OLAVARRÍA, Argentina — A crowd surge pressing concertgoers against barricades in Olavarría, Argentina on March 11 left two dead and dozens injured. The outdoor rock concert featuring Indio Solari drew at least 300,000 to 350,000, about double the site’s 155,000 capacity and far more than the maximum 170,000 expected.
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CHICAGO — Fletcher Sports in Chicago recently added Grass Valley’s LDX C86 cameras (pictured here) and K2 Dyno replay systems to its arsenal of rental equipment. Grass Valley’s K2 Dyno and K2 Summit 3G is pictured here.
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LAS CRUCES, NM – Joe Price, the manager of Oñate High School’s Performing Arts Center in Las Cruces, NM, worked with Will Sadler from Hubbard’s Music-N-More on a switchover from conventional lighting fixtures to LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The new system includes 20 Ovation E-190WW LED ellipsoidals, 20 COLORado 2 Quad Zooms, 12 COLORdash Par-Hex 12 par-style fixtures, 12 Ovation C-640FC Cyc lights and four Rogue R2 Spot fixtures.
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CHELMSFORD, MASS. – Broadcast Pix™ today announced the City of Durham, N.C., has upgraded to a Granite™ 1000 integrated production switcher for coverage of its bi-monthly city council and monthly planning commission meetings. Vivian Cruz-O’Doherty, government television manager in the city’s Office of Public Affairs, said the new switcher is Durham’s first step toward upgrading its meeting coverage to HD production.
LONDON, UK: An Avolites Arena console has been selected to control the custom designed, automated house rig on debut electronic dance music series ‘Issue 001’ at London’s new, experimental cultural hub ‘Printworks’. The 001 series sees some of the industry’s most progressive electronic dance music promoters including Junction 2, Melt Festival and Knee Deep host top and emerging dance music talent. The Arena was selected and installed alongside the rest of the event’s lighting package by Poole-based lighting and rigging expert Wolf Lighting.
LOS ANGELES – When country music band Old Dominion approached Travis Shirley about upping the production value of their new touring show, he conceived an industrial-style structure whose custom truss towers serve as set pieces. Morris, A.C.T Lighting, Inc. and Eurotruss partnered to craft the towers, which are designed to suit a range of venues from clubs and theaters to arenas and stadiums.
GERMANY – LMP Lichttechnik Vertriebs GmbH, a pioneer in the distribution of moving lights in Europe for over 30 years, will begin to distribute Elation Professional products in Germany effective March 15th. With LMP as its distribution partner, Elation opens up a wider market for its products while moving closer to its German customers and guaranteeing swifter, higher-quality service.
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AUSTIN, TX – For the third Lightconverse and High End Systems Lighting Challenge, and to celebrate the past years’ imaginative entries, Lightconverse announced plans to “sweeten the pot” by adding the brand-new Lightconverse Tools 2017 to the four-level Prize Pool. Entries are now being accepted. The deadline is April 1, 2017.
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Georgia International Convention Center
Atlanta, GA
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University of NM WisePies Arena (“The Pit”)
Albuquerque, NM
