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Singapore National Day Parade Lit with 500 Robe BMFLs

Singapore National Day Parade

Singapore National Day Parade Lit with 500 Robe BMFLs

SINGAPORE – LD Mac Chan was part of the team led by creative director Beatrice Chia who made every Singaporean burst with pride on their 2016 National Day Parade (NDP) and this year, for the first time, the event was staged at the new National Stadium. With a live audience of 50,000, a TV audience of around 5 million plus a few more million tuning in to the live internet stream … there was plenty of pressure on everyone to deliver.

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Dawn Chiang

Dawn Chiang Joins Behind the Scenes Foundation Board

NEW YORK – Behind the Scenes noted that LD and theatre consultant Dawn Chiang has accepted an invitation to join the group’s Board of Directors. Chiang has designed lighting on Broadway, Off Broadway, the New York City Opera, regional theatres across the country, and concert tours. A few highlights include Zoot Suit on Broadway; work at Manhattan Theatre Club, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Guthrie Theater; and a Paul Anka tour. Chiang has earned two Drama-Logue Critics’ Awards and numerous nominations around the country.

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Moo TV Projection Maps the Taft Theatre

Moo TV Projection-Maps Cincinnati’s Taft Theatre for Lumenocity

CINCINNATI, OH – The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra once again brought classical sound, light, and excitement to The Queen City. “Lumenocity 2016: Re-Imagine” took place at CSO’s temporary home at the historic Taft Theatre. Making its debut three years ago, 2016 marked the first time the event was held indoors. Lightborne, the local creative content collective and sponsor, and Okulus, the U.K.-based show designers, called on MooTV to map their vision to the Art Deco architecture within the 85-year-old structure.

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Upstage Video LED Wall

Upstage Video Supplies LED Walls for WE Fest

DETROIT LAKES, MN – Since 1983, WE Fest has been drawing crowds with a country music and camping festival experience at Soo Pass Ranch. Attendees gathered around the stage for performances from rising country stars and established megastars like Tim McGraw, Kid Rock, Eric Church and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith. Upstage Video returned to Detroit Lakes, MN for the sixth year in a row to provide LED rental services. With more than 150,000 attendees at the event, Upstage Video was responsible for distributing the action on stage to the crowd using two 17’ x 27’ LED walls using their CS-8 8mm LED tile. The screens flanked either side of the stage using client-provided truss. 

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Building 429

EnHansen Design Uses TMS-Supplied Chauvet Fixtures to Light Christian Band, Building 429

OMAHA, NE – For the 2016 tour featuring Christian band Building 429, LD John Hansen of EnHansen Design used 18 Chauvet Professional Nexus Aw 7×7 LED panels supplied by Theatrical Media Services. Hansen created memorable visuals by taking customized aluminum gobo cutouts of the band’s logo and positioning them in front of the Nexus Aw 7×7 fixtures. He also arranged LED strip lights behind the Nexus units.

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MLB All Star Bash

MLB All-Star FanFest Lit with Elation Platinum Series Fixtures

SAN DIEGO — Major League Baseball’s All-Star FanFest took place the week leading up to the 2016 All-Star Game on July 12 at Petco Park in San Diego. One of the FanFest’s most popular events was the MLB All-Star Bash. A lineup of acts including Akon, Fall Out Boy and DJ Vice performed beneath a lighting rig that featured Platinum Series moving heads, ACL Bar 360 LED effect lights and Colour Chorus Series LED battens from Elation Professional.

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Maestra Provided Gear

Reply SpA Stages IT Event in London with Assist from Maestra

LONDON – Event production specialist Maestra London worked with set and staging company Firecracker to support ‘Reply Exchange,’ a one-day conference sponsored by Italian IT giants Reply SpA. Gruppo Peroni staged the event and Toria Richardson was the event’s producer. The event was held in London’s 155 Bishopsgate venue. Along with a large conference space, attendees met in three breakout areas and at an exhibition section.

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Shinedown using the Rogue R1 FX-B

LD Sooner Routhier Uses Bandit Lites’ New Chauvet Rogue R1 FX-B Fixtures for Shinedown Tour

KNOXVILLE, TN – For Shinedown’s “Carnival of Madness” tour, Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of lighting design firm SRae Productions worked with lighting director Carter Fulghum used Bandit Lites’ recently-acquired Chauvet Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures. Bandit Lites notes that their company is the first in the world to take these new fixtures out on tour. The Chauvet Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures give lighting designers and crew the ability to leverage a row of five individually controlled heads for new lighting looks.

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Sigur Rós

LD Bruno Poet Opts for GLP X4 Bars for Sigur Rós Concerts and Brian Friel’s Play, ‘Faith Healer’

LONDON – Bruno Poet has turned to GLP’s impression X4 Bars for concerts featuring Icelandic cult band Sigur Rós and other live events, including Brian Friel’s play, “Faith Healer,” at Donmar Warehouse in London. He was introduced to the fixtures by White Light’s Dave Isherwood, and used 16 for “Faith Healer” and 18 for Sigur Rós.

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Open House at Main Light

High End Systems Announces Main Light Industries Open House

WILMINGTON, DE. – High End Systems, a Barco Company, will be hosting an open house at Main Light Industries.  This event will allow customers to see and experience the latest technology from High End Systems, including SHAPESHIFTER, SolaSpot Pro 1000, SolaWash FX 1000, SolaSpot Pro 1500, SolaSpot Pro 2000, SolaWash Pro 2000, Uno, the Hog4 line of consoles and more.

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