FT LAUDERDALE, FL — Chauvet lighting fixtures figure into the design of Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley’s Locked & Reloaded Tour. LD Chris Lisle created a design to suit Miranda’s rock’n’roll style, using 66 Chauvet fixtures including the Chauvet Professional Legend 230SR Beam moving yokes.
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ST. LOUIS – Experiential marketing agency Switch: Liberate Your Brand produced the stage show and video segments Jan. 21 for the St. Louis Arts Awards. The event at the Chase Park Plaza also honored local native musician Chuck Berry with a Lifetime Achievement in the Arts Award. To set the scene, Switched used pixel mapping with Barco FLM-HD20 projectors to project 3-D animation effects. The project took two weeks from conception to completion.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites is on the road again with Miranda Lambert, who is touring with Dierks Bentley on her Locked and Reloaded tour. LD Chris Lisle has worked with Lambert for eight years, and says this is her biggest production yet. Lisle’s challenge was incorporating a design based around Dierks Bentley’s portion of the show. In the design, Lisle is using – for the first time on the road – Chauvet’s newest Professional Legend 230SR Beam.
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LAS VEGAS – Chris Lose has joined Morpheus Lights as Account Representative-Touring Division. The Las Vegas-based Lose has experience as a touring lighting designer and director, including an in-house LD residency at The Joint at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
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DALLAS – Syncrolite LLC named industry veteran David Keighley executive vice president and COO, effective Jan. 1, 2013. He is pictured here (left), along with Syncrolite founder, president and CEO Jack Calmes (center) and Jimmy Page (right). Syncrolite also announced a new private equity partner, Oklahoma City-based Hall Capital Partners.
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NEW YORK – Kevin Loretto has joined Robe Lighting Inc. as Eastern Business Development Manager. He will be based in the New York area for its proximity to the theatre market, but will work nationwide. Loretto previously worked with Creative Stage Lighting as Director of Sales.
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NEW YORK – PLASA, a global leader in developing technical standards for the entertainment industry, and the Event Safety Alliance, the emerging voice of event production best practices, are formally announcing their mutual endorsement in the ongoing efforts to raise awareness and use of industry best practices and technical standards throughout live entertainment production.
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Mark Fisher and Patrick Woodroffe developed the scenic and lighting design for Elton John’s Million Dollar Piano engagement at Caesars Palace Colosseum in Las Vegas… Read More »Visual Support for Elton John Focuses on the Artist and His Piano
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NEW ORLEANS — Despite rumors that the extra amperage pumped into lighting and video for Beyonce’s well-received halftime show had something to do with the power disruption that put Super Bowl XLVII on hold, stadium management noted that the halftime spectacle was run off of generated power and an “abnormality” in one of the two feeder lines that power the stadium from an external substation was to blame. Lots of people — an all-time record, according to CBS — noticed the glitch, which disrupted the game from 7:37 pm to 8:30 pm.
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