 2015 Festival Includes Robe Fixtures
Christie India Opens Expanded Facility In Bangalore, India
BANGALORE, India – Christie opened an expanded facility in India. The official inauguration, during an event attended by customers and business partners, took place Aug. 14, 2015.
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Shining in the Rain
Michael Yeargan, Scenic Designer for ‘The King and I’
When he designed the set for last year’s The Bridges Of Madison County, Tony Award winner Michael Yeargan fashioned a bridge out of pieces rolled on stage. With the current Tony Award-winning production of The King and I at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre, he has assembled four pairs of moving pillars to help create different room configurations for the King of Siam’s palace. The production co-stars Tony winner Kelli O’Hara as the English schoolteacher brought to teach the children of the proud King of Siam, and Ken Watanabe as the King, who learns life lessons from the schoolteacher as well.
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Luke Bryan’s 2015 ‘Kick the Dust Up’ Tour
Country star Luke Bryan’s meteoric rise to the top has solidified his tour as one of the must-see shows of the summer. The singer has been selling out every show this year from arenas to sheds, special club gigs to humongous stadiums as evidenced by this weekend’s sold out gig at Nashville’s Vanderbilt stadium. Production designers Justin Kitchenman (touring LD) and Pete Healey (touring production manager) co-designed a large-scale system that can fit into any type venue. Through reconfigurations of where to rig the truss and video elements, these transitions between different sized venues are seamless, due to the design team doing their homework ahead of the tour.
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Train’s ‘Picasso at the Wheel’ Tour
At the age of 11 Brock Hogan attended his first concert, Def Leppard’s Hysteria tour. Ever since that moment, he knew he wanted to be involved in lighting. He began in the industry as a stagehand for a local production company in Boise ID. After several years of working every gig he possibly could and always asking questions, Hogan worked his way up from a pusher to lead rigger. In 2001 he began working at a local venue called The Big Easy Concert House (now The Knitting Factory). Within a year, he convinced them to let him learn lighting.
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