FLORENCE, Italy – Claypaky announced plans to once again host the Showlight quadrennial exhibition as the event’s main sponsor. The 2017 event, which is the 10th Showlight event, will take place May 20-23 at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Florence, Italy. Pictured here, from left, are Roberta Guaschi and Pio Nahum of Claypaky.
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LAS VEGAS — Digital media solution provider Reflect needed a dynamic display for their booth entrance at the DSE (Digital Signage Expo), held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in late March. Nashville-based PixelFLEX provided an assist with their FLEXLite II 3.9mm LED video screen product. Reflect also provided PixelFLEX with an assist for the GlobalShop trade show at Mandalay Bay, where PixelFLEX was exhibiting.
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ST. LOUIS, MO — For Mastodon’s 30-city North American tour in support of the band’s March 31 album release, Emperor of Sand, Michael Howe created and controls evocative show visuals using a MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console and Magic HD media server from ChamSys.
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ORANGE BEACH, AL – Luke Bryan, who wrapped the 2016 leg of his Kill the Lights Tour last fall, returned to the road with a new string of Kill the Lights dates from Feb. 11 to March 18. Lighting designer Justin Kitchenman selected a big package of Claypaky fixtures from Elite Multimedia, for the shows. They included Scenius UN1CO luminaires – one of the first appearances made by these fixtures in North America.
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LOS ANGELES – The 59th Annual Grammy Awards made headlines for Adele’s five category wins. Behind the scenes, d3 media servers video mapped the stage’s big screens, delivering high-impact visuals that matched dynamic performances by Adele and more than 20 other top artists. The awards show was hosted by James Corden and broadcast live on CBS from Staples Center on Feb. 12, Three d3 4x4pros with SDI VFC cards, running a beta version of r14.2 software, were used along with two 2x2plus systems: one a pure master and the other an understudy.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Chicago-based rock band 7th Heaven has been an entertainment staple in the American Midwest for 30 years. Despite its location in the U.S. heartland, the band does an annual cruise called the “Chicago Music Cruise” and this year played a week of shows on the largest cruise ship in the world, Harmony of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean smartship outfitted with energy-efficient Elation Professional LED lighting.
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GLENDALE, CA – Since the establishment of Green Hippo Media Service Inc. in October 2015, Green Hippo’s U.S. presence has exceeded projections with strong growth in sales and continued formation of alliances into 2016, a trend which has continued into the first Quarter of 2017. Celebrating a continuation of last year’s record figures and increased distribution reach, the U.S. division of the U.K. based Media Server developer has again flourished with the addition of new staff and expanded premises.
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Tarm has introduced Tarm DOT, a white light RGB show laser system that features a starry sky effect. It’s a pure diode solution with analog color modulation and a guaranteed output power of 3’900 mW.
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LONDON – Production designer LeRoy Bennett and lighting designer Cory FitzGerald chose Philips Vari-Lite VL6000 Beam and VL4000 BeamWash fixtures to add punch to Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic world tour. The 2017 shows launched March 28 in Antwerp, Belgium, and the European/U.K. leg continues through mid-June in Milan, Italy before touring North America from mid-July through November.
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RAVENNA, Itlay – Amodio and Luzzati’s production of ballet classic The Nutcracker made its debut at Teatro Comunale in Modena in late October 2016, before touring to other Italian cities through mid-January, 2017. It was produced by Daniele Cipriani Entertainment and lit by Marco Policastro with a rig that included Robe DL4S Profiles and the new Spiider LED wash beams.
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LE CHAMP-PRÈS-FROGES, France – Airstar – the world leader in the design and manufacture of inflatable technologies for the lighting, architectural and aerospace industries, recently unveiled a new brand identity. More than just a graphic evolution, this brand image update represents a major step for the French manufacturer, who has established itself as a major player in the lighting, architecture and aerospace.
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NASHVILLE – The National Music Council has announced that songwriter and poet Patti Smith, comic, actor, writer, musician and creators’ rights activist Harry Shearer and country music legend Crystal Gayle will be honored at the organization’s 34th annual American Eagle Awards on Thursday, July 13 at the Summer NAMM Show in Nashville. Smith, Shearer and Gayle are pictured here, clockwise from left.
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