Christmas Eve Broadcast of UK’s ‘Blankety Blank’ Gets LED Starcloth Assist from S+H

ANAHEIM, CA — ADJ is putting special emphasis on three new products at the 2017 Winter NAMM show in Anaheim this year, starting with the company’s POW-R BAR65, which is designed to make it safer and easier to connect multiple electric devices. ADJ is also putting the spotlight on its Boom Box FX1 and Boom Box FX2 multi-effect fixtures. Each offers four separate lighting effects from a single compact unit.

SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT — Madaila, a Vermont-based jam band with a stage presence that elicits comparisons to Phish, performed a New Year’s Eve show at Higher Ground in Burlington with lighting by house LD Kyle Rose, who lit the band with Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

LAS VEGAS – The year-end numbers are in, and whatever else you may have been thinking about how things in 2016 went down, live concert ticket sales are up, according Pollstar. Total sales for the top 10 tours worldwide, featuring, in order, Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Guns N’ Roses, Adele, Justin Bieber, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, the Rolling Stones and Celine Dion hit $1.67 billion — an 11.3 percent gain on the $1.5 billion pulled in by the top 10 tours in 2015.

NEW YORK — All four ETCP examinations will be given on one session at USITT in St. Louis, MO on the morning of Saturday, March 11, 2017. The deadline is quickly approaching. Interested applicants must submit their application, along with supporting materials and fee, to the ETCP office no later than February 14, 2017. The ETCP office is located at 630 9th Ave, Suite 609, New York, New York, 10036. USITT members and employees receive a $100 discount on examination fees.

BEREA, KY — Berea College’s holiday production, Listen! A Musical Celebration of Christmas, was broadcast on Christmas Eve by CBS affiliates. LD Mark Carver worked with Bandit Lites to enhance Berea Chapel and the performances that took place.

WEBSTER GROVES, MO – For the production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth staged by Webster University’s Conservatory of Theater Arts last fall, Seth Jackson and student LD Josh Murphy enhanced the visual look of the production by using four Claypaky Scenius moving head spotlights.