NASHVILLE – Country music artist Hank Williams Jr. is wrapping up his co-headlining tour with Chris Stapleton with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. Lighting designer Bart Burnham shared the vision for the production came from a collaboration between tour manager Charlie Sanderson, Production Manager Billy Kline and Stage Manager Jimmy Davis.
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NEW YORK – Justin Preston of Three-Phase Productions included Chauvet Professional fixtures in the rig for Roland’s 909 Day Celebration. The company event featured performances by Linda Perry, Smallpools, Echosmith, Mike Garson, Saint Motel, DJ Pierre and others. Preston used Chauvet’s Rogue R1 FX-Bs, Rogue RH1 Hybrids, Rogue R2 Washes, Rogue R1 Washes and Next NXT-1 moving LED panels for the gig. Preston was part of a team that included Three-Phase Production President Darren Rezowalli, assistant lighting director Will Chandler, rigger Daniel Zawolkow, and show ME Matt Johns as well as electricians Garrett Kelly, Jack Herndon, Jensen Chambers, Alex Ashley and Juan Carlos Amaya.
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JOHANNESBURG — Gearhouse Splitbeam noted how an early September delivery of ETC Source Four Revolutions, prompted by a specification for the fixtures by LD Ben Cracknell for a production of the musical, Annie, earlier this year, is reinforcing the company’s already impressive capabilities in meeting the lighting needs of touring theatrical productions.
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HAMILTON, Ontario, Canada – Soundbox Productions has added Elation Professional ACL Series effect lights to its growing inventory of Elation products. Soundbox purchased ACL Bar LED battens in August which join ACL 360 Matrix LED moving head panels that the company acquired earlier this year.
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WARRINGTON, U.K. – The annual Creamfields EDM extravaganza returned to Daresbury Estate with another assist from Liverpool based technical production specialist Adlib, which supplied lighting, sound and rigging to two main arenas. These included CF03, hosted by Armada, Cream and Smash The House and CF 05 (a.k.a. ‘The Curve’) due to the spherical shape of the tent and the production space. Adlib also supported CF10, the VIP Hospitality area, at the festival.
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BELLEVILLE, MI – Fantasee Lighting is spending 2016 celebrating 40 years working in the lighting industry. The firm, which was founded by Lighting Designer Stefan Graf in Ypsilanti, MI, in 1976, specializes in lighting for entertainment and corporate events and provides design and project management solutions. The firm moved to new 40,000 square foot facility in Belleville, MI, in 2000.
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LAS VEGAS – ESTA has announced that Eddie Raymond will receive its highest honor, the Eva Swan Award, which recognizes exceptional long-term commitment to the association, on Thursday October 20th in Las Vegas. The award will be presented at ESTA’s Annual General Meeting which is taking place from 3:30-5:00 at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 3600 Paradise Road, just south of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
NASHVILLE, TN – LD Chris Lisle has signed an exclusive management deal with Alpha Sports + Entertainment, LLC. Lisle is the first signee under the company’s new division that will provide management services for its entertainment clients along with the traditionally provided legal representation.
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ERLANGER, KY – tvONE has teamed with Almo professional A/V on the E4 AV Tour, which is coming to Boston on September 23 and Dallas on October 18. tvONE will showcase the newest features of its video processor, CORIOmaster including CORIOgrapher V2, CORIOmaster’s creative control software, their new Universal Mounting Solution called ONErack and 1T-MV-8474 4K Multiviewer during this event.
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SAN DIEGO — For Guns N’ Roses’ “Not in This Lifetime” world tour, production designer Phil Ealy and lighting programmer/director Rob Koenig have been using a rig supplied by Upstaging that includes Martin Atomic 3000 LED strobes and MAC III AirFX fixtures.
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LOKEREN, Belgium — The Red Bull Elektropedia Room at Belgium’s 10-day Lokerse Feesten festival delivered a high-energy club-like feel with a fast-moving lightshow designed by Ignace D’haese, Jonas Weyn and Tijs Coene of Arf & Yes that included 100 Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B fixtures, supplied by Phlippo. The event ran from Aug. 5-14 in Lokeren, in Belgium’s East Flanders province.
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LOS ANGELES – VER opened a full-support lighting department in their London branch. The expansion includes the appointment of David March as Head of Lighting for VER UK and sister company Aurora. VER also named Craig Hancock, Tim Massey, Ben Taylor and Joe Marter as Senior Lighting Project Managers.
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