U.K. – The incredible Arcadia Spectacular stage pumped out some serious visuals at Glastonbury this year created and controlled by blinkinLAB’s Tom Wall using an Avolites Sapphire Media and Ai server.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ – Event Safety Alliance, the non-profit safety trade organization serving the needs of the live event industry, named Dr. Donald C. Cooper executive director. Dr. Cooper will assume daily business management responsibilities from ESA founder Jim Digby, who will continue to serve as chair of the ESA Board of Directors. The Board’s decision on his appointment was unanimous.
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PILTON, UK — Created by Joe Rush’s Mutoid Waste Company, two artworks, Peace Time Flies and Pagan Crown, provided visual inspiration for the music-loving crowds drawn to the Glastonbury Festival’s Pyramid and Other stages in late June. The artworks, depicting a large metallic winged clock and a horn-bedecked pagan headdress surrounding a giant pearl, respectively, were bathed in hues from an assortment of Chauvet Professional and Iluminarc LED fixtures.
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LAS VEGAS — This is the last week for PLSN readers to vote for their favorite regional lighting companies now in the running for the 2015 Parnelli Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year award. This stage of the voting process will narrow the current field of 30 regional companies now on the Hometown Hero ballot down to six regional winners (five U.S. regions and all of Canada), and the Hometown Hero preliminary voting deadline is Friday July 31 at 5 p.m.
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BUDAPEST – On June 20, 2015, the City of Karlsruhe kicked off a 15-week long summer festival to celebrate its 300th anniversary, with the Karlsruhe Palace playing a central role. Dancers and opera performers entertained a crowd of 40,000 before the evening was concluded by fireworks. Maxin10sity provided a 15 minute-long projection mapping performance for the event.
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LOS ANGELES, CA — Roland’s Professional A/V Division is pleased to announce the appointment of HWPco as the new manufacturer’s representative firm for their professional audio and video product lines in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas.
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LAS VEGAS – Hundreds of Elation lighting fixtures were used again this year on Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, North America’s largest dance music festival, with the latest incarnation of the electronic rave taking place June 19-21 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Lighting supply companies Visions Lighting, AG Production Services, Felix Lighting and Pro Systems all supplied Elation gear to the Vegas version of EDC with many of this year’s awe-inspiring lighting and stage looks again by SJ Lighting.
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U.K. – Avolites Tiger Touch II consoles and Ai media servers were the perfect partners for The Charlatans, as they performed at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl for Summer in the City.
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LONDON – XL Video continues its relationship with the Nordoff Robbins music therapy charity, sponsoring the Artist Films for the O2 Silver Clef Awards for the third consecutive year, and by supplying the live video production and technology for the 2015 awards event.
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AUCKLAND, NZ – Entertainment Lighting Solutions upgraded the lighting array in Auckland Town Hall’s Concert Chamber with ETC Sensor3s.
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