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Prolyte Group to Showcase New and Revolutionary Products at LDI 2017

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LEEK UK, 27 — Prolyte Group will be showcasing the revolutionary Verto truss and debuting the new Prolyte ARC roof system at the LDI 2017, from 17-19 November in Las Vegas, Nevada. Visitors are invited to stop at stand #1961 for a in person look and demonstration of these highly commended products. Headlining the Prolyte showcase will be the highly acclaimed Verto truss, a new and revolutionary system that makes truss connection fast, silent and safe. Verto brings a totally new perspective to truss assembly. It is being described as an industry game changer.

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Chauvet Professional Expands Maverick Series With MK2 Profile

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SUNRISE, FL– The CHAUVET Professional Maverick series has been making its presence felt on tours and festivals, as well as at clubs, with its moving spots, beams, washes and hybrids. Now the groundbreaking line will be turning up at an even wider variety of applications with the introduction of the Maverick MK2 Profile. The first profile light in the Maverick series, the 440W LED moving yoke fixture has been designed to perform a wide variety of functions in theatrical, house of worship, touring and event applications.

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Columbus McKinnon Donates Online Training Seats to ESTA’s TSP

NYC – ESTA is extremely pleased to announce that Columbus McKinnon Corp. (CMCO) has donated 100 seats to their popular Lodestar Maintenance Training Course with the full registration fee going to support ESTA’s Technical Standards Program (TSP). You can sign up for the course at tsp.esta.org/cmco. CMCO, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of electric chain hoist and rigging products, has been involved with the TSP since the program’s inception, providing technical expertise on the Rigging Working Group as well as answering ESTA’s recent call for support by becoming a Visionary level donor.

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Hippotizer rocks John Peel Stage for 9th Glastonbury Music Festival

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UK – Hippotizer was again the Media Server of choice for the John Peel Stage at the Glastonbury festival. A Hippotizer Karst unit fed the setting’s main upstage LED wall, making it nine years in a row for Green Hippo technology operating under the iconic yellow and blue canopy. Renamed in 2004 in honor of the late disc jockey – it was formerly known as the New Bands Tent – the John Peel Stage has always been home to up and coming artists – now well-established – acts, such as Florence and the Machine, Phoenix and The Killers delivering headline-grabbing performances.

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Mark Carver And Bandit Light Black Music Honors

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – It was a glamorous evening of icons, legends and laughter at The Black Music Honors, where attendees at the Andrew Jackson Hall celebrated African American artists who have made significant music contributions to African American culture and American music worldwide. Bandit Lites supplied the lighting package for the two-hour recorded special which featured Rickey Smiley and LeToya Luckett as co-hosts.

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ADJ Miami Showroom Relaunch Event

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MIAMI – ADJ Lighting will be opening its doors to their Miami showroom on September 28th to unveil a massive new programmed lightshow, mingle with customers and spotlight their latest technologies. The Showroom Relaunch Event schedule for September 28, 2017 (Hurricane Irma circumstances permitting) from 1-6pm at their ADJ Miami location; 13185 NW 47th Avenue, Opa-locka, FL 33054. ADJ will also offer food, drinks and a prize giveaway for attendees.

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Barbizon Uses ETC to Pixel-map Philadelphia Skyscrapers for NFL Draft

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MIDDLETON, WI – Official games for the new NFL season start on Sept. 7th, but the season really began in April at the NFL Draft. The 2017 draft took place in Philadelphia for the first time since 1961, and to commemorate its return, the NFL supersized the entire affair. They shut down streets, took over the “Rocky Steps” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and even painted the sides of skyscrapers with real-time draft info and team marks (logos) pixel-mapped up to 47-stories high.  

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X4 Bars Boost 3D “Volumetric Video” on Tour with alt-J

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SAN FRANCISCO – Having completed the American leg of their tour in support of their new album Relaxer, alt-J have arrived in Europe for theatre and arena dates – and a full production inventory that includes multiples of GLP’s X4 Bar 20s. Liteup Events supplied the core control package for lighting and video worldwide and the entire production in Europe, while Upstaging provided the lighting inventory in the States. Marc Callaghan, who co-founded Liteup Events with Kris Box, has been working as crew chief on the tour.

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Green Hippo Sponsors Major Category at Knight of Illumination Awards 2017

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LONDON – Green Hippo is honored to be sponsors of the celebrated Knight of Illumination Awards. The winner of the Green Hippo Television Award for Video Graphic Display will be announced on 17th September 2017 at the 10th KOI Awards, the only awards exclusively dedicated to professional lighting & video designers.The event takes place in London’s Hammersmith Apollo.

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Chauvet DJ Provides Exciting Visuals for Licher Wiesnfest Beer Festival

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POHLHEIM, GERMANY– Beer, food, folk music and a wide variety of other forms of entertainment are a perfect recipe for a good time. The Licher Wiesnfest Beer Festival has been following this formula successfully since 2009. While Munich’s Oktoberfest is Germany’s most internationally famous beer festival export, this summer event, which takes place near Frankfurt am Main, has been gaining traction since its inception, thanks to its delicious drafted beer and varied entertainment program.

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Platinum Punch on Justin Bieber Dominican Republic and India Shows

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC – When Justin Bieber’s “Purpose” world tour played the Hard Rock Hotel in the Dominican Republic earlier in the year, Dominican-based rental company and Elation dealer BM Eventos was there to supply Elation’s indomitable Platinum Beam 5R™ beam light’s for some classic beam looks. LD Cory FitzGerald had 120 of the pioneering beam fixtures at his disposal to provide eye-catching barrages of thick beams from positions in the overhead rig, stage front, right and left, and from the walkway.

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Claypaky Lighting Fixtures and grandMA2 Consoles the Four Stages of Moonrise 2017 in Baltimore

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LOS ANGELES – Although the recent total eclipse of the sun dominated headlines another celestial-themed event also attracted crowds in August.  Moonrise, the annual EDM festival held at Baltimore’s Pimlico Race Course, drew fans to its four stages where an array of Claypaky fixtures and grandMA2 consoles supported a lineup of DJs, bands and rappers. Moonrise 2017, which grew out of the Starscape rave in Baltimore, marked its fourth year at the Pimlico location.  It ran from noon to 11 pm on August 12 and 13.

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