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Elite Productions Lights Superstars At Soul Beach with Chauvet Professional

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ORANJESTAD, Arube – Too often, events that receive a lot of accolades don’t seem to live up to their press clippings. This was definitely not the case at the 2017 Soul Beach Music Festival in Arubal. Routinely included in the Top Ten lists of Caribbean festivals from the likes of USA Today and Jetsetter Magazine, the five day event exceeded the highest expectations this year, serving up a plethora of performances from superstars like Usher, The Roots and Mary J. Blige in a paradisiacal setting. Adding extra sizzle to the proceedings was the seemingly endless variety of intensely colored big looks that Erik van Oorsouw of Elite Productions created with help from over 100 CHAUVET Professional fixtures.

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New Pneumatic Module Metal from Harting

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With robust metal contacts that can be plugged and unplugged at least 10,000 times, the new Han® Pneumatic Module Metal from HARTING presents another significant cost- and space-saving opportunity to use connectors to streamline flexible production processes with high mating cycles. The Han® Pneumatic Module Metal can withstand pressure up to 10 bars, covering the entire low pressure range. This compares with an upper limit of 8 bars for the existing Han® Pneumatic Module with plastic contacts. 

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Claypaky Brings Theatrical Lighting to ‘Encore Dunhuang’

DUNHUANG, China – A range of Claypaky moving head fixtures created the responsive theatrical lighting for immersive Chinese theatre production ‘Encore Dunhuang’, a ‘walk-in’ theatre show that debuted at the first Silk Road Dunhuang International Cultural Expo. The event’s theatrical lighting design was created by lighting designer Mr Wang Yugang, who specified the Claypaky Scenius Profile, Claypaky Alpha Profile 1200s and Claypaky Sharpy Was he 330s to meet the demands and the scale of the production. Mr Wang Yugang singled out the Scenius Profile specifically for its superior color rendering.

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The lighting was used for a special Easter church service at Glory to Him Church in Ozark, Alabama

Easter Production in Alabama Lit with Elation Fuze, FLX Fixtures

OZARK, AL – Lighting Designer and Vice President at Premier Entertainment Group, Stephen Krietemeyer, designed the lighting for a special Easter church service at Glory to Him Church in Ozark, Alabama, and turned to Elation Professional Platinum FLX™ hybrid moving heads and Fuze Wash Z350™ LED wash light moving heads to fulfill the vision.

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ABCOMRENTS Adds Absen X5 5.2mm Outdoor LED Tiles to Its Technology Rental Fleet

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ITASCA, Ill., — ABCOMRENTS, a leading provider of Digital Signage & interactive technology solutions, has partnered with Absen to bring even more of their products to the U.S. rental market. One of the latest offerings is the Absen X5 LED Tile, a high quality, multipurpose, curvable LED wall tile that is unique in the technology rental industry. The partnership will continue to make innovative technology more accessible to the rental & staging industry nationally.

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Zach Blane Helps Bring ‘Oklahoma!’ to Long Island with Ovation Fixtures from Chauvet Professional

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NORTHPORT, NY – For a production of the popular musical Oklahoma! that ran at the John W. Engeman Theater from May 11 to June 25, LD Zach Blane’s mission was to “support the script and convey the clearest story possible.” He used ten Ovation E-910FC fixtures from Chauvet Professional to create the musical’s sunlit and moonlit scenes.

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The Weeknd’s ‘Starboy: Legend of the Fall’ 2017 World Tour Lit with Martin Fixtures

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PARIS – In just a few short years, The Weeknd has become one of the most dominating artists in pop music, winning multiple GRAMMY Awards, topping the Billboard charts and earning millions of fans worldwide. Recently, Lighting Designer Sooner Routhier was hired to design the stage lighting for The Weeknd’s 2017 “Starboy: Legend of the Fall” world tour. The performance features numerous projectors that display video content on custom surfaces, including a large spaceship shaped structure suspended above the stage.

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Bas de Vries’ Lighting Design for ‘The Voice Kids’ in The Netherlands Includes Philips VL6000 Beams

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HILVERSUM, The Netherlands – Philips Entertainment Lighting’s new Philips VL6000 Beams were part of Bas de Vries’ lighting design for The Netherlands’ prime-time talent show, The Voice Kids, featuring contestants aged 6-14.

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Chroma-Q Color Force II Lights Up Pyramid Stage Artists’ Performances at Glastonbury Festival

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PILTON, U.K. – Nearly 50 of the multi award-winning Chroma-Q® Color Force II 48™ luminaire were a central feature of the Pyramid Stage lighting rig at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, providing powerful colored illumination and eye candy during both daytime and evening performances from high-profile artists including Foo Fighters, Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry, Craig David, Chic, Barry Gibb, The National, First Aid Kit and many more.

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Taste of Country and Mountain Jam Get Big Looks with Chauvet Professional

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HUNTER, NY – Dylan Jakobsen and Caroline Gray may not have achieved the fame of Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert (at least not yet), but for three days this June, they and a host of other young up-and-coming artists shared billing with these superstars at The Taste of Country Music Festival.  The largest event of its kind in the Northeast, Taste of Country has rapidly made a name for itself since it started five years ago by bringing together big names with raw developing talent in a stunning Catskill Mountain setting that’s as laid back as it is beautiful.

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tvONE Ships Total IP Video Streaming Solution for CORIOmaster Systems

[caption id="attachment_277695" align="alignnone" width="800"]128 GB Streaming Media & 4K Playback Input Module[/caption]

SILVER SPING MD – Announcing the shipping of our complete Vieo Over IP solution for CORIOmaster video processing systems: The IP video encoder, Magenta Encoder-100 announced earlier this year, as well as the new 128 GB Streaming Media & 4K Playback Input Module are now shipping. Along with these two new hardware additions, tvONE has also upgraded its system design software, CORIOgrapher, to version 2.5.

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