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Kieran Healy’s Lighting Rig for “American Idol” Includes Ayrton Ghibli LED Spots

LOS ANGELES – After 15 seasons on FOX, American Idol moved to ABC this year. The rig from the show’s longtime LD, Kieran Healy, included 50 Ayrton Ghibli LED spot luminaires. The fixtures, sourced via A.C.T Lighting, offer designers a factory-equipped framing system. Most of the fixtures (45) are used for performance lighting; five keylight and backlight the judges.

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Old Dominion’s “Happy Endings” Tour Rig Brightens with Elation Fixtures

NASHVILLE — Old Dominion’s Happy Endings world tour ran from Feb. 1-24 in North America before heading to the U.K. and Ireland and wrapping up with two dates in Australia in mid-March. The shows featured a lighting design by Travis Shirley that relied upon Elation Chorus Line 16 and Cuepix Blinder WW2 fixtures supplied by Nashville-based Morris.

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Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame 2018 Inductees Include Bob Morrissey, Andrew Polin and LeRoy Bennett

PAWTUCKET, RI – The Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame (RIMHOF) announced its 2018 inductees, including three honorees in the Technical/Lighting category: Bob Morrissey Andrew Polin and LeRoy Bennett (pictured here, L-R). Before helming Warwick, RI-based East Coast Lighting and Production Services (ECLPS), Morrissey co-founded Polico Lighting with Polin. Bennett, also from Warwick, joined as a tech before launching his career in lighting and production design as a lighting director on Prince’s Dirty Mind tour in late 1980.

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