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CMT Premieres George Strait’s Final Show as Two-Hour Special with Assist from NEP Screenworks

PITTSBURGH — NEP’s Screenworks teamed with its sister company, NEP’s Denali group, to capture George Strait’s farewell concert, the last stop on his final tour, George Strait: The Cowboy Rides Away. The two NEP companies captured the live event on June 7 with 22 Sony cameras and 42 Ki Pro recorders. That show drew 104,000 to the home stadium of the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, TX, and the recordings from Screenworks and Denali formed the basis for a two-hour concert special that premiered Aug. 29 on CMT.

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Controllux recently upgraded the Theater Markant in UDEN, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands with a new lighting system that includes Robe fixtures.

Dutch Theatre Upgrades with New Robe Fixtures

UDEN, Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands — The Theater Markant, based here, is a municipally run theatre space that features a variety of original and touring productions. Controllux recently upgraded it with a new lighting system that includes Robe fixtures. The new lighting rig, designed by Controllux’s Kuno Van Velzen, includes Robe’s Actor LED fixtures, LEDWash 300s, LEDWash 600s and LEDBeam 100 moving lights — all from Robe’s ROBIN series – together with Robe LEDForce 18 PARs.

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Qzone at Quil Ceda Creek Casino equipped with elation lighting, video gear. Photos by Agility AVL

Qzone at Quil Ceda Creek Casino Equipped with Elation Lighting, Video Gear

TULALIP, WA – The Quil Ceda Creek Casino, located on the Tulalip Indian Reservation north of Seattle, had one overriding requirement for Agility AVL for the lighting and video package in their new Qzone entertainment venue – make it high tech. And that they did, installing a new Elation Professional EZ4 LED video screen along with Elation Platinum Spot LED II moving heads and EPAR Series LED fixtures.

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Temporary Set for Hotel M TV Show in Belgium Lit with Robe Fixtures. Photos by Louise Stickland

Temporary Set for Hotel M TV Show in Belgium Lit with Robe Fixtures

ROESELARE and KNOKKE-HEIST, Belgium — Belgian talk show host Marcel Vanthilt took Hotel M, his Flemish TV show, to both these Belgian cities for a number of weeks this summer.  Pièce Montée’s temporary Hotel M set was constructed as the studio facility and backdrop to the daily magazine program broadcast on national TV channel EEN, concluding each evening with a live music performance on a set lit with 35 Robe Robin LEDWash 300s. Belgian LD Michiel Milbou specified the gear.

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Marco Antonio Solis Tours with Nexus Panels from Visions Lighting

Marco Antonio Solis Tours with Nexus Panels from Visions Lighting

MIAMI – LD Oscar “El Bro” Florez’s lighting design for Mexican crooner Marco Antonio Solis includes 16 Chauvet Professional Nexus 4×4 panels supplied by Visions Lighting of Brea, CA. Todd Roberts, president of Visions Lighting, credited the Nexus 4×4 panels for helping the crew highlight different sections of the audience during different songs to reinforce the connection between the artist and his fans. Roberts also worked with designer and production manager Andy Ruiz of Marbella Inc. Production Services, Irwindale, CA, on the show setup.

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Kramer Electronics K-Touch 2.0.0

Kramer Electronics K-Touch 2.0.0

Kramer Electronics says that its K-Touch Builder version 2.0.0 offers users many new features and compatible apps. The Android app supports the same features as the iOS app, including improved variables and improved multi-state images. Since the entire system is cloud based, users don’t need to do anything special to benefit from these improvements.

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ADJ Vortex 1200

ADJ Vortex 1200

ADJ’s Vortex 1200 offers a new Moonflower effect on a moving head fixture suited for use in applications ranging from mobile DJ set-ups, small clubs and bars.  Along with its 360-degree rotation, there are three operational modes to choose from – Sound Active, Show Mode and DMX Controlled. Under DMX control, operators have an additional four DMX channel mode choices: 14, 15, 17, or 29. The fixture also has an Omega bracket for hanging from truss and weighs only 16 lbs.

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