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BURBANK, CA.— Bexel is upgrading its lighting inventory, adding 300 Litepanels Astra 6X LED panels. The new lights will be key components in Bexel’s ongoing support of customers who require turnkey lighting solutions in any location at outdoor sporting venues. As announced at the 2017 NAB Show, the next-generation Litepanels Astra 6X LED panel is 50 percent brighter than the first-generation Astra light and six times brighter than Litepanels’ original 1 x 1 panel, which broke new ground in the lighting industry when it was first introduced.

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MIAMI – In May, some of Elation Professional’s newest, cutting-edge lighting gear was used by Lighting Designer Daniel Cortes of Everlast Productions on the Haitian Compas Festival in Miami, one of the largest Caribbean festivals in the United States. The Haitian Compas Festival is a yearly celebration of the Haitian community that features popular musical acts along with traditional Haitian food and other facets of Haitian culture. After 18 years as a one-day event, this year’s festival was held over two days from May 20-21 at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami.

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[caption id="attachment_277433" align="alignnone" width="720"]Tyler GT Truss arrives at Video West[/caption]

PHOENIX – Video West continues to invest in large corporate and entertainment events with their newest addition of Tyler Truss Systems. Video West invested in Tyler Truss Systems Green Truss (GT) for large corporate and entertainment events. These revolutionary truss structures allow for lighting fixtures to be pre-rigged in house before arriving on show site. By pre-rigging the lights and eliminating their bulky cases, these help save truck weight and space while also reducing set up time and labor needed on show site.

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PHOENIX – Video West continues to invest in large corporate and entertainment events with their newest addition of Tyler Truss Systems. Video West invested in Tyler Truss Systems Green Truss (GT) for large corporate and entertainment events. These new truss structures allow for lighting fixtures to be pre-rigged in house before arriving on show site.

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NASHVILLE – Tour Supply, a company dedicated to the needs of live touring musicians, noted the opening of a new Nashville headquarters for its Playback Control playback rig, in partnership with veteran audio designer, programmer, and drum/keyboard tech Viggy Vignola. Tour Supply says its new Playback Control platform is designed to allow audio, video, pyro, and lighting effects to operate automatically throughout the duration of a live show.

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KNOXVILLE, TN – Destination Imagination, the non-profit organization that works to inspire and equip the world’s next generation of innovators, held their annual Global Finals event, where more than 17,000 attendees including 8,000 students from 21 countries gathered to compete. Bandit Lites provided a lighting assist with for the event, which centers on promoting logic skills and inspiring creativity, while encouraging enthusiasm in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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NEW YORK – The 2017 Tony Awards, broadcast live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 11, 2017, was hosted by Kevin Spacey and once again honored backstage designers as well as those in the limelight. Top lighting honors went to Bradley King (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) and Christopher Akerlind (Indecent).

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WAUKESHA, WI. – The Blizzard crew has arrived in Orlando for InfoComm 2017 armed with an excessive amount of sunscreen, a sharp batch of new products waiting for their debutante reveal, and a TV so big and high def, it would satisfy even the pickiest of Dads! Find these four new LED products in the Blizzard Lighting booth, #7442, come Wednesday, June 14.

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[caption id="attachment_277380" align="alignnone" width="750"]Killthrax gets the Chauvet treatment[/caption]

NEW YORK -– It was a happy union for metal fans when Killswitch Engage and Anthrax, two of the genre’s most influential bands, announced earlier this year that they would be joining forces on the Killthrax Tour. The 34-city tour, which concluded in May, more than lived up to its advance billing, serving up heaping helpings of KSE’s signature metalcore sound with its heavy guitar riffs and Anthrax’s compatible, but distinctly different, thrash brand of metal music.

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[caption id="attachment_277377" align="alignnone" width="800"]Martin Garrix gets a hand from Robe fixtures[/caption]

SAN FRANCISCO – Three hi-energy sold out shows at San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium launched the new Martin Garrix live show which will tour around the world for the rest of the year as the young Dutch superstar DJ and music producer continues to wow crowds with his incredible musical skills and good looks! Equally hot in appearance … is the lighting and visuals show created by production designer Gabe Fraboni which features 138 Robe moving lights – 90 x Spikies, 20 x Pointes and 28 x BMFL Spots.

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ORLANDO, FL – ADJ will showcase 11 new products at this year’s InfoComm trade show in Orlando, FL at booth #7251, including a new IP-rated video panel, a new IP-rated UV Par, a new series of battery-powered up-lighters, two classic par cans powered by LED, and a new collection of professional effects generators.

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