GREENWICH, CT – For a concert pairing guitarists Carlos Santana and Buddy Guy here recently, JDI Productions of Johnston, RI provided a rig that included 22 Legend 230SR Beams from Chauvet Professional. Derek Iorfida served as LD and lighting crew chief for the show.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden and TORONTO, Canada — LumenRadio, the Sweden-based provider of wireless lighting controls, named Toronto-based A.C. Lighting as exclusive distributor of its CRMX product portfolio in North America. The full LumenRadio product portfolio is now available to the extensive A.C. Lighting customer base.
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PILTON, U.K. — Production technician Andy ‘Fraggle’ Porter incorporated 33 Showline SL NITRO 510 luminaires in an arch array that framed the Pyramid Stage at this year’s Glastonbury festival. The stage was used by Metallica and other top acts. Neg Earth provided the gear.
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FERNANDINA BEACH, FL – For Main Beach Park here, the town of Fernandina Beach, on the Atlantic just north of Jacksonville, FL, updated the lighting with turtle-friendly LEDs. The project, which makes use of lighting gear from LEDtronics, was completed in partnership with Amelia Island Sea Turtle Watch. Along with energy savings, the new lighting design still provides ample illumination so that there would be no compromises in terms of the park-going public’s safety at night.
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GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Kreative Teknik AB used Martin Professional Exterior 400 light fixtures to light the concrete pillars near the entrance to Ullevi Stadium here. The venue recently underwent a series of renovations that included a dramatic increase in overall capacity, to 75,000 seated and standing spectators.
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SYDNEY — Riedel Communications named Erik Miehs service engineer for Australia. In his new role, Miehs will boost Riedel’s ability to support existing customers and equipment rentals while contributing to the company’s continued overall growth in sales and rentals across the region.
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AUSTIN, TX — The Summerland Tour teamed Everclear with alt rock bands Soul Asylum, Eve 6 and Spacehog. Everclear LD Rick ‘Shaggy’ Ehmcke, pictured here with HES’ Richard Belliveau, chose the tour’s Austin, Texas show at the Moody Theatre to demo High End Systems’ new Shapeshifter fixtures.
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MADISON, WI – Full Compass Systems supported the 13th annual “Opera in the Park” concert for the city of Madison. This free annual concert has become a summer tradition for the community and adds to the company’s history of promoting music and music education on both local and national levels.
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ROTHBURY, MI – For the main stage at this year’s Electric Forest festival, a four-day, multi-genre event held at the Double JJ Ranch here, Dodd Technologies provided a pair of grandMA2 consoles with VPU plus for video control. A total of five (four full-size grandMA2s and one grandMA2 light) were on hand during the show.
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NASHVILLE — To support LD Chris Lisle’s lighting design for country music artist Chris Young’s U.S. tour, Bandit Lites provided a rig that includes 22 Robe Robin Pointe fixtures. Lisle is using the Pointes to cut through and stand out among the ample video elements. Young is touring in support of country singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley.
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MOSCOW — In celebration of the 2014 World Cup final game, the three towers of “Vorobievy gory,” a residential complex in Moscow that faces the German Embassy, were lit during the match with the colors of Germany and Argentina’s national flags. With only a single day to light the towers, LD designer Sergey Babaliants of BaSinstall programmed the tower’s existing system, which includes 198 Martin Professional Exterior 200 fixtures.
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SUN VALLEY, CA — Lex Products named industry veteran Jeff deRecat as its new sales territory manager for the Western U.S. market. deRecat comes to Lex Products from Marinco/Advanced Devices, a manufacturer of entertainment and industrial wiring devices and CAM connectors, where he worked for 16 years.
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