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New Fuze Wash 575™ from Elation Optimized for Exhibit/Auto Show Market

New Fuze Wash 575™ from Elation Optimized for Exhibit/Auto Show Market

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LOS ANGELES – When companies present their newest products at exhibitions, aesthetics are crucial and lighting plays a key role in their presentation. Auto shows place especially high demands on lighting. That was the impetus behind development of Elation Professional’s new cool-white Fuze Wash 575™ LED PAR moving head luminaire with motorized beam control.

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Keeping it Light for Don Pasquale

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BELGIUM – Painting with Light renewed its long-term working collaboration with the Summer Opera at Alden Biesen, a beautiful 16th century castle in the village of Rijkhoven, Limburg, eastern Belgium … just a 20 minute drive from the creative design practice’s own HQ in Genk. Paco Mispelters from Painting with Light was tasked with lighting this year’s production of Gaetano Donizetti’s well known comic opera “Don Pasquale”, celebrating 20 years since the start of the successful annual opera event.  In keeping with the light-hearted and animated rhythm of the piece, Paco wanted to keep the lighting upbeat and vibrant in style and feel.

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Prolyte Group Expands Production To Support Its Growth

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LEEK, The Netherlands – Following continued growth, Prolyte Group has solved its need for additional production capacity by expanding its new production site in Piatra Olt, Romania, which was opened in 2016. With this expansion Prolyte has completed an additional 4400 m2 production space to the already impressive facilities. Consolidating all its European manufacturing capacity into an approx. 10.000 m2 facility, Prolyte Group can boost to have one of the largest and most modern production facilities for the manufacture of truss systems. And there’s room for further growth with expansion possibilities till 16.000m2.

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Pop Rock Festival Slovenia

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SLOVENIA – Teamwork is a great thing, and this was clearly evident for Slovenia’s 2017 PopRock Festival, a high profile national TV live event broadcast from Ljubljana, where lighting designer Crt Birsa and set designer Greta Godnic worked their creative magic in a special collaboration … with the help of 200 plus Robe lighting fixtures! The PopRock Festival, now in its second year, was staged at the Gospodarsko Razstavisce exhibition centre for the first time, bringing an interesting mix of pop and rock artists and bands who had battled it out to reach the final twelve.

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Rogues Rock Ribfest For 7th Heaven

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ELGIN, IL – Every Father’s Day, thousands of dads in the Chicago area are setting aside their backyard grills and heading out to the city’s western most exurb to sink their teeth into a mind boggling variety of real barbequed delights at the Elgin Ribfest. A true hog heaven for rib lovers, the two day event, which is held in downtown Elgin’s Festival Park, has become an annual tradition in the Windy City.

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Pole Kits Extend Enclosure Mounting Options

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CHEEKTOWAGA, NY – Sealed enclosures are designed for indoor or outdoor installation, and they will normally have holes positioned outside the sealed area to enable the enclosure to be attached directly to flat surfaces without compromising the environmental protection. In response to the need for small electronic monitoring and control systems to be installed in an increasingly wide variety of locations, Hammond Manufacturing has introduced an initial five sizes of Pole Mounting Kit, which enable three sealed enclosure families to be attached to round, square or rectangular poles with diameters from 38 to 381 mm. 

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Winkler Multi Media Events Expand The Potential Of GLP X4 Atoms

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SWITZERLAN  – Since investing in more 300 GLP X4 atoms at the end of last year, Swiss company Winkler Multi Media Events, has found that this small lamp from Karlsbad has developed into a versatile contender. The wide application possibilities range from small to large events as well as popular TV shows. Back in February this year, lighting designer Matthias Kern from broadcast service provider tpc switzerland ag used multiples of the X4 atom in gigantic matrix displays at the Swiss ESC (European Song Contest) preliminary voting round. Further assignments followed, most recently the SRF show “I’ll sing you a song” which is running for several weeks.

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Bobby "Boomer" Thrasher

Bobby Thrasher Named 2018 Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Honoree

ANAHEIM, CA – The Parnelli board of advisors announced that Bobby “Boomer” Thrasher, longtime production manager for Billy Joel and other top artists, will be honored with the 2018 Parnelli Audio Lifetime Achievement Award. The ceremony will take place Jan. 26, 2018 at the Hilton Hotel near the Anaheim Convention Center during Winter NAMM 2018.

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German EDM Festival “Tante Mia tanzt” Shines with Elation

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VECHTA, GERMANY – As Ascension Day is a traditional day off for Germans, what better way to spend it then at “Tanta Mia tanzt,” a one-day electro dance music festival with international and regional DJs. Held in the town of Vechta in northwest Germany, Tanta Mia tanzt debuted in 2016 and was back in 2017 with a lineup of EDM and house beat artists playing across multiple stages. The all-day EDM party with its unusual name (“Aunt Mia is dancing”) attracted more than 16,000 visitors this year.

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Holstebro Musikteatret Scores a Plus

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DENMARK – Holstebro Musikteatret in Denmark has invested in 24 new Robe LEDWash 600+’s which will be used throughout their facility, making the production lighting options more dynamic and flexible and saving valuable time during changeovers and technical time. The Musikteatret includes three main venues: a 1200 seater Main auditorium; the Black Box, a flexible space which can accommodate up to 1700 people standing and is where the fixtures will primarily be deployed … and The Hall of Fame bar which is also used for concerts, comedy, dining and events.

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