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Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame 2018 Inductees Include Bob Morrissey, Andrew Polin and LeRoy Bennett

PAWTUCKET, RI – The Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame (RIMHOF) announced its 2018 inductees, including three honorees in the Technical/Lighting category: Bob Morrissey Andrew Polin and LeRoy Bennett (pictured here, L-R). Before helming Warwick, RI-based East Coast Lighting and Production Services (ECLPS), Morrissey co-founded Polico Lighting with Polin. Bennett, also from Warwick, joined as a tech before launching his career in lighting and production design as a lighting director on Prince’s Dirty Mind tour in late 1980.

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The Yost Makes Events Extraordinary with Help of Elation Lighting

SANTA ANA, CA — The Yost, a sought-after venue for live events, got even more allure from entertainment production company N-Effect Productions with the installation that includes Elation Professional lighting fixtures. First opened in 1913 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the space initially housed vaudeville acts, silent films, and talkies, but has also seen service as a live theatre, house of worship, live performance venue and nightclub.

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Mosaic Series Video Tiles from Mega Systems Inc.

Mega Systems Inc’s new Mosaic Series is an ETL listed, modular display system created for indoor installations and intelligent commercial displays. The series is available in four different pixel pitches, the Mosaic 2 ( 2.5mm), Mosaic 3 (3.1mm), Mosaic 4 (4mm) and the Mosaic 4A, which has a brighter 4mm pitch. With its multiple pixel pitches, these high-res panels can be optimized for use at varying viewing distances. The wall-mountable panels have a unique horizontal shape to allow for creative layouts. Built with die-cast aluminum, they are also modular and designed to allow easy access for maintenance. Potential uses range from corporate rooms and TV studios to church events.

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GLP Joins the Campaign to Save Stage Lighting

KARLSBAD, Germany – GLP noted that proposed changes to EU legislation to impose a minimum efficiency of 85 lumens per watt and a maximum standby power of 0.5W on all light sources, which would go into effect in 2020, should have an exemption for professional lighting technology to ensure that theaters and concert venues will be able to operate, since this would be, in effect, an across-the-board ban on all current tungsten fixtures in use, and even many LED fixtures as well.

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Bryce Cherpelis Backs Bonobo’s New Look with Chauvet Professional Fixtures

SAN FRANCISCO — Simon Green, a.k.a. Bonobo, a British musician, DJ and producer now based in Los Angeles, is touring in support of his latest album, Migration. For his March 23 show at Midway in San Francisco, Bryce Cherpelis of 12BC Pro used a pair of Maverick MK1 Hybrid fixtures and 440W LED Maverick MK2 Spots to highlight the artist.

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