HARTFORD, CT – Elton John’s epic “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour, which kicked off with a Sept. 8 show in Allentown, PA and continues with 300 shows planned for this year, 2019, 2020 and 2021, includes a lighting design from Patrick Woodroffe and set and staging design from Stufish and Tait. The show’s visuals strive to encapsulate the artist’s equally epic 50-plus-year career.
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Peruvian group Amén performed a spectacular homecoming gig at Lima’s Gran Teatro Nacional in August to mark two decades of success
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An annual tradition since the early 20th century, the burning of Zozobra during the Fiestas de Santa Fe is said to make all concerns and worries go up in smoke, giving everyone a fresh new start.
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EUROPE – Avolites’ compact but punch-packing new Ai Q3 media server provided the video oomph for Finnish rockers Sunrise Avenue during their recent European festivals… Read More »Avolites Ai Q3 Fires Up Visuals for Sunrise Avenue’s Festivals Tour
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The City of Cambridge, Ontario, has brought a 20-minute projection mapping show to its downtown core, delivered by Westbury National services and Christie® technology.
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NASHVILLE – Jason Aldean’s High Noon Neon Tour, which first hit the road in early May, continues this month with a series of shows in Toronto, the Midwest and California. Chris Lisle’s lighting rig includes 64 Rogue RH1 Hybrids from Chauvet Professional. Bandit Lites is supplying the gear.
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Before making its high profile debut on this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, GLP’s new KNV went out on a ‘field test’ tour with German band Scooter.
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PORTLAND, OR – Two of Foo Fighters’ recent Concrete and Gold tour stops had to be postponed when frontman Dave Grohl lost his voice in early September. “That’s the last time I ever make out with Bono,” Grohl quipped, days after U2 also had to cancel shows to allow for vocal rest. (Thankfully, both singers have since recovered.) Along with Grohl’s full-throated vocals, show-goers can look forward to some spectacular visuals driven by disguise’s gx range media servers running the latest r15 software.
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LOS ANGELES – There’s an eye-catching new feature in downtown Los Angeles: three giant LED screens covering an eight-story parking structure near L.A. Live and Staples Center. The screens are part of the Circa complex that includes twin 35-story luxury residential towers. SNA Displays chose Christie Terra as the switching, scaling and signal extension solution for the LEDs’ 4K content.
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My Name’s Not Indian Joe, the Elizabeth A. Davis blues-tinged musical about the unlikely bond formed between a homeless Native American man and a young aspiring Texas beauty queen comes to the stage.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the third annual Black Music Honors, an evening paying tribute to trailblazing icons. Hosted by Rickey Smiley and LeToya Luckett at Nashville’s TPAC on Aug. 16, LD Mark Carver’s rig included nearly 200 fixtures including GLP X4S, Elation ACL 360 Bars, Chauvet Rogue RH1 Hybrids, Robe BMFLs, Claypaky B-Eye K20 and Bandit’s GRNLite moving washes.
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WE Day is an event that brings young people together and celebrates the actions they have taken towards changing the world
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