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GMA Dove Awards for Christian Music Get Video Assist from Elite Multimedia

GMA Dove Awards

GMA Dove Awards for Christian Music Get Video Assist from Elite Multimedia

NASHVILLE – Since 1970, the GMA Dove Awards has honored excellence in the Christian Music industry. At the 47th Annual GMA Dove Awards, event producer and production designer Scott DeVos of DeLux Productions was brought on board to help accentuate that diversity. Wanting LED video to play an integral role in the design, DeVos needed a provider with a myriad of technologies to fill the design, so he reached out to Nashville-based Elite Multimedia. Elite Multimedia supplied him with PixelFLEX LED video walls for the production design.

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Color Sound invests in Placebo

Placebo Tours U.K. with Robe Spiiders from Colour Sound Experiment

LONDON – For the current Placebo “Retrospective” arena tour, which wraps up with a big show at SSE Wembley Arena Dec. 15, visual designer Jvan Morandi turned to UK rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment for the full lighting, video and rigging package. Color Sound is supporting the shows with recently acquired gear including a new Kinesys automation system; new robo and static video cameras and new Robe Spiider WashBeam moving lights, among other recent additions to the company’s rental inventory.

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Robe Epicenter at Signal Festival

Prague’s Signal Festival of Light Brightened with Robe Fixtures

PRAGUE – Robe was a proud sponsor of the 2016 Signal Festival of Light, staged over four days in and around Prague in the Czech Republic. Twenty-three original and innovative pieces of light art drew estimated crowds of up to 400,000 into the city to enjoy the event which started in 2013, and is now recognized as one of the biggest as well as one of Europe’s foremost festivals of light. 

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Coldplay Gets Assist from Specialz in Taking Xylobands Idea One Step Further

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BIRMINGHAM, UK – Specialz, a Birmingham-based production design and specialty manufacturing company, took up a challenge posed by Coldplay and LD Paul Normandale to take the inclusive Xyloband crowd lighting idea one step further for the band’s performance at the Glastonbury Festival’s main Pyramid stage this past summer. They turned to Specialz for help in creating a festoon that could fully support over 500 LED balls without being attached to the structure. Each LED ball was programmed, tested and charged, before being secured into its holder and then rigged onto the outer staging.

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Macon Rd Church gets an Upgrade with ADJ help

ADJ’s AV6 Panels Create 21st Century Stained-Glass Window at Tennessee Baptist Church

ARLINGTON, TN. – When the team at Macon Road Baptist Church in Tennessee were planning their new worship and teaching facility, their concept centered on a large and costly stained-glass window and most certainly didn’t involve LED video panels. However, thanks to the input of AV expert Charles Lawing, a last-minute change of plans led to a much more flexible finished project.

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LUXE Creative Designs Looks for Thrival Musical Festival

LUXE Creative Helps Propel Pittsburgh’s Thrival Musical Festival to the National Stage

PITTSBURGH, PA – LUXE Creative served as the artistic lighting and production arm for this year’s Thrival Music Festival 2016, providing Creative Direction and Design for the two-day outdoor live music experience. With Creative Direction from LUXE Creative Founder + CEO, Martin Potoczny, the group was able to tell Pittsburgh’s story through a curated live experience. The event featured over 250,000W of lighting fixtures, and over seven miles of cabling for the scenic lighting of the historic site alone.

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Newcastle’s Boiler Shop

Newcastle’s Boiler Shop Transformed Into Modern Venue with Chauvet Professional

NEWCASTLE, UK – There was a time, over a century ago, when northeast England was the crucible of the burgeoning railroad industry. Nowhere was this more evident than in Newcastle, UK. The rail industry has long since faded into the past, but now the area behind Newcastle’s main station, or “Stevenson Quarter,” as it is known, has come roaring back as a dynamic, hip multi-use urban space that features upscale hotels, over 340,000 square feet of office and retail space, and a hot live music and art venue called the Boiler Shop.

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Blizzard HIGHBEAM™ LED PAR

Blizzard HighBeam LED Par

Blizzard Lighting has introduced its HighBeam™ LED Par fixture. It uses seven 15W 4-in-1 RGBW Osram LEDs, emitting light with a sharp 8° beam angle. The fixture also features 4/5/16/20 user selectable DMX channel modes, RGBW color mixing with 3-zone pixel mapping capabilities, built-in color and chase macros, built-in automated and sound active programs and variable electronic dimming and strobe. Potential applications include lighting a stage, theater, or DJ booth.

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Bright Lights, Live Music and Spirit of Unity Accompany Tree Lighting Ceremonies in NYC, DC, Elsewhere

NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, DC — It’s been nearly a month since Donald Trump was elected president, and so far, at least, the Mexican government hasn’t financed a wall to keep a disgruntled majority of U.S. voters from entering their country. Instead, starting with Barack Obama’s immediate olive-branch invitation of Trump to the White House, and continuing with Christmas tree lighting ceremonies at the White House and New York’s Rockefeller Center, the news cycle in late November shifted from political rants and protests to families pledging to refrain from politics at holiday gatherings.

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Rose Brand Inc. Expands Swag Decor Locations into South Florida

SECAUCUS, NJ – Rose Brand expanded its Swag Decor drape and decor rentals locations into a fully staffed and stocked office and warehouse at 2203 NW 30th Place, Pompano Beach, FL 33069. The new office in South Florida and the existing Orlando office now make it even more convenient for the firm to service all Florida cities, including Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Naples, Ft Lauderdale, Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Sarasota, and Jacksonville. 

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