FRANKFURT, Germany – Ayrton’s light show, staged at the company’s double decker stand at Prolight + Sound, featured nine of the company’s most recenty introduced products. Exhibiting with its German distributor, Vision Stage, at a 224 square meter, double-decker booth, the light show was designed by Stéphane Migné and made use of more than 650 fixtures in all.
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LOS ANGELES – Singer, dancer and actress Tinashe is out on her 2016 “Joyride” world tour beneath an Elation Professional rig of SixBar 1000 LED battens and Platinum 5R Beam moving heads with graphic elements displayed across an LED wall made up of Elation EMAG4 LED panels. Production designer Daunté Kenner worked with Jason Reberski of JR Lighting to support the show’s visuals with the lighting and video package, chosen in part for its efficiency.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Optocore and BroaMan recapped some of the highlights from the company’s booth during Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt. Noted for its slot car scale racetrack, the booth featured milestones from the company’s 20-year history right up to the present, including this year’s new product releases such as BroaMan’s upgraded Route66 video router and other products targeting the Broadcast, System Integration and Concert market sectors.
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NASHVILLE – For rising country act Canaan Smith’s Stompin’ Grounds tour, LD Sooner Routhier’s design includes 12 Robe Pointes and eight LEDWash 600s supplied by VER. The first leg of the tour visited 11 cities in the Midwest and South last November and December.
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LAS VEGAS – Christie is featuring products such as their Boxer 2K30 projector, pictured here, at the NAB show in Las Vegas this week (through April 21). Four of them are being used for a on-ice projection mapping display featuring Pandoras Box 5.9 media servers at the show.
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INDIO, CA – The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which returned for back-to-back weekends April 15–17 and 22–24, 2016, once again offered visitors a huge, elaborate immersive environment with the Sahara Tent. Dubbed by the Los Angeles Times as “Coachella’s giant multimedia room that’s a shrine to partying first and partying always,” the temporary venue was once again built by AG Production Services, which provided staging, rigging, video and lighting.
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NASHVILLE —Solotech announced April 18 that it has opened a new office in Nashville, TN. Led by Paul Owen, the office will develop new business opportunities in international touring and special events. Owen, who comes to Solotech from Thunder Audio, will work with Lee Moro, who joined Solotech as senior project director for tours and special events in Sept. 2014. Solotech also noted that Dianna Mariotti will work at the Nashville location as an administrative assistant.
Read More »CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – The NSCA Education Foundation noted that the industry band, Drunk Unkles, will perform their first fundraiser of 2016 on Wed. June 8, 2016 from 8:30 to 11pm at Las Vegas’ Vinyl performance space within the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. In the 11th year of supporting the NSCA Education Foundation, the Drunk Unkles have raised more than $1 million through various fundraising efforts.
Read More »RALEIGH, NC — Along with Bruce Springsteen, who announced April 8 that he and the E Street Band would not perform the April 10 concert slated for Greensboro, NC to protest the state’s HB2 “bathroom law,” other bands and artists have spoken out against the law, canceled shows or announced that proceeds from shows performed would go to LGBT causes. Those canceling gigs include Ringo Starr, Boston’s Tom Scholz and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. Others vowing to steer clear of the state include Dead & Company and Cirque du Soleil.
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LAS VEGAS – Blackmagic Design returns to Las Vegas for the NAB show this week with a variety of new products including the Blackmagic Duplicator 4K. It is a new SD card duplicator that allows delivery of Ultra HD content to consumers by recording files onto inexpensive SD cards that can be distributed to customers as soon as an event is finished.
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