SYRACUSE, NY — USITT approved free stage rigging inspections and safety training for a dozen more schools this spring through its Rigging Safety Initiative. With this round of funding, USITT brings stage safety to schools in New York State, Massachusetts, Illinois, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, and Missouri. USITT’s Rigging Safety Initiative began with a $10,000 grant from JR Clancy in 2011.
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ROME, Georgia — Bandit Lites kicked off its busy 2014 festival season with the CounterPoint Music Festival April 25-27. More than 60 artists, including Outkast, Foster the People, Pretty Lights, Matt & Kim and St. Lucia performed on one of the event’s five stages at Kingston Downs in Rome, northwest of Atlanta.
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SOUTH AFRICA — MGG Productions, which helped dream up and execute a sci-fi themed confab for a corporate conference held a year earlier, were asked back by their client Eventworx to recreate the entire look for the same event hosted in January 2014. They relied once again on Clay Paky fixtures.
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CHISINAU, Moldova — For a sold-out performance April 17 featuring British R&B vocal quartet Blue at the National Palace, a.k.a. “N. Sulac,” within this former Soviet republic, IvasArt provided D.T.S. Raptor, NRG 1201 and XR3000 Spot CMY moving heads to LD Ivasco Stefan’s specifications.
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ADJ’s Crazy 8 moving head is an LED fixture capable of producing eight tight 4.5-degree beams of light from 8W white LED sources over two individually-controlled moving bars of four LEDs. The fixture promises users the ability to create a variety of chases and atmosphere-enhancing effects.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, staged at B&W Halls here, included semi-finals on May 6 and May 8 and finals on May 10. The international singing talent competition was noted for its strong, masculine look this year — without forgoing the gold, glitter and glamour for which it’s known — and a cube-shaped central stage. Mediatec Solutions relied upon a visual system that included d3 Technologies’ 4U v2.5 media server at its core. The contest was seen by an estimated 180 million viewers in 45 countries.
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LONDON — HSL supplied lighting and LED screen to the U.K. leg of the You Me At Six Cavalier Youth tour, featuring a lighting design by Louis Oliver, who has worked with the indie rockers for the last five years.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka —MOS Sound & Light recently provided full production services for a major concert by Greek composer/keyboardist Yanni. The lighting plot from LD Bud Horowitz called for a different brand of lighting fixture, but since those fixtures were not available for the show, MOS provided both the Spot and Wash versions of PR Lighting’s XL 1200 fixture. They proved to be an acceptable substitute.
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CHICAGO — Kehoe Designs, an event design company based here, has been using Clay Paky’s A.leda B-EYE K20 LED-based moving lights and Sharpy fixtures for recent events in the area, including a party hosted by the San Francisco Travel Association at the Grand Ballroom of the Palmer House Hotel (an after-party linked to the US Travel Association’s recent International Pow Wow, pictured here) and the 25th anniversary celebration for a major international financial services company.
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JOHANNESBURG and CAPE TOWN — The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), featuring Phil Batesn (pictured here), brought four decades of their unique blend of orchestral rock to South Africa recently, playing concerts in Johannesburg and Cape Town — with Robe moving lights featuring on both shows.
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