Europe - Martin Professional is offering budding lighting designers and technicians the chance of a lifetime via a Young Lighting Designer Contest for Prolight + Sound. The contest kicks off now! Young lighting professionals can register ...
Charles Endirect Ltd., one of the most respected street lighting manufacturers, are pleased to announce the appointment of a new National Sales Manager – Andrew Jackson. Andrew is well known and liked throughout the industry, having ...
Paris, Bergamo and Madrid were the three cities lighting designer Luc Lafortune visited during his recent cycle of conferences. His Art and Poetry in Stage Lighting events were highly successful among professionals and amateurs alike. Luc ...
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UK - A troupe of Clay Paky Sharpys has added high-impact layers to pop princess Cheryl Cole's visuals-led tour. Lighting designer Peter Barnes - dubbed the UK's 'guru of pop lighting' - specified 14 Sharpys rigged on the back truss on ...
Tags: led tour, LED screens, LED
Norway - Lighting designer, Trond Dybfest of Trondheim Lyd Lysverket recently chose a Jands Vista L5 console to control lighting for award-winning neo-classical duo, Secret Garden's latest tour. With over 3m international album sales and ...
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USA - Super Bowl XLVII was a memorable game, but the full Super Bowl experience started well before kickoff with a pair of live pre-game concerts broadcast on VH-1 and CMT where grandMA2 light consoles played a key role. VH-1 and the NFL ...
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USA - Grammy award winning vocal group Little Big Town is on the road with Bandit Lites for The Tornado Tour. Comprised of Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook and Phillip Sweet, the country music group has been unstoppable, ...
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Chauvet Professional Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes flawlessly performed during 168 shows next to up-and-coming country singer Justin Moore, as the opening act for Eric Church's tour. Lighting designer Sooner Routhier specified ...
The SIEL, Professional Festival of Live Show and Events Techniques has closed its doors at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris. With 125 exhibitors, 800 brands and an attendance of 9732 visitors, SIEL confirms its position as a leading ...
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Philips Selecon's lightweight, smooth colour changing PLCyc LED luminaires are facilitating fiercely felt mood and atmosphere for The Guildford Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth. Lighting designer Declan Randall is harnessing ...
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London-based theatre design consultancy Charcoalblue is a new sponsor of The Off West End Theatre Awards (Offies). Creative thinkers Charcoalblue is sponsoring the Award for Most Welcoming Theatre (Central, North, South East, East, North ...
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Mark Henderson was named Best Lighting Designer in this year's Whatsonstage.com Awards. The awards ceremony was presented by the Whatsonstage.com theatre news website at a lavish concert on Sunday night. The Whatsonstage.com Awards is the ...
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USA - Bandit Lites is on the road with two of hard rock's top bands as Shinedown and Three Days Grace hit the road for a dual headlining February tour. The tour kicked off 1 February in Moline, Illinois at the iWireless Center. Shinedown ...
UK - Lighting designer Jonny Gaskell has harnessed the laser-like beam of Clay Paky's Sharpy fixtures to deliver a high impact, three-dimensional lighting environment for electronic dance music duo Orbital on their UK tour, which culminated ...
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Austria - With a huge opening ceremony the 2013 Skiing World Championships recently started in Schladming, Austria. Associate LD Jeffrey Goes and associate LD Daan Oomen relied for the show on an MA Lighting system, consisting of two ...