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Wenger Creates New Performing Arts Specialist Group, Names Jim Crooks to New Post

Wenger Creates New Performing Arts Specialist Group, Names Jim Crooks to New Post

OWATONNA, MN—Wenger Corporation continues to build on the tradition of the Wenger and J.R. Clancy brands in performing arts by investing in their products, services and team members. They have created the Performing Arts Specialist Group, which will be led by Mike Murphy, General Manger of Performing Arts, and will also nclude Damon Atwood and Jeff Jones. The company also hired Jim Crooks as Lighting Solutions Integrator.

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Avolites to Feature Ai v10, Titan v10.1 at PL+S 2017

FRANKFURT, Germany – Avolites will launch two software updates and showcase its new developments in lighting and video integration at this year’s Prolight + Sound 2017 in Frankfurt. Highlights include the company’s Ai v10 media server software, developed through real-world testing, and the latest Titan update, v10.1, with a plethora of end user-centric new features. Avolites will be in Hall 3 Level 0 Stand E80 throughout the four-day event.

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From left, Juan Camilo Triana, Guillermo Traverso and Camilo Aranguren.

Robe Announces New Colombian Distributor

BOGOTA – Czech moving light manufacturer Robe named AV Com as its new Colombian distributor. Pictured here, in Bogota Old Town, are Robe’s Latin America Sales Regional Sales Manager Guillermo Traverso (center) flanked by Juan Camilo Triana, Sales Manager for AV Com  on the left, and Camilo Aranguren, CEO of AV Com on the right.

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Elite Multimedia provided gear for Sooner Routhier's lighting design for Cole Swindell

Elite Multimedia Provides Gear for Cole Swindell’s 2017 Shows

NASHVILLE — Elite Multimedia is providing lighting gear including Claypaky Mythos, Elation Professional ACL 360i and Martin MAC Aura Wash fixtures to fulfill LD Sooner Routhier’s design for ACM award-winner Cole Swindell, who has joined Dierks Bentley’s 2017 “What the Hell” tour. Routhier worked with production manager James “Mo” Butts on the project.

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iHeartRadio Music Awards Lit with 500+ Claypaky Fixtures

LOS ANGELES – The 2017 edition of the iHeartRadio Music Awards, staged March 5 at the Forum in Inglewood, CA, celebrated the most popular artists and music of the past year, with the results tallied according to listeners of iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and the iHeartRadio digital music platform.  Jon Kusner, LD for 22 Degrees, used more than 500 Claypaky fixtures, grandMA2 full-size consoles and MDG theONE foggers/hazers for the recent show.

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Chauvet Professional STRIKE 1 Takes Center Stage in Polish Television Concert

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ZAKOPANE, Poland – Standing out against a giant fireworks display isn’t easy, but Adam Tyszka and Polish team from Aram and TVP accomplished this feat in stunning fashion recently with help from a collection of Chauvet Professional STRIKE 1 Fixtures supplies by LTT.  Tasked with lighting a massive televised celebration and concert in central Zakopane – close to Kraków, the designer and his team drew upon the powerful output of the warm white LED fixtures to accent the center of a large stage that hosted musical performances set against a dazzling pyrotechnics display.

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High School and Middle School students offering worship and fellowshipping at the Youth Evangelism Conference.

Bandit Lights Up Youth Evangelism Conference of Tennessee

NASHVILLE – The Nashville Municipal Auditorium was aglow March 10 and 11th with more than 8,000 high school and middle school students offering worship and fellowshipping at the Youth Evangelism Conference. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the event for Orchestrate Experience with Lighting Designer Trey Meares and Orchestrate Production Director Alex Fleming. Featured guests included Dave Edwards, The Skit Guys, Luke MacDonald and the YEC Worship Band.

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