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Glastonbury Festival Artwork Lit with Chauvet Professional, Iluminarc LEDs
PILTON, UK — Created by Joe Rush’s Mutoid Waste Company, two artworks, Peace Time Flies and Pagan Crown, provided visual inspiration for the music-loving crowds drawn to the Glastonbury Festival’s Pyramid and Other stages in late June. The artworks, depicting a large metallic winged clock and a horn-bedecked pagan headdress surrounding a giant pearl, respectively, were bathed in hues from an assortment of Chauvet Professional and Iluminarc LED fixtures.
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Last Chance to Vote for 2015 Hometown Hero Regional Finalists; Deadline is July 31
LAS VEGAS — This is the last week for PLSN readers to vote for their favorite regional lighting companies now in the running for the 2015 Parnelli Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year award. This stage of the voting process will narrow the current field of 30 regional companies now on the Hometown Hero ballot down to six regional winners (five U.S. regions and all of Canada), and the Hometown Hero preliminary voting deadline is Friday July 31 at 5 p.m.
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Maxin10sity Provides Video Mapping Performance for Karlsruhe Festival
BUDAPEST – On June 20, 2015, the City of Karlsruhe kicked off a 15-week long summer festival to celebrate its 300th anniversary, with the Karlsruhe Palace playing a central role. Dancers and opera performers entertained a crowd of 40,000 before the evening was concluded by fireworks. Maxin10sity provided a 15 minute-long projection mapping performance for the event.
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Roland Professional A/V Appoints HWPco to Represent Southeast U.S.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Roland’s Professional A/V Division is pleased to announce the appointment of HWPco as the new manufacturer’s representative firm for their professional audio and video product lines in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas.
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Multiple Stages at EDC Las Vegas Lit with Elation Fixtures
LAS VEGAS – Hundreds of Elation lighting fixtures were used again this year on Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, North America’s largest dance music festival, with the latest incarnation of the electronic rave taking place June 19-21 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Lighting supply companies Visions Lighting, AG Production Services, Felix Lighting and Pro Systems all supplied Elation gear to the Vegas version of EDC with many of this year’s awe-inspiring lighting and stage looks again by SJ Lighting.
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Avolites Titan and Ai Tour with The Charlatans
U.K. – Avolites Tiger Touch II consoles and Ai media servers were the perfect partners for The Charlatans, as they performed at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl for Summer in the City.
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XL Video Supports Nordoff Robbins for 40th O2 Silver Clef Awards Anniversary
LONDON – XL Video continues its relationship with the Nordoff Robbins music therapy charity, sponsoring the Artist Films for the O2 Silver Clef Awards for the third consecutive year, and by supplying the live video production and technology for the 2015 awards event.
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ETC Sensor3 at Auckland’s Concert Chamber
AUCKLAND, NZ – Entertainment Lighting Solutions upgraded the lighting array in Auckland Town Hall’s Concert Chamber with ETC Sensor3s.
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Elite Multimedia Invests in Robe
NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville based rental and production specialist Elite Multimedia has made its first Robe purchase!
Twenty CycFX 8 fixtures are going out on country star Luke Bryan’s new tour as specified by Lighting Designer Justin Kitcheman from FadeUp Design.
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Atomic Designs & Builds Stages for Electric Forest Festival 2015
LITITZ, PA – Elephants, costumes, hot air balloons, hula-hoops, art, sculptures and The Forest. Each year the Electric Forest Festival gets bigger and better, held at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, MI June 25-28, 2015. ATOMIC, a creative company providing set construction, rental solutions, lighting, design and production services for the live event industry, has designed and built the main festival stages for the past three years. New to the roster this year was a semi-permanent Electric Forest entrance sign and the festival stages The Hangar and Jubilee.
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Christie Lites Reports Lots of Activity at Chicago Office
CHICAGO, IL – At the mid-year mark, Christie Lites reports a busy and successful 2015 for its new Chicago rental office, which officially opened in January. The full-service, 50,000 square foot warehouse in the suburb of Woodridge, Illinois, marks #13 for this North American stage lighting and rigging rental company.
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