NASHVILLE – For David Nail’s “Night’s on Fire” tour in support of his fourth album, Fighter, LD Gordon Droitcour with Cour Design turned to Elite Multimedia to supply a rig that included Clay Paky Sharpys, Elation CuePix and Chauvet COLORdash fixtures.
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GHENT, Belgium – At the end of July every year, two million visitors gather on the medieval streets and market squares of Ghent, Belgium, for the annual 10-day Gentse Feesten, a music and arts festival with a 160-year pedigree. One of the more prominent stages is at the historic Sint-Baafsplein square. For that stage, LD Vince de Schinckel specified 16 Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Washes, 16 Maverick MK2 Spots, six Strike 4s and two Atmos smoke machines from Belgian rental specialists Euro PAl.
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City Theatrical is launching a new group of constant voltage B-Series dimmers in a variety of capacities and configurations. All promise to partner perfectly with the company’s QolorFlex line of professional quality LED tape products
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Elation Professional’s new ZCL Series fixtures are designed to serve as high-output ACL-type LED effect lights with zoom. ZCL Series fixtures combine RGBW multi-chip light sources with a 4° to 44° zoom, giving these dynamic effect lighting fixtures an added degree of flexibility. The Zooming Collimator Lens system is designed to produce a homogenized 4° color-changing beam from each lens. Strobe effects and full-range electronic dimming with dimming curve effects add to the design possibilities. The ZCL Series includes the ZCL 360 Bar, a versatile continuous rotation moving bar effect luminaire with zoom; the ZCL 360i, a single-beam continuous rotation moving effect luminaire with zoom; and the ZCL BAR Z300 IP, a versatile IP65-rated bar effect luminaire with zoom. The fixtures, first shown at the Prolight + Sound trade show in Frankfurt, Germany in April, are now available.
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LOS ANGELES – In a convention packed with game titles highlighting combat, warfare and action sports, ABZU’s booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016 (E3) was a sea of calm. The blue-toned booth, in the lobby of the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center, had a sublime underwater aesthetic. At the forefront, a tower of transparent Blackbird 55 displays, provided by WorldStage, captured visitors’ attention with its underwater imagery.
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RIO de JANEIRO – Barco marked a 20 year milestone of business activity in Brazil with a recap of its various activities within that growing economic market, which Barco called one of the largest growth engines in Latin America.
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NEW CASTLE, DE – Pete’s Big TVs (PBTV) got the outdoor summer fun off to a big start in New York City at the kick off concert of Samsung’s Live @ 837 series. Having opened Samsung 837 this past spring, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. surprised the neighborhood with an early summer street concert featuring Gwen Stefani and Diplo. PBTV mounted LED screens on the façade of the building and awning and topped the performance stage with a LED dance floor.
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NASHVILLE – Lauren Daigle’s music career has taken her from the American Idol stage to her very own stage on tour with Hillsong United. The first leg of the Empires tour kicked off earlier this year and lighting designer Andy Rushing was tasked with lighting her first tour run night in and night out using gear from 4Wall Nashville.
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BRISTOL, U.K. – SLX named John Wallace managing director. Wallace will be based at SLX’s head office in Bristol, U.K. He will lead a team dedicated to servicing a wide range of customers within the theatre, broadcast and event markets.
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CHICAGO, IL. – The show must go on. And in Chicago recently, Pirtek was working behind the scenes to ensure it would. Pirtek’s work for Stageline helped Lollapalooza run without a hitch from July 28-31. Lollapalooza is an annual music festival that goes on world wide with acts that include alternative rock, punk, metal and comedy. The Chicago event featured more than 170 bands, including Radiohead and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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SAN DIEGO – The 2016 Major League Baseball FanFest was held July 8-12 in conjunction with MLB’s All Star Game at Petco Park, home of the MLB San Diego Padres. Held within the San Diego Convention Center, the 2016 FanFest event was overseen by BaAM Productions. BaAM turned to MSI Productions tech director Tom Bollard, who used FLEXLite Plus 3.9mm LED video technology from Nashville-based PixelFLEX to create an immersive LED video entrance for the five-day event.
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Atomic, the Lititz, PA-based creative company providing rental solutions, set construction, design and production services for the live event industry, is offering a new modular product line: FABlok. Joining the company’s FASTwall and SuperWall systems, the FABlok system consists of panels built with expanding fabric and tabbed inserts that pack small but play big when assembled to create 3D panels.
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