Canada & U.S. – U.K. instrumentation specialist Mantracourt Electronics has announced the appointment of Paradigm Rigging as Technical Partner for the supply of its BroadWeigh™ wireless load monitoring equipment to the Canadian and United States entertainment sector.
Read More »GOA, India – Visualization pioneer Barco hosted its Entertainment & Corporate partner event in India on 25 and 26 June. Over seventy business partners gathered in Goa to get a bird’s eye view of the latest developments in entertainment and corporate visualization.
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DETROIT, MI – Burst, a full service, professional sound and lighting company based in Detroit, has named Steven Fitzgerald to the newly created position of vice president of sales. The announcement was made by Scott Ciungan, owner of Burst.
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LOS ANGELES — When the script calls for a SWAT searchlight in the city’s night sky, you can pay big bucks to hire a full-sized helicopter and invite the wrath of angry neighbors complaining about the noise as it flies overhead for repeated takes. Or you could find an alternate solution, like film LD Matt Ardine, who used Philips Vari-Lite’s 1200W VL4000 Spot fixture to simulate the SWAT copter’s beam for a recent three-day video shoot in Los Angeles.
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LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors announced that one of the visionaries of the modern music festival, Kevin Lyman, will serve as host/MC for the 2015 Parnelli Awards. The award show takes place at the Rio Resort and Casino on Saturday, Oct 24. Considered the “Grammys for Live Events,” it celebrates and honors those in lighting, audio, video, staging and all related professionals involved in putting on concert tours and live events.
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BAKU, Azerbaijan – The inaugural European Games, an international multi-sport event for athletes devised by the European Olympic Committee took place in Azerbaijan’s ancient city Baku in June and featured 6,000 athletes from 50 countries. Creative Technology’s Sports Technology provided the entire AV infrastructure for the 20 competition venues and media/athlete areas.
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BRIGHTON, MI — For a Brighton High School performance of the Tony Award-winning musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It, the school’s Musical Theater troupe benefited from Chroma-Q Color Force 12 multi-purpose LED fixtures specified by lighting sales and production company E2i Design.
Read More »ROOSENDAAL – The appointment of Albert Deltour was announced today in Roosendaal by Dave Crump, CEO of CT Europe and the Middle East.
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EUROPE – The current Take That Live 2015 tour, promoting the band’s seventh studio album, III, is the sixth major tour for which Brilliant Stages has constructed bespoke staging for the eternal boy band since the company first built a stage set for the band in 1994.
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GLASTONBURY, U.K. – Following a successful event at last year’s festival, XL Video, working with Technical Producer, Nick Diacre, has once again produced a significant achievement in 180? live mapping for Shangri-La’s Heaven Stage at the Glastonbury festival 2015.
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ITALY – Italian superstar Vasco Rossi is currently engaged in his summer Live Kom 15 stadium tour which is completely sold out, and will see the legendary singer play to nearly 1 million fans, with another stunning lighting and show design by his long term LD, Giovanni Pinna featuring Robe BMFLs.
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