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Bandit Lights Up Good Morning America CMA Concert

Bandit Lights Up Good Morning America CMA Concert

[caption id="attachment_273458" align="alignnone" width="800"]Dierks plays Nashville streets the morning of the CMA Concert[/caption]

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Dierks Bentley was up at dawn to kick off the morning of the 50th Annual CMA Awards with a live performance on the streets of Nashville with Good Morning America. The televised concert featured a lighting package designed by Mark Carver and provided by Bandit Lites. The crowd was treated to hearing Bentley’s new single “Black,”

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Emergency Production Supports buildOn Gala At Waldorf Astoria With CHAUVET Professional

[caption id="attachment_273455" align="alignnone" width="960"]buildOn Gala At Waldorf Astoria[/caption]

NEW YORK – The elegantly appointed Grand Ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria is impressive. Its 44’ high ceiling, custom made 16’ diameter chandelier and ornate carved balconies provide a dramatic setting for any event. To stand out against this backdrop, a stage presentation has to be as bold and dramatic as the ballroom itself. Chris Hubbard and his team at Emergency Production provided just such a presentation recently for buildOn, a global charity, with help from 117 PVP S7 panels from CHAUVET Professional.

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Adlib supports Death of a Bachelor!

[caption id="attachment_273452" align="alignnone" width="800"]Adlib supports Death of a Bachelor![/caption]

EUROPE – Adlib renewed its excellent and long term working relationship with Grammy nominated US rock band Panic! at The Disco, providing sound, video and lighting production, plus crew for their recent UK and European tours. Once again Tony Marino was at the helm as the highly-respected tour manager. The band released their fifth studio album, ‘Death of a Bachelor’ in January 2016 and have had a mega busy year.

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Blink 182 reformed and are on tour

Blink-182 Tours with Robe BMFL Blades

IRVINE, CA — For Blink-182’s 2016 return to the road, in support of the band’s mid-2016 album release, California, the production design by Dominic Smith from Neon Black featured 40 BMFL Blades supplied by VER. Twelve of the BMFL Blades are used as key lights on the front of the band, and the rest as high-impact back lighting and effects.

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Electric Bounce House

Chauvet Professional Lights The Chainsmokers, Cash Cash and Daya At Electric Bounce House

BOSTON – There was no shortage of star power on stage at Boston’s House of Blues on Monday December 5, as the legendary venue, hosted Electric Bounce House. The 2,500 capacity concert hall welcomed an Electric Bounce House lineup of artists who often would be playing at an arena or amphitheater. Opening the evening was Grammy-nominated teenage sensation Daya. As the evening progressed, the music grew  electronic with the progressive house dance group Cash Cash, followed by Grammy-nominated The Chainsmokers. 

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Jim James on tour with Solaris Mozarts. Photo by Eric Mayers

Jim James Tour Features Solaris Mozarts

USA – My Morning Jacket (MMJ) founder and front man Jim James embarked on a solo tour this fall, opening on the West Coast and closing Dec. 18 at Iron City, Birmingham, Alabama.  Veteran MMJ Designer Marc Janowitz conceived a “forest” of 57 Solaris Mozarts as a main design feature for the tour. “The Mozarts are used as stand-alone fixtures,” explains Janowitz, “each one mounted at the end of goosenecks, LP claws, mic stand boom arms, and other lightweight audio accessories.”

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Jonathan Bernbaum, 1982-2016

In Memoriam: Jonathan Bernbaum, 34

OAKLAND, CA — Jonathan Bernbaum, a prominent VJ and video artist affiliated with Circuit 5 Visuals, Knife Party and V Squared Labs, was among the 36 victims trapped in the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire on Dec. 2, 2016. He was 34.

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ETC Gio @5 Console

ETC Gio @5 Console

The Eos family of consoles just got bigger – by going smaller. After a successful preview at LDI, ETC has officially launched the Gio @5 console, which brings the acclaimed, professional-grade control of the Eos Ti and Gio consoles within reach of users with tighter spaces – and tighter budgets.

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HotStik™ 5 COB Mini

Blizzard Lighting HotStik 5 COB Mini

[caption id="attachment_273439" align="alignnone" width="800"]HotStik™ 5 COB Mini [/caption]

Blizzard’s HotStik™ 5 COB Mini is a is a smaller, half-meter version of the oriinal Blizzard HotStik™ 5 COB 5-in-1 LED batten. It features six 25W RGBAW COB LEDs, PowerCON  compatible power in/out connectors, 3-pin DMX connectors and an array of built-in color macros, automated programs, sound active mode via master/slave, and 4/5/6/8 or 11-channel DMX modes.

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ILC Names Nick Vitogiannes Business Development and Production Manager

[caption id="attachment_273437" align="alignnone" width="335"]Nick Vitogiannes joins ILC[/caption]

CHICAGO – ILC has hired Nick Vitogiannes as a business development and production manager. Nick has been in the entertainment industry for more than 10 years designing and selling, live shows, events, and tours. Throughout that time, he worked for various companies as the Director of Production companies like:  PSAV, Meetinghouse, and RGB Lights. 

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Frank "The Tank" Schotman

Frank Schotman Joins Elation Professional’s European Sales Team

KERKRADE, The Netherlands — Elation Professional named lighting industry veteran Frank Schotman technical sales representative and product specialist for the company’s European sales team. Schotman, who has 25 years of industry experience, comes to Elation from the AED Group, where he served as a senior product specialist supporting High End Systems’s fixtures and Hog 4 consoles. He also worked for Eclipse Staging Services in Dubai as head of lighting.

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Gibonni & Oliver Tour with Large Robe Rig

[caption id="attachment_273432" align="alignnone" width="800"]88 Robe Fixtures were used in the production[/caption]

MUNICH, Germany – Leading Croatian artists Gibonni & Oliver are on an extensive European tour campaign supporting their collaborative new album “Familija” (Family) with a brand new lighting design by Gibonni’s long term LD Sven Kučnić based around 88 Robe moving lights – a combination of Pointes, MMX Spots and MMX WashBeams. Sven’s design is adaptable to be able to fit into the wide variety of different venue sizes on the itinerary.

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