NASHVILLE – Lauren Daigle’s music career has taken her from the American Idol stage to her very own stage on tour with Hillsong United. The first leg of the Empires tour kicked off earlier this year and lighting designer Andy Rushing was tasked with lighting her first tour run night in and night out using gear from 4Wall Nashville.
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BRISTOL, U.K. – SLX named John Wallace managing director. Wallace will be based at SLX’s head office in Bristol, U.K. He will lead a team dedicated to servicing a wide range of customers within the theatre, broadcast and event markets.
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CHICAGO, IL. – The show must go on. And in Chicago recently, Pirtek was working behind the scenes to ensure it would. Pirtek’s work for Stageline helped Lollapalooza run without a hitch from July 28-31. Lollapalooza is an annual music festival that goes on world wide with acts that include alternative rock, punk, metal and comedy. The Chicago event featured more than 170 bands, including Radiohead and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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SAN DIEGO – The 2016 Major League Baseball FanFest was held July 8-12 in conjunction with MLB’s All Star Game at Petco Park, home of the MLB San Diego Padres. Held within the San Diego Convention Center, the 2016 FanFest event was overseen by BaAM Productions. BaAM turned to MSI Productions tech director Tom Bollard, who used FLEXLite Plus 3.9mm LED video technology from Nashville-based PixelFLEX to create an immersive LED video entrance for the five-day event.
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Atomic, the Lititz, PA-based creative company providing rental solutions, set construction, design and production services for the live event industry, is offering a new modular product line: FABlok. Joining the company’s FASTwall and SuperWall systems, the FABlok system consists of panels built with expanding fabric and tabbed inserts that pack small but play big when assembled to create 3D panels.
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LOS ANGELES – For Classixx, a hard-to-classify DJ duo that recently performed a show at the 800-seat El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles to mark the release of their second LP, Faraway Reach, LD Noah Sharp used six Rogue R1 Washes in his floor package.
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LONDON – LD Richard Lambert turned to Entec Sound & Light for he Jazz Dance Company’s recent U.K. tour, “Unexpected Tales” for an assist. While Lambert provided his Zero 88 ORB XF control desk and a few fixtures including Chauvet Intimidator LED spots and GLP Atoms through his own business, Lambco, Entec supplied the power and data distribution, 11 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300s, 10 Martin MAC 700 Wash lights and eight overhead scaff bars.
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ORLANDO – Techni-Lux announced product and training demos in Fort Lauderdale on Aug. 30 and Miami on Sept. 1, 2016. Guests will have an opportunity to go hands on with dozens of products for entertainment lighting, video and special effects. Representatives from Techni-Lux, ChamSys, Highlite and SGM will be on hand as well. The events are designed for anyone who is involved in stage, production, A/V, night club owners and light jockeys, theatres, theme parks, houses of worship, architectural and entertainment lighting.
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Enttec’s Pixelator Mini is positioned between the company’s Pixelator (48 universes) and Pixie Drivers (300 to 600 pixels). The Pixelator Mini can control up to 2,720 pixels using 16 Universes of DMX over Ethernet.
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DALLAS – The ESTA Control Protocols Plugfest, an event where manufacturers and developers can test their products for interoperability with other manufacturers’ products, is scheduled to take place January 20-23, 2017, at the Dallas/Fort Worth Marriott Solana in Westlake, Texas. The event is free to attend and everyone is welcome!
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BEAVERTON, OR — Biamp Systems named Craig Upton and Daniel Reed applications engineers and appointed Jemma Zlydneva as technical support specialist. The company also added online training webinars that include sessions in Arabic as well as the additional time zones for India and the Middle East.
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NEW YORK — ESTA noted that two new standards were approved by ANSI and published in early August. They involve the design, installation and use of orchestra pit lifts and overhead mounting of luminaires and lighting accessories. ESTA also posted new standards for public review involving manually operated hoist rigging systems and, separately, recommended guidelines for entertainment rigging system inspections.
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