Chauvet Professional Lights The Chainsmokers, Cash Cash and Daya At Electric Bounce House

BOSTON – There was no shortage of star power on stage at Boston’s House of Blues on Monday December 5, as the legendary venue, hosted Electric Bounce House. The 2,500 capacity concert hall welcomed an Electric Bounce House lineup of artists who often would be playing at an arena or amphitheater. Opening the evening was Grammy-nominated teenage sensation Daya. As the evening progressed, the music grew  electronic with the progressive house dance group Cash Cash, followed by Grammy-nominated The Chainsmokers. 

USA – My Morning Jacket (MMJ) founder and front man Jim James embarked on a solo tour this fall, opening on the West Coast and closing Dec. 18 at Iron City, Birmingham, Alabama.  Veteran MMJ Designer Marc Janowitz conceived a “forest” of 57 Solaris Mozarts as a main design feature for the tour. “The Mozarts are used as stand-alone fixtures,” explains Janowitz, “each one mounted at the end of goosenecks, LP claws, mic stand boom arms, and other lightweight audio accessories.”

OAKLAND, CA — Jonathan Bernbaum, a prominent VJ and video artist affiliated with Circuit 5 Visuals, Knife Party and V Squared Labs, was among the 36 victims trapped in the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire on Dec. 2, 2016. He was 34.

NEW ORLEANS –  Lighting Designer and touring technician Cody Stoltz passed away at his home in New Orleans last Monday evening after losing his battle with depression. Cody had spent the last couple of years working with the Toby Keith tours and working for lighting vendor Bandit Lites while not playing DJ at clubs around hs hometown. He was working his way up the ladder to his dream job of being a lighting designer for concert tours.

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SAN DIEGO – LD Matt Collier included six Rogue R1 Washes and four Rogue R1 Spots from Chauvet Professional in the rig for the Brothers Gow as the California jam band underwent its most recent tour leg. The autumn trek took the San Diego-based quintet on a tour of the American West, from Los Angeles to Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho and back down the Coast from Washington to Oregon and back to California.