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For the 2014 edition of the double-weekend Coachella music and arts festival, organizers turned to Visions Lighting for an update for the Xenon searchlights mounted to the festival’s permanent site lighting structures, also known as the “oil derrick” towers.

Visions Lighting Provides Elation Gear for Coachella’s “Oil Derrick” Towers

INDIO, CA — For the 2014 edition of the double-weekend Coachella music and arts festival, organizers turned to Visions Lighting for an update for the Xenon searchlights mounted to the festival’s permanent site lighting structures, also known as the “oil derrick” towers. Visions Lighting provided eight of Elation’s new Platinum Beam Extreme fixtures for each tower — 120 of the fixtures in all.

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Circus “Hair Hang” Apparatus Fails, Nine Performers Hospitalized

PROVIDENCE, RI — A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus aerial act was disrupted at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center here May 4 as the apparatus for the all-female “hair hang act” failed. About 20 were injured, including eight performers who fell from a 30-foot height. All eight sustained serious injuries. A ninth performer on the ground also sustained serious injury.

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John LaBriola

In Memoriam: John LaBriola, 40

YORKTOWN, NY – John LaBriola, an LD, lighting director, production designer and programmer for a long list of artists and major tours, including Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber and the Jonas Brothers, died April 24, 2014. He had just turned 40 a month earlier.

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