An estimated 250,000 people turned up for Nashville’s Let Freedom Sing! 4th of July Celebration. Bandit Lites worked with Chris Lisle of Chris Lisle Lighting Design to provide the lighting for both The Jack Daniel’s Broadway Stage as well as the Ascend Amphitheatre.Read More »Bandit Lights Up Nashville’s Fourth of July Celebration
In 2022, lighting professional Jose Lorenzo used Obsidian’s NX2™ lighting console to great success on Giovanni Pernice’s This is Me dance show, so when the Strictly Come Dancing star decided to tour a bigger show in 2023—Made in Italy—the designer again turned to Obsidian, but this time upgraded to the greater control possibilities inherent in the NX4™.Read More »Jose Lorenzo Commends NX4™ Control on UK Dance Productions
The Las Vegas–based, Show and Design Group (SDG) announces the addition of Melissa Skipworth as an Account Executive. Skipworth brings over 20 years of experience in trade show and experiential marketing management experience. Skipworth is praised for her design sensibility, especially lighting, and is well known for being adaptive and always respecting the clients’ needs. Skipworth will serve as the primary point of contact for her clients and SDG.Read More »Melissa Skipworth Joins Show and Design Group
From the outside, the sturdy three-story former church with a central clock just off Leidse Square in Amsterdam looks much like any of the other majestic stone structures built in northern Europe during the late 19th century. Inside, though, this building’s walls reverberate with the echoes of a very unique musical heritage that began 55 years ago when it was reborn as Paradiso, with an inaugural concert by Pink Floyd.Read More »Iconic Paradiso Updates with CHAUVET Professional
Lighting Designer Mike Swinford of UpLate Design Inc. loves new tech as much as he loves the chance to be the first to use it, so he was delighted when everything aligned for rental company Fuse Technical Group to invest in the first Robe FOOTSIE luminaires to arrive in the USA… which he utilized as a key lighting element for the 2023 CMA Fest.Read More »First Robe FOOTSIES in the US on CMA Fest
With stars like Zeds Dead, STS9, Louis The Child, Subronics, Liquid Stranger, Walker & Royce, and Alesso, The Other Stage at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival served up plenty of EDM firepower. Only a beefed up, high-intensity lighting rig could match the ferocity of this music – and that’s precisely what Chris Lisle provided with help from 325 CHAUVET Professional fixtures, which like the rest of the rig were supplied by 4Wall Entertainment.Read More »Chris Lisle Creates Dynamic Light Canvas at Bonnaroo with CHAUVET Professional Fixtures From 4Wall
OSA International, a full-service production company with offices in Las Vegas, Nashville, and Chicago, is expanding its executive team with the appointment of industry veteran Bobby Allen as Vice President of Entertainment. OSA has tapped the industry veteran to grow its touring division.Read More »Bobby Allen Joins OSA International as Executive Vice President of Entertainment
The Event Safety Alliance has just announced that ESA’s Crowd Safety Symposium is headed to Houston this November 5-6, prior to the Event Safety Summit. Join them for this immersive two-day workshop, where you’ll gain valuable insights into the four fundamental aspects of crowd safety and learn essential techniques for planning and managing safe pedestrian flows.
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VIP Production Northwest of Spokane, WA, recently added Elation Professional’s Smarty MAX™ hybrid moving head to inventory and see the multifunctional light as an essential tool in what is shaping up to be a busy summer rental season.Read More »VIP Production Northwest Chooses Flexible Elation Smarty MAX™ for Rental Inventory
Noted rock ‘n’ roll Tour Manager Sam Cutler passed away on July 11, 2023 in Brisbane, Australia, after a bout with cancer. He was 80.Read More »In Memoriam: Tour Manager Sam Cutler, 80
Show and Design Group in Las Vegas invites you to its next MA Lounge V1.3 for Brisket, Bourbon, and Busking. Join them, MA Lighting International, and ACT Entertainment on Wednesday July 26th, from 6 – 10pm PDT for the next MA Lounge V1.3.Read More »Join Show and Design Group for Brisket, Bourbon, and Busking July 26 in Las Vegas
Poland’s national broadcasting organization Polish National Television (TVP) S.A. broadcasts across 24 TV channels and is a source of news, opinion, and diversity with creative production and programming covering every genre of broadcasting from news and sports to drama, soaps, talk shows, documentaries, comedy, debates, political commentary and current affairs, music shows, cultural and educational programs and many more. It also produces its own series and movies together with an array of festivals. The organization has enthusiastically invested in Robe moving lights over the years with over 600 now in the inventory.Read More »TVP – Polish National TV Keeps Rolling with Robe