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Grace Church of Wooster, Ohio Adds Hitachi Z-HD5000 Cameras

Grace Church of Wooster, Ohio Adds Hitachi Z-HD5000 Cameras

Grace Church of Wooster, Ohio Adds Hitachi Z-HD5000 Cameras

WOOSTER, OH — For churches around the globe, video has become an integral aspect of connecting with their congregants, providing a powerful medium to share their message while enabling them to expand beyond their walls. When 75-year-old Grace Church of Wooster, Ohio launched its first video initiatives last year, it selected Z-HD5000 HDTV cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) to capture live services and events.

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Movie projections were added on Saturdays in August for the 2016 Hermosa Beach Sunset Beach Free Concert Series

Sew What? Supports Free Concerts, Movie Program in Hermosa Beach, CA

HERMOSA BEACH, CA – Saint Rocke and the City of Hermosa Beach augmented the Hermosa Beach Summer Concert Series this summer, adding a free movie night every Saturday in August to the concerts that take place on Sundays. Stage Drapery manufacturer, Sew What? Inc. and its sister company, Rent What? Inc. also expanded their involvement in the event, crafting the new projection screen along with the regular staging elements for the free events.

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Mega FX H1 Hazer

Mega FX H1 Hazer

Mega-Lite’s new line of Mega FX products includes the H1 Hazer. The unit promises to enhance the appearance of beams and lighting fixtures, serving as a compact yet powerful hazer. Along with long haze hang times and even particle dispersion, the H1 Hazer offers output at the rate of 9,000 cubic feet per minute. It can be used after just a one-minute warmup time frame.  The H1 Hazer holds 1/4 gallon of Mega Nectar, the company’s own water-based haze fluid, which is designed to work without leaving behind residue on nearby surfaces.

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Lonnie Taylor and Chas O’Bradovich

Morris Adds Two New Team Members to Light & Sound Division

NASHVILLE – Morris announced two new team members to its Light & Sound division. Industry veteran Lonnie Taylor has been named director of business development & sales and Chas O’Bradovich as lighting department manager. Taylor brings nearly 30 years of tour management and production experience to Morris. O’Bradovich comes to Morris from Omaha, Nebraska, where she previously worked as a technician at Theatrical Media Services.

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Bandit lit Shinedown's latest tour

Bandit Lights Shinedown’s ‘Carnival of Madness’ Tour

NASHVILLE — Hard rock band Shinedown recently wrapped their Carnival of Madness tour with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. The tour included performances by Bandit client Halestorm, Black Stone Cherry and Whiskey Myers and featured Shinedown’s most recent album Threat to Survival, which topped Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums chart and included the hit single, “Cut the Cord.”

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All That Jazz Festival in the Bahamas Lit by FLDA

Fourth Annual All That Jazz Festival in the Bahamas Lit by FLDA

ELEUTHERA, Bahamas —The 4th Annual All That Jazz Festival on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas is an annual fund-raiser for the local Haynes Library. Supporting creative thinking and problem solving through its many programs, the Haynes Library values its responsibility to the wider community and holds a special place in the life of the island. Just as the library works to continually raise the bar of education and technology access, after three years of simple lighting, this year’s festival looked to increase the lighting production values for its Saturday night jazz sessions at the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve, which is located in the settlement of Governor’s Harbour. Ferri Lighting Design and Associates (FLDA) brought in lighting equipment from off-island to realize LD Bruce Ferri’s design in the Preserve’s outdoor pavilion.

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Screen Goo from Rose Brand

Screen Goo from Rose Brand

Rose Brand is offering Screen Goo, a substance that promises to transform any smooth surface into a high-performance projection screen. It’s a specially formulated, highly reflective acrylic paint that’s designed specifically for video projection. Screen Goo is appropriate for all levels of video use, including home theater, houses of worship, conference rooms, point of purchase displays, large-scale commercial venues and even outdoors (with special instructions). Most Screen Goo products must be purchased in pairs i.e., a base or reflective coat and a finish or top coat.

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LD Lenny Sasso guided the venue toward Chauvet COLORado and Rogue fixtures.

Philadelphia’s Union Transfer Music Venue Equipped with Chauvet Professional Gear

PHILADEPHIA — Lenny Sasso was called in earlier this year to update the lighting system within Philadelphia’s Union Transfer live music venue, which had a long history before it started to beckon music lovers in 2011. Sasso included Chauvet Professional lighting fixtures in the new system, including eight Rogue R2 Washes, 16 COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tours and two Strike 882 white LED strobe fixtures

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Photo by Markus Rasmussen

Robe BMFLs Rock Roskilde Arena

ROSKILDE, Denmark – Production lighting designer Sune Verdier arranged for 40 Robe BMFL Spots to be at the heart of the rig lighting the 17,000 capacity Arena Stage at the 2016 Roskilde Festival, giving visiting LDs the tools they’d need to craft a variety of impressive looks. It was his fifth year coordinated the show visuals. Copenhagen-based rental company Comtech supplied the BMFLs, and other lighting fixtures, for the event, including 24 Robe Pointes.

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Dierks Bentley

Dierks Bentley’s “Somewhere on a Beach” Tour Aided by Elation Lighting

SPRING, TX — Dierks Bentley is hot. Not only has the country artist’s latest album “Black” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard and Top Album Sales charts this summer, he’s been selling out his “Somewhere on a Beach” tour at nearly every stop. He has recently added a second leg that will have him out on the road through October as Lighting Designer Chris Reade continues his 10th year illuminating this act.

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