The AirCamOrb Wows Knicks and Rangers Fans at Madison Square Garden

LOS ANGELES – For Guns N’ Roses’ current ‘Not In This Lifetime’ world tour, LD Phil Ealy included more than 150 GLP fixtures in the rig, including GLP’s impression X4 and X4 Bar 10’s. Upstaging is providing the fixtures, which are arranged into pods, and lighting director Rob Koenig worked with Ealy on programming the looks.

ST LOUIS, MO – Peter Sargent, founding Dean of Webster University’s Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts and its Lighting Design and Stage Management programs, has been chosen to receive the 2017 Thomas DeGaetani Award from USITT. USITT annually honors an outstanding lifetime contribution to the performing arts or entertainment industry by an individual or organization near the location of the Annual Conference & Stage Expo. The USITT 2017 conference will be held in St. Louis March 8-11, 2017.

NASHVILLE – It is not every day a country icon turns 80 years old, so Charlie Daniels did it up big with a massive concert, not only to celebrate, but to give back to a great cause. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the 41st Volunteer Jam which featured performances by the fiddle legend himself, Charlie Daniels, along with Luke Bryan, Three Doors Down, Kid Rock, Larry the Cable Guy, Chris Stapleton and Travis Tritt.

OAKLAND, CA – Airstar’s high tech lighting balloons played a major role for Urban Shield, a yearly gathering for the main U.S. task forces and rescue teams, as well as overseas delegations. The French RAID was the first to be invited in 2009. This year, Mexico and Taiwan participated in the event. The competition took place from Sept. 9-12 in Alameda County, East of the San Francisco Bay.

ITALY – PAR Cans, the most widespread lighting fixtures in the world, were the evolution core of the live show, theatre and TV performances for the last decades, in spite of their simplicity. DTS owes a lot of their success in their 30 years because of all their activity. The first PAR was made in 1982 and since then over 8 million parts of pars were made. During this long period, DTS’s PARs became a market standards for their resilience and quality, as well as their price, outcome of high production automation level and fully robotized workstations.