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MIDDLETON, WI – Official games for the new NFL season start on Sept. 7th, but the season really began in April at the NFL Draft. The 2017 draft took place in Philadelphia for the first time since 1961, and to commemorate its return, the NFL supersized the entire affair. They shut down streets, took over the “Rocky Steps” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and even painted the sides of skyscrapers with real-time draft info and team marks (logos) pixel-mapped up to 47-stories high.  

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[caption id="attachment_279047" align="alignnone" width="800"]Alt-J plays Los Angeles Photo credit Bree Kristel Clarke[/caption]

SAN FRANCISCO – Having completed the American leg of their tour in support of their new album Relaxer, alt-J have arrived in Europe for theatre and arena dates – and a full production inventory that includes multiples of GLP’s X4 Bar 20s. Liteup Events supplied the core control package for lighting and video worldwide and the entire production in Europe, while Upstaging provided the lighting inventory in the States. Marc Callaghan, who co-founded Liteup Events with Kris Box, has been working as crew chief on the tour.

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LOS ANGELES – Although the recent total eclipse of the sun dominated headlines another celestial-themed event also attracted crowds in August.  Moonrise, the annual EDM festival held at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course, drew fans to its four stages where an array of Claypaky fixtures and grandMA2 consoles supported a lineup of DJs, bands and rappers. Moonrise 2017, which grew out of the Starscape rave in Baltimore, marked its fourth year at the Pimlico location.  It ran from noon to 11 pm on August 12 and 13.

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ANAHEIM, CA – Pro event tech professionals can now register to attend The 2018 NAMM Show, January 25-28, in Anaheim California. The show, which annually gathers over 100,000 attendees from 139 countries and regions, will take on a new look in the form of communities across the show floor, including expanded event technology and pro audio areas; the addition of a new building, Anaheim Convention Center North (ACC North); as well as a new education and professional development campus, provided by a variety of industry leading experts in their respective fields.

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NASHVILLE – Three-time Grammy award winning artist Jill Scott kicked off her 25-city summer tour in June. Designers Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of SRae Productions were tasked with creating a lighting design for the singer-songwriter with gear provided by 4Wall Nashville.

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BLOOMINGTON, MN – Love, hope and beauty have a way of transcending time, place and culture. This eternal alchemy is at the heart of The Secret Garden, the Tony Award winning musical that follows the transformational journey of Mary Lenox, a young British girl, who moves from India to England after being orphaned and opens a window into a new life by rescuing an abandoned garden at her reclusive uncle’s estate. This metamorphic passage is conveyed in light at the Artistry group’s 2017 revival of the Marsha Norman- Lucy Simon classic with help from a collection of CHAUVET Professional Rogues supplied by Monkey Wrench Productions.

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NEW YORK – With investors still seeking clarity on what happened to more than a half a million dollars they provided to Billy McFarland’s Fyre Media Inc. to fund the inaugural Fyre Festival in the Bahamas this year, a federal judge has ordered that Fyre Festival LLC file for chapter seven bankruptcy, according to reports.

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NASHVILLE – Jeff Mathews of Borealis Stage Lighting has been lighting country duo Dan + Shay since early 2016. For this year’s tour, the setup includes a ChamSys MagicQ MQ 80 and an extra wing to control an expandable rig featuring Chauvet Professional Strike 1 warm white LED blinders.

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[caption id="attachment_278959" align="alignnone" width="800"]Nine Inch Nails play Bakersfield – photo credit Bree Kristel Clarke [/caption]

SAN FERNANDO, CA – Legendary industrial rock pioneers Nine Inch Nails (NIN), led by the charismatic Trent Reznor, are back on the touring circuit, with a series of Summer and Fall Festival dates. Their long serving lighting designer, Paul ‘Arlo’ Guthrie, has extended his association with German LED moving head pioneers GLP, and their unique solutions — in particular the new JDC1 LED hybrid strobe — dominate a full production inventory. This has been supplied by Curry Grant at PRG.

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – When fans of American singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw arrive at a show of his, they can anticipate the Grammy-nominated artist to play all his hits, albeit with one notable modification: a pared down band. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the production, and while previous tours elicited more of a rock show feel, the Gavin DeGRAW TOUR utilizes a three-piece band to give a much more stripped back, intimate feel. “We wanted a classic and intimate look to fit this show,” said Production Manager Mitch Vanhoose. “Also going into smaller venues, we wanted to keep it somewhat scalable. What we ended up with is a simple yet elegant look.”

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