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Gentse Feesten in Belgium Brightens with Chauvet Professional Fixtures

Close to two million people visit this event over a 10-day span.biggest cultural and popular festivals in Europe

Gentse Feesten in Belgium Brightens with Chauvet Professional Fixtures

GHENT, Belgium – With many music stages and event spaces throughout the city’s UNESCO protected medieval center, the annual 10 day Gentse Feesten is a go-to event for Northern European music lovers. Shining brightly against the city’s beautiful gothic architecture was the festival’s Sint-Baafsplein square stage. Vince de Schinckel brought the stage (one of the festival’s largest) to glittering life with help from eight STRIKE 1, 20 Maverick MK2 Wash, and 16 Maverick MK2 Spot fixtures from Chauvet Professional, supplied by Belgian rental specialists Euro PA.

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Robbie Williams tour visuals

SGM Credits LD Mark Cunniffe for Spurring Development of G-4 Wash-Beam

LONDON – Mark Cunniffe, lighting and production designer for Robbie Williams, played a role in the development of SGM’s G-4 Wash-Beam fixtures, according to the Denmark-based lighting manufacturer. The designer was looking for a “small, bright, PC lens wash light that would give me a great beam of light while in a IP65-rated housing.” SGM tinkered with its existing technologies to come up with the kind of novelty fixture Cunniffe was looking for.

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Blizzard’s Newest Flavor-Filled Fixture: LOOP

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WAUKESHA, WI. – Blizzard Lighting employees sat around reliving the breakfasts of their youth; slurping up multicolored sugary milk and mowing down fruity starch rings by the boxful. Blizzard’s affinity for colorful LOOP-shaped stuff remains strong, as evidenced by their newest professional lighting fixture, LOOP™. Plus, now there’s 50% less sugar and 200% more flavor. That’s a combo moms and kids can agree on! LOOP™ is a unique multi-beam linear moving head with LED “signature” ring effects, infinite pan/tilt, and built-in Art-Net support.

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UFC in Las Vegas

NanoLumens Engage Series LED Display Installed at New UFC Corporate Campus

LAS VEGAS — When UFC mixed martial arts organization designed its new, global corporate campus in Las Vegas, they wanted every inch of the campus, which includes its state-of-the-art UFC Performance Institute, to amplify the global brand’s image as a world-class organization. One of the most critical notable components of the facility is the NanoLumens 2.5mm ENGAGE Series™ LED display in the main lobby, that gives visitors an initial glimpse of the corporate campus’s grandeur.

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OneRepublic performs on 2017 Honda Civic Tour

OneRepublic Headlines 2017 Honda Civic Tour, Lit with Claypaky Fixtures

VANCOUVER, BC Canada – For the 2017 Honda Civic Tour headlined by OneRepublic, production designer/LD Mark Butts collaborated with show designer Raj Kapoor on a lighting rig that includes Claypaky Mythos2 and Sharpy Wash fixtures with grandMA2 consoles for control. Brian Jenkins and A.J. Pen programmed the show, and Pen is out as lighting director. The tour, which wraps up with some September shows near Houston, TX, also features Fitz & The Tantrums and opener James Arthur.

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