LAS VEGAS — The governing body of the Parnelli Awards announces that Michael MacDonald has joined its Board of Advisors. MacDonald, who has more than three decades of experience in the pro-audio/video industry, was named President of ATK Audiotek, a leading audio production and systems integration vendor, in Sept. 2012.
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NEW YORK – When the new reality competition series “The Job” debuts on CBS early in 2013 studio segments will showcase lighting design by Christopher Landy of Vibrant Design LLC with support from WorldStage. Set inside the Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center, the challenge was to handle the intense production schedule of 10 shows during Superstorm Sandy.
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LONDON – LD Jonny Gaskell used Clay Paky’s Sharpy fixtures to create an architectural “beam matrix” look for electronic dance music duo Orbital on their UK tour. Colour Sound Experiment supplied the fixtures.
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WAUKESHA, WI – Blizzard Lighting is now the exclusive US distributor of the LDTouch Ultimate stand-alone, wall mounted DMX controller by LumiDesk. Blizzard is also introducing a new lighting control software product: Lucid DMX, which will also come packaged with the LDTouch Ultimate.
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BRISBANE, Australia – More than 150 Robe moving lights were spread around multiple stages on Summafieldayze 2013, a popular marathon dance music festival staged at Doug Jennings Park, The Spit on Australia’s Gold Coast. Clifton Productions supplied the gear for the 24-hour event .
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MELBOURNE, Australia – Martin MAC Vipers made their Australian operatic debut on a children’s pantomime of “Sleeping Beauty” at Her Majesty’s Theatre in Melbourne.
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DALLAS – In his first headlining tour, Luke Bryan is already selling out venues throughout the US on the “Dirt Road Diaries Tour.” FadeUp Design Group lighting designer Justin Kitchenman expanded the productions lighting rig using 60 VARI-LITE luminaires including the new VL3015LT Spot luminaire from Philips Vari-Lite.
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NASHVILLE – Chaos Visual Productions-Nashville is moving to a new location with a new sales account manager, Jordan Jones. Jones will oversee the new Nashville office alongside Pat Morrow, Chaos Visual Productions – Nashville senior vice president, at 7127 Cockrill Bend Blvd., Nashville, TN 37209. The move aims to accommodate the expansion of operations for the company in the Nashville area.
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LOS ANGELES – Elite Multimedia Productions is supplying Luke Bryan’s “Dirt Road Diaries Tour.” Equipment includes Clay Paky’s new A.LEDA Wash K10 and K5 LED moving heads, grandMA2 consoles, MDG theONE digital fog/haze atmospheric generators and MDG Ice Fog Q generators for the 20-city tour.
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LAS VEGAS – Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1500s are lighting up The Joint, the concert venue for the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas where 16 fixtures were recently acquired and hung above the stage. LD Chris Lose says, “We’re a rock ‘n roll venue and need all the bells and whistles and versatility we can get. We have 10 lighting designers a month who come in wanting different things. So the more tricks our lights have, the better.”
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KNOXVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites is out on the road with co-headlining bands Shinedown and Three Days Grace. Shinedown LD Carter Fulghum and Three Days Grace LD Mike Filsinger worked together on the shared rig. “Designing a rig for two artists can be a challenge,” said Filsinger. “Keeping both bands happy both visually and financially can turn into a full-on brawl but luckily in this case, it was a breeze.”
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CHENNAI, India – A Milos MR5 roof system was recently used for a high profile open-air concert by Indian star A.R. Rahman, staged at the YMCA Grounds in Chennai, India. The multideck layered stage was designed by Bollywood set designer Varsha Jain. This, along with the Milos roof system, trussing, rigging and assorted scaffolding and structures, were supplied by Chennai-based Men At Work Stagecraft Management Pvt Ltd and project manager Mankaran Singh.
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