COLUMBUS, GA – Cascade Hills Church updated their architectural house lighting system with Chalice LED Pendant and Recessed LED downlights from Altman Lighting. Church officials turned to longtime partner Morris to design and install the new house lighting system.
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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE –Nashville’s 19th Annual Grammy Block Party returned to Cumberland Park for a party for Recording Academy’s yearly member’s event. Chris Lisle Lighting Design utilized a lighting package from Bandit Lites where musical performances included Grammy-award winning super group, Lady Antebellum, Anderson East, Moon Taxi, CeCe Winans and Muddy Magnolias.
NYC – USITT’s Jay O. Glerum Rigging Masterclasses are slated for June in Atlanta, GA and August in Hartford, Conn. The masterclasses honor the memory of one of our industry’s greatest advocates for safety and training, Jay O. Glerum. The Rigging Masterclasses offer a hands-on learning experience for each attendee in both advanced and entry level tracks providing the best of the best in training by the internationally recognized seasoned and skilled trainers.
DENMARK – SGM’s line of G-series fixtures welcomes two new members to the family. The G-4 Wash and the G-4 Wash-Beam both boast RGBAM light engines and white light capable of reaching 7200 degrees in color temperature. Carrying the characteristics of SGM, these LED moving heads are IP65 rated and practically maintenance free.
NEWPORT, CA – New guests at Time can’t help turning their heads in every direction, an expression of amazed wonderment on their faces, when they entered this former Nike Town store turned nightclub. It’s an unforgettable sight to see too, thanks in large measure to a lighting design by Steve Lieberman’s SJ Lighting that features a stunning “digital chandelier” made of CHAUVET DJ MotionOrb fixtures along with some power packed spot and wash lighting from CHAUVET Professional Rogues.
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OREGON, USA – The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) has celebrated William Shakespeare’s legacy since 1935 with another busy summer season of plays underway. OSF also stages plays by other playwrights and is presenting UniSon at the Angus Bowmer Theatre through October, a new musical inspired by the poetry of August Wilson. Lighting Designer Alex Jainchill is using dynamic lighting from Elation Professional on the play, including ZCL 360 Bar™ wash/effect lights and Platinum Wash 16R Pro™ moving heads, as well as color-changing Elation Flex LED Tape™.
WAYNE, N.J.,– As its concert touring division continues to expand with its new DeKalb, Illinois facility, Montreal-based Solotech has come to rely on several FUJINON lenses to support large concert tours. The audio and video equipment rental, integration, and event technology provider counts the FUJINON XA99x8.4BESM ultra-wide field production lens, HA14x4.5BERM Premier super wide-angle ENG lens, HA18x7.6BERM Premier series standard ENG lens, and HA23x7.6BERM Premier telephoto lens as stalwarts in its equipment arsenal.
MUNICH, GERMANY – The new Claypaky SharBar and other Claypaky products were used by a trio of young artists at the annual artistic lighting awards “LiO (Light is OSRAM) Awards 2017” in their winning installation ‘The 5th Dimension’, hosted at Munich’s historic event space, the Praterinsel, by German lighting manufacturer OSRAM.
Litec says its recently-introduced MyT Folding Steroid Roof System is a new concept in heavy-duty portable roofs specifically designed for live events. It is designed to serve as a modular, self-contained roof that makes use of EN AW-7003 T6 folding aluminum mother grid truss sections, 85 x 85cm EN AW-6082 T6 aluminum towers and key structural elements in S355 steel, such as modular ballast bases, sleeve block and safety block.
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MIDDLETON, WI – On June 1st, Becky Koester will officially begin in her new role as general manager for High End Systems. Earlier this year, ETC acquired High End Systems from Barco Lighting Systems, Inc. and has been working diligently to build support for the team in the Austin, TX based headquarters. “Koester was a supporter of the acquisition by ETC throughout the process,” says Dick Titus, President of ETC. “She brings with her a deep understanding of the culture that made High End a market leader and will be instrumental in blending the cultures of ETC and High End Systems.”
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NEW YORK – The Rockin’ Road to Dublin combines an Irish dance spectacle with rock ‘n’ roll music. Presented as a cross between a concert and a stage show, the touring production features a lighting design from LD Carolyn Wong that makes use of fixtures supplied by 4Wall New York.
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NASHVILLE– Located in Weatherford, Texas, Piranha Productions is a full-service production company specializing in all the design elements needed to create a powerful, live event production designs. With LED video becoming a consistent component to many of their most successful designs, the decision was made to make an investment in the technology for their rental inventory. Needing a high-resolution and durable solution from a trusted provider, they called upon Nashville-based PixelFLEX and made an investment in FLEXLite Plus 8.9mm LED video.
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