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Seeing Deeper Event At National Cathedral Gets Color Boost From Chauvet

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WASHINGTON, DC – Beach blankets and yoga mats aren’t normally found inside the long, high-ceilinged central nave of the National Cathedral. Recently, however, the iconic church’s usual seats and pews were removed so people could lie down on these coverings to gaze at an astonishing lightshow that transformed the building’s cavernous interior into a vast and infinitely fascinating panorama of color with help from a collection of WELL Fit LED fixtures from CHAUVET Professional.

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Jess Allan

New Concert Touring & Events Chair Announced For the 10th Knight of Illumination Awards

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UK – The Knight of Illumination Awards 2017 (KOI), which celebrates the creative talents of international lighting and digital content designers working in the UK, is delighted to announce the appointment of a new chair of the Concert Touring & Events category – Jess Allan. Well-known in the industry, Jess has worked in professional show lighting and event production for almost 20 years, gaining extensive experience of both technology and design while working in various roles for companies including Martin Professional and TAIT.

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Mother Of The Nation Festival

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ABU DHABI – Spread across ten days — and more than a kilometre of Abu Dhabi’s corniche — the Mother of the Nation Festival (MOTN) celebrates, commemorates and honours the inspirational values of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak.Via a number of diverse activity zones, the festival again created an entertaining and highly interactive atmosphere, including educational activities, exhibitions and performance, inviting families and individuals from all walks of life to help preserve the Emirati heritage.

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Mavericks Light Justin Bieber on ‘Purpose’ Tour Stop in Peru

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LIMA, Peru – From late March through late April, Justin Bieber’s Purpose world tour was traveling through South America. On April 5, the 23-year-old visited Lima, Peru. DBLUX-SAC provided audio, lighting, video and power for the concert, including 60 Maverick MK1 Hybrid moving heads from Chauvet Professional. Cory FitzGerald designed the lighting looks for the tour.

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Avolites Ensures Perfect Film Lighting for Yes

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MANCHESTER – Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman, a newly formed group of the progressive rock band’s core members, played a well-received show at Manchester Apollo, captured by Eagle Rock Entertainment for DVD. As the filming required precise lighting levels, Jonathan Pask of Illuminate Lighting Ltd designed a reliable multi-user control system of networked Avolites consoles to ensure each look was on point for camera.

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Estonia National Concert Hall Chooses Robe

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ESTONIA – Robe DL7S Profile LED moving lights and PARFect 100 LED PARs have been specified and installed at the prestigious Estonian National Concert Hall (Eesti Kontsert), located in the heart of picturesque capital city Tallinn and home to the Estonian National Orchestra (ENO). The impressive Neoclassical building designed by architects A. Lindgren and W. Lönn in 1913 and reconstructed in 1947 is shared with the Estonian National Opera and the Ballet Theatre Estonia and a proud symbol of Estonia’s political and cultural landscape.

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“Raiding the Rock Vault” Begins Hard Rock Las Vegas Residency

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LOS ANGELES – Fans of classic rock ’n roll are “Raiding the Rock Vault” at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas where iconic anthems from two decades are brought to life by artists from the biggest bands of the era.  The unique show is enhanced with lighting effects created by production designer Paul Dexter using Claypaky SharBars. Dexter, principal of Masterworks Design, Inc., in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, helped create the show, which debuted in fall 2012 at the Mayan Theater in LA.

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Elation Lights Club Nomadic’s Pop-up Nightclub during Super Bowl LI

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HOUSTON – Conceived as a mega-nightclub with no permanent home, Club Nomadic is a traveling venue constructed each year to support the build-up to the Super Bowl. For 2017’s Super Bowl LI, which took place at NRG Stadium in Houston, Nomadic Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the NFL’s hospitality partner On Location Experiences, began construction of the 62,500 square foot venue on Nov. 28 and opened Feb. 2.

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Martin Drumm Joins Penn Elcom

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FRANKFURT – Designer and product specialist Martin Drumm joins the Penn Elcom team, bringing his vast experience, zest for innovation and imaginative flair to the company’s legendary flight case and racks hardware division, where he will be designing and develop cool new products and bringing them to the market. Says Roger Willems, Chairman of Penn Elcom, “It is a fantastic opportunity for Penn Elcom’s global operation to have someone of Martin’s caliber on-board and we are all very excited! 

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C3 Presents and Bandit Light 2017 NFL Draft Experience

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – More than 80 years after the inaugural drafting of football players in 1936, the NFL Draft returned again to the Philadelphia for a weekend celebrating the newest additions to fans’ favorite teams. C3 Presents once again tasked Bandit Lites to provide critical lighting throughout the NFL Draft experience, including real time team colors for the Entrance Portal, NFL Museum, two fountain areas and the exteriors of the Draft Theatre and the Philadelphia Art Museum.

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ETCP Launches New Website

NYC – The Entertainment Technician Certification Program (ETCP) is pleased to announce the launch of a new, redesigned version of its website. Key features of the site include a cleaner and more modern design, a more engaging user experience with enhanced search and navigation. The site’s refreshed and simplified look, combined with enriched content, improved search functionality, and optimization for mobile devices allows users to better interact with ETCP.

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Col. Bruce Hampton Waves Goodbye in Atlanta

ATLANTA – Col. Bruce Hampton (Retired) has passed away. During the second encore Monday night (May 1st) at the Fox Theater in Atlanta, GA, the musician kneeled down beside a monitor onstage as if in homage to 14-year-old guitar prodigy Brandon Niederauer. He laid his arm over it and never got back up. The 18 musicians on stage paying tribute to him on his 70th birthday kept playing on. Nothing seemed amiss at first, as both his fans and fellow musicians had seen this familiar antic many times over the years. It happened while the large group jammed to “Turn on Your Love Light.”  

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