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Kinesys Helps Shape Ed Sheeran Tour

Kinesys Helps Shape Ed Sheeran Tour

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BOGATA, Colombia – U.K.-based Major Tom, Ltd. is supplying Kinesys system on Ed Sheeran’s 108-show, three-continent tour in support of his third studio album, Divide (stylized, simply, as a division symbol). The Kinesys system and control was recommended by Mike Oates, director of UK based Lights Control Rigging (LCR), the tour’s lighting equipment and crew supplier in combination with SES in the U.S.

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Armin Rocks Amsterdam ArenA with More than 900 Robe Fixtures

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AMSTERDAM – For Armin van Buuren’s two mega-shows at Amsterdam ArenA May 12-13, designers Andre Beekmans and Marc Heinz collaborated on a visual extravaganza that included the use of more than 900 Robe fixtures. Focus Amsterdam B.V. and Rent-All supplied the fixtures, which included 200 BMFL Spots, 112 BMFL WashBeams, 186 Pointes, 180 LEDBeam 100s and 231 Spiiders. The show filled the home stadium for the Ajax soccer team with music and light.

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Oh My Balm Offers Soothing BTS Pledge-a-Product

NEW YORK, NY – Oh My Balm, which makes artisanal handcrafted body products, has become a Behind the Scenes Pledge-a-Product partner. Oh My Balm is owned by Meredith Moseley-Bennett (ETCP Certification Manager) and Yolanda Grbic (Teacher, Jersey City) of Glen Ridge, NJ, and they have pledged a percentage of the profits from their body butter called “Crew” to support the charity.

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Scott Kinnebrew Joins Elation as Regional Sales Manager for Central U.S.

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LOS ANGELES – Elation Professional is pleased to announce that lighting professional Scott Kinnebrew has joined the company as Regional Sales Manager – Central U.S.  Scott will focus on helping to grow Elation’s central U.S. territory and will work alongside Elation’s rep firms to bring a higher level of service to the company’s ever-growing customer base.

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Colour Sound Gets Snarky Puppy Vibe

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LONDON – Award winning lighting designer Francis Clegg applied his imagination and magic to the latest Snarky Puppy UK tour, where his penchant for creating interesting and different visual environments is perfectly suited to the band’s improvisational instrumental jazz-pop sounds.Colour Sound Experiment was delighted to be the lighting and video supplier for the tour. The west London based company has worked on other projects with Francis, part of creative practice design MIRRAD, including most recently, Giggs and Kano. “You know that a design will look fresh and alternative when Francis’ name is on it,” commented Colour Sound’s H (Haydn Cruickshank).

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Bandit Supplies SGM G-4 Wash On NFL Draft Experience

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PHILADELPHIA – Bandit Lites recently wrapped another successful venture with C3 Presents on lighting components of the NFL Draft, using strategically placed SGM G-4 Washes at the Entrance Portal where thousands of fans streamed through to celebrate the annual football draft selection.

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Robe Makes Some Circa Waves

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LONDON – UK indie rockers Circa Waves are certainly making some waves right now, and the release of their second album “Different Creatures” brings some more serious, hard-hitting and thought-provoking messages along with solid catchy rhythms. Lighting designer Ed Warren started working with Circa Waves at the start of this album campaign in October 2016. Having known their management team for some time, all the circumstances and stars aligned to make it the right time for Ed to add his ideas and imagination to the stage presentation on recent UK and European legs of the tour.

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Kade Behm and Ruben Laine join the Group One team

Avolites Hires Two New U.S.-Based Support Engineers

FARMINGDALE, NY – Avolites and its US distributor, Group One Ltd., are pleased to announce the appointments of two Support Engineers: Kade Behm and Ruben Laine (pictured here, L-R). Both new hires report directly to Avolites US National Sales Manager Brad White, while the announcement comes from Group One President Jack Kelly.

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The resort theater lights up with Elation fixtures.

Outdoor Theatre at Beaches Resorts in Turks and Caicos Outfitted with Elation Lighting

TURKS and CAICOS  – Beaches Resorts in the Turks and Caicos Islands offer activities for people of all ages, not to mention convenient access to some of the Caribbean’s best beaches. Lighting designer Lisa Weinshrott Kimmel, of Sharp Edge Lighting Design, was recently brought onboard to design lighting for a theatre project at the vacation resort and found an Elation rig at her disposal.

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