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Avolites Gives The Magic Tiger Touch to Cinderella this Christmas

Avolites Gives The Magic Tiger Touch to Cinderella this Christmas

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UK – Oh no they didn’t! Oh yes they did! The lighting team at The Grand Theatre Blackpool is using an Avolites Tiger Touch II console to control the magical light show for the historic theatre house’s star-studded Christmas pantomime performance of fairy-tale classic, Cinderella. The show marks the 21st anniversary of production company, UK Productions, one of the country’s leading musical theatre and pantomime production groups.

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LITEC’s MyT Folding Steroid Roof System Receives Gold Star Award

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LAS VEGAS – LITEC is proud to announce that its MyT Folding Steroid Roof System received the 2017 “Best New Truss” Gold Star Award from PLSN magazine www.plsn.com (Projection, Lights & Staging News) in the United States! The winning of this award is further confirmation that the MyT Folding Steroid truss design is not only what their customers require, but also what industry professionals appreciate. The award was presented to LITEC on November 16th at the LDI exhibition in Las Vegas.

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Introducing NovaStar’s Thunderview Series A powerful and Stable Low Latency Solution

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USA – LED technology is ever-advancing, providing more and more features by the day.  Even with these constant advances, we here at NovaStar recognize that there is always room for improvement. LED technology is used more and more in the television and media world, whether it be studios, stage rental, monitoring walls, or indoor high-end fine pitch applications. Two critical requirements for applications in these areas are low latency and stability. These are two areas we’ve noticed many current LED solutions have issues with, and we’ve set our sights on solving these problems.

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Bandit Lites Spreads Holiday Cheer with Angel Tree Program

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KNOXVILLE, TN – In an effort to make the Christmas holiday season a little brighter for families in need, Bandit Lites and its employees once again reached out to support the Salvation Army and Knoxville’s Angel Tree charities this winter. Knoxville’s Angel Tree program has been working to make sure Santa visits every local child, no matter their circumstances, since 1975 and the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree Program delivers gifts to over one million children each year.

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The Spider Murphy Gang At 40: GLP Joins The Celebrations

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SAN FERNANDO, CA – They were the rock idols of the Munich ‘Schickeria’, and in the 80s and 90s were Bavaria’s hottest rock exports throughout the whole of Europe … we are talking about Barny Murphy, Günther Sigl and the Spider Murphy Gang. Their recent 40th anniversary concert showed they had lost none of their fire, and Marc Lorenz from CUE Design provided the perfect lightshow at the Olympiahalle.

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Cameron Grogan Goes Rogue With BIG Something

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GREENSBORO, NC – By the time they finish their New Year’s Eve Show at Raleigh’s Lincoln Theater, alt rockers BIG Something will have performed close to 150 shows in 2017. Cameron Grogan, who has lighted all of their performances, can safely say that no two of his lightshows have ever come close to being the same. Much of this inexhaustible supply of fresh looks is due to Grogan’s passion for punting, but some of the credit, he says, should go to the eight CHAUVET Professional Rogue R2 Spot fixtures in his rig.

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Analog Way’s Ascender 48 Drives The Comcast Experience Holiday Show in Philadelphia

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ATLANTA – The Comcast Experience has begun this year’s Holiday Spectacular at the Winter Garden in the lobby of Comcast headquarters in Philadelphia where two Analog Way Ascender 48 systems drive one of the largest 4mm LED wall installations in the world.  David Niles of Niles Creative Group is responsible for the wall’s content concept and production year round since its inception and handled the project’s systems design and integration.

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Introducing Blizzard’s Aria™ Profile Series – Emotion. Expression. Aria.

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WAUKESHA, WI. – a•ri•a (ärēə) | noun | A new ETL-listed ellipsoidal spot series from Blizzard Lighting. See also: Blizzard’s new ultra-affordable, mega-coveted, high-performing series featuring an RGBW and WW version. See also: The hottest new theatrical fixtures to hit the market that all the cool LDs are using. See also: Your next purchase.

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Nortek Security & Control and Core Brands Merge to Expand Opportunities for Partners Across a Broad Range of Markets

CARLSBAD AND PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA, – Nortek Security & Control LLC (NSC) and Core Brands LLC (Core Brands) today announced a strategic merger that combines the two industry leaders’ innovation and resources to lead the smart home and security markets with a suite of connected solutions and business programs that create meaningful opportunities for dealers and distributors.

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Lighting Designer Mike Grabowski Gives MTV’s “TRL” a New Look with Support from WorldStage

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NYC – MTV launched “TRL” in a new 8,800 square-foot Times Square studio in October and Lighting Designer Mike Grabowski, of The Lighting Design Group in New York City, assembled a versatile rig for the series featuring several new-to-market fixtures from High End Systems and Chauvet supplied by WorldStage.

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Green Hippo Ensemble Shines at Inaugural Eurovision Choir of the Year contest

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LATVIA – The first Eurovision Choir of the Year contest took place in Riga, Latvia. Organized by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the Interkultur Foundation, the inaugural event hosted nine professional choirs, each one representing a different European country. The venue was the Arena Riga, a 14,500-capacity stadium, and Green Hippo technology was on hand to help deliver a live spectacular, in keeping of the EBU’s best known production, the Eurovision Song Contest.

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What Now for Ayrton MagicBlade-FX and Sylvan Esso

[caption id="attachment_281577" align="alignnone" width="800"]Zach Sternberg cuts a dash with Ayrton MagicBlade-FX for Sylvan [/caption]

EUROPE – One of indie pop’s most exciting young bands, Sylvan Esso, is making waves on both sides of the Atlantic, having played top venues across North America this summer, including the Fox Theatre in Oakland, the Hollywood Palladium, Brooklyn Steel New York and Prospect Park, before completing a European tour in support of their second album, What Now in the autumn. The dynamic duo engaged production designer, Zach Sternberg – who has been with them since their first album in 2013 – to devise an equally exciting and dynamic set and lighting design capable of handling the ‘crazy spaces’ they played on tour, with venue capacities that ranged from clubs to theatres.

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