ANTWERP, Belgium – For the annual Reverze hard dance music event, which drew close to 20,000 to Antwerp’s Sportpaleis and Lotto Arena on Feb. 27, Kristof van Mensel, Patrick Bellens and others from TCF collaborated on a visual design to tie in with the event’s main theme, Deception. Close to 250 Robe moving lights were in the rig, supplied by Phlippo Showlight.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Morpheus Lights, exclusive U.S. distributor of Ayrton LED products, will exhibit at USITT 2016 Conference and Stage Expo at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City on March 17 thru 19. Morpheus is featuring the Ayrton NandoBeam S line of automated wash lights, along with the new DreamPanel Twin, CosmoPix R and MagicDot R fixtures.
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WASHINGTON, DC – For the 17th annual National ShamrockFest, held March 12 in RFK Stadium, more than 40,000 took part for a day filled with carnival rides, food, beer and music from 50 acts performing on seven stages. LD Zach Bunner of Show Time Sound (Frederick, MD) built his design for the festival’s two main stages around Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
Read More »LONDON – The National Event Lifting Certificate (NELC), a recent initiative from PLASA’s U.K.-based National Rigging Advisory Group (NRAG), was launched March 3 at the International Live Music Conference Production Meeting at the Copthorne Hotel, Kensington, London. Industry supporters of the NELC program including the BBC, White Light and Britannia Row.
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NASHVILLE – Guitarist and singer-songwriter Peter Frampton stripped down his rock sound for an acoustic recording session taped for an Audience Music Special, which aired March 4 on DirecTV and U-Verse. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the production which featured performances of “Show Me the Way,” “Baby I Love Your Way” and “Lines on My Face.”
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LAS VEGAS — The 31st Annual Stellar Awards, held Feb. 20 at The Arena in the Orleans Hotel, showcased the top stars, performances and achievements in Gospel Music. Veteran show supplier TNDV this year saw its role expanded by the show’s producers, Chicago-based Central City Productions, Inc. CCP put the HD mobile production leader in charge of all technical production management, among other tasks.
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NEW YORK – Last month, the American National Standards Institute’s Board of Standards Review approved four ESTA standards: two brand-new, safety-related documents and two control protocol documents that were reaffirmed. These and all of ESTA’s published standards are available for free download to everyone, courtesy of ProSight Specialty Insurance, at tsp.esta.org/freestandards, or they may be purchased from ANSI or IHS.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Twelve young artists from groups underrepresented in live entertainment production have been selected for USITT’s Gateway mentorship program at USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City March 16 to 19. Pictured here is one of the 12, Shelby Choo, Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle), Technical Direction.
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MIAMI BEACH, Florida — For the Pulse event at New World Symphony (NWS) and its New World Center, which featured musicians, a DJ and dancers, Director of Lighting Luke Kritzeck used the facility’s own stock of elektraLite Dazer fixtures to transform the concert hall into a late-night lounge of sorts. Barbizon of Miami provided additional gear for the event.
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ATLANTA – LD Steve Lieberman updated the look within Atlanta’s Tongue and Groove nightclub, giving the club’s semi-circular DJ booth a sense of energy and movement using ÉPIX panels from Chauvet Professional. In all, there are now 181 12” square ÉPIX Tile 2.0 panels animating the booth.
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LOS ANGELES – Elation is reporting strong interest in its Platinum FLX hybrid moving head among rental companies and lighting designers in the U.S. and Europe, with strong sales for the award-winning multifunctional fixture since hitting the market last fall.
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