LONDON – There’s a massive new 200-fixture rig that was going to premiere at the now-canceled Prolight + Sound 2020 show. There are also a lot of talented lighting programmers and designers finding themselves “stuck at home,” who would love a chance to show their creative chops. Put them both together, and you have an exciting remedy for the “Coronavirus Blues,” called the ChamSys Online Programmers Competition.
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WILKES-BARRE, PA – Mountain Productions, a longtime provider of staging structures for live event production, is gearing up to provide quick-to-assemble modular structures that can… Read More »Mountain Productions Offering Modular Structures for Disaster Relief
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LAS VEGAS – National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) president and CEO Gordon H. Smith issued a letter March 20 outlining the need to cancel NAB… Read More »NAB President and CEO Gordon H. Smith Letter on NAB Show 2020 Cancellation
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NAMM announced plans to conduct a webinar on small business relief resources amid the Covid-19 crisis. More details from NAMM (www.namm.org): NAMM COVID-19 Small Business Relief… Read More »NAMM Presents Webinar on COVID-19 Small Business Relief Resources
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A petition on Change.org appealing for government aid amid the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent cancelations of meetings and events that began in March and continue… Read More »Petition for Covid-19 Federal Aid Package for Events Industry Signed by Close to 300,000
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PITTSBURGH – Expectations were high when Code Orange announced plans for their Underneath album release party. It wasn’t only fans of the award-winning metal… Read More »Code Orange Live Streams Album Release Party Lit With Help From CHAUVET Professional
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LAGUNA HILLS, CA – A group of leading live event industry organizations has joined together to create a GoFundMe campaign to raise $250,000 in donations… Read More »Live Event Industry Organizations Team Up to Support Roadies
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BOSTON – For 2020’s audience-restricted Dropkick Murphys St. Patrick’s Day show, livestreamed to fans via Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Twitch, LD Brian Lareau served up the looks with an assist from more than 100 Chauvet Professional fixtures and video panels provided by Events United.
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COLUMBIA, MD – Global design and BIM software solutions provider Vectorworks, Inc. releases Vectorworks 2020 Service Pack 3 (SP3) with quality and performance improvements as the central… Read More »Vectorworks 2020 SP3 Launch Brings Quality and Performance Improvements
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DALLAS – For Posty Fest, rapper Post Malone’s second annual live music festival held Nov. 2 in his hometown of Dallas, creative directors and designers Lewis James and Travis Brothers used 178 Claypaky Xtylos fixtures. The event marked the first use of the new Xtylos fixtures in the U.S.
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SPOKANE, WA – American rock band Alter Bridge wrapped up a four-week tour of U.S. cities in late February with lighting designer Joshua Light directing a Bandit Lites-supplied lighting system that included Elation’s compact, multi-functional Smarty Hybrid moving head.
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LAS VEGAS – AVIXA CEO David Labuskes released a statement on Coronavirus and its impact on AVIXA and its trade shows. Major developments include:… Read More »AVIXA CEO David Labuskes Statement on Coronavirus
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