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David G. Higgins to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Wally Russell Foundation

David G. Higgins to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Wally Russell Foundation

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LOS ANGELES – The Board of Directors of the Wally Russell Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2017/2018 Lifetime Achievement Award is distinguished innovator, entrepreneur, and industry pioneer, David G. Higgins. The award will be presented at the annual USITT Conference and Exhibition in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 16th at a breakfast celebration.  (Time and location TBD).

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Nature One Electronic Festival in Germany Includes GLP Fixtures

KASTELLAUN, Germany – For the 2017 edition of the Nature One electronic music festival, which drew some 65,000 revelers to Pydna Missle Base in Kastellaun, Germany Aug. 4-6, artists performed on a total of more than 20 stages. For the event’s main stage, LD Thomas Gerdon relied on fixtures from GLP to add intense visuals to the electronic pulse of the event. PRG provided 120 GLP GT-1’s, 108 impression X4 L’s and 48 GLP JDC-1 strobes.

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Flare Q+ on Foo Fighters Tour

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WORLD – Foo Fighters will be on the road through December promoting their ninth studio album, Concrete & Gold.  Following dates in Asia, the Seattle band will hit Berlin and London before opening their US fall tour at Cal Jam 17 in San Bernardino, California in October. Since 2010, Dan Hadley has been the group’s production designer and lighting programmer/director, and his current design includes 27 Flare Q+ LR linear fixtures.

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TLS Productions, Inc. Announces New Branch / Warehouse Warming In Las Vegas: 10/27/17 – 10/28/17

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LAS VEGAS – Ann Arbor, Michigan based lighting, rigging, and A/V design and production company, TLS Productions, Inc., has recently expanded to a new branch in Henderson, Nevada. TLS Productions, Inc. has been fortunate over the last several years to be involved in an ever-increasing amount of production and rental related opportunities in Las Vegas, so they’ve secured a warehouse and office space that will help them to better serve the Las Vegas market, and also allow them to better serve their West Coast clientele.

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Country Writers Chase Dreams With CHAUVET Professional

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EVANS, GA – Country music fans got a glimpse of the future on a warm August Georgia night at the Lady Antebellum Pavilion. There on stage, performing solos and as a group, were six budding talents visiting from Nashville. Having written hits for some of country’s biggest names like Luke Byran and Florida Georgia Line, the sextet was there to chase the dream, as performers. Supporting them with some colorful, evocative star-worthy looks was a John Berret designed lightshow that utilized 35 CHAUVET Professional fixtures supplied by Quest Sound & Productions.

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Growing and Expanding Stampede to Make its Debut at Integrate 2017

AMHERST, NEW YORK — Fresh from its acquisition of Just Lamps, Stampede, the world’s leading value-added distributor of ProAV products and system solutions, is coming to Integrate 2017 with a complete range of products and solutions, as well as a host of new sales and business development programs designed to help manufacturers and resellers better serve the needs of their customers throughout Australia and the APAC region.

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Avolites Ai Media servers scribe new visual language in 360° projection

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UK – 360° Theatre was the immersive cinema event by fulldome mapping specialist, GaiaNova, held at London’s Cody Dock. The event used exclusively Avolites Ai R8 Media servers to video map the interior of one of GaiaNova’s 18m projection domes with a diverse range of speciality designed 360° video over the course of two days. Content was created for the showcase by a host of visiting artists, including new media artists Bertie Sampson and Michaela French and creatives from The Royal College of Art’s Fulldome Research Group (FDRG). The National Space Centre’s (NSC) planetarium film, ‘We are Stars’ was also screened regularly throughout the event.

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LDDE Choose Lexair Entertainment in Australia and New Zealand

Lexair Entertainment is pleased to announce that they are the new Australian and New Zealand exclusive distributor for LDDE. LDDE specialize in the Theatre and Studio lighting markets, and have held an exceptional reputation since its foundation nearly 30 years ago. Their products are all manufactured in the company’s home of Austria, and enjoy excellent quality and performance.

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Event Lighting on the Spiiders Web

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SLOVENIA – Event Lighting is Slovenia’s largest and busiest lighting rental specialist, based in the capital, Ljubljana. The operation is owned and run by Jernej Gustin, who likes to be setting the trends rather than following them! So it wasn’t a massive surprise that they were the first company in the country to purchase Robe’s new Spiider LED wash beams following a trailblazing purchase of BMFL Blades last year which also started the ball rolling in a country with a small but highly competitive and action packed market!.

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Bryce Cherpelis Gets Artistic At ARISE With CHAUVET Professional

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LOVELAND, CO –  Determined to remain true to their musical roots, the organizers of the ARISE Music Festival have steadfastly avoided lengthening its name to include the word “art.” Yet even though there was no shortage of great music at the 2017 version of this event, including national acts like Ani DiFranco, Tipper and Lettuce, ARISE was almost as much about seeing as listening. From a flaming owl that warmed people at night, to a gigantic willow sculpture, to painters off stage doing live art interpretations of the music, this early August festival served up a variety of surreal and beguiling looks.

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