John McKernon and City Theatrical have announced that Lightwright 6, the newest version of software for managing entertainment lighting paperwork, will be released in April 2016. Lightwright 6 will be launched at USITT 2016 on March 17-19th in Salt Lake City. John McKernon will be on hand all three days to demonstrate the new features and to speak with present and future Lightwright users.
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KARLSBAD, Germany – GLP announced that one of its former senior employees. Dejan Hajdukovic, who had been part of the sales team from 2008-2012, is returning as Sales Managerl Hajdukovic will be based at company headquarters in Karlsbad, Germany.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Contour Veranstaltungsservice GmbH (Event Services) expanded its inventory with a new purchase 30 Clay Paky 100 Show Batten AS units last year. The company supported the visual needs at Wirtschaftstag 2015, an annual business forum that takes place at the Frankfurter Jahrhunderthalle, a convention center in Frankfurt, providing the newly purchased AS units along with 14 Show Batten 100s for that event.
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OTTAWA, Canada – Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner is on a world tour in support of his latest album ‘Positive Songs for Negative People’ with a punchy rock and roll lighting design by Shaun Moore using 30 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures. Moore of Nitelites, who has worked with Frank and his backing band The Sleeping Souls since 2010, is using the high advanced beam and spot hybrid for large backlight gobo looks and dynamic aerial work. Nitelites is providing the gear.
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All twenty-something slacker Dewey Finn wants to do is bring the rebellious spirit of rock ‘n’ roll back to the masses, but his stunted ambition and lack of income may force his friend/housemate Ned and his fiancée Patty to kick him out. However, when Dewey intercepts a temporary teaching assignment at the Horace Green prep school meant for his friend, he gets the opportunity not only to rake in some green but to teach some young kids the history of the genre and how to rock out and speak out against authority. They also enter a battle of the bands so that Dewey can live out his failed rock glory with them. But when the other teachers and parents discover his plans, their collective worlds are turned askew.
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Black Sabbath has widely been referred to as the band that started heavy metal music when the band formed in Birmingham, England back in 1968. There have been several incarnations of the band since then, leading up to their farewell tour this year with three out of the four original members. Guitarist Tommy Iommi has been the one consistent player in the band during their career and has joined forces again with singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler for 2016’s “The End” tour.
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MIAMI BEACH, Florida — For the Pulse event at New World Symphony (NWS) and its New World Center, which featured musicians, a DJ and dancers, Director of Lighting Luke Kritzeck used the facility’s own stock of elektraLite Dazer fixtures to transform the concert hall into a late-night lounge of sorts. Barbizon of Miami provided additional gear for the event.
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Once again, the fastest live show in television has come and gone. With headliners Coldplay along with special guest performers, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, the 12-minute Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show is in the record books as the third most watched Halftime Show; 115.5 million viewers in the U.S. alone. The Super Bowl was broadcast worldwide from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA.
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Hall and Oates are getting ready to spend some considerable time on the road this year, playing 95 percent amphitheaters while performing on some three-week long legs of a tour. They recently held a one-day production rehearsal followed by an intimate first show at the Santander Arena in Reading, PA. Then they packed it all up and headed to the Big Apple, where they sold out a Saturday night show at Madison Square Garden. Opening the show with “Out of Touch,” the hits kept coming, and the audience did their part to sing along at the big dance party.
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