FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Beach Park in Florida’s famous spring break city is 893 miles from Ryman Auditorium, birthplace of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. But for three days this April, the eyes of the country music world were on Fort Lauderdale, as the Tortuga Music Festival welcomed Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Joe Nichols and Dierks Bentley and a host of other hot country artists to its main stage.
ARLINGTON, TX – For WWE’s WrestleMania 32, held at AT&T Stadium (home of the Dallas Cowboys) on April 3, Syncrolite provided an arsenal of luminous firepower including MX4, SXL and XL fixtures. The setup for the 101,763 fans packing the stadium (a WrestleMania record) also included 40 of Syncrolite’s newest fixture, the SyncroMITE Beam. Introduced at LDI last October, the SyncroMITE Beam is now in full production and available for immediate rental and sale.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – Singer songwriter Hozier toured the U.K. earlier this year in support of his self-titled debut album, released in mid-February. LD Matthew Kilmurry included Clay Paky Mythos fixtures in a carefully crafted lighting design, noting that the fixture played “one of the most versatile roles in the show.” Adlib Audio provided the gear.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Prolight + Sound’s organizers noted that the 2016 event, held April 5-8, welcomed 940 exhibitors from 47 countries. The event’s organizers also noted that the visitor count also set a record in 2016, with close to 45,000 visitors from 121 countries attending.
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NEW YORK – For Eric Prydz’ EPIC 4.0 shows in the U.S. this spring, the DJ got visual support from longtime collaborators RES, who created a colossal visual show driven by Avolites Ai S4 servers. The team includes Mark Calvert of RES (production director), Liam Tomaszewski (creative director and VJ), Ross Chapple (lighting designer), Ian Gotts (tour production manager) and Dave Green (Ai programmer). Also supporting the shows are production companies PRG, PRG Nocturne USA and Lightware USA.
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Laserworld Showeditor FREE was presented at Prolight+Sound 2016 for the first time. It is a free ILDA laser show control software, that incorporates the features of the Laserworld Showeditor full version except the direct output to a hardware interface. It can be used for creating logos, text, animations and aerial effects and exporting them to the standard *.ild file format. This file format is compatible to all ILDA standard SD-card playback systems for show laser lights, so the Laserworld Showeditor FREE can be used with SD-card lasers of almost any brand.
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DUBLIN – Irish rental and production specialist Just Lite delivered full technical production, including lighting equipment and design, for BAMMA 24 working for production manager Sven Knight and his team from KRS. The mixed martial arts tournament was staged in 3 Arena, Dublin, and broadcast live on Spike (UK) Channel 5 in the UK and Ireland, ESPN 3 in the US plus numerous others worldwide as well as streamed live via main sponsor Lonsdale’s Facebook.
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PITTSBURGH, PA – Four years after masterminding the set design for Blake Shelton’s first major tour, creative director Steve Cohen has been brought in again to unite lighting and video into a fluid stage set redolent of the artist’s Oklahoma roots. And once again he has relied heavily upon GLP’s LED fixtures, sourcing more than 200 of the German company’s X4 Series units from his regular vendor, Beame (formerly Atomic Lighting).
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MIAMI – ADJ’s 2016 Nightclub Expo event, to be held at the ADJ Miami location, is set for Thursday, May 12, 2016 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The facility is located at 13185 NW 47th Ave., Opa-locka, Florida 33054. This free event is aimed at venue owners of nightclubs, bars, lounges and restaurants with nighttime entertainment, as well as, nightclub DJs, lighting designers, tastemakers, nightlife influences, and party planners.
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LINGEN, Germany – Andreas Bourani is currently out on an arena tour of his native Germany in support of his latest album, Hey, with a lighting design by Nik Evers. The setup includes Clay Paky Mythos and A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures. Evers, who also designed the staging and video content alongside Timo Marten and Philip Hillers, specified the hybrid Mythos and the LED wash and effects light B-EYE from Black Box Music.
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CYPRESS, CA – Christie chairman, president and CEO Jack Kline detailed progress that the company and its corporate parent, Ushio, have made in the 10 years since the launch of their Environmental Management System (EMS). The system, based on ISO 14001, focuses on building and continually improving Christie’s environmental performance. The EMS encompasses numerous environmental programs including waste reduction, recycling, water and electricity reduction, facility and operational improvements, with a significant net CO2 reduction.
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MINNEAPOLIS — When Minneapolis’ Skyway Theatre hosted punk-turned-EDM duo Adventure Club, LD Ryan Warffuel and others at Antic Studios filled the cavernous 2,000-capacity former cinema with big video and lighting looks using gear from Chauvet Professional. Warffuel, VJ/content creator Max Koehler and the rest of the Antic Studios team (Derrick Koehler, Brandon Rathke, and JD Vanderwiel) deployed 41 PVP S5 LED video panels, 12 Rogue R1 Beam fixtures and four Q-Wash 260-LED washes.
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