LOWELL, MA – Designer Brian Lynch of AE Event Systems in Chelmsford, MA lit up the Merrimack riverfront in Lowell, Massachusetts recently. The setup included 60 COLORado 1-Tri IP fixtures and 16 COLORado 2-Quad Zoom IP fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Using over 2,000’ of conduit, Lynch spaced the fixtures 30’ apart over a distance of 800’ running from Merrimack Canal through Lucy Larcom Park in downtown Lowell.
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FRANKFURT, Germany – Chauvet Professional will be featuring its Maverick series at Prolight + Sound next month (Hall 4 Stand G45). Featuring the MK2 Wash, MK1 Hybrid and MK2 Spot (with more fixtures to come), the new series promises to serve up an arsenal of performance features intended to shatter budget barriers, free the imagination and set a new standard in their price category.
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ADJ’s Vizi Hybrid 16RX promises a new level of power, Prism Layering and GOBO Morphing, adding versatility to this moving head fixture, which starts with a Philips Platinum 16R MSD discharge lamp as the light source.
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MOJAVE, CA – For the unveiling of SpaceShipTwo by Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson, Lightswitch returned to the Mojave Desert to provide event lighting support.
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MILAN – For a production of the Disney musical, Newsies!, staged at the Teatro Nazionale in Milan, LD Valerio Tiberi chose Clay Paky fixtures for “their versatility and precision”, as well as the need to use equipment able to ensure uniform shades and temperatures for each color. The rig includes Alpha Profile 1500, chosen in part for their silent operation, and the Alpha Wash Halo 1200, which combines brightness with the versatility of a halogen lamp.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium – Ignace D’Haese from Arf & Yes provided an intricate lighting design using Robe’s new Square LED fixtures for three shows produced by Flanders’ public broadcaster VRT which selected the song to represent Belgium at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Stockholm.
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BOZEMAN, MT – Brantley Gilbert’s current world tour may be called “The Blackout,” but he hasn’t been performing in the dark. Instead, Howard Jones and Nate Alves co-designed his show using an array of Clay Paky fixtures known for their brightness, including 16 brand-new Scenius fixtures, 34 Mythos units and 13 Stormy Strobes. The Blackout tour’s North American leg began Jan. 28, ran through March 4, then resumes April 14-30. The LDs used two grandMA2 Light consoles networked together to control the lighting and video elements.
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AUSTIN – Together with High End Systems, LightConverse is issuing an invitation for participants in their 2016 Lighting Challenge. Entries are accepted throughout the month of March and winners will be featured at Prolight + Sound in early April. The top prize: a High End HedgeHog4 X console and LightConverse Unlimited software.
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NASHVILLE — Ted Emmit Mellencamp, 62, died March 4, 2016 at his home in Nashville, surrounded by family. He was a tour manager for his older brother John Mellencamp and other well-known artists.
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The new Mobile Beat MAX MK2 from X-Laser is designed to help mobile entertainers craft aerial beam shows and graphics displays at gigs of up to 1,000 people. Capable projecting impressive graphics precisely, even at distances up to 100 feet, the . For total creative control, the Mobile Beat MAX MK2 offers ILDA input and DMX input and output along with its 12-channel DMX capabilities.
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CHICAGO — Hard rock band Disturbed returned to the stage after a lengthy hiatus with a show last August at the House of Blues in Chicago. It heralded the band’s sixth studio album, Immortalized, released the same day. This year, the hard rock band has embarked on its first world tour in five years, hitting 60 cities in the U.S., Canada and Europe and teaming up with co-headliners Rob Zombie and Breaking Benjamin along the way. LD Matt Mills, who worked with the bands’ last tour in 2011, deployed a Christie Lites rig centering on Martin fixtures — MAC Quantum Washes, MAC Viper Profiles and Atomic 3000 LEDs — along with High End Systems ShapeShifters.
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