MUMBAI – When Norah Jones, daughter of Ravi Shankar, made her first ever appearance in India — at A Summer’s Day Festival in Mumbai — around 8,000 fans turned up at the Mahalaxmi Race Course to cheer her on. To enhance her stage, local company E2Tech supplied 24 of PR Lighting’s new XLED 1037 moving heads with zoom.
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GUADALAJARA, Mexico – Luminica Gdl of Guadalajara, Mexico, was one of the first rental companies in Mexico and Latin America to invest in Martin’s MAC Viper Profile and had the fixtures out on Carnaval Mazatlan, one of the carnival season’s more festive events in February.
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BLACKBURN, UK – HSL supplied LD Neil Carson with full lighting production for Brit Award winning singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé’s most recent UK tour, together with a ‘specials’ package for the European section. Sande most recently performed for both opening and closing ceremonies at the Summer Olympics in London.
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MENDOZA, Argentina – Lighting/set designer Eli Sirlin used more than 120 Robe moving lights in his lighting design for the 2013 Festival Nacional de la Vendimia (National Grape Harvest Festival), a celebration of wine and the wine-making industry in Argentina. One design challenge was the huge space and the distances and angles that the lighting needed to cover.
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FRANCE – Chromlech’s new Elidy LED matrix fixture is touring the world on Pink’s “The Truth About Love” tour. Production and lighting designers, Halpin and Chris Nyfield of Silent House Productions chose to incorporate 40 of Chromlech’s Elidy into their lighting design. Based around a single projector of 25 (5×5) LEDs, Elidy is modular in form and can be assembled to form up to 225 LEDs (1 sq/m) and arranged into shapes, screens, columns and even angled forms.
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WARREN, RI – Creative Conners, Inc. – which makes scenic automation equipment for live performances – has released its new Spotline hoist, designed specifically for safe and easy vertical lifting. “Our customers have been using our Pushstick winch in combination with a counterweight assist rig to safely handle vertical lifting and elevators, but with Spotline’s built-in safety features, they can skip the counterweight assist and and just rig it,” says Gareth Conner, founder/president of Creative Conners.
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Lighting/Video Companies
Paradigm Lighting/Global Trend Productions
Venue
Bayfront Park
Miami, FL
