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Platinum FLX™ Provides Options on Germany’s Largest EDM Festival

Platinum FLX™ Provides Options on Germany’s Largest EDM Festival

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WEEZE, GERMANY – After only three years, the Parookaville music festival in Weeze, Germany, has grown to become the country’s largest EDM festival and with a motto of ‘madness, love and pure happiness,’ who wouldn’t want to attend? From July 21-23, Parookaville turned the Weeze Airport into party central with the 2017 version attracting 80,000 music lovers. Some 150 DJs, including some of EDM’s top names like Tiësto, David Guetta and DJ Snake, played across ten stages.

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The tour resumes in Tulsa, OK Oct. 12

Jason Aldean Skips Three Shows; Tour to Resume Oct. 12

TULSA, OK – Jason Aldean’s They Don’t Know tour skipped three shows last weekend “out of respect for the victims,” the singer noted, on his website, jasonaldean.com. Aldean was the last performer to take the stage at the Route 91 Music Festival outside the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas and was performing when the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting began, leaving 58 dead. The singer also made a surprise appearance on SNL Oct. 7 to perform a tribute to both the Las Vegas victims and Tom Petty, who died Oct. 2, with a cover of Petty’s 1989 hit, “I Won’t Back Down.”

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David Taylor Joins LMG As Account Executive

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SEATTLE, WA – LMG, LLC, a national provider of video, audio, lighting, and LED support based in Orlando, FL, is pleased to announce the hiring of David Taylor as Account Executive on the firm’s show team in the Seattle office. With an extensive history in mixing audio and rigging, Taylor brings more than ten years of show experience to LMG. He has a degree in Physics and CAD from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and ITT.  Taylor expresses, “I am looking forward to working with amazing clients, creating successful events and having a great time.”

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USITT/USA Prague Quadrennial 2019 Exhibit Design Competition – Call for Entries

PRAGUE – USITT is seeking conceptual design submissions from individual designers and teams for the USITT/USA National Exhibit and Emerging Artist Exhibit for Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space 2019. USITT is accepting design submissions for both the National Exhibit and the Emerging Artist Exhibit, through October 2017. The Prague Quadrennial (PQ) is the largest performance design event in the world.

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Acclaim Lighting Provides Aria Wireless DMX system for Compact Exterior Architectural Lighting Applications

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LOS ANGELES – Acclaim Lighting, a leader in innovative and advanced solid state lighting technology, provides the Aria Wireless DMX system, a compact, local, outdoor rated wireless DMX system. The Aria transceiver can act as both the sending and receiving point, and provides up to 14 channels on the 2.4 GHz band. The Aria Wireless DMX system has an internal wireless radio that features both mesh networking and signal routing optimization to ensure the best possible reception of DMX data. 

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ETC Announces 2017 ETC LDI Student Sponsorship recipients

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MIDDLETON, WI– Every year since 2000, ETC has provided a unique opportunity for lighting design and stage technology students, sponsoring them to attend the LDI tradeshow. This year, ETC has selected seven recipients of its LDI Student Sponsorship, giving them an all-expense-paid trip to Las Vegas and a full LDI conference pass. The students will get to see the latest entertainment technology, have access to LDI seminars and training, and the opportunity to network with industry professionals at special events. Each Sponsorship recipient will be matched with an industry luminary who will serve as a mentor as the students transition from academics into the working world.

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Zach Blane Evokes Emotion For Gypsy With CHAUVET Professional

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DENNIS, MA – Theatre goers tend to arrive early at The Cape Playhouse, if for no other reason than to absorb the sense of history that permeates this timeless clapboard structure nestled on 26 acres off Cape Cod Bay. America’s oldest continuously running summer theatre, the building has been hosting plays since 1927. Henry Fonda landed his first professional role here, so too did Bette Davis, after working as an usher. Humphrey Bogart, Betty White and Gregory Peck also performed on its stage as unknowns.

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“Vice & Vertu” Celebrates the Cabarets and Music Halls of 1930s Montreal with Support from MA Lighting’s dot2 Consoles

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MONTREAL – To mark Montreal’s 375th anniversary and the Festival Montreal Completement Cirque, The 7 Fingers presented the immersive production, “Vice & Vertu,” at the city’s Societe des Arts Technologiques (SAT).  The 7 Fingers used MA Lighting dot2 XL-F and XL-B consoles to control lighting for the kaleidoscope of circus, theater, comedy, video projections, burlesque and music acts that comprised the show.  A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.

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BMFLs for Queensferry Crossing Opening Event

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SCOTLAND – Scotland bristled with pride as the magnificent Queensferry Crossing – the  world’s longest triple towered cable stay bridge – was illuminated in all its 2.7 kilometer long and 207 meters high glory – by 60 x Robe BMFL Wash Beams, switched on by First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon. The lighting scheme to achieve the spectacular reveal for the official hand-over ceremony signaling the completion of the £1.35 billion project was designed by event production company JMP Productions, specified and supplied by Edinburgh rental and production specialists Black Light.

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