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In Memoriam: Cody Stoltz

In Memoriam: Cody Stoltz

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NEW ORLEANS –  Lighting Designer and touring technician Cody Stoltz passed away at his home in New Orleans last Monday evening after losing his battle with depression. Cody had spent the last couple of years working with the Toby Keith tours and working for lighting vendor Bandit Lites while not playing DJ at clubs around hs hometown. He was working his way up the ladder to his dream job of being a lighting designer for concert tours.

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The Brothers Gow lit with Chauvet Rogues

LD Matt Collier Includes Chauvet Rogue Fixtures in Tour Rig for the Brothers Gow

SAN DIEGO – LD Matt Collier included six Rogue R1 Washes and four Rogue R1 Spots from Chauvet Professional in the rig for the Brothers Gow as the California jam band underwent its most recent tour leg. The autumn trek took the San Diego-based quintet on a tour of the American West, from Los Angeles to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and back down the Coast from Washington to Oregon and back to California.

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Utopia provides Lights for Jake Bugg in the UK

Utopium Illuminate Jake Bugg Tour

Utopium built and supplied a custom floor package and flown fixtures to illuminate Jake Bugg’s UK and European Tour, November 2016. Following the release of his third album, On My One, Jake Bugg embarked on a promotional tour which saw him visit a host of different venues throughout the UK and Europe, including Manchester’s O2 Apollo, London’s O2 Academy Brixton and The Great Hall at Cardiff University Student’s Union.

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Dan TDM Game

HSL Plays the Dan TDM Game

UK – HSL enjoyed the thrills and hi-energy exhilaration of supplying lighting and rigging for the Endemol produced DanTDM UK tour, for a lighting design crafted by Sam Wright. Sean McGlone and John Slevin project managed for the Blackburn UK based company, with technicals on the road coordinated by production manager, Jason Culverwell. DanTDM is a professional gamer and You Tube star with around 13 million subscribers enjoying his work.

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AirCamOrb in action at a Ranger game

The AirCamOrb Wows Knicks and Rangers Fans at Madison Square Garden

MALLORCA, SPAIN- Airstage, the leading provider of ultra-light, radio controlled objects worldwide, is once again leading the industry with the introduction of the AirCamOrb, an Airstage AirOrb with an attached GoPro 4 camera. “The helium based AirCamOrb can be flown absolutely anywhere in an arena or stadium; there are no safety issues, unlike drones, which can’t be flown over the audience,” says John R. Barker, Head of Sales at Airstage.  

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GnR makes use of 150 GLP fixtures on tour

More Than 150 GLP Fixtures Light Guns N’ Roses Tour

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.

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Il Volo 2016 World Tour utilizes Claypaky fixtures

Il Volo 2016 World Tour Lit with Claypaky Fixtures

ITALY – Following the extraordinary success of their summer tour, and after winning the 65th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival and representing Italy in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, Il Volo have given a long series of performances in Italy and abroad this year. Show designer Francesco De Cave, who was called upon by the production team to create a new show image, used Claypaky lights to illuminate the young tenors’ world tour dates.

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Peter Sargent to Receive DeGaetani Award

Peter Sargent to Receive 2017 DeGaetani Award at USITT 2017

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.

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Founders Auditorium, EAFIT University, Medellín, Colombia

Wenger Assists Latin American Performing Arts Facilities

OWATONNA, MN – Although North America and Europe have long been leaders in building signature performing arts facilities, one of Wenger Corporation’s partners in Latin America is helping raise this region’s profile through a number of notable projects.  “For years a trend of theater renovation has been growing in Latin America,” says Juan Pablo Rozo, architect and founder of Arquitorium in Bogotá, Colombia. “Many iconic 19th and 20th century buildings with obsolete and unreliable technologies are being renovated.”

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The Volunteer Jam turns 40

Charlie Daniels’ Volunteer Jam Celebrates with Bandit Lites

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.

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