Bandit Adds Elation Colour Chorus Battens to Touring Inventory
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – Bandit Lites continues to invest in new gear, this time adding Elation Colour Chorus 48 and 72 battens to its already extensive touring inventory. The Elation Colour Chorus Series is a robust versatile LED series that can be used to illuminate scrims and backdrops in addition to being utilized for up lighting artist from the front. The Colour Chorus collection boasts over 100,000 hours of LED life, individual hue, saturation and intensity control, along with variable dimming curve modes and strobe and chase effects for eye candy looks.
ETC Welcomes Chris Patton as Marketing Product Manager For Architectural Luminaires
MIDDLETON, WI – On May 1st, Chris Patton officially joined ETC as the Marketing product manager for architectural luminaires. Patton has been an unofficial part of the ETC family since 2014, when ETC and GDS formed a partnership for the American production and distribution of ArcSystem, BluesSystem and CueSystem families. As a GDS employee, Patton contracted with ETC to serve as the marketing product manager for GDS by ETC products. In his new role, Patton will continue to oversee these marketing efforts, while also working to bring ETC’s unique fixture technologies into the commercial sector.
About the Technical Standards Program
NYC – What would our industry look like without the TSP? Imagine an industry with no vehicle to create safety and interoperability standards which are free from anti-trust concerns in a decidedly regulatory-compliant environment. Without the TSP, even maintaining current ANSI standards would not be possible and they would cease to exist. This is an unimaginable situation that as an industry, we simply cannot allow to happen! Everyone in the industry benefits from the TSP and everyone needs to step forward and fund this critical program to keep it alive.
New Maverick MK3 Wash From CHAUVET Professional
SUNRISE, FL – CHAUVET Professional is taking its popular Maverick series to new heights with the introduction of the Maverick MK3 Wash, a powerful and intensely bright RGBW LED moving wash. Powered by 27 40W OSRAM OSTAR LEDs, the new pixel mappable fixture has the output and performance features needed for even the largest arena applications.
Green Hippo Teams with Freevox to Present a Seminar with a View
LONDON, UK,– Freevox, a leading distributor and manufacturer of professional lighting products, held its 2017 customer conference in Portugal, and Green Hippo was delighted to attend, helping the French firm present Green Hippo’s line of video products. The conference, which ran over four days, was held at the Algarve’s gorgeous Club Med de Balaia resort, and was attended by more than 100 leading French companies, including installers and resellers from the image, lighting and sound sectors.
Hippotizer Starring at Germany’s BAMBI Awards
BERLIN – The 68th BAMBI awards took place in Berlin in November 2016, and Green Hippo technology helped Germany’s foremost media ceremony run smoothly. The awards, first presented at a public event in 1953, is Germany’s most glamorous society happening of the year, attracting a domestic television audience of over six million viewers, with worldwide attention covering all six continents.
Avolites Gets Ready For UK Debut of Titan v10.1 at PLASA Focus, Leeds
LEEDS, UK: British lighting and video control systems manufacturer, Avolites, is gearing up for the UK debut of its latest lighting control software update, Titan v10.1, at the PLASA Focus expo in Leeds, following the software’s hugely successful international showcase at Prolight + Sound 2017 in Frankfurt.
Building on 2016 Success for Mojo Barriers US
PENNSYLVANIA – A new look Mojo Barriers US office, with Jordi van Berkum at the helm, has assembled an experienced team to ensure the company continues to offer its world renowned stage and crowd safety barriers to its expanding portfolio of clients. Mojo Barriers US office has started the year supplying some diverse events, from installing crowd safety barriers to a large political event in Washington DC or the WWE WrestleMania 33 in Orlando over the first weekend of April.
Michele Ferreira Joins Electrosonic as Director of Sales – West Coast
LOS ANGELES – Electrosonic continues to expand its staff roster with the hiring of Michele Ferreira as Director of Sales – West. She will be based in the San Francisco Bay area leading the west coast sales team and growing Electrosonic’s business in the region. Ferreira has had a successful career in the professional AV industry, most recently as General Manager of the Technology Group at One Workplace in Santa Clara, California with dotcoms and other leading Bay Area businesses.
Coachella 2017 Stages Lit with Robe Fixtures
INDIO, CA – The 2017 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, staged at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA April 14-16 and 21-23, included lighting rigs where Robe moving lights were well-represented. LDs included Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting, who specified Spiiders and Pointes for the Yuma stage, and Gabriel Fraboni, who added 90 Spikies as specials for Dutch DJ Martin Garrix’s two sets in the Sahara Tent. The festival set new attendance records for 2017.
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Philips Lighting Makes Grammy-Winning Alt Rockers Wilco’s Artistic Stage Set Shine
DALLAS, TEXAS – Philips Lighting (Euronext Amsterdam ticker: LIGHT), a global leader in lighting, today announced that its stage lighting is providing lighting effects central to the artistic stage design of the Chicago-based alternative rock legends Wilco on the band’s world tour. In support of the tenth studio album, Schmilco, the tour is visiting the US, Europe and South America.