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 Dennis DeYoung Goes Rogue for Valentine's Day
Former Styx frontman Dennis DeYoung hit 70 in mid-February without breaking stride. Performing a two-hour-and-ten-minute Valentine's Day concert before a packed house at the 3,400-seat Star Plaza Theater outside Chicago, the singer ... 
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 Robe Rocks TPI Awards 2017
Almost 300 Robe lighting fixtures were used to illuminate the 2017 Total Production International (TPi) Awards produced by TPi Magazine, part of Mondiale Publishing ... and staged at Evolution in Battersea, central London on ... 
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 3G Productions to Acquire Assets of Beachsound in Miami for Significant Expansion into Eastern United States
3G Productions, Inc., announced today the execution of an asset purchase agreement under which 3G will acquire substantially all assets of Beachsound. Following the completion of the transaction, 3G expects to integrate all ... 
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 Stellar Visions and Sound Sharpens Its Shows with a Dozen DTS KATANAs
"It was a 'Wow!'" That was the reaction of Eddie Speeks, president and CEO of Stellar Visions and Sound (SVS), which barely had a dozen newly acquired DTS KATANA blade-effect LED fixtures in its inventory before they ... 
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 Another Fantastic Fanta 4 Tour
Die Fantastischen Vier -- AKA German rappers Fanta 4 -- hit the road again on Vier und Jetzt their biennial tour campaign for 2016-17, reaching out to a fanbase which spans several generations and stretches across every corner of ... 
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 Maroon 5 Get X4 Bar Treatment at Mandalay Bay
The latest in a succession of lighting professionals to adopt GLP's award-winning X4 Bar 20 platform has been designer and programmer, Brian Jenkins. Part of an experienced team based on America's West Coast, along with ... 
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 Avolites Ai takes it up a 'Notch' at Passion 2017
Atlanta-based design company, Visional Productions, used three custom-built media servers running Avolites Ai V9.1 software and an Avolites Quartz console to control and live edit a mix of pre-recorded content and live-streamed ... 
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 elektraLite Opens Eyes at Tennessee's Hillcrest Baptist Church
With the recent installation of a dozen elektraLite eyeBall LED lighting fixtures, worship services and music programs are now "brighter and better" at Hillcrest Baptist Church in Dyersburg, Tennessee, a town approximately 80 miles ... 
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 Claypaky Illuminates the Opeth Show at the Wembley Arena
As part of their European journey, Swedish band Opeth opted for a single show at Wembley Arena for their UK audience. Magnus Boyd has been lighting the band for the last eighteen months. The show at Wembley was a part of the Sorce ... 
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 Kenny Rogers Tours with All-Chauvet Professional Rig
Back in 1991, Jeffrey Metter was board operating the band lighting console for The Grateful Dead when he got a call inviting him to Atlantic City. Country and pop superstar Kenny Rogers needed a lighting director for an ... 
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 Laserworld Presents the New Purelight Series with High Performance for a Low Price
Laserworld's Purelight Series with 6W, 10W, and 20W offers high power for a low price with a good white balance. This makes the units well suitable for high power applications in bigger venues. Laserworld's Purelight systems are ... 
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 Dorsett Productions Stays Ahead of the Curve with Avolites
For over 25 years, Mobile, Alabama-based Dorsett Productions Unlimited LLC has offered its clients the latest in sound, lighting, video, staging, and special effects for their productions. With the increasing proliferation of ... 
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 Robe for Idols SA
The twelfth season of Idols South Africa wrapped up with a stunning finale at Carnival City Big Top Arena in Johannesburg, broadcast live on the Mzansi Magic network with a highly vocal audience of 3,500 packing into the venue ... ... 
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 Claypaky Mythos and Sharpy Fixtures Light Up Lady Gaga's Super Bowl LI Halftime Show
Lighting designer Bob Barnhart, who has lent his talents to 19 Super Bowl Halftime Shows, chose Claypaky Mythos and Sharpy fixtures to help illuminate Lady Gaga in her solo turn at Super Bowl LI. A grandMA2 console ... 
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 Triple E Constructs a ModTruss Future at London's Event Production Show
Triple E, the exclusive European distributor of the revolutionary "universal construction system" ModTruss, is showcasing the award-winning product at this year's Event Production Show in London, March 1 - 2. ... 
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 Cody Lisle Makes Gem and Jam Festival Stage Glow with Chauvet
Set in the vast expanse of the Sonoran Desert in early February, the Gem and Jam Festival has a way of inspiring flights of imagination. Originally an after-party for the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, the four day electronic music festival, ... 
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 Blue Box Solution for Signaling Projection Mapping
With projection mapping becoming a big deal in the AV staging and lighting business, small blue boxes are starting to show up at auditoriums, during corporate events, and at other performance venues. "We're doing a lot more projection ... 
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 Total Structures Hosts Outdoor Structures & Rigging Workshop - 2017 Edition
Rain, cold temperatures, and hail weren't what anyone had in mind when the 2017 edition of Total Structures' Truss, Hoist, Rigging, and Outdoor Structures workshop announced its January dates, but that is what everyone got. The school's 26 ... 
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 Painting with Lights' BlackTrax for Beauty and the Beast
International creative design practice Painting with Light was commissioned to design lighting and a video system, plus produce video content for the recent staging of Disney's famous Beauty and the Beast musical by Marmalade ... 
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 Tritonal Painting with Dreams Tour Gets Dimensional with Chauvet Professional
Their songs have topped the Beatport Trance Charts. They've appeared at Ultra, Electric Daisy Carnival, and virtually every other EDM festival. In 2015, they collaborated with Cash Cash on "Untouchable," a hit that made Billboard's Year ... 
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