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LOVELAND, CO –  Determined to remain true to their musical roots, the organizers of the ARISE Music Festival have steadfastly avoided lengthening its name to include the word “art.” Yet even though there was no shortage of great music at the 2017 version of this event, including national acts like Ani DiFranco, Tipper and Lettuce, ARISE was almost as much about seeing as listening. From a flaming owl that warmed people at night, to a gigantic willow sculpture, to painters off stage doing live art interpretations of the music, this early August festival served up a variety of surreal and beguiling looks.

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[caption id="attachment_278852" align="alignnone" width="800"]Foreigner on tour with See Factor and Elation Arena Pars[/caption]

CHULA VISTA, CA – A rock staple for 40 years and one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who couldn’t sing a string of Foreigner songs. The renowned group recently released Forty Hits from Forty Years with an accompanying 40th Anniversary Tour. Used to create a 70’s rock par can look but with the benefits of a modern intelligent luminaire are 108 Arena Par Zoom fixtures, appropriately featured in an old-school lighting design by Dan Lastovka. The lights were supplied by See Factor.

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[caption id="attachment_278849" align="alignnone" width="800"]Paul McCartney plays Fresno[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – Paul McCartney’s long-running “One on One World Tour” has added 21 dates in the U.S. this summer and fall.  LD LeRoy Bennett, tasked with highlighting “a vast array of musical styles over the decades” during the course of the three-hour show, has been using Claypaky, Robert Juliat and grandMA2 gear.

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USA – JR Lighting provided the lighting, rigging and control package for the U.S. leg of American pop punk band All Time Low’s “The Young Renegades” tour , a successful six-week run this summer that featured Elation Professional lighting and video. Lighting designer Jeff Maker (Pierce the Veil, The Dresden Dolls) has worked with All Time Low for the past eight years and earlier this year used Elation lighting on a string of shows in the UK and Europe. For 2017’s U.S. leg he added a dominant upstage visual piece in the form of an eye-catching LED video wall.

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ANAHEIM, CA – As the global crossroads of the music products, pro sound and event technology industries, the 2018 NAMM Show will offer a wealth of opportunities for professionals involved in event technology to enhance their careers and make meaningful connections. The robust schedule of professional education will be held each day of The 2018 NAMM Show, January 25-28 in the NAMM Education Campus located inside the Anaheim Hilton Hotel.

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DALLAS – Extending color beyond the stage in a house of worship is an effective way to engage church-goers believes Marcus Hammond. A consultant with Stark Raving Solutions, Hammond knows whereof he speaks. He has helped churches of all sizes create more immersive environments by color coordinating house and stage lighting.

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NASHVILLE  – St. Paul and the Broken Bones, the energetic eight piece rock band from Alabama, is bringing their high-voltage soul sound to cities across the nation with a lighting package designed by Chris Lisle and provided by Bandit Lites. Following the band’s incredible, two-night sold-out shows at the historic Ryman Auditorium, Chris Lisle returned to Bandit Lites to outfit the production with a lighting package that would provide similar punch and dynamic looks while still keeping space and efficiency in the foreground of planning, as this package had to fit in a trailer behind the tour bus.

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PHILADELPHIA – Alex Pall and Drew Taggart, the EDM artists who have been performing as The Chainsmokers, embarked on their first arena tour earlier this year, visiting 36 cities across North America. The multi-faceted show was designed and produced by Miguel Risueno, aka Mike808, and Corey Johnson of Production Club, Los Angeles, with a lighting design from Cory FitzGerald and production management by Clancy Silver.

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BUTLER, OH – The theme of the fourth annual EST Festival, which took place outside Cleveland August 11-13, was “1970 Something,” a tribute to those unruly, hard-driving days when social inhibitions seemed to be falling like bowling pins.  Early Seventies style swagger was out in full force during the two-day festival, as its founder Machine Gun Kelly and other hip-hop heavyweights like Gucci Mane tore things up with some high-powered decibels. There were even some period piece scenic elements dotting the festival grounds for atmosphere, but the Alex Kay lightshow that supported the onstage performances went way beyond anything anyone could ever have imagined back in the day.

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[caption id="attachment_278788" align="alignnone" width="800"]Lady A is run off a grandMA[/caption]

LOS ANGELES  – Country trio Lady Antebellum is spanning the globe on their You Look Good World Tour of arenas and amphitheaters accompanied by Claypaky Mythos2 fixtures and grandMA2 consoles. The multi-Grammy winners just released “Heart Break,” their seventh studio album.  The You Look Good World Tour commenced in Bakersfield, California in May, crosses North America this summer and makes stops in Europe and South Africa before wrapping in October.

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[caption id="attachment_278782" align="alignnone" width="800"]Eggshell Light Company invests in Proteus[/caption]

HONOLULU – Eggshell Light Company of Honolulu, who has handled professional lighting needs on the Hawaiian Islands for decades, took delivery of Elation Professional’s new IP65-rated Proteus Hybrid™ multi-functional moving head. Bob Harmon, CEO and President of Eggshell Light Company, commented on the addition of the award-winning hybrid lights to Eggshell’s rental inventory. “We often put moving lights outside for a number of events, always with the caveat that if it rains we have to shut them down. On a few occasions that was indeed the case but now we don’t have to do that thanks to the new Proteus in our rental fleet.”

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