TORONTO – The Canadian Institute for Theatre Technology (CITT) honored North American distributor A.C. Lighting Inc. with its 2015 CITT Supplier (Corporate) Achievement Award. Pictured here, CITT President, Michael Harris, presents the award to A.C. Lighting Inc.’s Chief Operating Officer, Penny Watier.
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CHICAGO — With a mission to train the next generation of theatre artists in all disciplines, The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago had lighting design students illuminate St. Vincent de Paul Parish church with storytelling visuals. The 30-minute displays, presented May 20-22, made use of Elation lighting products supplied by Protolight, Inc.
RIVERHEAD, NY — The FOLD (Freak Out Let’s Dance) festival, staged on the eastern end of Long Island, NY on Aug. 4-5, 2015, featured Nile Rodgers and Chic, Pharrell Williams, Beck, Duran Duran, Chaka Kahn, Q-Tip and Keith Urban, among others. ProShow provided Chauvet Professional fixtures for the event.
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CALGARY, Alberta, Canada – For the 100-foot long mobile platform with truss used for the annual Calgary Stampede’s nightly Grandstand Show, which ran July 3-12, 2015, Pierre Marleau of Orange Frog Productions deployed 95 Clay Paky Sharpys. Orange Frog’s Barry Armstrong programmed the lighting rig using two grandMA2 light consoles with four NPUs.
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SAN FRANCISCO – This year’s Outside Lands Music Festival enlisted Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) specialist, Intellitix to enhance the festival experience for fans and help take its Wine Lands area 100 percent cashless.
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NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites added Robe’s BMFL Spots to the other Robe gear in its inventory, including 100 LEDBeam, 600 LEDWash, 1200 LEDWash, CycFX8 and Pointe fixtures. LDs including Seth Jackson, Rich Stembridge, Candace Brightman, Paul Hoffman, Chris Lisle and Dave Butzler have already requested the BMFLs for Barry Manilow, Alabama Shakes, the Grateful Dead, Miranda Lambert and Garth Brooks.
LAS VEGAS – For a sixth consecutive year 4Wall Entertainment Lighting was named to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing privately held companies in the US. 4Wall posted a three year growth rate of 67 percent to earn yet another spot on the Inc. ‘Honor Roll’ of companies that have appeared for five or more consecutive years.
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LAS VEGAS — If you haven’t yet nominated any individuals, companies or products for the 2015 Parnelli and Indispensable Technology “IT” Awards, there’s still time to do so, but the deadline of Aug. 31 is only one week away, so the time to act is now!
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – Everything about the AC/DC Rock or Bust Tour 2015 is big with a capital B, from the stadiums across Europe and North America where the band played, to the fan interest (the group set a world record selling more than 300,000 tickets in 77 minutes at one German venue), to the beefy lighting design. The Woodroffe Bassett Design rig centers on high-output discharge lamp moving fixtures along with an assortment of blinders, video panels and other fixtures including COLORado Batten 144 Tour fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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BREWSTER, MA – Lighting designer Herrick Goldman recently designed Evita at the Cape Rep Theatre and turned to Elation Professional’s Platinum Profile 35 Pro moving head light to create the compelling mood lighting. Herrick and his associate Susan Nicholson designed both the lighting and the projections for the critically acclaimed production, which is directed by William Roudebush with scenery by James Dardenne.
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OMAHA, NE – Lighting and visuals designer Fenton Williams and co-LD / programmer Aaron Stinebrink again collaborated to produce a new production design – incorporating lighting, set and video – for the current Dave Matthews Band (DMB) U.S. summer tour. For the first time, they specified Robe’s BMFL Spot fixtures, 22 of which are being supplied by the tour’s lighting vendor, Theatrical Media Services (TMS) from Omaha, Nebraska.
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