Elation Professional welcomes back Esteban De La Torre to the Elation Professional U.S. sales team in a new position of channel market manager–West. Esteban previously worked for Elation for several years in various capacities from programming trade show booths and showrooms to supporting the controller and data distribution business nationally prior to his leaving the company to pursue designing and programming full time.
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During Bandit Lites’ Annual General Meeting in Nashville, Founder and Chair Michael T. Strickland honored Vice President Mike Golden for his 40 years of service. After working as a stagehand at the coliseum in Johnson City, TN, Golden joined Bandit Lites as a stage builder for a Kenny Rogers tour. Pictured here, from left, are Strickland, longtime client Alice Cooper, and Golden.
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The Elevate SkyShow lit up Sydney Harbour for the first time with 500 Intel drones. The Jan 1-5 nightly event in Australia was aimed at… Read More »Elevate Sydney SkyShow with 500 Drones
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Stage Directions has learned that Technical Director, Lina (Jean) Burch, 47, passed away quietly in her home in Kenosha, WI on December 1, 2021 at the age of 47. She had been working as the Technical Director at Milliken University since August 2020. Burch wrote for her blog Technical Direction Tidbits since 2007 and was very involved with the USITT Midwest Regional Section where she currently served as the Vice Chair of Programming on the Board of Directors and had been a Director at Large. Prior to her position at Milliken, she had freelanced as a project manager and technical director in the Chicago area and worked for a number of years at Chicago Scenic Studios as a project manager. Burch had an MFA in Technical Design and Production from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. We at PLSN and Stage Directions send our sincere condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues in the industry. Here is a recent remembrance from USITT, which Burch was very involved over her theater career.Read More »In Memoriam: Lina (Jean) Burch, Technical Director and Project Manager
LD Nick Chang, who has been on the road with the Kane Brown tour for the last four months, traveled back to his hometown of Nashville where he lit Church of the City’s 2021 Christmas services with Elation fixtures rented through Elite Multimedia.
Read More »As part of his Jan. 2022 “1,000 Words With…” column, PLSN co-editor Michael S. Eddy asked Mark Oglesby, Tour Manager for Kane Brown, OneRepublic and… Read More »Tour Manager Essentials
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The Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors announced that comedian and musician “Jammin” Jay Lamont will be the host for the 20th Annual PLSN/FOH Parnelli Awards. The event will take place at the Anaheim Hilton on June 3 during the 2022 NAMM Show, which is set for June 3-5 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA.
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4Wall Entertainment is continuing to provide customers with the latest in lighting technology by making a significant investment in Ayrton Perseo Beam, Perseo Profile, Eurus, and Huracán LT LED luminaires, all set to arrive in 4Wall’s US and UK locations in early 2022. 4Wall has purchased the fixtures from distributors ACT and Ambersphere respectively.Read More »4Wall Entertainment Invests in Ayrton Moving Lights in US and UK
The 2021 CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala kicked off on the evening of Sept. 21 in Xingyue Lake Wetland Park near Qionghai, Xichang. Gloshine Technology, as a special cooperative LED display supplier of the Central Radio and Television General Station, once again joined with CCTV to build a 360° immersive circular stage. According to the relevant person in charge of the crew, this was the biggest stage of CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival Gala over the years.
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Elevate Sydney, a new festival held Jan. 1-5, unveiled one of the largest drone displays in the Southern Hemisphere. The Elevate SkyShow lit up Sydney… Read More »Sydney Drone Spectacular Sets New Vision
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DJ Black Coffee, who hails from South Africa, performed at Drumsheds in north London in late 2021 with a lighting design from LD Eran Klein that included Robe fixtures. “It was a giant rave, like a volcano, rumbling and exploding with molten energy,” Klein noted.
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Building on its tried-and-trusted CrewCom professional wireless intercom solution, Pliant Technologies announces the CrewCom v1.10 Update. The latest CrewCom firmware and software update, version 1.10, adds two new major features as well as several enhancements to its already long list of capabilities.Read More »Pliant Technologies Announces High Density Mode Update for CrewCom