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Kenny Rogers Bids Farewell With Bandit Lites

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – It was an evening of memories, music and celebration as Kenny Rogers celebrated his retirement from an incredibly illustrious career. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for Blackbird Presents, “All In for the Gambler: Kenny Rogers’ Farewell Concert Celebration,” a one-night only send-off to one of music’s most successful artists of all time.

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CHAUVET Professional Provides Intoxicating Looks For The Toxic Avenger – The Musical

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LONDON – Based on the 1984 cult film by Lloyd Kaufman in which an aspiring earth scientist transforms into an unlikely superhero after falling into a vat of toxic waste, The Toxic Avenger – The Musical is now earning critical praise in the UK. Driven by an intense rock score by Bon Jovi band member David Bryan and a book by Joe DiPietro, the show is running in London’s West End.

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From left, Prashant Tandle (warehouse assistant), Rodney D’Monte (general manager) and Sachin Wagare (senior warehouse assistant)

Penn Elcom Announces India Operation

WASHINGTON, U.K. – Multinational flight case hardware and 19 inch racking manufacturer Penn Elcom announces the launch of a new distribution center in Mumbai, India. This will be based in the Vasai area and will be headed by Rodney D’Monte. Rodney will initially be working with six staff which will increase as the operation ramps up.

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Rita Hits the Road Again with Robe

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ISRAEL – Iranian born Israeli singer, songwriter and superstar Rita Yahan-Farouz is back on the road after a break of five years, complete with a new album, “Transparent Miracles”, and a fabulous new lighting and visual design by Ronen Najar, featuring Robe Spiiders and BMFL Spot moving lights. Rita is one of the best known and loved contemporary singers in Israel. Her tour cycle is scheduled to last around three years and she will take her unique blend of pop, rock and dance, some of it laced with Persian influence – to her hordes of fans.

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High End Systems Road Hog 4s are Totally Grouse

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AUSTRALIA – Since 1984, Grouse Lighting Aotearoa in Wellington, New Zealand, has been renting high-quality lighting gear locally and nationally for everything from weddings to grand opera. With services spanning design, installation, production, and operation, their lighting control platform needs to be fast, efficient, and scalable. That’s why managing director Allan McShane has made Grouse Lighting a High End Systems Hog house for coming onto eight years.

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ENTTEC Offers New Switches

NC – When it comes to life on the open road, lighting designers have often told us that they’d like to use ENTTEC gear to provide a complete, end-to-end solution to the task at hand … except there’s one piece of the puzzle that they’ve always had to source from elsewhere: an Ethernet network switch. Because ENTTEC had never made one.

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disguise Supports Yuzu Tour Featuring Innovative Sculptural LED Character

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JAPAN  – Japanese folk-rock duo Yuzu are celebrating their 20th anniversary with a tour across Japan.  The band’s unique stage show features a huge back wall of LED screens of assorted sizes and shapes and a giant sculptural Yuzutaro LED – an anthropomorphic character whose head is fashioned from the Japanese citrus fruit called yuzu.  disguise (formerly known as d3) 4x4pro media servers were chosen to unify the different feeds needed to push content to the LED back wall, the sculptural Yuzutaro LED plus the stage riser LED.

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Avolites Ai v10.1 Software Wins PLSN Gold Star Award for Best New Software 2017!

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LAS VEGAS –  Avolites had cause for celebration last week at the LDI exhibition in Las Vegas. The British manufacturer of creative lighting and video control tools scooped the ‘Gold Star Best Software Award 2017’ for its newly launched media server software update, Ai v10.1. Organized by one of the entertainment technology sector’s leading magazine titles, Projection Lights and Staging News (PLSN), the Gold Star Awards recognize excellence in the field of product development.

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Apollo Design Sponsors Stage Lighting Super Saturday 2018.

NYC-  Scott Parker says, “Apollo has been a supporter of Super Saturday since the start. Every year Apollo brings a new selection of terrific Gobos for our special effects and templates session.” Since its founding in 1992 by Joel and Keersten Nichols, Apollo Design Technology, Inc. has gained a worldwide position in the production and distribution of special effects products to the entertainment lighting industry. Establishing itself early as a leading producer of custom gobos, the company has expanded into other related products used by lighting designers to create stimulating visual effects for theater, corporate events, concerts, houses of worship, and architectural applications.

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Cory FitzGerald Teams Up with Jason Baeri for Ayrton Light Show at LDI

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LAS VEGAS – Top lighting designer Cory FitzGerald teamed up with programmer Jason Baeri to produce lighting looks at Ayrton’s LDI booth earlier this month. Overseen by Ayrton global sales manager, Michael Althaus, the light show put Ayrton’s latest fixtures through their paces and served as a showcase for what the new fixtures could do. The visuals also drew notice from the event’s organizers, winning an award for “Most Creative Use of Light” at the show.

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PLSN’s Inaugural Gold Star Awards Honor Product Innovations

LAS VEGAS – The inaugural PLSN Gold Star Awards honored product manufacturers with a total of 24 awards bestowed, in recognition of each product’s quality, innovation and ability to expand the technological boundaries of live event production. Product categories range from lighting fixtures to video products, software, rigging automation and more. The awards were bestowed earlier this month, during the LDI convention in Las Vegas. PLSN editor Nook Schoenfeld and publisher Terry Lowe met with the winners to present the awards on the exhibition floor.

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