NASHVILLE — Country artist Aaron Watson has been touring in support of his album, The Underdog, with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. LD Anthony McCoy turned to Bandit for a rig that includes Chauvet RH1 Rogue Hybrids, GLP X4S fixtures and Elation Cuepix WW2 blinders. The downstage risers are also equipped with Chauvet Épix Strip Tour units, driven by Resolume Arena from McCoy’s video server.
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SINGAPORE — For Kingdom Invasion 2017, a Christian conference that drew 10,000 from 37 nations to Singapore’s Changi Expo March 14-17, Illuminate Productions got a lighting assist from Glorious AV, which provided 24 Claypaky Scenius Spots, 48 Claypaky Sharpys, 24 Claypaky A.Leda B-Eye K20 and other fixtures.
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ETC’s compact P2 hoist weighs only 300 pounds (powerhead only), but it is capable of lifting loads up to 650 pounds and it comes with an affordable price tag. Combined with ETC’s QuickTouch and Foundation control families, P2 is designed to be well suited for venues that want to have the simplicity of an automated system, but without a significant increase in cost.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Chauvet Professional will be featuring a number of new fixtures at this year’s Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, including the Maverick MK3 Wash, the Maverick MK1 Spot, ÉPIX Strip IP and Ovation B1965-FC.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Czech lighting manufacturer Robe announced plans for an array of new fixtures, including their Spiider fixtures, pictured here, at booth D80 in Hall 3 of the Frankfurt Messe for Prolight +Sound 2017. The company will also invite hundreds of guests to enjoy a live entertainment show with a unique stand design featuring a lightshow every hour and a ‘Voice of God’ product presentation at other times. Robe will also be making what it calls a “major announcement related to one of its key European markets” at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5.
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FRANKFURT – U.K. based Kinesys will launch its Apex chain hoist system on Stand D15 in Hall 3 (level 0) at the 2017 Prolight + Sound expo in Frankfurt April 4-7. The brand-new system includes a new hoist controller (pictured here) and t500kg and 1250kg hoists with maximum speeds of 30m/min and 12m/min respectively.
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LONDON – As the finale to the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) presented a dazzling new production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest in the Bard’s birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon. The innovative staging featured live motion capture, which allowed Ariel to shape-shift and become characters such as a sea nymph and harpy, all in realtime.
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LONDON — VER’s specialist broadcast lighting division, Aurora, has been supporting the production needs of The Nightly Show, which gets recorded in front of a live studio audience within the Cochrane Theatre in Central London. Lighting director Chris Rigby has opted for a variety of low energy and LED fixtures that meet the production’s needs.
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LONDON — Creative Technology Ltd (CT), which was acquired by NEP in January 2017, noted that the U.K.-based division of NEP’s subsidiary, Mediatec, will be merged with and rebranded CT starting on April 1, 2017.
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BOSTON, – In mid-March, 50 lighting industry professionals pulled on their boots and rode their horses over mounds of plowed snow to Boston to see the first ever Ellipsoidal Leko Shootout produced by USITT and hosted by High Output. Seven companies brought a total of 21 fixtures each hoping to best their competitors. High Output was happy to show off their new satellite shop and sound stage in Boston. The event was brain-child of Steven Rosen FIALD, President & Creative Director at Available Light, Dan Jentzen, Director of Education at High Output, and Anthony Phelps, Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at UMass Boston and USITT representative.
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FRANKFURT — Austria-based AV Stumpfl returns to the prolight+sound show in April with a broad line-up of high-performance media server products and projection screens for the live entertainment space.
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