AUSTIN – On Jan. 20, Grammy award winning musician Christopher Cross recorded a PBS Pledge Special at ACL Live at The Moody Theater. The concert will be broadcast on PBS and was produced by KLRU-TV, Austin PBS. To augment the visuals on camera, veteran Lighting Director Walter Olden specified the use of four High End Systems DLHD fixtures.
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LONDON – Lighting Designer Jon Smith turned to an Elation Professional lighting package of ACL 360 Bars, Platinum Series moving heads and Cuepix blinders for Texas pop punk band Bowling for Soup’s “How About Another Round” UK Tour in February. The tour, basically an encore tour to the band’s farewell tour of two years ago, sold out at every stop with crowds of up to 3500 fans.
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SYDNEY – ULA Group represented Robe on the recent 2016 Entech Roadshow in Australia which visited five major cities – Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth reaching out to a wide cross section of industry professionals from all sectors.
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NASHVILLE – Even with the chill of winter still hanging in the February air, the Music City Center was abloom with more than 150 exhibitors of gardens, lantiques and guest speakers from the design world for the Antiques and Garden Show of Nashville. The keynote speaker for the multi-day event was Academy Award winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the horticultural happening with Chris Lisle Lighting Design.
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GUANGZHOU – PR Lighting noted that its products found lots of interest at the GET Show in Guangzhou. The company drew attention from the estimated 60,000 attendees with booth featuring a Canton Towers theme. The show featured hundreds of exhibitors spread across six halls.
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TORONTO, ON, – Grid Well noted that its patented and patent-pending designs for arbor related products have been licensed to six stage equipment companies, and that its products will be on display at USITT in Salt Lake City later this month, via licencees including BellaTEX Stage Curtains, Booth #1110; Thern Stage Equipment, Booth #1911; and Blackwell in the AKT3 Booth #339.
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ERLANGER KY. – tvONE is offering two training classes, CORIO2/Magenta training and CORIO3 training. The next sets of back-to-back training days are set for April 6-7 and May 4-5, 2016, with more sessions planned well into 2016.
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ELGIN, IL – Harting U.S. named Dr. Vivek Dave Director of Technology Development. Dr. Dave will be directing all North America related research activities, new technologies and projects with HARTING’s key technology partners.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – eyevis, the German manufacturer of visualization systems for professional applications, will feature some eye-catching items on its joint stand with MMT and SmartMetals Mounting Solutions at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt. Two vertically mounted modules of the new EYE-TOLED-5500, the transparent OLED display for extraordinary presentations, are expected to grab attention from passersby.
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UTRECHT, The Netherlands — Lighting integrator and distributor Fairlight BV worked with professional lighting supplier and installer Air Light to create the lighting system at TivoliVredenburg, a music venue for acts ranging from classical to heavy metal music. Marcel Zandbergen of Fairlight noted that a variety of Martin fixtures proved to be a good fit with the venue’s needs. The venue is now equipped with 72 MAC Aura wash lights, 46 MAC Viper Profile high-output luminaires, 16 Atomic 3000 DMX strobe lights, 14 MAC Quantum Wash lights, 16 MAC Quantum Profile LED profile fixtures and 16 MAC 700 Profile lights, plus four JEM ZR44 Hi-Mass foggers, four JEM Ready 365 CO2 hazers and two Exterior 1200 image projectors.
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Staging Concepts’s Uplift Stage device is engineered to allow two operators to quickly and easily raise and lower platforms in place, Uplift is the next generation of staging solutions from Staging Concepts. This product is a scissor lift stage designed with modern technology, allowing flexible entertainment spaces to transform into multiple configurations with ease. Standard platforms can be raised and lowered to multiple settings from 8.5 to 48 inches. The aluminum frame construction is designed for both maximum strength and minimum weight.
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LOWELL, MA – Designer Brian Lynch of AE Event Systems in Chelmsford, MA lit up the Merrimack riverfront in Lowell, Massachusetts recently. The setup included 60 COLORado 1-Tri IP fixtures and 16 COLORado 2-Quad Zoom IP fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Using over 2,000’ of conduit, Lynch spaced the fixtures 30’ apart over a distance of 800’ running from Merrimack Canal through Lucy Larcom Park in downtown Lowell.
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