A festival celebrating the earliest form of aviation was complemented by the very latest in aviation technology, when drone show specialist Verge Aero flew a series of spectacular light shows for the 50th anniversary Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (AIBF) in New Mexico.Read More »Verge Aero Dazzles at Albuquerque’s Balloon Fiesta
Obsidian Control Systems is excited to be returning to the LDI show in Las Vegas November 18-20 and invites designers, programmers, and operators to Booth #1142 to sample a host of new releases that includes several new lighting control products under the ONYX™ lighting control platform.Read More »Obsidian Control Systems to Highlight Portable, Modular NX1™ Lighting Console at LDI 2022
Join ETC on November 10, 2022, for their latest launch event. The event kicks off at 10:00 a.m. CST on YouTube Premier and promises to reveal not one, but two new families of fixtures for entertainment applications. You can find additional information and sign up for event reminders at etcconnect.com/ETC Launch
On November 10, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. CST, you can watch the ETC Launch Event here:
Read More »ETC Launch Event: Introducing Two New Families of Entertainment Luminaires, November 10
The 11th Annual Touring Career Workshop (TCW) at Nashville’s SoundCheck rehearsal studios attracted 350 attendees who gathered to participate in workshops and hear from top… Read More »11th Annual Touring Career Workshop Attracts 350 Attendees to Nashville Event
Astera Titan Tubes provided a great solution for the lighting of a rolling ‘small stage’ scenic truck which was central to the action for the 2022 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival’s acclaimed production of Alessandro nell’Indie (Alexander in India) by Leonardo Vinci, directed by Max Emmanuel Cancic and lit by David Debrinay from Paris and Lyon, France, based design studio, LJOMA. Three unique performances were staged at the beautiful Margravial Opera House (Markgräfliches Opernhaus), a UNESCO World Heritage site.Read More »Astera Titans for Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
The voting for the Parnelli Hometown Hero – Lighting Company of the Year Award is now open. PLSN readers get to vote for the six top regional lighting companies in North America—one for each of five U.S. regions, and a sixth for all of Canada. These votes will narrow the field from 36 to six regional winners, who will then appear on the Parnelli Awards ballot for a second round of voting. The winner will receive the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year at the awards ceremony in Anaheim, CA.Read More »Hometown Hero Voting Begins!
Nominations are now being accepted for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on Friday, April 14, 2023, during the NAMM Show. Anyone can now nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best in our industry for a Parnelli Award, the most prestigious award in our industry. The deadline for Parnelli nominations is Dec. 16, 2022, 5 p.m. PST.
Big concert tours were back in a big way this past summer and The Weeknd’s ambitious “After Hours til Dawn” outing is perhaps the best example. Lighting designer Jason Baeri is using over 450 Elation Proteus Hybrid™ and Proteus Excalibur™ moving head luminaires as workhorse fixtures on the tour, an elaborate, visually striking show that has been selling out major stadiums across North America since July. The first leg of the all-stadium tour kicked off on July 14 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and concludes on November 27 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The tour is also scheduled to visit South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.
Read More »More than 450 Proteus Workhorses Light The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours til Dawn’ Stadium Tour
Robe was the moving light of choice for the 2022 Saaremaa Opera Festival staged in a purpose-built tented arena erected beside the charismatic Kuressaare Castle in the south of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, which was the dramatic location for five days of popular opera and other performances, all presented this year by the Silesian Opera (Opera Śląska) from Bytom, Poland.Read More »Robe for Saaremaa Opera Festival 2022
Recently, the upgraded live stream news studio at the ShanXi Broadcast TV station was completed and features around 100 sq. meters of GLOSHINE fine pixel pitch LED video screens throughout the station. Shenzhen GLOSHINE Technologies LTD assisted in the construction, providing the HD displays to present the current development of ShanXi. The live stream video display has been one of the most important projects for the ShanXi Broadcast TV Station since its 2021 upgrade of the HD broadcast system. Since this project was completed, the Shan’Xi Convergence Media Group has proceeded to upgrade the video walls one after another in all of its studios.Read More »ShanXi Broadcast TV Station’s News Studio in China Deploys GLOSHINE LED Screens
A lighting rig comprised exclusively of ADJ fixtures was used to light this year’s Long Beach Jazz Festival. Hosted on an outdoor stage in a stunning waterfront setting, the event featured three days of performances from a stellar lineup of bands playing everything from classic R&B to hot summer night jazz. These were enhanced by a lighting system that incorporated ADJ’s Focus Profile and Focus Wash 400 automated luminaires alongside 18P HEX IP and 32 HEX Panel IP static LED wash fixtures, while a Vision Series LED video wall at the rear of the stage was utilized for I-Mag.Read More »33rd Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival Lit with All-ADJ Rig
Music critics can be blunt, some might say even brutal, when expressing their opinions. So, concerts at any venue do not always receive rave reviews when it comes to their musical virtuosity. However, there is one thing that virtually every writer praises about every performance at Concertgebouw Brugge – the quality of the acoustics! Completed in 2002, the Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem designed venue has been hailed the world over for, as one critic wrote, “its acoustic wizardry,” the result of a series of technological innovations that reduce the length of reverberations.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Maverick Silens 2 Profile Makes Quiet Contribution to Concertgebouw Brugge