RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA — Iconic rock band Motley Crue is in the last leg of their two-year Final Tour, with fans enjoying many farewell appearances around the world. The band’s touring career will conclude for good in less than six months on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2015. Appropriately they’ll say their final goodbyes at Staples Center in Los Angeles — the city where the band’s career began some 34 years ago.
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ORLANDO — X2O Media, a Barco company, announced that it will feature its X2O platform for enterprise visual communications at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2015, Oct. 4-8 in Orlando, Florida. Attendees will get a first-hand look at the platform’s innovative applications built to support today’s digital workforce, including the new X2O.Join Connected Desktop application. In addition, X2O will present a session titled “Powering the Digital Workplace.”
Read More »OWATONNA, Minn. – Wenger Corporation recently launched new websites for its three core markets – music education, performing arts and athletics – so customers can find information more easily and to fully present Wenger’s diverse capabilities. These dynamic websites are accessible from the portal website and feature mobile-friendly design.
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TORONTO- As the one of the world’s largest international multi-sport competitions, the 2015 Pan American Games hosted close to 7,000 athletes from across North America, Latin America, South America and the Caribbean. To inaugurate the opening of the games in Toronto, event organizers enlisted the assistance of 45 DEGREES who brought on Martin Labrecque to oversee the lighting design. Working with Solotech, Labrecque would be challenged to create a hybrid design between theatrical and rock-n-roll and he did so using 60 VL4000 Spot luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite.
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NEW YORK –– For the U.S. leg of their tour, British rock/emo band Basement relied on LD Lenny Sasso to complement the music with a dose of visual energy. Sasso used Chauvet Professional’s Rogue R2 Wash moving LED fixture to achieve the desired looks.
VISTA, CA – Power Plus Productions (P3) named industry veterans Roger Lee and Zachary Brush account executives. They report to P3 president Lane Rickard.
KERKRADE, The Netherlands – Elation Professional B.V. announced that Dennis Scipio joined Elation Europe on Oct. 1 as a new Key Account Manager. Also joining Elation on October 1st and working as the European office’s new office assistant is Nancy de Lang. Joining Elation in August as an assistant in the company’s marketing and graphics department is Carola Ludermann.
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LONDON – PLASA Show 2015 is just a few days away, but the organizers are working right up to the wire to bring in the best speakers for the PLASA Professional Development Program. Four new sessions have just been announced, respectively addressing lighting, sound and video.
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LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. named Aaron Hubbard as the company’s new sales person for the Western Region. Hubbard was most recently Director of Business Development for Clearwing Productions, based in their Milwaukee office.
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SUN VALLEY, CA – October will mark one of GLP’s busiest periods ever — on both sides of the Atlantic — as the German company and its U.S. subsidiary sets out for trade shows in London and Las Vegas.
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LONDON – Lighting designer Ed Warren is using a large number of newly developed LED PAR can frames from LED design and manufacture house Light Initiative (LI) to add an extra punch to his design for Mumford & Sons’ world tour and headline festival dates.
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