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Claypaky: Sharpy X Frame Hybrid Has Global Appeal

Claypaky: Sharpy X Frame Hybrid Has Global Appeal

The Claypaky Sharpy X Frame is one of the most versatile, compact hybrid fixtures available today, ideal for bright spotlighting, dynamic aerial effects, and precise framing. It features a powerful 550W arc lamp for extreme brightness and vivid, uniform colors, including an unmatched deep red. This fixture is housed in a lightweight, compact design, to meet the evolving needs of modern lighting professionals.

Avolites Announces Three New Key Distributors in Europe

Avolites – A Robe Business, announces three new distributors in key European countries – Austria and Norway, plus Serbia and the other Balkan countries. All three companies are well respected for service and are experts in their regions, and also have a reputation for proactivity and innovation.

Willis Underhill Flows with Diamond Rio on His ChamSys MagicQ MQ250M Stadium

Diamond Rio’s catchy rhythms and clever harmonies make it hard to resist moving along to the music. The good time sound is so infectious that even when a light show is cue based, anyone lighting the band wants to do at least some busking. Just ask Willis Underhill, Diamond Rio’s Gallatin, TN-based Lighting Designer who uses a ChamSys MagicQ MQ250M, supplied by CLD Corp., for control.

De Bosuil Poppodium Embraces New Robe Lighting Package

De Bosuil, a buzzing 850-capacity live music venue in Weert, southeastern Netherlands, recently received a new Robe moving light package which is a substantial upgrade to their previous system of older Robe moving lights fixtures. These are all still working 11 years later but needed upgrading to newer tech to satisfy the string of artists and lighting designers frequenting this popular venue.

Indispensable Technology (IT) Award Nominees for 23rd Parnelli Awards

The nominated products for this year’s Indispensable Technology (IT) award as part of the 23rd Annual Parnelli Awards have made it to the ballot! There are products in three PLSN categories: Lighting, Video, and Staging/Special Effects. The IT finalists in each category are on the Parnelli Award Ballot and voting is open to all PLSN subscribers at www.parnelliawards.com/vote. The winning products will be revealed at the Parnelli Awards, on the evening of Friday Jan. 24, 2025.

Voting for the Parnelli Awards is NOW OPEN!

The ballot for the 23rd annual Parnelli Awards Ceremony has been finalized, and voting has begun! The ballot is posted online at parnelliawards.com, and it’s up to YOU, the PLSN reader, to decide who among the nominees will step up to the awards podium at the Anaheim Hilton in Anaheim, CA on the evening of Jan. 24, 2025 during the NAMM Show.

Hikaru Utada Embarked on 25th Anniversary Tour with Ayrton Classics

Acclaimed singer-songwriter and J-Pop sensation, Hikaru Utada, embarked on a tour of Japan and Asia in support of their new album, ‘Science Fiction’. The tour featured an other-worldly and monolithic production design from JAW Studio’s Jason Ardizzone-West. Lighting Designer Jeremy Lechterman, of Fragment 9, featured some classic Ayrton fixtures – MagicPanel 602 and MagicBlade R – as major components of his design.

The Halo Board at Intuit Dome is an Acre of LED

The Halo Board at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles is a scoreboard that features 233 million LED – big enough to fill almost an entire acre of land. AVIXA sat down with Luke Tingle from Daktronics Inc‬ get the inside scoop on how this incredible LED scoreboard was built.