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The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy: Legend of the Fall’ 2017 World Tour Lit with Martin Fixtures

The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy: Legend of the Fall’ 2017 World Tour Lit with Martin Fixtures

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PARIS – In just a few short years, The Weeknd has become one of the most dominating artists in pop music, winning multiple GRAMMY Awards, topping the Billboard charts and earning millions of fans worldwide. Recently, Lighting Designer Sooner Routhier was hired to design the stage lighting for The Weeknd’s 2017 “Starboy: Legend of the Fall” world tour. The performance features numerous projectors that display video content on custom surfaces, including a large spaceship shaped structure suspended above the stage.

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Bas de Vries’ Lighting Design for ‘The Voice Kids’ in The Netherlands Includes Philips VL6000 Beams

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HILVERSUM, The Netherlands – Philips Entertainment Lighting’s new Philips VL6000 Beams were part of Bas de Vries’ lighting design for The Netherlands’ prime-time talent show, The Voice Kids, featuring contestants aged 6-14.

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Chroma-Q Color Force II Lights Up Pyramid Stage Artists’ Performances at Glastonbury Festival

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PILTON, U.K. – Nearly 50 of the multi award-winning Chroma-Q® Color Force II 48™ luminaire were a central feature of the Pyramid Stage lighting rig at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, providing powerful colored illumination and eye candy during both daytime and evening performances from high-profile artists including Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Craig David, Chic, Barry Gibb, The National, First Aid Kit and many more.

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Taste of Country and Mountain Jam Get Big Looks with Chauvet Professional

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HUNTER, NY – Dylan Jakobsen and Caroline Gray may not have achieved the fame of Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert (at least not yet), but for three days this June, they and a host of other young up-and-coming artists shared billing with these superstars at The Taste of Country Music Festival.  The largest event of its kind in the Northeast, Taste of Country has rapidly made a name for itself since it started five years ago by bringing together big names with raw developing talent in a stunning Catskill Mountain setting that’s as laid back as it is beautiful.

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tvONE Ships Total IP Video Streaming Solution for CORIOmaster Systems

[caption id="attachment_277695" align="alignnone" width="800"]128 GB Streaming Media & 4K Playback Input Module[/caption]

SILVER SPING MD – Announcing the shipping of our complete Vieo Over IP solution for CORIOmaster video processing systems: The IP video encoder, Magenta Encoder-100 announced earlier this year, as well as the new 128 GB Streaming Media & 4K Playback Input Module are now shipping. Along with these two new hardware additions, tvONE has also upgraded its system design software, CORIOgrapher, to version 2.5.

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Tom Petty performs with the band. Photo courtesy HES

SolaSpot 1500s Shine on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tour

LOS ANGELES – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ 40th Anniversary Tour has been thrilling TP fans across the USA since April, and the show’s beautiful visuals are the handiwork of lighting designer / director Stanley Green and co-visual designer Kevin Cassidy. To augment his potent arena lighting package, Green specified 30 High End Systems SolaSpot 1500s as the “workhorse” hard edge fixtures for the tour.

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4Wall DC Lights ‘Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat’ for the Adirondack Theatre Festival

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GLEN FALLS, NY – Kicking off Adirondack Theatre Festival’s (ATF) 23rd summer season of professional theater is Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat, an electronic pop musical about one of history’s most influential and controversial innovators. 4Wall DC provided the lighting for the show that can be described as “Hamilton meets Tesla.”

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