NORTH AMERICA – Sublime with Rome has hit the road for a North American summer tour featuring 37 concerts coast to coast. Lighting designer Scott Warner of Karate Pinky Visual Design, LLC, Pittsburgh, has selected Clay Paky Sharpys, Sharpy Washes and A.leda B-EYE K20s for the tour. Sublime with Rome is a musical collaboration between bass player Eric Wilson, formerly of the band Sublime, singer...
ITALY – Giovanni Pinna have worked with Vasco since the dawn of time, 1991. What is the secret of this alliance? “Vasco believes in people's ideas. Moreover, all the technical and creative workers who have been around him for years, from the stage design team (Giò Forma Studio Associato since 1998) to the stage director Diego Spagnoli, play an active role in the whole show preparation process.”...
USA – Choreographers, actors and dance champions Derek and Julianne Hough have taken their “Dancing with the Stars” expertise on the road for a second year in a row with their dynamic show, “Move Live on Tour 2015.” Lighting designer Peter Morse of Peter Morse Productions in South Lake Tahoe, California is using Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 and Sharpy Wash 330 fixtures on the show. “Move Live on...
USA – Clay Paky Mythos has become the ‘go-to’ fixture for lighting designer Matt Ford, who recently deployed Mythos on truTV’s “Fake Off,” The CW’s “Penn & Teller: Fool Us,” and NBC’s “Food Fighters.” Ford is president of Magic Lantern Creations, an entertainment lighting company in Woodland Hills, California. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky fixtures in North America...
CANADA – Toronto-based contemporary dance company, Ballet Creole, marked its 25th anniversary with many events and performances, including their annual spring season at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre. A.C.T Lighting, Inc., the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky fixtures in North America, helped lighting designer Brad Trenaman obtain a complement of Alpha Spot QWO 800s, which were not...
UAE - Protec supplied HQ Creative with lighting, video, and rigging for the opening ceremony of the 2015 Nad Al Sheba Sports Tournament, held at NAS Sports Complex on June 21 st. The lighting aspect of the event was created using 24 X Clay Paky Mythos and 14 x Clay Paky A.leda B-Eye K10, working together alongside the Sharpy, Sharpy Wash 330, and Super Sharpy – which was therefore a purely Clay...
UK - Sometimes the simple solutions can be the better option. As the summer season of massive shows and festivals progresses with audiences treated to the spectacle of hugely complex lighting rigs packed full of the latest in moving light technology, it is easy to forget the less sexy, less eye-catching fixtures that simply do a job and do it brilliantly. Step up the Clay Paky GlowUp. A deceiving...
CANADA – The famed annual Calgary Stampede just concluded another successful season attracting over one million visitors to the 10-day event. A combination rodeo-exhibition-festival, the largest fair in Canada also featured a nightly Grandstand Show, which was illuminated by Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures. Pierre Marleau of Orange Frog Productions Inc. was the lighting and production designer for the...
USA – Elevation Worship recently recorded its new album, “Here as in Heaven,” in front of a sold-out crowd at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. Clay Paky lighting fixtures were on hand to support the band’s live recording and DVD shoot. Elevation Worship is a contemporary Christian worship band from Elevation Church in Charlotte. The band has four other albums to its credit...
Italy - Renzo Arbore sits on the chair in front of Fabio Fazio as it is announced that he will be the special guest in the final show of Che Fuori tempo che fa (Fazio's talk show). The transmission will be devoted to Quelli della notte, one of the most popular late night variety programmes in the history of Italian television, which went on the air thirty years ago. Renzo Arbore has always loved...