LOS ANGELES – R. Kelly’s “Buffet Tour” is serving up a musical extravaganza, which fans are eating up in arenas across the US. Performance Lighting of Elk Grove, Illinois is providing 50 ChainMaster motor hoists and grandMA2 full-size and light consoles to the massive production. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of both brands in North America.
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SYDNEY – As part of this year’s Vivid Sydney light festival, the Australia Museum’s rooftop was once again a big canvas for a lightshow. As part of the setup, Fusion Entertainment were responsible to light up the area around the museum – Paul Walton, managing director of Fusion – collaborated with Show Technology in Australia, and chose ShowPro HEX 18 LED Pars and ShowPro EX36 LED Floods, both IP rated units.
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SCOTTSDALE, AZ — Event Safety Alliance, a nonprofit safety trade organization serving the needs of the live event industry, announced June 20 that Production Resource Group (PRG) is backing the ESA’s mission with a Diamond-level sponsorship commitment, the highest level available. PRG, the world’s leading provider of entertainment and event technology solutions, joins other Diamond-level supporters including Allianz insurance, Brown United, Take1 insurance and Weather Decision Technologies/WeatherOps. ESA also has sponsors at the Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze levels of support.
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NEW ORLEANS – RZI Lighting named industry veteran Stephen Thurber National Sales Manager. Prior to RZI, Thurber worked for the past 12 yearsat two major lighting/production companies in the roles of production manager, lighting designer and sales manager. Thurber also worked for several theatre companies including Jefferson Performing Arts Society, Le Petit Theatre and Southern Rep Theatre, working as a lighting designer, scenic designer, technical director, master electrician, stage manager and managing director. Thurber also coordinated, managed, and designed scenic and lighting for eight years of tours including Cabaret, Annie Get your Gun, Chorus Line, The Wizard of Oz and Beauty and the Beast.
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SAN FRANCISCO — For San Francisco’s War Memorial Veterans Building, which was re-opened last September, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided theatre planning and consulting for the 900-seat Herbst Theatre and support spaces. Auerbach Glasow French, meanwhile, provided architectural lighting design for all public spaces including the performance venues, all lobbies, circulation corridors, historic stairs, San Francisco Arts Commission exhibit space, offices and the exterior.
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SECAUCUS, NJ – 4Wall Entertainment Lighting and BML-Blackbird Theatrical Services have reached an agreement for 4Wall to purchase the Film & Television division of New Jersey based BML. In addition to the equipment purchase, current BML-Blackbird CEO Elliot Krowe, who has led the film & TV division within the company for over ten years, will be joining 4Wall New York as part of the acquisition.
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PITTSBURGH, PA – Singer-songwriter Sam Hunt is touring the nation in support of his debut album, Montevallo, which has sold more than a million copies since its release in 2014. The Georgia native is the first artist to reach three top country charts simultaneously in 22 years. The tour’s visual design includes ROE Visual 18MM Hybrid LED tiles supplied by LMG.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland – For a Cream dance event that featured DJs John O’Callaghan, Bryan Kearney and Will Atkinson at the cavernous T13 warehouse space in Belfast on April 30, Justlite’s John McGuinness created a warmer, club-like vibe with a collection of fixtures from Chauvet Professional to complement the 592-square-foot video wall created with Chauvet’s PVP S7 panels.
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PARIS – With only two days between the shoot and first TV air date for a 53-second promo featuring members of the French national soccer team as they headed for the UEFA’s month-long 2016 Euro 2016 soccer competition, director Patrick Delobelle needed a speedy alternative to post-production visual effects. He used a d3 2x2plus media server provided by Paris-based Stello Productions for the projection-mapping solution. The Union of European Football Associations’ (UEFA) Euro 2016 tournament runs from June 10-July 10, 2016.
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MIAMI – E11even Nightclub in downtown Miami attracts an impressive number of top DJs and other dance music artists, especially around Winter Music Conference time. The profusion of EDM, hip hop and house music talent has been even more marked since the two-story club expanded by opening a rooftop dance and chill area that recently received a lighting upgrade from iDesign Productions that included Elation Professional lighting fixtures.
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HOLLYWOOD, CA — Cine Gear announces the recipients of the 2016 New Technologies Awards as judged by a team of impartial experts at the 2016 Expo event. The judging panel reviewed and evaluated nearly 100 entries to determine this year’s honorees. The 2016 Cine Gear Expo Technical Awards were presented to the best debuting products unveiled between June 8, 2015 and May 1, 2016. Winners were selected on site by a panel of industry experts with an eye toward the latest in technology. All exhibiting manufacturers were invited to enter products
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ADJ’s new ellipsoidal fixtures, the Encore Profile 1000 WW and Encore Profile 1000 Color, feature powerful COB LEDs, built-in manual zoom and focus, framing shutters and GOBO slots. These flexible lighting units are well suited for use for the stages of theatres, churches, concert venues, conferences and special events.
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