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[caption id="attachment_279776" align="alignnone" width="446"]Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound[/caption]

FRANKFURT – Musikmesse (11 to 14 April 2018) and Prolight + Sound (10 to 13 April 2018) bring together companies with retailers, professionals from the musical-instrument, event and media-technologies sectors, as well as musicians from all over the world. In 2017, the two events attracted a total of around 100,000 visitors from 144 countries to Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre. For companies of all sizes there is a wide spectrum of options to showcase products, ranging from all-inclusive booth packages at an entry-level price and open air live-demonstrations to the integration of brands and endorsers in the event program of the two shows.

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[caption id="attachment_279770" align="alignnone" width="600"]The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin[/caption]

DUBLIN – Lighting controls expert, Artistic Licence, has been appointed official Technical Partner of The Lir National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin. The Lir Academy was established in 2011 to provide students with the highest standards of training for careers in the theatre, TV and film industries. The Lir’s Director of Technical Training, Barry Conway, identified networking in lighting as an area of focus for the Academy’s new Bachelor in Stage Management and Technical Theatre degree course.

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[caption id="attachment_279758" align="alignnone" width="800"]Solihull Summer Fest[/caption]

BIRMINGHAM, UK – One of the UK’s newest late summer music festivals, the Solihull Summer Fest, took place at the end of August at Tudor Grange Park outside of Birmingham. The family-friendly charity music event, held during the bank holiday weekend and only in its second year, expanded to two stages in 2017, both of which were lit by full service production company Stage Production Co. using Elation Professional lighting.

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[caption id="attachment_279744" align="alignnone" width="800"]American Idiot Buenos Aires [/caption]

BUENOS AIRES – A top Argentinian creative team including director, set and lighting designer Ariel del Mastro, award-winning lighting director Ariel “el gato” Ponce and video designer Maxi Vecco have created a stunning production design for Green Day’s rock opera “American Idiot”, currently playing at the Broadway Theatre in Buenos Aires. It is the first time that the show has been sung in Spanish, and in fact the first time it has been produced in any language other than English!

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[caption id="attachment_279728" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chauvet DJ gear utilized in Cartagena[/caption]

CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA  – Every lighting designer considers the surrounding environment when colorizing an event. For Colombian LD Victor Cervantes, this invariably means using CHAUVET DJ color washing fixtures to endow his creations with ample amounts of amber. The owner of IVC Producciones, Cervantes is based in Cartagena, a tradition-rich city on the Caribbean coast that is blessed with some of the most beautiful sunsets in the world. Each evening the setting sun casts the city’s centuries-old stone buildings in a warm glow, creating a panorama that mesmerizes locals and visitors alike.

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[caption id="attachment_279717" align="alignnone" width="800"]Metallica on tour in Europe[/caption]

EUROPE –  Since their first gig in 1982, Metallica has actively toured their entire music catalog, along with their epic stage setups across the globe. With over three decades of concert performances, these rock legends delivered once again with WorldWired Tour. Celebrating their 10th studio album, “Hardwired…to Self-Destruct,” the WorldWired Tour pushes technological boundaries by debuting the world’s first autonomous indoor drone swarm in a major touring act and revealing a new, in-the-round stage design, custom-built by TAIT.

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[caption id="attachment_279711" align="alignnone" width="800"]Saaremaa Opera Festival [/caption]

ESTONIA – Every year, the charismatic island of Saaremaa in Estonia stages ‘Opera Days’, a major international opera festival organized by the Eesti Kontsert Hall in Tallinn, which this year featured the world premiere of an exciting new production –  “Nurjatu Saar’ (The Evil Island’) – by famous Estonian rock musician,  pianist and composer, Rein Rannap. This was performed in a large 2200 capacity structure erected in front of Kuressaare Castle in the island’s capital.

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[caption id="attachment_279684" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ice Tigers Nuremberg[/caption]

NURENBERG – Player entrances and introductions are a time-honored tradition of any sport and serve as an important way to pump up both player and fan prior to a game. This season, when professional German ice hockey club, the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers, take to the ice, lighting effects from Elation Professional Platinum 1200 Wash™, Platinum FLX™ and Platinum Beam 5R Extreme™ add an extra level of excitement to the pre-game hype.

 

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