DOVER, DE – The Firefly Music Festival, held June 16-19, drew 90,000 attendees with a lineup that included Mumford & Sons, Blink 182, Florence and The Machine, Death Cab for Cutie and Kings of Leon, among others. Bandit Lites provided lighting for the event’s Main, Lawn, Backyard and Porch stages.
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BREA, CA — 4Wall Entertainment Lighting, a national provider of stage and theatrical services, will acquire the assets of professional lighting, video, and staging provider Visions Lighting for an undisclosed sum. The current Visions Lighting headquarters in Brea, CA will be rebranded as 4Wall Orange County. 4Wall will also retain Visions’ staff, with Todd Roberts, who founded Visions Lighting in 1992, working as director of live events.
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FREMONT, CA – Blackmagic Design announced recently that the music licensing platform Musicbed uses ATEM live production switchers and SmartView monitors to create cinematic live music experiences, called “Musicbed Sessions,” which feature performances from musicians spanning various genres. Musicbed currently works with more than 700 indie musicians and composers for sync licensing and custom scores.
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SOUTHFIELD, MI – Bluewater Technologies Group, Inc. announced that Josh Linkner has joined its Board of Directors. Linkner will assist the company’s board and senior leadership team with its strategy and execution in the rapidly growing experiential services market for live events and integration.
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VERO BEACH, FL – ChamSys announces the new MagicQ MQ500 Stadium Console – a new control console from ChamSys designed to operate at the highest level of show control. MagicQ MQ500 Stadium enables shows to be designed from concept to reality including lighting, media, LED and scenic design.
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CHICAGO – Are there colors of sound? Can sound be expressed in the movement of light? Renowned instrumentalist and double platinum recording artist Nicholas Gunn thinks so, and he enlisted lighting designer Jeff Hinton of 815 Productions to help him demonstrate these principles with a new video that they shot in a vintage Chicago locale in late September.
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HANNOVER, Germany – One of Germany’s most influential artists of recent years is pop rapper Cro, who is just wrapping up an “MTV Unplugged Open Air” tour that played dates across the country this summer. Lighting design was by one of Germany’s preeminent designers, Gunther Hecker from CUE Design, who incorporated Elation Professional Platinum FLX hybrid moving heads supplied by German production company satis&fy.
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LONDON – The International Arbitration Charity Ball, held Sept. 8 at Guildhall in London, brought together 600 high profile figures, firms and specialists for an evening of fine dining and spectacular fundraising. The event raised money for Save the Children’s Emergency Fund and has raised over £1,300,000 since the first event in 2010. The ball gives the Arbitration community the chance to come together, network, and support Save the Children. Following its work on other charity fundraisers, White Light was called upon to provide the production support for the evening.
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SAO PAULO – Brazilian lighting rental company LPL, based in Sao Paulo, has invested in 90 Robe BMFL WashBeams to service their immediate and ongoing work. They will join over 400 Robe fixtures that the company currently has in stock. LPL services around 800 shows and events a year of different types and sizes, covering multiple sectors including music and concert touring, festivals, corporate events and brand activations and theatre and TV productions.
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ADJ’s new Entourage professional grade touring faze machine uses a 1500W heater to generate 15,000 cubic ft. per minute of evenly-dispersed, lightshow-enhancing faze (fog + haze), making it well suited for large venues and stage productions. The Entourage is a hybrid between a conventional fog machine and a haze machine.
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HAZELTINE, MN – This week’s Ryder Cup at Hazeltine National Golf Club outside the Twin Cities will feature more LED video screens than have ever been placed at a PGA Tour event. The PGA of America hired Texas-based GoVision to provide and install 15 large LED screens throughout the golf course, Media Center and International Pavilion. The typical PGA Tour event uses two to four LED screens.
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PHILADELPHIA – The Budweiser Made in America Festival returned to Philadelphia for its fifth season over Labor Day weekend with a star-studded lineup. This included Rihanna and Coldplay, who headlined a weekend filled with music, food and fun. The Syncrolite XL and SyncroMITE Beam fixtures, used for the entire event, were well received by the LDs on site. The setup for Rihanna is pictured here.
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