JACKSONVILLE, FL – The NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars recently announced that NanoLumens, a manufacturer of LED displays, has been selected to outfit the newly renovated US Assure Clubs inside EverBank Field with new video gear. NanoLumens will be installing six 2.5mm NanoSlim Engage displays across both the East and West US Assure Clubs, including a screen in each lower club area measuring 19 feet by 11 feet.
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LEICESTERSHIRE, U.K. – More than 100 bands performed on Serious Stages in front of 80,000 rock fans, as Serious supplied staging and ancillary structures to Download Festival, which was held in Leicestershire from June 10-12. The 13th Download Festival featured headline performances from Rammstein, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, with Serious providing the stages for rock royalty and structures to house their production equipment.
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BERLIN – Full service production company satis&fy provided the entertainment technology and decorative atmosphere for the 2016 Duftstars Awards in Berlin, the German perfume industry’s premier accolade, and used their new stock of Elation Professional Platinum FLX™ hybrid moving heads on the event. The Fragrance Foundation of Germany announced the winners of the awards at a presentation ceremony held on May 12th at Kraftwerk Berlin.
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GHENT, Belgium — Arf & Yes provided the design for the Voice van Vlaanderan (Voice of Flanders), which was staged in Hall 8 of the Ghent Expo center with a live audience of 3,000. Led owner and founder, Ignace D’Haese, the Arf & Yes design team provided stage, set, lighting and video. The lighting rig included lighting rig featured 86 Robe moving lights, including 52 Pointes, 30 LEDWash 800s and four LEDWash 300s.
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ADJ’s Ninja 5RX is a new multi-beam effect fixture with four independently tilting mirrors and a range of color/GOBO effects. It makes use of the Philips MSD Platinum 5R discharge lamp, co-engineered with ADJ. The fixture promises to give users the ability to scatter slicing beams of light around the room, stage or dance-floor, for an eye-catching, crowd-pleasing display.
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LAS VEGAS — No fatalities had been reported immediately after this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival festival held at Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 17-19. But one attendee who collapsed from suspected heat stroke at about 6 a.m. after the event’s third night of revelry was hospitalized and did not recover. Kenani Kaimuloa, 20, from the San Diego area, was declared brain-dead and taken off life support.
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BALTIMORE, MD – For the 14th edition of Maryland Deathfest, held over Memorial Day Weekend, Zack Bunner, lighting designer at Showtime Sound (Frederick, Maryland) added visual impact with fixtures from Chauvet Professional, including Rogue R2 Washes and STRIKE 4 LED fixtures.
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LONDON – Leading UK Lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment celebrated 10 years of being a main technical supplier to Field Day – one of London’s premier and most popular urban music events, staged in Victoria Park, Hackney. Lighting was designed to be as flexible as possible to deal with the dynamic line-up of DJs and live acts which included legendary French electronica duo Air headlining on the Sunday.
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LONDON – Earlier this month, Graham Jones Music Ltd organized ‘Project 70’ – a 70th birthday celebration that took place at the historic Tower of London. In order to create a memorable occasion, the event featured a 70 piece marching band along with a live performance from soprano Laura Wright. As a result, it required reliable AV support and White Light was called upon to provide the complete technical solutions.
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CANBERRA, Australia – Elite Sound and Lighting, based in the Australian capital, Canberra, is one of the country’s fastest growing rental and production companies. Headed by owner and founder Darren Russell, Elite made its first Robe investment in 2011 and in 2013, Darren made the conscious commitment to Robe as their ‘house’ moving light brand. “I simply wanted a premium brand that was reliable and had a diverse enough range to cover all requirements for rental, staging and installation applications,” he said.
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NEW YORK – The Daryl Hall and John Oates 2016 tour kicked off this year at New York’s Madison Square Garden and will continue through the summer. Nashville based Morris, in collaboration with well known designer Jesper Luth, provided the production and lighting design. Featured in the design are 140 Solaris Mozart fixtures.
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DUBAI – Maestra was asked on-board by sports producers ProActiv to provide all the rigging, sound, video, lighting, staging and draping needed for the popular two day event, project managed for Maestra Group by managing partner of Maestra Dubai, Tom Clements. The brief included coordinating the extensive soft-goods required around the site and setting up a workable backstage space using creative draping to give dressing and green rooms and technical areas. Maestra also supplied the local crew and specialized event security.
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