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Selena Gomez ‘Revival’ Tour Features Full Stage Production with Support from Tait Towers
LAS VEGAS – Selena Gomez embarked on her second solo concert tour, in support of her second studio album, Revival, with a May 6 show at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The tour travels throughout North America through mid-July, when it jumps to Asia for a series of concerts. A leg of shows has also been planned for Europe this fall. Tait Towers is among the production companies supporting the tour.
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Higher Ground Music Hall Adds Chauvet Professional Rogue Fixtures
SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT — Higher Ground Music Hall, which opened in 2004, is known for bringing in national and international jam band, jazz and indie acts. The venue recently upgraded its lighting rig, adding Rogue R1 Spots, R1 Washes and R2 Washes from Chauvet Professional.
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Bandit Adds Shay Simpson to Knoxville HQ
KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites named Shay Simpson senior accountant. Simpson, who has 13 years of entertainment industry experience, will manage all aspect of the accounting systems while developing and maintaining accounting policies and procedures. She will be based at the company’s headquarters in Knoxville.
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Okulus Design for Halsey’s Travels in Europe Includes Ayrton Fixtures
GLASGOW, Scotland – American singer and songwriter Halsey kicked off the European section of her Badlands tour at Glasgow’s O2 Academy earlier this year. Creative Directors of production design company Okulus, Louis Oliver and James Scott, turned to Ayrton once again when creating an adaptable lighting design which could be modified to suit all of the venues in the European tour dates.
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PixelFLEX Names Intellasound Productions Rental Partner
NASHVILLE – PixelFLEX named Intellasound Productions as its newest production rental partner. With its headquarters in Verona, WI, Intellasound Productions has been supplying audio, lighting, staging, backline and touring support for a wide variety of live events, and they have now added FLEXCurve 6mm LED video technology from PixelFLEX to their rental inventory to strengthen their client support nationwide. Pictured here, from left, are Bryan Schalburg, Declan Dwyer, David Maier, Tim Woodworth, and Matt Naselli.
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Rigging Box Adds New Prolyte Truss to Rental Inventory
UTRECHT, The Netherlands – Rigging Box, a Dutch rigging supplies rental companyh that is part of Ampco Flashlight Group, added to its inventory of Prolyte Truss by using that company’s Truss Exchange Program. The program encourages Prolyte truss end users to exchange their older, well-used inventory items for brand-new gear. Rigging Box’s staff and new Prolyte truss are pictured here.
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TekFlex-12 Flexible Matrix from TekVox
TekVox’s TekFlex-12 seamless high definition switcher promises to replace all inputs and outputs with 12 individual slots that can be independently populated. The product will debut at InfoComm 2016, June 8-10, at the Las Vegas Convention Center (Booth #N1715).
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Three ESTA Standards in Public Review
NEW YORK — Three draft standards have been added to the ESTA public review page. People materially affected by the standards are invited to review them and to offer comments, if they chose, before the reviews end on June 27.
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Paul Guthrie Lights Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Euro Tour with Robe Fixtures
LONDON — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis recently completed their 2016 European/U.K. jaunt with more than 30 gigs scheduled from early March to late April. The lighting and visuals design by Paul “Arlo” Guthrie included Robe BMFL Spots and PATT 2013 fixtures. The duo are set to kick off their North American tour in Vancouver, BC later this month.
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Philips Seeks IPO for 25 Percent of its Lighting Business
AMSTERDAM — Philips, which split its business operations into medical and lighting entities back in Sept. 2014, with the hopes of spinning off its lighting business, has not been able to find a buyer willing to pay what it wants for the whole lighting entity, which analysts now value at about $5.8 billion.
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Blizzard Stiletto Glo19
Blizzard Lighting’s Stiletto Glo19 beam and wash luminaire promises both sharp beams and wash capabilities. It is an 11° to 58° zoomable wash moving-head with under-the-lens “Glo” effects. This moving head fixture is equipped with 19 15-Watt Osram 4-in-1 RGBW LEDs with RGB color mixing Glo control on a secondary LED array underneath the lens plate for the background glow effect.
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