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[caption id="attachment_276528" align="alignnone" width="800"]Martin Garrix performs at the Sahara tent[/caption]

INDIO, CA – The 2017 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, staged at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA April 14-16 and 21-23, included lighting rigs where Robe moving lights were well-represented. LDs included Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting, who specified Spiiders and Pointes for the Yuma stage, and Gabriel Fraboni, who added 90 Spikies as specials for Dutch DJ Martin Garrix’s two sets in the Sahara Tent. The festival set new attendance records for 2017.

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[caption id="attachment_276525" align="alignnone" width="800"]The set is closer to a Broadway or an opera backdrop than a standard rock set[/caption]

DALLAS, TEXAS – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that its stage lighting is providing lighting effects central to the artistic stage design of the Chicago-based alternative rock legends Wilco on the band’s world tour. In support of the tenth studio album, Schmilco, the tour is visiting the US, Europe and South America.

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[caption id="attachment_276520" align="alignnone" width="748"]Morrissey plays at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land[/caption]

SUGAR LAND, TEXAS – Legendary Smiths frontman, Morrissey, performed for more than 3,000 fans at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land on Friday, April 14 after confirming and announcing the venue change two days prior. After a series of thunderstorms saturated their outdoor concert lawn, White Oak Music Hall approached Smart Financial Centre to host Morrissey’s Houston performance, which already had two previous cancellations. Despite a 5,000-seat Easter service scheduled for Sunday, the venue mobilized its staff to reconfigure the auditorium to accommodate the performance in a short timeframe.

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[caption id="attachment_276517" align="alignnone" width="800"]We the Kings make use of Astera products on College fly dates[/caption]

IOWA CITY, IA – We the Kings filled their April with weekend college fly dates. After wrapping up their 10th anniversary tour for their self-titled album, they took LD Nathaniel Beckett with them and a bright Astera LED light rig. Most of the college shows had a very minimal lighting package supplied by the schools, so the 16 Astera AX1s and eight Astera AX3 Lightdrops provided the much-needed eye candy for the punk rock performances.

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[caption id="attachment_276514" align="alignnone" width="800"]WWE makes use of Floppy Flex up high[/caption]

ORLANDO – WrestleMania 33 set a record last month as the most-watched WrestleMania ever.  Dubbed an “ultimate thrill ride for the ages,” WWE’s signature event at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida featured 13 matches, including two world championships.  A larger-than-life ring atop the massive truss centerpiece was designed and installed by All Access Staging & Productions.  Around the perimeter of the giant ring were oversized red, white, and blue ultra-bright ring “ropes” illuminated by 2,000 feet of Firefly FloppyFlex LED neon.

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NEW YORK – Kate Shindle, President of Actors’ Equity, the national labor union representing professional actors and stage managers, released the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would fully fund the National Endowment for the Arts for the remainder of the federal government’s fiscal year. The Senate vote comes one day after the U.S. House also voted to fund the NEA and comes weeks after President Trump proposed in his budget to eliminate the NEA entirely.

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[caption id="attachment_276492" align="alignnone" width="800"]Mountain provides staging for the NFLDraft[/caption]

PHILADELPHIA – Staged entirely outdoors for the first time in its 82-year history, the 2017 NFL Draft brought a record-breaking crowd to the Rocky steps outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The NFL noted that more than 250,000 people attended the event, which ran from April 27-29. In support of the event, coordinators C3 Presents turned to Mountain Productions to provide a 3,000-seat temporary amphitheater. The roof was supported by 20 posts, spanned a downstage width of 250 feet, and the structure exceeded 70 feet in height.

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[caption id="attachment_276489" align="alignnone" width="800"]National Cathedral gets colorful with Chauvet fixtures[/caption]

WASHINGTON, DC – Beach blankets and yoga mats aren’t normally found inside the long, high-ceilinged central nave of the National Cathedral. Recently, however, the iconic church’s usual seats and pews were removed so people could lie down on these coverings to gaze at an astonishing lightshow that transformed the building’s cavernous interior into a vast and infinitely fascinating panorama of color with help from a collection of WELL Fit LED fixtures from CHAUVET Professional.

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[caption id="attachment_276472" align="alignnone" width="800"]Raiding the Rock Vault[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – Fans of classic rock ’n roll are “Raiding the Rock Vault” at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas where iconic anthems from two decades are brought to life by artists from the biggest bands of the era.  The unique show is enhanced with lighting effects created by production designer Paul Dexter using Claypaky SharBars. Dexter, principal of Masterworks Design, Inc., in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, helped create the show, which debuted in fall 2012 at the Mayan Theater in LA.

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[caption id="attachment_276469" align="alignnone" width="633"]Club Nomadic built for the SuperBowl[/caption]

HOUSTON – Conceived as a mega-nightclub with no permanent home, Club Nomadic is a traveling venue constructed each year to support the build-up to the Super Bowl. For 2017’s Super Bowl LI, which took place at NRG Stadium in Houston, Nomadic Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the NFL’s hospitality partner On Location Experiences, began construction of the 62,500 square foot venue on Nov. 28 and opened Feb. 2.

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[caption id="attachment_276463" align="alignnone" width="800"]Bandit gives a hand at the NFL draft[/caption]

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – More than 80 years after the inaugural drafting of football players in 1936, the NFL Draft returned again to the Philadelphia for a weekend celebrating the newest additions to fans’ favorite teams. C3 Presents once again tasked Bandit Lites to provide critical lighting throughout the NFL Draft experience, including real time team colors for the Entrance Portal, NFL Museum, two fountain areas and the exteriors of the Draft Theatre and the Philadelphia Art Museum.

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NYC – The Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) is pleased to announce the launch of a new, redesigned version of its website. Key features of the site include a cleaner and more modern design, a more engaging user experience with enhanced search and navigation. The site’s refreshed and simplified look, combined with enriched content, improved search functionality, and optimization for mobile devices allows users to better interact with ETCP.

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