PARIS – Ayrton named ACT Lighting as its exclusive U.S. distributor. Keith Bennett, formerly with previous distributor Morpheus Lights, will join ACT Lighting as a brand specialist for Ayrton. Pictured here, from left, are ACT Lighting’s Shawn Sack, Keith Bennett, Doug Mekanik, Ayrton’s Michael Althaus, and ACT’s Brian Dowd, Aaron Hubbard, Alex Monast, George Masek and James Davey.
After lighting the band for nearly 13 years, experienced Irish LD Steven Douglas knows how to bring the best out of The Killers’ dynamic stage set. Now in the midst of the Wonderful Wonderful world tour, he has been exploring new dimensions and challenging perspectives by introducing GLP’s ground-breaking hybrid JDC1 strobe to his toolbox, along with the award-winning GLP X4 Bar 20 battens.
Philips Lighting (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that the prestigious new National Army Conference Center in Cairo has chosen a state-of-the-art lighting system and data infrastructure from Philips Entertainment Lighting for its 1700-capacity main auditorium.
While an estimated one million people crowded into Times Square on New Year’s Eve to watch the famous ball drop, a far smaller crowd was gathering 1,102 miles away, under much balmier conditions, for another NYE tradition. The ringing in of the New Year is as eagerly anticipated at Albany Resort, a 600-acre upscale island paradise
Southern hospitality was on full display as the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) convened on Nashville. Hosted by the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau at the historic Municipal Auditorium and featuring a lighting package provided by Bandit Lite.
MIAMI BEACH – The Fontainebleau Miami Beach and a crowd of New Years revelers rang in 2018 with Demi Lovato, Norwegian DJ Kygo and Everlast Productions-supplied Elation Professional Platinum 5R Beam Extreme, Platinum FLX, ZCL360 Bar and SixBar 1000 luminaires. Everlast’s Tyler Frank handled production design. It was his second year designing for the event; he designed the stage for Justin Bieber at last year’s NYE event.
The spotlight is shining brightly on Premier Global Production’s lighting division, with the Nashville-based production company earning three major nominations for its work in 2017.
ATLANTA – 21 Savage (a.k.a. Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph) toured in support of his debut rap album, Issa, featuring the lead single, “Bank Account.” To support the shows, which ran from Nov. 16-Dec. 23 across the U.S., JDI Productions LD Megan Alksninis used Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrids as the main fixture for the 22-city tour.
ETC’s Unison Foundry is a new line of distributed power control products that have been added to ETC’s other Unison offerings, include DMX-controlled Mini Panels, Relay Controllers, 0-10V Controllers and Phase-adaptive Dimmers. ETC notes that its Foundry products are a fitting complement to the other Unison products, including Unison Paradigm, Unison Mosaic and Echo Control Systems, which also utilize DMX. These combinations promise to help users create complete lighting and plug-load control packages with energy saving features and the ability to meet stringent energy codes.
Chauvet, a leading global supplier of entertainment and architectural lighting, has announced the opening of Chauvet France, a wholly-owned subsidiary located in Paris. The new facility is responsible for directly distributing and supporting the company’s brands: CHAUVET Professional, CHAUVET DJ and Iluminarc in France.
After a successful beginning to their tour in 2017, YouTube sensations 2Cellos, will hit the road again this month continuing their world-wide tour to showcase their classical crossover talents. Beginning in Houston, TX on January 16, 2018, Upstage Video will provide video production and crew for the remaining thirteen-shows traveling to multiple cities in the US.
The industry’s premiere rigging and hoist training workshop, TOMCAT U, will be returning once again to Gatlinburg, TN March 5-9, 2018. Increase your knowledge and skills, as well as you personal value, with rigging and hoist specific courses designed for industry professionals.