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Mark Ravenhill Takes on New Strategic Role at GLP as Company Looks to Expansion

4Wall Europe Makes Strong Investment in Elation Artiste™ Luminaires

(L to R) David March (4Wall), Graham Hill (Elation), Marcel Wijnberger (Entedi)

Full-service video and lighting company 4Wall has extended its stock of Elation Artiste series LED moving heads into Europe with purchase of the Artiste Monet™ Profile, Artiste Mondrian™ Profile FX, and Artiste Rembrandt™ Wash luminaires. Following on from 4Wall’s positive acquisition of Artiste series fixtures in the US earlier this year, and in the wake of a series of favorable product demos at the 4Wall facility in Blackburn this spring, 4Wall Europe has acquired a significant quantity of Artiste series units.Read More »4Wall Europe Makes Strong Investment in Elation Artiste™ Luminaires

ARRI Expands Orbiter Offerings with a New Fresnel Lens

ARRI’s new Orbiter Fresnel lens with a wide zoom range from 15° to 65°

ARRI announces the addition of the Orbiter Fresnel lens to the already large pool of Orbiter optics, making this state-of-the-art LED luminaire even more versatile. Combined with Orbiter’s ARRI Spectra light engine, the high-end optical system is perfectly suited for cinematic application, broadcast studios, as well as theaters or live productions. The Orbiter Fresnel lens is a great addition to the already existing Orbiter Open Face optics 15°, 30°, and 60°.Read More »ARRI Expands Orbiter Offerings with a New Fresnel Lens

PRG Opens Starwood Rehearsals in Nashville

Production Resource Group, LLC (PRG), a leading provider of production solutions for entertainment and live events producers, announces the opening of Starwood Rehearsals, a new concept in rehearsal spaces serving Nashville music artists preparing for tour. The Starwood Rehearsals space is a blank slate, allowing for any type of production setup. However, given its location at PRG’s Super Depot in LaVergne, TN, it provides clients with direct access to the entire suite of PRG equipment and expertise.

Production teams have complete privacy at Starwood Rehearsals with exclusive use of the space and the resources to run through their projects from planning to show day. The new, climate controlled 10,000 square foot facility, boasts a 100′ by 100′ rehearsal space, dressing rooms, a green room, board rooms, production offices, and a gallery viewing space. Other venue features include:

  • Two 400A three-phase Camlock AC Services
  • 50,000-pound distributed rigging capacity
  • Multiple loading docks and drive-up ramps available
  • Four individual dressing rooms/offices with isolated HVAC units from main room
  • Private bathrooms
  • 24/7 secure access
  • Secure bus parking and power available
  • 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. load in / load out access
  • After-hours access available with advance notice
  • Dedicated artist parking and private entrance

“With so much pent-up demand for the return of concert touring, artists and their management are experiencing a scarcity of suitable rehearsal facilities. With Starwood Rehearsals, we’re rounding out our service offering by answering that need,” said Randy Hutson, CEO of PRG Music.

From 1986 to 2006, the Starwood Amphitheatre was an outdoor music venue just five miles from PRG’s current facility. The Starwood Rehearsals name serves as a homage to Nashville’s local culture, the rich history of concert touring, and the iconic artists and their production teams who put on shows at the venue.

PRG quietly opened Starwood Rehearsals this spring, hosting several musicians and groups including Dan + Shay, Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line, and Leon Bridges. Demonstrating its flexibility, the space was even used by a corporation to film a video segment for an event.

Further information from PRG: https://www.prg.com/page/nash-rehearsal

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Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH Luminaires Bring Creative Freedom for Bad Bunny Tour

For Bad Bunny’s 36-date El Último Tour Del Mundo 2022, LD Alain Corthout chose Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH luminaires as “a lighting workhorse that would offer the ultimate in creative versatility, while delivering consistent, high output light, even at the more saturated end of the spectrum. I also needed a versatile palette of effects. The VL10 BEAMWASH fixtures gave me all of this and more.”

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Obsidian Control Systems to Highlight New, Modular NX1™ Lighting Console at InfoComm 2022

Obsidian Control Systems is excited to be returning to the InfoComm tradeshow in Las Vegas June 8-10 and invites designers, programmers, and operators to Booth #N3356 to sample Obsidian’s new NX1™, a portable yet full-featured lighting console that offers the complete ONYX experience without compromises in an ultra-compact package.Read More »Obsidian Control Systems to Highlight New, Modular NX1™ Lighting Console at InfoComm 2022

The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards: A Brief Recap 

Sam Berkow, David Bernstein, Peter Morse

 The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards were held Friday, June 3 during the 2022 NAMM show, with both events taking a big, if asterisked, step toward pre-pandemic normalcy. On the “normal” side, there were plenty of attendees at both events, and everyone there relished the chance to meet up again, face to face, after being kept apart for way too long.Read More »The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards: A Brief Recap 

OneBigStar Reflects Many Facets of MOVE IT With Help From Chauvet Professional

Dance is a uniquely human activity according to the biologists and naturalists who study such things. The “hidden language of the soul,” as Martha Graham described it, is also as unique and special as humans themselves. This diversity was on full display this spring at ExCel London, as the exhibition center hosted MOVE IT, an event that invited some 75,000 people to spread their creative wings and dance, either on stage, or in one of its many workshops and classes.Read More »OneBigStar Reflects Many Facets of MOVE IT With Help From Chauvet Professional