The ABC-TV’s hit series Nashville interlaces the grit and glamor of rising country stars with the politics of record labels and romance. The story line is fictional, but behind the scenes, the touring industry’s experts are supporting the fictional music stars in a true-to-life way. LD Steve Fallon started lighting the performances for the second season, which finished airing in May.
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A few months ago I got an email from Kim Martin, an LD I met when she toured with Ringo, some 20 years ago. I had not seen her since she was the LD for Natalie Merchant in the 1990s. She inquired why I never seem to write about female lighting designers. I honestly don’t know why, as I have met and learned quite a bit from them my whole life. Looking back, I can’t believe how many great women designers share my job in the concert biz. And they all taught me something about lighting. They didn’t make it because they are women; they made it because they have talent.
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NEW YORK, NY – Barbizon New York and lighting designers Al Crawford and Zak Al-Alami of Arc3 Design provided a design that would illuminate the exterior of Madison Square Garden, from 31st and 33rd Streets, 8th Avenue, and from the roof of the Chase Hallway on 7th Avenue. The design called for covering the more than 90 exterior lighting fixtures with the Rangers blue hue, and to add some punch and energy.
Read More »KORTRIJK, Belgium – Barco, based here, is launching Barco Connect!, a channel partner program to expand and reward its network of Pro AV resellers in the U.S. The program provides a host of performance-based incentives including financial benefits such as tiered pricing and volume discounts.
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LONDON – XL Video’s UK operation has announced a major upgrade to its fleet of media servers. The new servers, and accompanying custom-designed housings, are built around Apple MacPro computers.
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LONDON – The Projection Studio worked as a consultant for live communications agency Wasserman to activate a large format video projection campaign for the Vodafone Firsts initiative (www.firsts.com) that took place at sites across Europe, including Budapest Sapientia College, Bucharest National Theatre, Berlin Kulturbrauerei, Cairo CityStars Building, Rome Palazzo Farnese and The National Theatre in London.
Read More »GUANGZHOU, China – The Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition, taking place at the China Import and Export Fair Complex here June 9-12, features 2,621 exhibitors within 21 halls and 225,000 square meters of exhibition space. The exhibitor count is a new record for the annual event.
Read More »PUIDOUX, Switzerland – Merging Technologies, based here, named HHB Canada as its distributor in Canada, effective July 2014. Toronto-based HHB Canada is an established supplier to the music, broadcast, post production and production markets in Canada, well-known for its abilities in terms of systems integration and sales.
Read More »NEW ORLEANS – Full Motion Productions (FMP), based here, has invested in the Vista Systems Spyder x20 and control surface. FMP also plans to take advantage of Spyder training, which Vista Systems offers.
Read More »COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The organizers of Eurovision Song Contest 2014 chose an old shipyard at Refshaleøen to be the hosting venue. Litecom & Pro Rigging, Malecon Ltd., ETP from Denmark, DR (Denmark’s Radio & TV) and Host City Copenhagen (HCC) all played a role in the vast project, also using various truss from Prolyte to transform the space.
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BURBANK, CA – The new iHeart Radio Theater transformed the studio space used over the decades by NBC Tonight Show hosts Johnny Carson and Jay Leno. ETC Rigging helped Clear Channel Communications with the massive overhaul and redesign.
Read More »BELL, CA — Pro AV wholesale distributor, Empire PRO, has recently moved. Its new location is 5675 Mansfield Way Bell, CA 90201. The new facility, close to Los Angeles, has three times the warehouse space, according to the company.
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