Leading dry hire rental partner, Main Light, LLC, has continued to expand it rental inventory with the addition of Martin MAC Aura PXL wash luminaires. These new lights are now available to rent from any of the Main Light locations. Main Light created a video demonstration of the Martin MAC Aura PXL luminaires:
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Noot vir Noot (Note for Note), a long-running popular and successful Afrikaans language TV music-based game show produced by Stemmburg TV and broadcast on SABC 2 has returned to screens after a two-year break due to Covid, with edition 40 featuring a slightly reimagined version of the slick brand-new set designed by Michael Gill and built by SDS for the fully visually revamped season.Read More »LD Ryan Lombard Lights New Set for Music-Based Game Show in South Africa with Robe
Robin Irvine, a New York-based tour manager for such acts as Cyndi Lauper, Foreigner, B-52’s, Eurythmics, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Robert Gordon and many others, died Aug. 21 at the age of 77. An open-mic celebration of his life is planned for Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022 at the Washington Irving Boat Club in Tarrytown, NY from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
As lighting designer for the Juno Award-winning James Barker Band, Andrew Dawson gets ample opportunities to engage in “illuminated storytelling,” thanks to the rich narratives… Read More »Andrew Dawson Unfolds James Barker Band’s Stories with Chauvet Professional
Multigenre English musician Jacob Collier is back on the road for a grand world tour to celebrate his DJESSE album series. The show features an energetic lighting design harnessing the rich colors of the VL2600 range of luminaires from Vari-Lite.
Expanding ADJ’s groundbreaking Hydro Series of powerful, reliable, and affordable IP65 rated moving heads, the new Hydro Beam X12 is a nimble fixture that outputs an intense, razor-sharp beam. Ideal for generating aerial effects at concerts, tours, festivals, and dance events, it combines the punchy Philips® Platinum 12R LL MSD 6,000-hour discharge lamp technology with a carefully curated selection of beam-shaping tools that include motorized focus and a dynamic 24-facet prism. Here’s an introductory video on the Hydro Beam X12 from ADJ:
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This year marks the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II and in honor of the historical anniversary, the United Kingdom is holding several events celebrating her 70-year reign. At The Royal Windsor Horse Show in May, Elation Professional had its own workhorse on display albeit not of the equine variety. PRG provided a full lighting rig for the event that incorporated 171 Elation Proteus Maximus™ IP65-rated LED moving heads as the key luminaire in the design.Read More »Workhorse Proteus Maximus™ on Display at The Royal Windsor Horse Show
Never permit a false dichotomy to rule your life, Pablo Picasso once declared. Sage advice, as the heroine Elle Woods proves with such panache in Legally Blonde, the Laurence O’Keefe-Neil Brown musical, inspired (like the film before it) by the Amanda Brown novel about a vapid California sorority girl who metamorphizes into a Harvard Law student. Defying stereotypes and reconciling supposed oxymorons, Elle proves that a woman can be both pretty and smart, as well as colorfully free spirited and intensely focused while making this incredible transformation.Read More »Adam King Calls on CHAUVET Professional to Balance Looks for Mountview’s ‘Legally Blonde’
“Valjak I Prijatelji” (Valjak & friends) was a special show staged in Pula, Croatia, in the city’s Arena Roman amphitheater venue and dedicated to Aki Rahimovski, lead singer of legendary Croatian rockers Parni Valjak. The enigmatic front man died suddenly and unexpectedly in January at age 66, just ahead of a major tour, leaving everyone deeply shocked.Read More »Parni Valjak Rocks Pula Arena with Robe
Following a successful launch in NYC earlier in August and second event at company headquarters in Los Angeles Aug. 25, the ADJ Future Focus Road Show will roll out to locations across the U.S. and Mexico throughout the fall. Each event will showcase ADJ’s latest product releases and also offer an opportunity for industry professionals to gather, socialize and share ideas.Read More »New Dates Announced: ADJ Future Focus Road Show in U.S. and Mexico
Legendary front man Ian Astbury and The Cult have “always been fans of warm blinder light from a low and back position,” says Matt Guminski, the band’s lighting designer, programmer, and operator. For his part, Guminski is a self-described fan of contrasting warm tungsten (or a proper tungsten emulating LED), that works harmoniously with the bold and saturated colors of LED or discharge lamp fixtures.Read More »Matt Guminski Creates Intense Looks for The Cult with Gateway and Chauvet
Preeminent dry hire rental partner, Main Light, LLC, has recently added Chauvet Professional’s COLORado PXL Bar 16 luminaires to their extensive rental offerings. These new units are already in stock at all three Main Light locations—Main Light, East in Wilmington, DE, Main Light, South in Nashville, TN, and Main Light, West in Las Vegas, NV. Main Light created a video demonstration for the Chauvet COLORado PXL Bar 16 fixtures:
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