CLUJ-NAPOCA, Romania — Prolyte Group is reporting strong demand for its BGR70 truss, noting that the massive truss will be used as mainstage support at the Untold festival in Romania this summer, set for Cluj-Napoca, Romania in early August. The Untold festival takes place across various locations in the city, including the impressive 30,000 seat Cluj Arena stadium.
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ANN ARBOR, MI – TLS Productions, Inc. announced that Sue McCloy, VP of Operations, has resigned from the company. “All of us at TLSP are sad to see Sue go, as Sue has been a valuable asset to the company for many years,” the company said, in a statement. McCloy joined TLS Productions, Inc. as Project Manager in 2002 and was promoted to VP of Operations in 2012.
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Entertainment Structural Products’ (ESP) new EuroPick is made for use with continuously webbed 290mm by 50mm box and tri-truss. The billet machined aluminum body is designed to be strong yet light, and the product can be positioned anywhere along the length of the truss in conventional topside, bottomside, right side up, or upside down in the crank stand configuration (with SAS crankstand adapter). All this functionality is enabled by slim hardened tool-steel clamps and aircraft quality spherical rod-ends, making installation a snap. The product is competitively priced with slings, and ESP-KNX promises their product is bound to improve your shows and your life.
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BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands — Relight Group B.V. upgraded the lighting rig for the 700-capacity Gebouw-T concert venue in Bergen Op Zoom, The Netherlands. New fixtures include a collection of Maverick MK2 Spot and Maverick MK2 Wash LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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SYRACUSE, NY — USITT is calling on the backstage community to promote safe stages with the third annual Rigging Safety Day on Arbor Day, April 28.
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LAS VEGAS — Elton John is recuperating in the U.K. after a bout with an unspecified illness that required a temporary hospital stay following his shows in South America, according to reports. A string of seven Million Dollar Piano shows slated for Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from April 25-May 4, plus a May 6 concert in Bakersfield, CA, were canceled.
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Vitec announced its second-generation HEVC codec (Gen2).
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Blizzard Lighting’s newest product series, IRiS™ professional video products, featuring the IRiS™ R3 LED video panel. This product is an ETL listed professional video panel ideal for either indoor rental or permanent installations. Each panel features 128×128 resolution (16,384 pixel), high-contrast 3-in-1 SMD2121 blackbody LEDs for vivid colors and wide gamut. IRiS R3 features 3.9mm pixel pitch, 1200nits brightness and 1920Hz refresh rate for eye and camera appeal.
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KIEV, Ukraine – Green Hippo was named as an official ‘Technical Event Supplier’ for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. This year’s show, to be held in Kiev, Ukraine on May 9, 11, and 13, with a visual assist from Green Hippo’s video playback equipment. The 62nd contest is expected to reach a TV audience of more than 200 million.
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NEW YORK — WorldStage provided an extensive media-server driven video package for the Broadway musical, Dear Evan Hansen, which relies on the technology to tell the story of a high school senior coping with social anxiety disorder. Before it opened on Broadway’s Music Box Theatre in Dec. 2016, the show was performed Off-Broadway. The musical premiered in July 2015 in Washington, DC. WorldStage supported those productions as well.
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The Garden Star LED fixture from Laserworld combines LED lighting with laser dots in an IP65 waterproof housing.
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LONDON – LD Jeff Maker’s design for All Time Low’s 2017 tour through U.K. venues, in support of the band’s forthcoming Last Young Renegade album, included Elation’s Protron 3K Color™ LED strobes, supplied by Zig Zag Lighting.
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