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Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 and Skylos Light Up Eurovision Song Contest’s 360º Stage

The 2024 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) showcased its most innovative set design ever at the Malmö Arena in Sweden where Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 high-power LEDs and Skylos white-laser source searchlights supported the dynamic look of the event’s first 360º stage. Fredrik Stormby from Stockholm-based Green Wall Designs, the Lighting and Screen Content Designer for this year’s event, selected the Claypaky fixtures.  Stormby is best known as part of the creative team behind Beyonce’s 2023 Renaissance tour, Loreen’s winning 2023 ESC performance and ABBA Voyage in London.  He joined Production Designer Florian Wieder and the senior production team to help create, design and deliver the large-scale, spectacular show to a global audience of more than 160 million people.Read More »Claypaky Tambora Linear 100 and Skylos Light Up Eurovision Song Contest’s 360º Stage

Nick Jevons Immerses at Terminal V Festival with CHAUVET Professional

At its best, a design of any kind, isn’t just something to be seen and felt; ideally, it should also be something to interact with. The organizers of the popular Terminal V Festival, must have had this vision bubbling up in their collective imagination when they laid out plans for 10th edition of their annual event, which took place this April at the Royal Highland Centre. Taking their V2 Stage, a mainstay of the festival since 2017, they totally revamped it, turning it into a crisply angled 360-stage, making it “unrecognizable from years gone by.” The team at 19MIL, which designed the V2 Stage and the adjacent Terminal Stage were keenly aware of how important lighting would be to making both stages come alive in ways that would enhance the level of audience interaction with the impressive lineup of EDM artists appearing on them over the course of the weekend festival.Read More »Nick Jevons Immerses at Terminal V Festival with CHAUVET Professional

SJ Grevett and DMX Productions Create Varied Looks for MOBO Awards with CHAUVET Professional

“From the moment you approached Utilita Arena, you could feel the excitement and energy in the air.” That’s how one journalist described the 26th annual MOBO Awards.  True enough — but the magical mood was even more transformative inside the 11,000-capacity facility, thanks to the persona and performances of the special guests and honorees at the UK’s biggest celebration of Black music and culture.Read More »SJ Grevett and DMX Productions Create Varied Looks for MOBO Awards with CHAUVET Professional

In Memoriam: Craig Burross, 61, Lighting Industry Icon

It is with sadness that PLSN reports the passing of Craig Burross,61, who unexpectedly passed away from a short illness on Thursday May 23. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends, who were many throughout the industry. Debi Moen shares with us this warm remembrance of Craig from herself, his friends and his wife.

CAS Exhibition Partners Choose Elation KL PAR FC for Superior Stand Lighting

In late April, CAS Exhibition Partners of the Netherlands took delivery of 250 KL PAR FC LED PAR lights from Elation for use in the leading exhibition contractor’s many state-of-the-art stand builds across Europe. Useful in setting the ambiance of an exhibition stand, reinforcing a theme, and adding depth and dimension to enhance the overall visual appeal of a space, the new full-color-spectrum lights can also play more functional roles like highlighting products, signage and displays. Either way, the KL PAR FC’s high color quality and adaptability will serve to captivate visitors and reinforce brand imaging for CAS customers.Read More »CAS Exhibition Partners Choose Elation KL PAR FC for Superior Stand Lighting

Robe ESPRITES Rock Melbourne Fashion Festival

The 2024 PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival celebrated some of the best of Australian fashion design, imagination, style and flair, with a main show space at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne – recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee as a prime example of 19th century international exhibition architecture. All Lighting and AV equipment for the week-long festival was supplied by full production services provider, Harry the Hirer Productions, led by Technical Producer Marcus Pugh.Read More »Robe ESPRITES Rock Melbourne Fashion Festival

Modulo Pi’s Media Servers Illuminate Let’s Glow SF Festival of Lights

Let’s Glow SF holiday projection event, returned to San Francisco from December 1st through 10th for its third edition. Every day from 5-10PM, the facades of Downtown San Francisco’s most iconic buildings were transformed through the projection of large-scale artworks created by local and international creative studios and artists.

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Creating Candy at Coachella for Jon Batiste with Shepherd Lowrey & CHAUVET Professional

Describing Jon Batiste’s uplifting appearance at Coachella’s Outdoor Theatre in a few words is as impossible as applying a single label to the festival itself. Even by the standards of an event famous for its soaring diversity and originality, the multi-Grammy winning artist stood out for the sheer breadth of his brilliantly nuanced performance. Starting off with “Tell The Truth,” a lively R&B classic and moving on to funky songs like “Freedom,” and the spiritually tinged hit “Butterfly,” Batiste, his band, and a variety of special guests took fans on a musical odyssey that included everything from covers of Beatles songs, to the classic from his hometown, New Orleans “When The Saints Go Marching In.”Read More »Creating Candy at Coachella for Jon Batiste with Shepherd Lowrey & CHAUVET Professional

Brown Note Productions Expands Inventory with Ayrton Rivale and Debuts Them at Red Rocks

Brown Note Productions, the Denver-area company specializing in 360º full-service production for concerts, tours, music festivals, and special events, has invested in 150 Ayrton Rivale Profiles. The new fixtures were quickly dispatched for two back-to-back dates at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison for dance music star Black Coffee and artist Illenium. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America.Read More »Brown Note Productions Expands Inventory with Ayrton Rivale and Debuts Them at Red Rocks

Milton De La Cruz Makes Light Waves at Petronio Alvarez Festival with CHAUVET Professional

The Petronio Alvarez festival, affectionately called “El Petronio,” has no trouble making news. A signature event in Cali, the six-day celebration of music, food, and culture, draws over a half-million people to the city’s la Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galindo sports complex. It’s been that way for 27 years, but last summer the festival made news of a different kind when local news outlets were buzzing with reports of UFO sightings.Read More »Milton De La Cruz Makes Light Waves at Petronio Alvarez Festival with CHAUVET Professional

1,300+ Elation Lights Dazzle Coachella 2024

A revamped Sahara Tent featured over 950 Elation luminaires with Production and Lighting Design by Production Design Works

Elation lighting has long been a staple of Coachella shows, and this year’s edition of Southern California’s premier music festival was no exception, with the event awash in cutting-edge Elation lighting technology. The newly revamped Sahara Tent, an iconic anchor of the festival’s electrifying atmosphere, was adorned with over 950 Elation lights, while Elation gear also graced the Main Stage, Quasar Stage, and Outdoor Theatre. Coachella delivered yet another diverse and eclectic experience across two weekends in April, featuring 147 acts across eight stages. Todd Roberts, of Production Design Works, spearheaded the production and lighting design for the Sahara Tent, incorporating a myriad of Elation lighting fixtures supplied by Aspect Lighting.Read More »1,300+ Elation Lights Dazzle Coachella 2024

Arena Cob4FC Lights Up Christina Stürmer MTV Unplugged Concert

PROLIGHTS Arena Cob4FC lit up Christina Stürmer’s MTV Unplugged concert, an event celebrating the 20-year career of the Austrian pop-rock singer. The live broadcast from the Volkstheater in Vienna was produced by Das Rund GmbH, set in an environment evoking the intimate atmosphere of a rehearsal room, creating a welcoming and relaxed ambiance. Under the artistic direction of Thomas W. Kiennast from Das Rund, Lighting Designer Manfred Nikister designed a lighting setup that included 29 Arena Cob4FC units from PROLIGHTS, strategically positioned to maximize visual impact both on stage and in the surrounding scenery.

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