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ESTA and USITT Announce the New World Rigging Symposium

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NYC – Taking place March 13-14, 2018 in conjunction with the USITT Conference and Stage Expo 2018 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The Symposium will provide a unique opportunity for riggers and those interested in the live entertainment rigging industry to network, discuss current issues and new technologies, and help shape the future of the industry.

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Linkin Park Tours with New Flare Q+ Fixtures

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LONDON – You can take the band out of Southern California, but you can’t take So Cal out of the band.  Completing the European leg of their world tour in Birmingham recently, Linkin Park’s ‘One More Light’ is a departure from the group’s earlier work.  Smooth, subtle, and sometimes moody, the band’s evolving sound is complemented by the tour’s lighting designer, Celine Royer. Seventy-four Solaris Flare Q+ fixtures play a key role in her design.

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PR Lighting’s Phantom Is Now A Reality

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PR Lighting has announced the release of Phantom, a new hybrid moving head first previewed at this year’s Frankfurt Prolight+Sound Show. An upgraded version of the XR 440 BWS, it contains a full designer’s toolkit in a single unit. Utilizing an Osram Sirius HRI 440W discharge source combined with PR Lighting’s advanced optical system, it delivers a solid beam, with 60° wide wash and an even varied spot.

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Christie Visual Solutions Highlight Urban Development Initiatives at the Changchun City Planning Museum

[caption id="attachment_278084" align="alignnone" width="800"]Vibrant projections on the massive sand table, curved screen and ceiling of the exhibition room[/caption]

CHANGCHUN, CHINA– Christie®, a leader in creating and delivering the world’s best visual and audio experiences, together with its Chinese partner Wincomn Technology, offer a fascinating look at the past, present and future of urban planning using state-of-the-art projection technologies at the Changchun City Planning Museum. Vibrant projections on the massive sand table, curved screen and ceiling of the exhibition room using Christie M Series and Roadie Series projectors.

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ETC Source 4WRD PAR and Source 4WRD PARNel

ETC Source 4WRD PAR and Source 4WRD PARNel Fixture Bodies are Now Shipping

MIDDLETON, WI – ETC announced that its Source 4WRD PAR and Source 4WRD PARNel Fixture Bodies are now shipping. The company notes advantages in terms of both energy efficiency and brightness over ETC’s original Source Fours with conventional lamp sources. A company-produced video highlights the differences and notes that while a modular design lets customers use these components with ETC’s newer fixtures, these units are not designed to work with the company’s older legacy products.

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Bonnaroo Tower 2017

Bandit Lites Illuminates Bonnaroo Tower with SGM G-Spots

MANCHESTER, TN – Working with LD Andi Watson and production manager William Irons, Bandit Lites once again provided the lighting for the tower at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, deploying SGM G-Spot fixtures. The top of the tower, a focal point for Bonnaroo, features a large rotating mirror ball. It is actually a permanent structure that serves as a North Star of sorts to the festival attendees, allowing them to navigate more easily through the 700-acre festival site.

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Daniel Channon

Riedel Names Daniel Channon U.K. Rental Engineer

WUPPERTAL, Germany — Riedel Communications announced the appointment of Daniel Channon as rental engineer. Based in Riedel’s U.K. office, Channon will be responsible for managing, coordinating, and maintaining the company’s extensive rental service for tailored communications and networking solutions.

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PR Lighting Phantom 440

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PR Lighting has introduced the Phantom 440, a high-performance beam, wash and spot hybrid moving head fixture. Equipped with an OSRAM SIRIUS HRI 440W (7000±300K, 1500 hours) discharge source makes the lamp versatile and applicable as an all-purpose device. Mega Systems is the US distributor for PR Lighting products

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Depeche Mode's Global Spirit world tour at the Stade de France, Paris.

Depeche Mode’s Global Spirit Tour Gets Industrial Edge from VL6000 Beams

PARIS – Philips’ Vari-Lite VL6000 Beam luminaires are playing a central role in the lighting design for Depeche Mode’s Global Spirit tour. Lighting design for the tour is by Sooner Routhier and Robert Long of US-based SRae Productions. Associate lighting designer Brian Jenkins programmed the show for SRae, while lighting director Manny Conde is responsible for the lighting on the tour. The lighting equipment is being supplied by UK-based production rental specialist HSL Group.

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Quest Sound & Productions provided Chauvet Professional Rogue and COLORado fixtures, operated by a ChamSys PC Wing.

Rogues Reflect Many Moods of Bruce Hornsby Concert for John Berret

AUGUSTA, GA – After three Grammy Awards, over 100 shows with the Grateful Dead, and 11 million record sales, Bruce Hornsby hasn’t lost his taste for touring. The legendary singer-songwriter is crisscrossing the US with his band The Noisemakers this summer and enjoying every minute of it.  Touring is fun, Hornsby told an interviewer, because he and the band “keep the spontaneity factor high.”  This free flowing spirit was very much in evidence when the Hornsby tour bus pulled into the Columbia County Amphitheatre in June, both in terms of the music performed on stage and the John Berret designed lightshow that backed it up note for free flowing note.

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