EDINBURGH – Edinburgh based rental and event production specialists Blue Parrot have continued their investment in world class equipment across a busy summer. The company has now added a grandMA2 Light as the flagship desk for its lighting rental customers.
NASHVILLE – Keith Hoagland, lighting designer and director for Jason Aldean’s Burn It Down tour, included Rogue RH1 Hybrid fixtures from Chauvet Professional in the rig. The 90 Rogue fixtures are supplied by Bandit Lites.
MEXICO – The Premium Staff Group is a large rental and production facility based in Mexico City, founded 7 years ago and owned by Francisco Estrada, who is also a prolific Mexican music show promoter. Estrada started purchasing sound, lighting and video kit when he realized that his own concerts could benefit from higher production values – at more cost-efficient prices. Premium Staff has recently invested in 84 Robe Pointes, delivered by Robe’s very proactive Mexican distributor, Vari Internacional.
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ANN ARBOR, MI — On Friday Sept. 25, entertainment professionals gathered at TLS Productions, Inc. in Ann Arbor, Mich. for their second annual open house. Pictured here, from left, are attendees Doug Brown, president of DNJ Pro; Bryan Austwick, product specialist at DNJ Pro; Aaron Kashmer, purchasing at TLS Productions, and John Van Fange, customer development at The Light Source.
Read More »WINSTON-SALEM, NC – SES (Special Event Services) of Winston-Salem, NC and Nashville, TN has recently strengthened its Integration department through a complete overhaul. Formerly known as Design Build, SES Integration has taken on a new focus with a nationwide expansion. SES Integration is now based in Charlotte, NC with a West Coast office in Sacramento, CA. Support will continue to come from SES Live Production Headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC as well as SES’ Live Production service hub in Nashville, TN.
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – Impact Youth Camp is a two-week long church retreat that attracts high school and middle school students from churches from all over Texas. Over 1200 students attend, participating in seminars, group meals and praise and worship. The organizers of the event turned to DiTech A.V. of El Campo, TX to do the lighting, audio and video design and production.
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LONDON – West London based Entec Sound & Light supplied lighting, sound equipment, crew, plus their extensive knowledge and expertise of working in one of the UK’s best known venues – Wembley Arena – for a gig shot by the BBC for the third series of ‘Brian Pern : A Life In Rock’. The tongue-in-cheek tribute to aging rockers will be broadcast in Jan. 2016.
PARIS, France – Paris-based multimedia design collective, Danny Rose has won Silver in the Live Event VFX & Animation category at the AEAF Awards 2015 for their multimedia content created for Mechanized Color Assemblage, a work of project light art seen during Vivid Sydney earlier this year. Mechanized Color Assemblage was created in conjunction with Australian artist, Rebecca Baumann to transform the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia into a series of color and sound machines.
RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA — Iconic rock band Motley Crue is in the last leg of their two-year Final Tour, with fans enjoying many farewell appearances around the world. The band’s touring career will conclude for good in less than six months on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2015. Appropriately they’ll say their final goodbyes at Staples Center in Los Angeles — the city where the band’s career began some 34 years ago.
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ORLANDO — X2O Media, a Barco company, announced that it will feature its X2O platform for enterprise visual communications at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo 2015, Oct. 4-8 in Orlando, Florida. Attendees will get a first-hand look at the platform’s innovative applications built to support today’s digital workforce, including the new X2O.Join Connected Desktop application. In addition, X2O will present a session titled “Powering the Digital Workplace.”
Read More »OWATONNA, Minn. – Wenger Corporation recently launched new websites for its three core markets – music education, performing arts and athletics – so customers can find information more easily and to fully present Wenger’s diverse capabilities. These dynamic websites are accessible from the portal website and feature mobile-friendly design.
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TORONTO- As the one of the world’s largest international multi-sport competitions, the 2015 Pan American Games hosted close to 7,000 athletes from across North America, Latin America, South America and the Caribbean. To inaugurate the opening of the games in Toronto, event organizers enlisted the assistance of 45 DEGREES who brought on Martin Labrecque to oversee the lighting design. Working with Solotech, Labrecque would be challenged to create a hybrid design between theatrical and rock-n-roll and he did so using 60 VL4000 Spot luminaires from Philips Vari-Lite.
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