NASHVILLE — Elite Multimedia is providing lighting gear including Claypaky Mythos, Elation Professional ACL 360i and Martin MAC Aura Wash fixtures to fulfill LD Sooner Routhier’s design for ACM award-winner Cole Swindell, who has joined Dierks Bentley’s 2017 “What the Hell” tour. Routhier worked with production manager James “Mo” Butts on the project.
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LOS ANGELES – The 2017 edition of the iHeartRadio Music Awards, staged March 5 at the Forum in Inglewood, CA, celebrated the most popular artists and music of the past year, with the results tallied according to listeners of iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and the iHeartRadio digital music platform. Jon Kusner, LD for 22 Degrees, used more than 500 Claypaky fixtures, grandMA2 full-size consoles and MDG theONE foggers/hazers for the recent show.
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ZAKOPANE, Poland – Standing out against a giant fireworks display isn’t easy, but Adam Tyszka and Polish team from Aram and TVP accomplished this feat in stunning fashion recently with help from a collection of Chauvet Professional STRIKE 1 Fixtures supplies by LTT. Tasked with lighting a massive televised celebration and concert in central Zakopane – close to Kraków, the designer and his team drew upon the powerful output of the warm white LED fixtures to accent the center of a large stage that hosted musical performances set against a dazzling pyrotechnics display.
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ROCHESTER, NY—Whirlwind, a leading audio interface manufacturer for more than 40 years, recently added two new engineers to their team. Jim Berry and Mike Shapiro (pictured here, L-R) have joined the company as electrical engineer and product development engineer, respectively.
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NASHVILLE – The Nashville Municipal Auditorium was aglow March 10 and 11th with more than 8,000 high school and middle school students offering worship and fellowshipping at the Youth Evangelism Conference. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the event for Orchestrate Experience with Lighting Designer Trey Meares and Orchestrate Production Director Alex Fleming. Featured guests included Dave Edwards, The Skit Guys, Luke MacDonald and the YEC Worship Band.
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FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design announced that Creative Technology (CT), a leading rental and event staging specialists, has equipped its infrastructure engineers with the Blackmagic Video Assist as part of their standard issue onsite testing kits.
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MIDDLETON, WI — On behalf of Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC), writer Marshall Bissett profiled ETC’s rep/distributor for Colombia, Bogata-based SEEL S.A., led by Carlos Fernandez. Fernandez was among the international attendees visiting Wisconsin last summer for ETC’s 2016 Rep and Dealer Workshop.
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LERMA, Mexico – Chauvet held a grand opening event for its new office, warehouse, service center and showroom facility in Mexico recently. Close to 100 attended the event, which featured a buffet dinner, speeches and DJ entertainment. Pictured here, from left, are Carlos Zamora de Martino General Manager of Chauvet Mexico, Daniel Pérez Carrillo and Alma Delia Reyes Villegas of Kassthelm, Albert Chauvet and Berenice Chauvet
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FRANKFURT, Germany — Eurolite will be featuring its new Hypno fixtures at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt April 4-7, 2017. They included 30W and 60W versions. Both have LED rings around the lens, lighting up with 76 and 88 RGB SMD LEDs, respectively.
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BOISE, ID — Food and agribusiness company J.R. Simplot turned to Neurilink, also based in Boise, for ideas on how to deal with a four-foot-wide concrete column that employees and company visitors would be passing each day. Neurilink’s Michael Fornander detailed how his firm was able to transform that obstruction into an interactive information resource with the help of a curved NanoLumens Nixel Series LED video display.
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LOUISVILLE, KY — A rap concert staged at the Tim Faulkner Gallery in Louisville, KY’s Portland neighborhood was interrupted by gunfire and panic in the early hours of Sunday, March 19, killing one attendee and leaving five other attendees injured.
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DYERSBURG, TN — Lowrance Sound Company (LSC) installed a dozen elektraLite eyeBall LED lighting fixtures to brighten worship services at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Dyersburg, TN. LSC systems engineer Carl Lowrance sourced the fixtures via Quest Marketing in Miami Beach, FL.
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