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Jean Louis Blanchard Named Vice President, Business Development

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TORONTO, ON,– A.C. Lighting Inc., distributor of world-class lighting, rigging and video technologies is honored to welcome Jean Louis Blanchard as Vice President, Business Development. A.C. Lighting has entered into an era of growth. The hire of Jean Louis unfolds the commencement of the company’s strategic development plan for growth, to provide their clients with world class products, backed by world class service.

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Claypaky’s Scenius Fixture Range Hits the Road with Katy Perry for “Witness: The Tour”

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USA – Katy Perry recently kicked off “Witness: The Tour” in support of her eponymous fifth album, her third number-one album on the US Billboard 200.  Claypaky Scenius Unicos and Scenius Profiles are prominent in the tour’s lighting rig having been selected by the show’s Producer and Lighting Designer, Baz Halpin of Silent House. The multi award-winning Perry is one of the best-selling music artists of all time chalking up sales of 100 million records globally. 

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Elation Introduces KL Fresnel™ Series of Warm-White Wash Lights

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LOS ANGELED – Elation Professional is pleased to introduce the KL Fresnel™ series, a new line of warm-white LED Fresnel lights that provides the attractive warmth of tungsten halogen with all the benefits of LED. Available in 50W, 150W and 350W models, a 3000K fixed color temperature and high color rendering capacity ideally mimic the warm glow output of traditional Tungsten halogen lights while surpassing them in output and efficiency.

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CHAUVET Professional Vesuvio Transforms Nick Cannon Stage

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CLEVELAND – When the multi-talented Nick Cannon announced that he was taking his hit MTV program “Wild N Out” on the road, some critics wondered how well the fast-clipped, hip-hop improv comedy show would translate into a live tour format.  They needn’t have worried. The hugely successful show (one of its episodes was the most watched in MTV2 history) is proving to be equally compelling on the road.

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Rogues Get Ferocious At Furia Latina

WILLEMSTAD, CURAÇAO–  For Jim Lo-A-Njoe, the inspiration for putting together the Furia Latina lighting rig began with the first word in the November 4 concert’s name – “Furia!” Looking to reflect the fury of reggaetón music’s powerful and unsettling emotions in light, he wanted to create looks that would blow through the stage with the ferocity of a sudden storm.  Lo-A-Njoe of Massive Productions got the intensity he was seeking, and then some, by building his rig around 78 high-output Rogue moving fixtures from CHAUVET Professional.

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Cosmic Truss Spreads The Cheer At LDI 2017

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LAS VEGAS – Christmas came early this year at LDI 2017, with Cosmic Truss’ seasonally themed booth. Visitors to the show were able to grab a great snapshot with the truss snowman, which was quite the attraction at this year’s show! The snowman was made almost entirely of standard off the shelf truss, showing once again what a design team can achieve without needing to rely on custom parts, a great advantage of the Cosmic Truss product range.

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Elation LED for Modern “Macbeth” at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts

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DENVER – The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is staging an inventive and reimagined version of Macbeth that features an all-male cast, EDM style music and modern design elements. Lighting the contemporary version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is Alex Jainchill, who uses LED lighting from Elation Professional to meet lighting challenges and create magical moments in the show, including special black light UV effects.

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MADRIX® Training Continues In 2018

GERMANY – The successful MADRIX® Training sessions will continue in 2018 and offer even more possibilities to get the most out of the popular LED lighting control tool. In addition to the basic software crash course for beginners, two new courses have been added. Among those is the often requested seminar to create advanced effects. The trainings take place at the MADRIX® headquarters in Dresden, Germany.

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ETC Celebrates Thea Award Winners

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MIDDLETON, WI– The Themed Entertainment Association recently announced their 2018 Thea award winners. And even with the diversity of winners – including theme parks, museums, visitor centers, and spectaculars – a majority of the winners had one thing in common: Control products from ETC. Overall, ETC had a hand in nine of the Thea Award-winning projects. “We’re delighted for each of our partners recognized with a Thea award, and congratulate the winners on their vision,” said Karl Haas, National Sales Manager for Architecture at ETC.

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PixelFLEX™ Helps Change the Perception of Worship at Shoreline Church

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NASHVILLE,– Located in Destin, Florida, Shoreline Church has always tried to find creative and unique ways to share their message while changing the perception of a typical church. As their congregation has continued to grow, the church recently had the opportunity to continue their ministry vision with the renovation an old nightclub into a modern worship facility. Knowing they wanted to install the technical elements that would allow them to further the creativity of their worship services, they found a key component to their new design in a FLEXLite II 3.9mm LED video system from PixelFLEX™.

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BLIZZARD’S LOOP™ Nabs Inaugural PLSN Gold Star Award for *Best New Eye Candy*

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WAUKESHA, WI. – Victory is sweet! Blizzard Lighting’s LOOP™ linear LED moving head chewed its way through gooey, sticky competition and scored PLSN’s 2017 Gold Star Product Award for Best New Eye Candy fixture! Awarded at LDI, the prize adds just a little bit more sweetness to an already delicious product. So what made PLSN’s editors and writers crave LOOP™ so bad? In a word, its flavor.

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Bandit Lites Makes Christmas Magic With Dave Koz 20th Anniversary Tour

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE –  One of the most cherished aspects of the holiday season is the music that connects precious memories with the present, and no one knows that better than Dave Koz who has returned to the stage for the Dave Koz 20th Anniversary Christmas Tour with Special Guests David Benoit, Rick Braun, Peter White and introducing Selina Albright. Chris Lisle Lighting Design relied on Bandit Lites once again for the lighting package to illuminate the acclaimed saxophonist and nine-time Grammy nominee and his friends who reunited as members of the original 1997 cast.

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