OKLAHOMA CITY — Just six days. That’s how long it took Blake Shelton’s benefit concert for Oklahoma tornado victims to go from idea to live televised event. Shelton’s “Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert” featured a coming-together of performers and concert production vendors to help raise money for those affected by the recent storms. The telethon aired live May 29 on NBC from the Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.
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MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ — Desmar Corporation/De Sisti USA, based here, has been named the exclusive North American distributor for Castel Goffredo, Italy-based Coemar lighting products. The announcement, made by Frank Kosuda, vice president on May 31, 2013, effectively brings the Coemar brand of products into the De Sisti product portfolio including De Sisti Lighting, De Sisti Rigging and LeaderLight branded product lines.
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POTTSTOWN, PA – Upstage Video has custom built a pair of new super low-profile LED trailers featuring 11 x18 ft screens made with their proprietary Color Specific 8mm SMD LED tiles.
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DENVER – Using 12 of GLP’s impression X4 LED fixtures, Washington DC-based Pulse Lighting recently provided lighting for Slightly Stoopid’s special one-off ‘Hot Box’ show at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre in Denver, Colorado. The show, which also featured Cypress Hill, was scheduled for broadcast live on AXS TV the same evening.
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LONDON – ADB Lighting Technologies appoints White Light as its main distributor for the UK, continuing a long relationship between ADB and the UK based lighting specialist. White Light provides sales, hire and technical services to the entertainment, presentation and event industries across the UK, Europe and worldwide.
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LONDON – Robert Juliat and Ambersphere Solutions have announced an exclusive agreement that will enable Ambersphere Solutions to represent French manufacturer Robert Juliat throughout the UK. This agreement enables Ambersphere to extend its sales, service, support and training facilities to cover all Robert Juliat products.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA – Every night, one hour after the sunset across the Great Lawn of River’s Edge Park, a light show begins. The permanent, 12-minute interactive light show is called Rays. It was designed by Dan Corson and installed by Bandit Lites in conjunction with Visual Terrain and Beaudry Interactive.
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MALMO, Sweden – SGM equipped Malmö Arena’s main stage with 52 X-5 white LED strobes and 82 SixPack LED blinders for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC 2013). Although SGM fixtures were also used throughout the EuroVillage, it was in the main action of the contest itself that the fixtures worked their magic for LD Fredrik Jönsson.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Board of Advisors has announced that George Travis, longtime production/tour manager for Bruce Springsteen, will receive the live event industry’s highest honor, the Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award, at the annual gala ceremony in Las Vegas this November. Travis has also worked with Rod Stewart, Kiss, Boston, Elton John, Madonna, Shania Twain and Ringo Starr, among others.
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DERRY LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland – A substantial lighting rig featuring more than 150 Robe fixtures was used by ‘house’ LD and TV Lighting Director Tim Routledge to create a production design for the 1xtra / In New Music We Trust Arena at BBC Radio One’s 2013 ‘Big Weekend’ event. The high-profile three day musical extravaganza staged in Ebrington Square, Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, kicked off the UK festival season in style.
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