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Visit the Behind the Scenes Booth at NAMM for Valuable Mental Health Information

Visit the Behind the Scenes booth #11730 at The NAMM Show to learn about the BTS Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Initiative, receive valuable information to post in your workplace, and attend one of their brief presentations to learn about available tools and resources, Mental Health First Aid training, and hear about one person’s journey from the depths of depression to helping others.Read More »Visit the Behind the Scenes Booth at NAMM for Valuable Mental Health Information

Chauvet Acquires LynTec

In keeping with its mission of providing customers with cutting edge technological solutions, Chauvet has acquired LynTec, a leading global supplier of electrical power solutions for lighting, video, and audio systems. Founded in 1982, Lenexa, KS-based LynTec is widely known for its advanced lighting control panels, with these products installed in well over 10,000 sites throughout the world.Read More »Chauvet Acquires LynTec

Ayrton Mistrals Turn the Spotlight on Underoath’s ‘Blind Obedience’ Tour

American rock band Underoath has hit the road on its Blind Obedience tour featuring Ayrton Mistral fixtures from Sonus Pro. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America. Based in Moorestown, NJ and with offices in Raleigh, NC, Sonus Pro is a lighting, video, and audio rental, production and design house specializing in touring, anime, and gaming, and conventions. For Underoath’s Blind Obedience tour the company is furnishing all the lighting and audio equipment and Sonus Pro’s Director of Touring Accounts, Lenny Sasso, is serving as the Lighting Designer and Programmer.Read More »Ayrton Mistrals Turn the Spotlight on Underoath’s ‘Blind Obedience’ Tour

IPS Supports Drama of ‘The Thorn’ with Powerful Visuals from Elation Professional

Illuminate Production Services (IPS) plays an integral role in creating the visual magic that is The Thorn and again this year enhanced the drama using a large package of Elation Professional lighting. Lighting Designer Caleb Franke of IPS uses the dynamic lighting to help sculpt the inspiring story while wowing audiences with a variety of visual effects.Read More »IPS Supports Drama of ‘The Thorn’ with Powerful Visuals from Elation Professional

Bandit and Eric Cathcart Light ‘Love Rising’: Let Freedom Sing (And Dance)

Stars gathered at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena for Love Rising, a benefit concert for Tennessee Equality Project, Inclusion Tennessee, OUTMemphis, and The Tennessee Pride Chamber. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for the evening of joy and dancing, where performances included Allison Russell, Maren Morris, Sheryl Crow, Amanda Shires, Brittany Howard, Hozier, Jake Wesley Rogers, Jason Isbell, Joy Oladokun, Julien Baker, Mya Byrne, The Rainbow Coalition Band, and YOLA.Read More »Bandit and Eric Cathcart Light ‘Love Rising’: Let Freedom Sing (And Dance)

GLP impression FR1 TM Transforms Der Player’s Atmosphere from Dinner into Party Fever

Since late last year there has been a new player in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg. Set in Hamburg’s Ottensen district, chef and author Jonas Straube appears to have effortlessly combined seeming opposites. Der Player (‘The Player’) is a restaurant, bar, games lounge, and nightclub all rolled into one. The innovative fusion concept posed a challenge for lighting and video planner Axel Fahrenhorst, from Hamburg-based creative consultancy lineareal GmbH. This is because when one seamlessly merges into the other, the lighting requirements change in next to no time.Read More »GLP impression FR1 TM Transforms Der Player’s Atmosphere from Dinner into Party Fever

Master FX and Volt Lites Announce New Partnership

Master FX and Volt Lites, a premier lighting and production rental company in Burbank, CA, have announced a new partnership aimed at enhancing the accessibility of Master FX Fluids on the West Coast. The partnership creates a more efficient shipping network that will reduce delivery times and costs for customers in the region. By leveraging each other’s expertise and resources, Master FX and Volt Lites will be able to provide customers with exceptional service and support.Read More »Master FX and Volt Lites Announce New Partnership

Scholarship in the Name of Nook Schoenfeld

The family of Richard “Nook” Schoenfeld is looking to establish a scholarship in his name at The Arete Academy, which is a school one of his son attends. The Arete Academy is celebrating their 10th year as a school and are developing a scholarship drive: ten $10k scholarships for their 10th year.

Luminis Delivers Large Elation KL Lighting System for Ultra-Modern Bulgarian Broadcast Studio

Leading Bulgarian media company Nova Broadcasting Group recently opened an ultra-modern studio complex of nearly 17,000-square meters in the capital of Sofia. To ensure top-quality, professional illumination in the new facility’s multiple studios, Nova Broadcasting Group worked with Elation distributor Luminis Ltd. on a broadcast-optimized lighting solution.Read More »Luminis Delivers Large Elation KL Lighting System for Ultra-Modern Bulgarian Broadcast Studio

ETC’s Donations to Behind the Scenes Reach a Major Milestone

Kate Foster and ETC’s employee owners present a check to BTS Chair Rick Rudolph and members of the BTS Board.

In June of 2009 ETC launched a new app that would expand lighting control by turning people’s Apple handhelds into miniature lighting controllers. From the very beginning, ETC decided that all profits from sales of the iRFR (Radio Focus Remote) and later the aRFR for Android apps would be donated to charity. On Friday at the 2023 USITT Show, ETC presented Behind the Scenes with a check for $39,599 bringing the total donated to the charity to over half a million dollars.Read More »ETC’s Donations to Behind the Scenes Reach a Major Milestone

Team Darmah and CHAUVET Professional Help Daddy Yankee Create Farewell Tour Fit for a King

How do you say goodbye to a legend? For the creative team involved in designing the production for Daddy Yankee’s La Ultima Vuelta tour, the answer was quite simple, you create something “fit for a king.” This was the directive that Production Designer Rodrigo Proal of Darmah Studios received when he was asked to work on the Puerto Rican born super star’s 84-date official retirement tour of North and South America, which concluded with a January show in San Juan.Read More »Team Darmah and CHAUVET Professional Help Daddy Yankee Create Farewell Tour Fit for a King