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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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4Wall OC Provides the Stage and Lighting for Coachella’s Outdoor Theatre

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INDIO, CA-  Every April, over 100,000 festival goers descend upon the Coachella Valley for the annual music festival that has grown to massive popularity in recent years. This year, 4Wall Orange County erected one of the largest stages in the west region for Coachella’s Outdoor Theatre where headlining artists Travis Scott, DJ Snake, Justice and Hans Zimmer performed. 4Wall Orange County has constructed the Outdoor Theatre for Coachella since the festival’s inception in 1999.

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Great Success for DTS at Prolight+Sound 2017

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ITALY – DTS would like to  thank the hundreds of professionals who visited the DTS booth at PL+S 2017, and made it the most successful exhibition ever for DTS. The focus of the 4-day presentation was the brand new ‘BRICK’ Wash LED projector, properly dubbed as “The base of any lighting design”. Extra-bright, self-contained, compact and versatile, the BRICK drew the attention of the lighting pros and the media alike.

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XYZ Cultural Technology Appoints Joël Beauchamp Director of Operations And Hires Christelle Chevrette as Director of Production

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MONTRÉAL – Jacques Larue and Éric Cyr, partners at XYZ Cultural Technology, are pleased to announce the promotion of Joël Beauchamp, CTS, to director of operations. Beauchamp has proven to be a tremendous asset to the team since he was hired as director of the installation department in November 2016. He has implemented new project and human resource management processes, as well as an after-sales program.

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Chauvet Professional LED Fixtures Add Aesthetics and Efficiency To NRHS Theater

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BRISTOL, NH – Every summer the population of New Hampshire’s rural Grafton County on Newfound Lake swells with vacationers from Boston and New York. But in April, before they arrive, locals enjoy a quintessential small town community building event when the Newfound Regional High School drama department hosts the Annual School Musical. This year, the local show was given a new, more aesthetically pleasing twist thanks to a recently installed all LED lighting system that features CHAUVET Professional fixtures supplied by DNR Laboratories of Watertown, CT.

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Design & Drafting to Cease Development of LD Assistant™ Software

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CHICAGO – Rufus Warren, Founder/CEO of Design & Drafting, announced today that the company is ceasing all further development of their LD Assistant™ lighting design software. Design & Drafting will continue to offer technical support to existing customers. The advanced design tools found in LD Assistant will remain viable for the next decade.

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Laserworld RTI PIKO RGB 20 Laser System

Laserworld RTI PIKO RGB 20 Laser System

Ray Technologies (RTI) presents their new RTI PIKO RGB 20 with a high precision diode module as substitution for the OPSL green laser source. This change in technology for the green colour spectrum became possible due to new diode arrays that have been developed by RTI’s R&D in Valley, next to Munich, Germany. The homogenous beam profile of the PIKO RGB 20 even fits small 4mm scanner mirrors, which results in high scanner performance, as the inertia of the scanners is kept very low. The CT-6210H scanners can do 60kpps at 8 degrees and still do 35kpps at their maximum scan angle of 80 degrees. Besides the small beam diameter, the RTI PIKO RGB 20 maintains a very low divergence of <1.0mrad, so the small beam diameter is not negatively impacting the divergence at all. The RTI PIKO RGB 20 laser systems are especially designed and tailored for high professional applications.

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