DALLAS — You don’t have to be good at math to count all the Syncrolite Xenon fixtures that the U.S. Navy recently ordered to wash the West façade of the American Airlines Center for an event promoting www.navyformoms.com. In fact, you could count them with the fingers on one hand.
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SYDNEY — Clifton Productions provided over 200 Robe moving lights for Australia’s Future Music Festival 2009 tour, headlined by Basement Jaxx, N.E.R.D, CSS, Paul Oakenfold and Grandmaster Flash and featuring local DJs on up to nine themed stages.
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JOHANNESBURG — Gearhouse South Africa supplied stage and set design plus all technical production, including staging, lighting, audio, video and power, to the 2009 Africa Day Concert staged in Mary Fitzgerald Square.
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CORAL GABLES, FL — Atomic Lighting provided an assortment of Coemar Infinity and ParLite LED lights to heat up the visuals for Univision’s 21st annual Premio Lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina awards show, broadcast live from the 8,000-seat BankUnited Center at the University of Miami.
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BUFFALO, NY — After performing 135 live shows last year before 1.3 million fans, it might seem that Trace Adkins is kicking it back a bit in 2009, with a mere 55-date tour promoting his latest album, Trace Adkins’ X (Ten). But with venues for the current tour ranging from arenas to clubs, lighting supplier Bandit Lites and LD Jeff Lava of 44 Designs Inc. faced plenty of changes in lighting requirements.
Read More »WINTER PARK, FL — Full Sail University is expanding its Show Production Associate’s Program into a redesigned Show Production Bachelor of Science degree program in July 2009. The school said its new 21-month Show Production Bachelor’s Degree is built on the foundation of the Associate’s Degree program and offers students a more comprehensive curriculum.
Read More »LAS VEGAS — Since the early 1970s, Neil Diamond has been a touring legend, selling out shows all over the world and offering up amazing performances marked with his signature laser beams. The hundreds of men and women behind those memorable tours are now cordially invited to a special cocktail party in their honor to be held in Orlando this October prior to the popular Parnelli Awards.
Read More »Want to know this year’s “IT” is? So do we.
The Parnelli Board of Advisor announces an important addition to the popular Parnelli Awards. This year, for the first time ever four new products will receive a special Parnelli Award, the “IT Award” in recognition of their contribution to the live event industry.
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ARLINGTON, TX — The North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee told production group CorporateMagic to “blow everyone’s mind” with a press event announcing North Texas’ plans for hosting Super Bowl XLV, set for the first weekend in Feb. 2010. Along with NFL standouts and 50 North Texas mayors, the event featured a video wall supplied by GoVision.
Read More »When asked what advice he would give an up and coming lighting designer, Rick Fisher, LD for Billy Elliot on Broadway, offers a practical response… Read More »Seeing the Show, Not the Lighting
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MIDDLETON, WI — ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) announces that it is expanding its Unison control system with the Mosaic line of show controllers. In an agreement with Pharos Architectural Controls Limited, ETC’s Unison Mosaic Show Control System is based on the Pharos show-control technologies including a range of software, controllers, and accessories.
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LOS ANGELES — Production Resource Group (PRG) supported Kieran Healy’s lighting design for the finale of American Idol’s eighth season, a show that included a long list of guests along with the naming of winner Kris Allen over runner-up Adam Lambert.
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