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[caption id="attachment_275490" align="alignnone" width="800"]David Byrne’s Joan of Arc: Into the Fire uses Elation fixtures[/caption]

NYC – Multi award-winning and Tony-nominated lighting designer Justin Townsend (The Humans, American Psycho, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) finds that he is using Elation Professional lights more and more since his first experience with them in 2013/2014 on the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. Currently, he is using Elation Satura Profile™ and Platinum Seven™ LED-based moving heads on the world premiere of Joan of Arc:  Into the Fire, an exciting new Off-Broadway musical penned by David Byrne.

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LOS ANGELES – In a bid for the title “The hardest working band in show biz,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers have 52 dates booked for The Getaway tour across the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America.  Such a rigorous schedule requires rugged and reliable lighting fixtures, which is one of the reasons why the tour’s lighting rig features the Solaris Flare.

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DALLAS — PRG announced that it has been issued a United States utility patent for its GroundControl Followspot System. The patent (number 9,593,830) is the culmination of a multiple-year development effort by the PRG Research and Development team based in Dallas. This patent is the first issued of the four patents filed by PRG related to the GroundControl system.

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[caption id="attachment_275458" align="alignnone" width="800"]Two Philips NEO consoles control 1,400 third-party color LED luminaires which illuminate the cascading water[/caption]

NIAGARA FALLS, NY — Philips Lighting control systems are managing the new color illumination of the landmark 167-foot-high Niagara Falls, on the border of the U.S. and Canada. The new LED system, activated Dec. 1, 2016, replaces Xenon spotlights in use since 1974 and, prior to that, carbon arc sources in use since the falls were first permanently illuminated in 1925.

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BALTIMORE — Image Engineering noted that it has acquired the full SXL and support gear inventory of the Syncrolite rental division. The acquisition of Syncrolite’s SXL 7000-watt xenon large format fixtures adds to the Image Engineering’s offerings, and along with the gear, Image Engineering promises to continue providing a high level of service and support to its customers.

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LOS ANGELES — For this year’s Grammy Awards, held Feb. 12 at Staples Center, Full Flood Inc. provided a lighting design that incorporated X4 atoms and X4 Bar 20 fixtures from GLP. PRG provided the fixtures, which were used for performances by Bruno Mars and Beyoncé (pictured here), among others. Full Flood also specified 20 impression X1 fixtures for A Tribe Called Quest.

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SPRINGFIELD, MO — Seminole Baptist Temple has a new look, thanks to a lighting upgrade by Paragon 360 that makes use of LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional and Chauvet DJ. The new fixtures include eight COLORdash Batten-Quad 12 RGBA linear wash fixtures, eight COLORdash Batten-Quad 6 wash linear fixtures and 20 Chauvet DJ COREpar 40 USB COB LED fixtures.

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ST. LOUIS, MO – The Long Reach Long Riders (LRLR) celebrated their upcoming ride through Southern California with a raffle and live auction to benefit Behind the Scenes during the USITT Conference in St. Louis, which was held March 8-11, 207. Sales of raffle tickets, some key donations, and sales of BTS and LRLR-branded swag raised over $15,000 for the charity. The LRLR 2017 ride, dubbed the Avocado Adventure, starts on June 16 in Escondido, CA. 

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MIAMI — Everlast Productions, a live event production company with offices in Miami, Atlanta and New York City, has added Elation’s Platinum 1200 Wash fixtures to its rental inventory. Washington Arias, Everlast’s CEO and president, credited the fixture for its ability to meet the need for “more punch” in arena-sized settings. Pictured here with the new fixtures are Everlast’s Micah Hudson and Leonardo Cesar.

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LAS CRUCES, NM – Joe Price, the manager of Oñate High School’s Performing Arts Center in Las Cruces, NM, worked with Will Sadler from Hubbard’s Music-N-More on a switchover from conventional lighting fixtures to LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. The new system includes 20 Ovation E-190WW LED ellipsoidals, 20 COLORado 2 Quad Zooms, 12 COLORdash Par-Hex 12 par-style fixtures, 12 Ovation C-640FC Cyc lights and four Rogue R2 Spot fixtures.

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[caption id="attachment_275413" align="alignnone" width="800"]Custom Eurotruss used on Old Dominion Tour[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – When country music band Old Dominion approached Travis Shirley about upping the production value of their new touring show, he conceived an industrial-style structure whose custom truss towers serve as set pieces. Morris, A.C.T Lighting, Inc. and Eurotruss partnered to craft the towers, which are designed to suit a range of venues from clubs and theaters to arenas and stadiums.

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AUSTIN, TX – For the third Lightconverse and High End Systems Lighting Challenge, and to celebrate the past years’ imaginative entries, Lightconverse announced plans to “sweeten the pot” by adding the brand-new Lightconverse Tools 2017 to the four-level Prize Pool. Entries are now being accepted. The deadline is April 1, 2017.

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