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Emmylou Harris Celebrates at the Ryman with Bandit Lites

Harris and the Ramblers - Sam Bush, Jon Randall, Al Perkins, Larry Atamanuik and Byron House - returned to the hallowed stage.

Emmylou Harris Celebrates at the Ryman with Bandit Lites

NASHVILLE – Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers took the stage at the Ryman Auditorium in celebration of the anniversary of their original live recording of the Grammy-winning 1992 LP, At the Ryman, which took place in an effort to restore the crumbling “Mother Church.” LD Bob Peterson supplemented the house lighting from the Ryman with Bandit Lites VL 3000 Spots, GLP X4S wash lights, along with a grandMA2 lite console for control.

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Eiki Expands EK-500 Series

Eiki Expands EK-500 Series

Eiki International announced that its EK-500 line of LCD projectors is expanding. New units include the EK-510U (MSRP: $6,495), EK-511W (MSRP: $5,495) and EK-512X (MSRP: $4,695). All three models feature durable inorganic LCD panels with a high contrast ratio.

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Christie Pandoras Box Enables Synchronized Visual Wonder at IBM Conferences in Las Vegas

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CYPRESS, CALIF.–  One of the nation’s leading Fortune 500 companies showcased thought leadership conferences with non-traditional visual support at multi-venue, multi-screen events powered by Christie®. Unlimited Visibility Inc., led by IBM-partner Drury Design Dynamics, applied their technical prowess to both IBM InterConnect 2017, a global cloud conference, and IBM Amplify, a conference on Watson marketing disciplines, held earlier this year in Las Vegas. Christie Pandoras Box plus Christie Widget Designer enabled the combined team to turn the complex process of mixing traditional presentations and a wide variety of media content into a simplified task with visually compelling results.

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White Light Oversees Lighting Installation for Pink Floyd Exhibition at V & A Museum

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LONDON – Now open at the V & A Museum, The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains is the first international retrospective of one of the world’s most pioneering and influential bands. The exhibition offers an immersive and multi-sensory journey through the career of Pink Floyd, chronicling their music, design and staging, from the 1960’s through to the present day. Following the company’s work on last year’s EXHIBITIONISM, the Rolling Stone’s exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, White Light was called upon to oversee the lighting installation and supply the lighting equipment on this occasion.

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SE Systems Continue To Build GLP Inventory

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SUN VALLEY, CA– Based in Greensboro, NC, GLP partner SE Systems has recently increased its inventory of the German manufacturer’s advanced LED solutions, by adding quantities of the award-winning X4 Bar versatile battens, and investing for the first time in the GT-1 Spot/Beam hybrid. The company has vast experience, having been founded in 1973 by the highly-respected Wade ‘Cliff’ Miller, who remains sole owner to this day.

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Something’s Going On with Trace Adkins and elektraLite

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GRAND RAPIDS, — Trace Adkins is currently out on a US tour through October supporting his 12th and latest studio album, Something’s Going On. Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Odyssey Lighting USA, who has worked with the country music artist since 2014, is once again supplying the lighting complement for the tour, which includes elektraLite LED fixtures as well as an Avolites lighting console.

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d3 Media Servers are the Winning Choice for Entertainment Awards Shows Worldwide

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LONDON – d3 media servers have played a major role in some of the biggest awards ceremonies around the world, including the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, 37th Annual Brit Awards, the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), 41st Laurence Olivier Awards, 37th edition Blue Dragon Awards, iHeart Radio Awards and the MTV Movie Awards.

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Acclaim Lighting AL Driver 4

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Acclaim Lighting’s AL Driver 4 is a four-channel, pulse-width-modulation (PWM) dimming driver for low-voltage LED products. Well suited for controlling Flex Spectrum, Flex II RGB and Flex Tube RGB products, AL Driver 4 controls three and four channel products with manual color settings when external DMX control is not desired. The AL Driver 4 can receive DC input from 12-24VDC and dims each channel via DMX. It controls up to 5A of multi-color LED product. It features a four-channel PWM dimming, a powerful technique for controlling analog circuits, from 0-100 percent. Operating temperatures range from 14 to 122 degrees F (-10 to 50 degrees C).

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Interior of Manchester Arena during a typical concert. The venue can accommodate 21,000; close to 20,000 had packed the arena on May 22, 2017.

Manchester Suicide Bombing Kills 23, Injures 116

MANCHESTER, U.K. – At about 10:30 p.m. local time on May 22, only about a minute after the house lights came on after Ariana Grande’s last song, a deafening explosion shook the foundations of 21,000-capacity Manchester Arena. Chaos and confusion swept through the venue and continued as parents and young attendees tried to find each other in the aftermath.

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Pablo Santiago Reflects Myriad Of Moods In “Destiny of Desire” With Rogue R2 Wash

[caption id="attachment_276930" align="alignnone" width="800"]Destiny of Desire gets assist from Chauvet Professional[/caption]

CHICAGO – Karen Zacarias’ “Destiny of Desire, An Unapologetic Telenovela in Two Acts” is aptly subtitled. The raucous, freewheeling “play within a play,” makes absolutely no apologies as it follows the lives of  two Mexican woman (one born to wealth, the other to poverty) who are switched at birth. Parodying the telenovelas commonly seen on TV, the play unabashedly takes audiences on an emotionally charged journey that is at turns, harrowing, hilarious and ultimately thought provoking. Intensifying the myriad of moods that runs through this fast-paced play is a richly textured lighting design by Pablo Santiago that features CHAUVET Professional Rogue R2 Wash fixtures.

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Inventdesign Supplies LED For The Armin Van Buuren Show

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AMSTERDAM, –  Armin van Buuren turned the tables on 12 and 13 May during his show ‘The Best of Armin Only’ in the Johan Cruijff Arena. For the second time in 6 months, InventDesign was the preferred party to cater the LEDs for yet another spectacular lightshow. Last October, the company catered the lights for the Amsterdam Music Festival, which also took place in the Johan Cruijff Arena. The special lightdesign, which was designed by 250K for the show, didn’t stop with an impressive stage. InventDesign provided the full length and width of the Johan Cruijff Arena with vertical and horizontal pendant LED strips, with the shortest vertical variations being at least 8 meters long.

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