Tour Supply Opens New Nashville Headquarters to Demo and Program Turnkey Playback Rig
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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Destination Imagination Global Finals Returns with Bandit Lites
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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Lighting and Scenic Design Tony Winners Announced at 71st Ceremony
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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Blizzard to Feature Flurry of New Products at InfoComm 2017
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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Killthrax Tour Goes Rogue
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.
Martin Garrix New Live Show Launched; Robe Fixtures in the Rig
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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ADJ To Debut 11 New Products at InfoComm 2017
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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Granite United Church Turns to Events United, Chauvet Professional for Three-Day Conference
WATERVILLE VALLEY, NH – For Granite United Church’s annual Warrior Conference, a three-day men’s retreat at the Waterville Valley ski resort June 1-3, Events United provided lighting and video gear from Chauvet Professional. The 2017 event used 20 Rogue R1 Wash fixtures, 10 Strike 4 fixtures, six Maverick MK1 Hybrids, four Maverick MK2 Spots, 12 Maverick MK2 Washes and four COLORado 2 Solo washes for lighting plus 85 PVP X6IP 6.9mm panels for video support.
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SAP’s Sapphire NOW/ASUG Annual Conference Relies on grandMA2 Consoles for Networked Control
ORLANDO, FL – grandMA2 consoles and switches played a key role in networked lighting and video control for SAP’s Sapphire NOW/ASUG Annual Conference at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. Lighting Designer Paul Palazzo and Programmer Paul J. Sonnleitner have worked on the event since 1999 and have been using MA consoles for the last 12 years. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.
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Brett Angstadt Lights Up The Night In Baltimore with Chauvet Professional Nexus 4x4s
BALTIMORE, MD – For seven days in April, the night sky over the city that gave birth to “The Star-Spangled Banner” glowed in a rainbow of colors, as Baltimore celebrated its Light City Festival. Over 400,000 visitors crowded the city’s downtown streets to enjoy hundreds of illuminated sculptures, building projections and interactive exhibits. At the heart of it all was the “Light Up The Night,” stage, where artists from a variety of musical genres including hip-hop, rock, jazz and world dance performed each evening.
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Electrosonic’s Jim Bowie to Receive Mackey Barron Distinguished Achievement Award at InfoComm 2017
ORLANDO – InfoComm International will honor Jim Bowie, the retiring President and CEO of Electrosonic, with the Mackey Barron Distinguished Achievement Award at InfoComm 2017. Bowie will receive the award in a ceremony at InfoComm 2017’s Center Stage at the Orange County Convention Center on June 14 at 2 p.m.
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