RICHARDSON, TX – Dove Award-winning artist Lauren Daigle performed recently at The Heights Baptist Church outside Dallas, TX. Technical director Bobby Dennis flew a half-dozen Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving lights from Chauvet Professional to complement Daigle’s performance.
RC4 Wireless will feature its RC4Magic DMXpix at LDI booth 2211 during the exhibition in Las Vegas Oct. 23-25, 2015. The show marks the North American debut for the product, which was one of eight products honored this year with a PLASA Award for Innovation.
SHoW Baby 6 from City Theatrical makes use of the company’s Max Technology to let users broadcast in the area of Wi-Fi channel 14, which is not used in the U.S. and is not heavily used in other countries. SHoW Baby 6 is among several new products and technologies that the company will be featuring at LDI 2015.
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NEW YORK – The Electric Zoo Festival has been drawing more than 100,000 EDM fans to Randall’s Island Park each Labor Day Weekend. This year, the festival’s Main Stage featured a phoenix-themed design. The fixtures included plenty of visual firepower from Elation Professional, including Lumina Strips, Cuepix Blinder WW2s and the debut of the new Elation ACL 360 Bar. Burst Sound & Lighting Systems of Detroit supplied the gear.
ROME – For Italian singer/songwriter/poet Francesco De Gregori, LD Andrea Coppini has been relying upon Clay Paky fixtures. The Italy-based Osram subsidiary provided a Q&A that provides some insights on Coppini’s decision-making when it comes to lighting this artist.
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The miniSTAR from Parasol Systems, the smallest system in the Parasol family, measures 47 inches in diameter and can fit in the back of an SUV. It will be featured at the LDI show in Las Vegas, in a booth Parasol is sharing with Lightwave International.
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SAN FRANCISCO – For the annual Intel Developer Forum (IDF 2015), WorldStage worked with John Halloran Associates (JHA), providing extensive AV support for the IDF’s keynote and Mega Sessions in the West Hall of the Moscone Center.
BEIJING – Projector manufacturer Digital Projection China will present a special event featuring AV Stumpfl technologies at the Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace on Oct. 21. Featured products will include AV Stumpfl’s FHD Player, Wings Engine Stage media servers (pictured here) and Avio control software.
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THE HAGUE, The Netherlands – Dutch rock band Di-Rect celebrated their 15th anniversary with a concert on the beach at Scheveningen in front of 12,500 fans. The beach is one of the most visited public spaces in the Netherlands and is renowned its vibrant ambiance. LD Nick van Balen specified a rig that centered on Robe fixtures for the event.
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BLACKBURN, U.K. – Lighting and visuals rental company HSL announced a working partnership with live event video designers and specialists, Video Illusions. Based in Canterbury, Kent, Video Illusions was formed in 2006 by brothers Dave and Nick Whiteoak. Pictured here, from left, are Nick Whiteoak, Andy Hurst, Sunon Stuart and Dave Whiteoak.
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Drum roll, please…. Ta Dah! This year we’re celebrating the 15th annual Parnelli Awards. This is a fact I am very proud of, and I am sure Parnelli Awards co-founder, Patrick Stansfield, is looking down at us from his production office in the sky, smiling as well. It seems just yesterday the Parnelli Awards were a gleam in our collective eyes. But now, 15 years later and with 37 of the top production people in our field honored, we have hit a milestone year.
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