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Toby Velazquez Named President of ADJ, Elation and Acclaim Lighting

LOS ANGELES — Chuck Davies, founder and CEO of the ADJ Group, announced that Toby Velazquez has been named president of ADJ, Elation and Acclaim Lighting. Velazquez, who joined the company shortly after it was started in 1985, has served the ADJ Group in a wide variety of capacities and has made critical contributions to its growth from a small business serving the mobile DJ market to an international leader in the lighting industry.

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Norah Jones in Mumbai. Photo Mcgriff Mascarenhas

PR Lighting Backs Norah Jones’ India Debut

MUMBAI – When Norah Jones, daughter of Ravi Shankar, made her first ever appearance in India — at A Summer’s Day Festival in Mumbai — around 8,000 fans turned up at the Mahalaxmi Race Course to cheer her on. To enhance her stage, local company E2Tech supplied 24 of PR Lighting’s new XLED 1037 moving heads with zoom.

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Emeli Sande

HSL Lights Emeli Sandé’s Tour

BLACKBURN, UK – HSL supplied LD Neil Carson with full lighting production for Brit Award winning singer-songwriter Emeli Sandé’s most recent UK tour, together with a ‘specials’ package for the European section. Sande most recently performed for both opening and closing ceremonies at the Summer Olympics in London.

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Chromlech Elidy on Pink; Photo by Todd Kaplan

Chromlech Elidy Tours with Pink

FRANCE – Chromlech’s new Elidy LED matrix fixture is touring the world on Pink’s “The Truth About Love” tour. Production and lighting designers, Halpin and Chris Nyfield of Silent House Productions chose to incorporate 40 of Chromlech’s Elidy into their lighting design. Based around a single projector of 25 (5×5) LEDs, Elidy is modular in form and can be assembled to form up to 225 LEDs (1 sq/m) and arranged into shapes, screens, columns and even angled forms.

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Spotline hoist

Creative Conners Spotline Hoist

WARREN, RI – Creative Conners, Inc. – which makes scenic automation equipment for live performances – has released its new Spotline hoist, designed specifically for safe and easy vertical lifting. “Our customers have been using our Pushstick winch in combination with a counterweight assist rig to safely handle vertical lifting and elevators, but with Spotline’s built-in safety features, they can skip the counterweight assist and and just rig it,” says Gareth Conner, founder/president of Creative Conners.

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The Jacksons

White Light Supplies The Jacksons’ Unity Tour

LONDON – White Light supplied lighting for The Jacksons’ Unity Tour, which packed venues across the UK in March. For the UK leg of the tour, Knight and production manager Scotty Ross worked with Lester Cobrin, White Light’s head of concert touring, to choose the layout of the lighting rig. Having already toured the show in America, Knight decided to go in a new direction with the lighting for the UK leg.

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Passion City Church

Bandit Lites Teams Up for Easter Services

NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites aided LD Ed White and production manager Ian Cattle of Black and White Live Ltd. in creating two Easter-related services for Passion City Church. The challenge was making the rig suitable for two different shows: the Friday night service in the dark, and the Sunday morning service in daylight.

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Luke Bryan

Chauvet Epix Fixtures Enhance Luke Bryan’s Tour

SUNRISE, FL — Chosen for their video and pixel-mapping abilities, 130 Chauvet Professional ÉPIX Strip and 16 ÉPIX Bar fixtures complete the design for country singer Luke Bryan’s Dirt Road Diaries tour. LD Justin Kitchenman chose the fixtures as a way to expand the video surfaces throughout the lighting rig.

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Lighting Hospital

Lighting Hospital Expands, Moves to Larger Premises

BRISTOL, UK – The Lighting Hospital – an independent electronic service department for the professional lighting industry – has recently moved to new expanded premises in Bristol. This has enabled further streamlining of its processes to offer an even faster and slicker service for damaged lighting gear needing emergency treatment. Industry engineer Dik Welland launched the company in 2009.

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