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Michele Ferreira Joins Electrosonic as Director of Sales – West Coast

[caption id="attachment_276531" align="alignnone" width="500"]Michele Ferreira [/caption]

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.

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Coachella 2017 Stages Lit with Robe Fixtures

[caption id="attachment_276528" align="alignnone" width="800"]Martin Garrix performs at the Sahara tent[/caption]

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

[caption id="attachment_276525" align="alignnone" width="800"]The set is closer to a Broadway or an opera backdrop than a standard rock set[/caption]

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.

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Smart Financial Centre Hosts Morrissey’s Houston Show After Last-Minute Venue Change

[caption id="attachment_276520" align="alignnone" width="748"]Morrissey plays at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land[/caption]

SUGAR LAND, TEXAS – Legendary Smiths frontman, Morrissey, performed for more than 3,000 fans at Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land on Friday, April 14 after confirming and announcing the venue change two days prior. After a series of thunderstorms saturated their outdoor concert lawn, White Oak Music Hall approached Smart Financial Centre to host Morrissey’s Houston performance, which already had two previous cancellations. Despite a 5,000-seat Easter service scheduled for Sunday, the venue mobilized its staff to reconfigure the auditorium to accommodate the performance in a short timeframe.

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We the Kings’ Spring Tour Dates Brighten with Astera Fixtures

[caption id="attachment_276517" align="alignnone" width="800"]We the Kings make use of Astera products on College fly dates[/caption]

IOWA CITY, IA – We the Kings filled their April with weekend college fly dates. After wrapping up their 10th anniversary tour for their self-titled album, they took LD Nathaniel Beckett with them and a bright Astera LED light rig. Most of the college shows had a very minimal lighting package supplied by the schools, so the 16 Astera AX1s and eight Astera AX3 Lightdrops provided the much-needed eye candy for the punk rock performances.

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FloppyFlex Splashes WrestleMania 33

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ORLANDO – WrestleMania 33 set a record last month as the most-watched WrestleMania ever.  Dubbed an “ultimate thrill ride for the ages,” WWE’s signature event at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida featured 13 matches, including two world championships.  A larger-than-life ring atop the massive truss centerpiece was designed and installed by All Access Staging & Productions.  Around the perimeter of the giant ring were oversized red, white, and blue ultra-bright ring “ropes” illuminated by 2,000 feet of Firefly FloppyFlex LED neon.

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Amazing Eurotruss Sphere For ‘’Climate Planet Aarhus’’

[caption id="attachment_276511" align="alignnone" width="800"]Eurotruss Sphere gets used at Climate Planet Aarhus[/caption]

DENMARK – One of the largest technological spectacles of recent years awaits the summer of 2017 in Aarhus Denmark. Climate Planet is a beautiful, magnificent and mesmerizing experience and a timely eye-opener for the reality of our planet if we don’t change our current course. Like a meteor from the sky, an enormous sphere construction of 24 meters high descended in the Aarhus harbor area.

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Altman Lighting to Introduce Innovative Architectural Solutions at LIGHTFAIR 2017

YONKERS, NEW YORK– As the world’s largest architectural and commercial lighting trade show, LIGHTFAIR International annually provides a global stage for the introduction of technology innovation. With the 2017 exhibition opening on May 9th at the Philadelphia Convention Center, Altman Lighting will be on hand to feature three new additions to its line of powerful and energy-efficient lighting solutions. Found in Booth 1856, Altman Lighting will proudly introduce the Chalice 70W LED Recessed and Pendant house lights, as well as the new Gallery Series 50W LED Wall Wash luminaire.

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Avolites Appoints New Distributors in Canada and South-East Asia

[caption id="attachment_276506" align="alignnone" width="606"]The two new partnerships will see Avolites' products available across Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.[/caption]

WORLDWIDE – British manufacturer Avolites is pleased to announce the appointment of Canada’s AVL Media Group and Malaysia’s Acoustic & Lighting System (A&L) as its new distribution partners for Canada and South-East Asia respectively. The two new partnerships will see Avolites’ products available across Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. The impressive move comes at a time when the Avolites’ brand enjoys its largest order book in company history and a rapidly growing international client base.

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Twenty One Pilots Take d3 Around The World for Emotional Roadshow Tour

[caption id="attachment_276503" align="alignnone" width="800"]d3 aids visuals for 21 Pilots[/caption]

PERTH, Australia – The American musical duo Twenty One Pilots (TOP) have been around the globe with the Emotional Roadshow World Tour, which commenced almost a year ago and wraps up this summer.  d3 accompanied the Grammy-winning TOP on their arena tour, which visited Europe, North America and Oceania, feeding video content to an extensive array of LED walls.

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Finding Unidamu

[caption id="attachment_276500" align="alignnone" width="800"]Painting with Light illuminates Unidamu[/caption]

BELGIUM – Belgian visual design practice Painting with Light’s Paco Mispelters has added imagination and style to the current Studio 100 tour of new youth musical “Unidamu”. The tour visits four Belgian theatres and is a co-production with TV channel Ketnet. The Unidamu (Universe of Dance & Music) journey started with “Ketnet Musical”, a talent scouting competition TV show with a mission to source new singing, dancing and acting talent, resulting in 24 fresh and enthusiastic faces picked from 12,000 hopefuls to make up the cast.

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