LOS ANGELES – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers celebrates its 40th anniversary and 13 studio albums with their current five month tour of the US and Canada, with an additional date in London in July. LD/lighting director Stanley A Green chose Ayrton LED fixtures as the backbone of his lighting design.
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MANCHESTER, NH – Million Dollar Quartet takes audiences back to December 4, 1956, a day when budding stars Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley got together for a jam session at Sun Records Memphis studio. A recent revival of the musical at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire captures the magic of that long ago moment, thanks in part to a transformative lightshow designed by Carl Rajotte, who also served as artistic director and choreographer.
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LOUISVILLE, KY – The Forecastle Music Festival returned to Louisville’s Waterfront Park for three days of music spread across 85 acres. Bandit Lites supplied the lighting for the festival’s four stages, where more than 60,000 attendees enjoyed musical performances from Run the Jewels, Cage the Elephant, Odesza, Sturgill Simpson, PJ Harvey, Spoon, Weezer, LCD Soundsystem and nearly 50 other acts.
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SAN DIEGO – Nathaniel (Nate) Hall, manager of design for Nautilus Entertainment Design, died unexpectedly July 17, 2017. He was 36.
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NETHERLANDS – The newly built and inaugurated Atlas Theatre in Emmen, Netherlands is a multifunctional performance space in the heart of the city and part of a 250 million euro development. In addition to the two Atlas auditoriums – with capacities of 822 and 300 – the complex also includes a full convention center, catering outlets, offices and is an access point for the Wildlands Adventure Zoo … and Robe moving lights!
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LOS ANGELES – Live Nation announced that Linkin Park’s North American tour in support of the band’s 2017 album release, One More Light, has been canceled. Frontman Chester Bennington, 41, was found dead July 20, one week before the North American tour was due to launch at the Xfinity Center near Boston, MA. The North American tour leg was to start in Boston July 27 and wrap up in Los Angeles on Oct. 22.
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PLUGERVILLE, TX. For the City of Plugerville’s annual July 4th Celebration, the Texas town relied on local vendor Miguel Lara Productions to provide the lighting equipment, featuring their High End Systems automated LED rig and HOG4 control, purchased through Austin-based LightParts, Inc. Michael Ojeda of MLP spearheaded the lighting portion of the project, and spec’d four SHAPESHIFTER C1’s and six SolaWash 37s for the event at the city’s new stadium, the Pfield.
GOURDON, France – French vocalist Barbara Weldens, 35, was performing at the Festival Léo Ferré in a church in southwest France on the evening of July 19 when she suddenly collapsed and died on stage. The cause of death, still officially unknown, has been reported as cardiac arrest from apparent electrocution. Weldens, who had said on her website that she grew up traveling in a circus, was on the rise, releasing her first album this year after winning the young talent award at the Jacques Brel festival and the Pic D’Or prize last year.
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Whirlwind’s ROK (Remote Outlet Kontroller) units, including the ROK1 and ROK2, are UL-listed devices that conveniently turn power on and off for remotely located equipment that consumes power even while not in use. They’re ideal for controlling AC power to projectors, video displays, powered loudspeakers, lighting fixtures, etc. ROK1 switches are used for single-phase 120 VAC, and ROK2 is used for switching single-phase 240 VAC, or two legs of 208 VAC three-phase. Both devices are rated for switching 20-amp AC branch circuits. The ROK1 and ROK2 are UL listed as Industrial Control Switches, ANSI/UL 508 and CSA C22.2 No. 14-13 standards for the direct control of nonmotor-rated loads.
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WAREGEM, Belgium – Thanks to its consistently impressive line-ups and extravagant productions, the five-year old Hype-O-Dream has already succeeded in making an indelible impact on the summer EDM festival calendar in Belgium. This year’s headliners including Lil John and Roger Sanchez raising the bar. Creative Rental Solutions were tasked with providing bigger and better visuals for the festival’s five stages. To achieve this, they incorporated a number of CHAUVET Professional Maverick MK1 Hybrid, Maverick MK2 Spot, Rogue R2 Wash and Geyser RGB fixtures into the visual concepts of the Mirage Mainstage and the Flashback Stage.
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ISKANDAR PUTERI, Johor Bahru, Malaysia – For the TM Group Awards 2017, staged at Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios, AC Lighting Services Malaysia (ACLS) handled the event’s video design and programming, with an assist from Green Hippo technologies.
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LONDON – MDG noted that two of its ATMe haze generators have been chosen for the current musical production of 42nd Street at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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