DENVER — For Volbeat’s 2016 world tour, LD Niller Bjerregaard included Martin MAC Axiom Hybrid fixtures. The band, from Denmark, is known for their fusion of rock ‘n’ roll, heavy metal and rockabilly. The current world tour is in support of their sixth album, Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie. Bjerregaard chose the MAC Axiom Hybrid fixtures for their power, performance and versatility.
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STOCKHOLM – LD Mikkel Samuelsen used Ayrton MagicDot-R fixtures for the recent Weekend (WKND) Festival, which took place early August in Sweden, Finland and Estonia. Samuelsen was asked to create a design for the main WKND stage and chose Ayrton’s MagicDot-R as a major component of the main lighting scheme.
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NASHVILLE – For the traveling Student Life Camp program, director of production Jake Brantley turned to Elite Multimedia for an assist with lighting, video and audio. The one-week Christian summer camps and conferences present morning and evening worship services..
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WINDHAM, VT – For Vermont’s “Frendly Gathering” music festival (spelled without an I for a reason), Tristan Rudat using Chauvet Professional’s PVP S7 panels to make sure all eyes were focused on a variety of different looks for the 26 acts as they performed styles ranging from rock, jam, reggae and bluegrass. Rudat used 50 of the tiles, arranging them in a 5 by 10 configuration that measured approximately 16 by 9 feet. The panels complemented a lighting rig that included Chauvet Rogue and other fixtures supplied by Supreme Lights and Sound.
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Columbus McKinnon Corporation noted that its CM‐ET Lodestar Classic electric chain motor now features an Ingress Protection (IP) rating of IP66. The company also notes that the motor has been designed to be easier to service and maintain in the field.
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WAIPAHU, HI — Inspire Waikele Church needed a lighting system for its live singing and live streaming. Axia Concepts of San Jose, CA installed 20 elektraLite 1018AI LED stage lights, 18 ML602 LED moving profile spots with gobos, and a dozen eyeBall LED fixtures into Inspire Waikele’s main sanctuary. For special accent/effects lights, the church now also has two LOS-1 Lightstream Quad LEDs—which offer tight, twisty beam effects from their mountings on a movable split yoke—and eight elektraBar full-featured linear strip LED fixture.
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PETALUMA, CA – Core Brands promoted Eric Herdman to product manager for the ELAN brand. Herdman, who has been working with the ELAN brand since 2007, reports to Mike Jordan, Core Brands vice president, Product Management.
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CORNWALL, UK – Bristol, UK based lighting and visuals rental company Fineline supplied lighting, video and rigging equipment plus crew to Duran Duran Live at Eden with BBC Music Day, staged at the Eden Project in Cornwall. The special concert was the finale of the BBC’s 2016 Music Day – a nationwide celebration designed to unite different generations and communities through music.
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LAS VEGAS — Yes, it’s August — and still summertime. But the 2016 Parnelli Awards aren’t some hazy abstraction on the distant horizon. The final awards ballot will be posted online in less than a week. Voting will continue for the month of September. And before you know it, October will be here, and the Parnelli Awards staff will be getting the usual last-minute requests for a seat at this year’s awards gala.
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KETTLE RIVER, MN — Monty Lee Wilkes, an occasional tour manager, noted FOH engineer and producer, passed away peacefully on Aug. 26, 2016 in hospice at his parents house after a lengthy bout with terminal cancer. He was 54. Wilkes’ work spanned nearly every musical genre, with his resume including credits with The Replacements, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Joe Strummer, Curtiss A, The Suburbs, Soul Asylum, Prince, The Smithereens, Beastie Boys, Britney Spears, The Go Go’s, Engelbert Humperdinck, Soul Asylum, The Suburbs, Babes in Toyland, Lisa Marie Presley, Red Kross, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The B-52’s and the Commodores.
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