PARIS — Nathalie Jardin, 31, died Nov. 13, one of the victims of the terrorist attack at the Bataclan performance venue in Paris. Jardin, who had worked as a lighting and stage manager at the venue for the last three years, also served as LD for bands including Les Fatals Picards, Les Nuits Secrètes and Marcel and His Orchestra.
Read More »WALLERN, Austria – AV Stumpfl is reaffirming its commitment to its partners and their projects with the significant investment into service and project support teams at its new global headquarters facility. Upgrades include expanded data storage and management, service and support, extended warrantees and more.
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FOXBOROUGH, MA – With fan satisfaction at the forefront, the New England Patriots sell out Gillette Stadium for every home game, rallying the fans week after week to give the Patriots one of greatest home-field records of all-time. As part of a technology upgrade designed to increase fan engagement and replace dated displays, the Kraft Group, the family-owned enterprise that owns Gillette Stadium, the New England Patriots, Patriot Place,
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LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. announced that Heather Busch has joined their team as Central Regional Sales/Live Event Specialist. She brings more than 12 years experience in the professional lighting industry to her new post.
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MILAN, Italy – For the fourth RadioItaliaLive concert, staged in Milan’s Piazza Duomo, Lighting Designer & Director Giancarlo Toscani relied upon Clay Paky fixtures supplied by New Light, Gianpaolo Bruzzese’s lighting service company associated with PRG Alliance. Among the fixtures in the rig were 40 Sharpys and 30 Mythos units.
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EL PASO – Andrew Gumper of production house AG Light & Sound relied upon a rig that included effects from Elation Colour Chorus LED battens and Elation Platinum Series moving heads for El Paso’s Sun City Music Festival (SCMF), which was held over Labor Day Weekend (Sept. 5-6). The EDM event has grown since it was founded in 2011 and this year featured headliners including Armin van Buuren and Hardwell.
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MEXICO CITY – Las Lunas Del Auditorio – an awards program honoring Mexican live performance and music industry achievers – took place at the 10,000 capacity venue and founder of the event, Auditorio Nacional. For the first time, the event’s moving lights were exclusively Robe.
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SOUTH BEND, IN — The city of South Bend, Indiana is celebrating 150 years. LD Rob Shakespeare developed an interactive lighting display called South Bend River Lights using 80 Martin Exterior 400 and Tripix Wash LED fixtures to illuminate the St. Joseph River.
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EMERYVILLE, CA – Advanced Systems Group (ASG) announced that Steve McCracken has joined the company as a systems engineer for the Technical Services Team. Based in Southern California, he offers field service and consultation for ASG clients in the region.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Keven Myhre, a Salt Lake City theatrical designer and director, has been chosen to receive the 2016 Thomas DeGaetani Award from USITT. Myhre will be honored at USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City next March. USITT annually honors a key contributor to the performing arts in the region of its national Conference & Stage Expo. The 2016 Conference will be held in Salt Lake March 16-19.
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AUSTRIA – This year was the sixth Lake Festival, the biggest EDM event in Austria. More than one hundred artists performed on five different stages, including Avicii, David Guetta, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Steve Aoki, Alesso and Tiësto. Thirty six Clay Paky Sharpys, 34 Clay Paky Mythos units, 1 grandMA2 full-size e 1 grandMA2 light were used (along with other equipment) at the festival, which took place at Unterpremstätten on Schwarzl Lake.
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Acolyte recently expanded its RibbonLyte family of products with the Static White 3.0 and RGB 3.0 Matrix RibbonLyte. The new Matrix RibbonLyte has a bendable and flexible design that is ideal for curved runs like curved coves, or for making right angles without having to have separate pieces soldered together.
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