HILVERSUM, The Netherlands – Philips Entertainment Lighting’s new Philips VL6000 Beams were part of Bas de Vries’ lighting design for The Netherlands’ prime-time talent show, The Voice Kids, featuring contestants aged 6-14.
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PILTON, U.K. – Nearly 50 of the multi award-winning Chroma-Q® Color Force II 48™ luminaire were a central feature of the Pyramid Stage lighting rig at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, providing powerful colored illumination and eye candy during both daytime and evening performances from high-profile artists including Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Craig David, Chic, Barry Gibb, The National, First Aid Kit and many more.
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HUNTER, NY – Dylan Jakobsen and Caroline Gray may not have achieved the fame of Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert (at least not yet), but for three days this June, they and a host of other young up-and-coming artists shared billing with these superstars at The Taste of Country Music Festival. The largest event of its kind in the Northeast, Taste of Country has rapidly made a name for itself since it started five years ago by bringing together big names with raw developing talent in a stunning Catskill Mountain setting that’s as laid back as it is beautiful.
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SILVER SPING MD – Announcing the shipping of our complete Vieo Over IP solution for CORIOmaster video processing systems: The IP video encoder, Magenta Encoder-100 announced earlier this year, as well as the new 128 GB Streaming Media & 4K Playback Input Module are now shipping. Along with these two new hardware additions, tvONE has also upgraded its system design software, CORIOgrapher, to version 2.5.
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ORLANDO – InfoComm, North America’s largest audiovisual trade show for an entire community of creative, technical professionals, welcomed more than 40,000 visitors for the first time in its history at the 2017 event, held in Orlando from June 14-16.
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LOS ANGELES – Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ 40th Anniversary Tour has been thrilling TP fans across the USA since April, and the show’s beautiful visuals are the handiwork of lighting designer / director Stanley Green and co-visual designer Kevin Cassidy. To augment his potent arena lighting package, Green specified 30 High End Systems SolaSpot 1500s as the “workhorse” hard edge fixtures for the tour.
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Tekvox has announced enhancements to its 71000 Drop-In A/V product portfolio, which promise easy integration as comprehensive platform solutions and provide maximum value for customers.
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DUBAI, UAE – For a unique rigging challenge within the Robinsons department store at the waterfront Dubai Festival City retail and residential complex, Deco Emirates LLC turned to Unusual Rigging and Engineering for an expert assist.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Stageline and its giant mobile stage, SAM750, made an impressive entrance (and exit) at the Hot 97 Summer Jam in New York’s MetLife Stadium earlier this month.
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GLEN FALLS, NY – Kicking off Adirondack Theatre Festival’s (ATF) 23rd summer season of professional theater is Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat, an electronic pop musical about one of history’s most influential and controversial innovators. 4Wall DC provided the lighting for the show that can be described as “Hamilton meets Tesla.”
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INDIANAPOLIS – Markey’s Rental & Staging may have gotten its start when Mrs. Martelle “Marty” Markey launched the firm in 1959 as a 16mm film rental company, but it’s kept up with the changing AV needs of its customers. Within the last six months, Markey’s purchased 14 Roland Professional A/V VR-50HD video switchers (pictured here).
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WESTLAKE, TX – The ESTA Control Protocols Plugfest organizers announced that two live, informal round-table discussions taking place in conjunction with the ESTA Control Protocols Plugfest in July at the Dallas/Fort Worth Marriott Solana in Westlake, Texas will be made available to the general public via a free WebEx video conference.
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