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Elation, Acclaim and ADJ share Mardi Gras magic

The largest float ever seen in a Mardi Gras parade

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Even at the supreme event of the biggest celebration in a city known for its huge excesses, the Ponchartrain Beach float takes bigness to new heights - or lengths. At 330'long, this tribute to the Big Easy's legendary Ponchartrain Beach amusement park is clearly the largest float ever seen in a Mardi Gras parade. Debuting at Endymion, Mardi Gras' premier event, the float is comprised of nine individual cars, each replicating a different historic carnival ride or attraction featured at Ponchartrain Beach, which closed in 1983.

The city's newspaper The New Orleans Picayune declared the float to be the best in the parade, noting that it was "indeed impressive, both for its size and the light display, which bathed the crowd in glorious color." Ray Ziegler of RZi

Shinedown & Three Days tour with Bandit

Details: 14 March 2016

USA - Bandit Lites is on the road with two of hard rock's top bands as Shinedown and Three Days Grace hit the road for a dual headlining February tour. The tour kicked off 1 February in Moline, Illinois at the iWireless Center.

Shinedown lighting designer Carter Fulghum and Three Days Grace lighting designer Mike Filsinger created two performances filled with throbbing lights that enhanced the high octane music and pyrotechnics.

With both bands co-headlining, Fulghum and Filsinger worked to reconfigure the rig to be more arena friendly, as the rig had previously been designed for am

Robe's key account manager for Europe Ingo Dombowski and Axente's Jerome Brehard accepting the award

Robe Robin wins Etoile du SIEL award

Details: 14 March 2016

France - Robe's innovative new Robin MMX WashBeam moving light won a prestigious Etoile du SIEL (Star of SIEL) Award for Technical Innovation at the 2013 SIEL trade exhibition in Paris - France's leading international expo for the professional lighting, sound, video and entertainment technology industry.

The MMX WashBeam was entered into the Lighting Category. The fixture offers multiple features in one unit, and combining a Philips Platinum 35 lightsource with Robe's advanced optical system, provides an output exceeding most traditional 1200W products.

The Etoile du SIEL Awards wer

One of the racks purchased by Skan, showing some of the enhanced features

Skan PA choose SES racks for major tour

Details: 14 March 2016

UK - Newbury based Skan PA has placed an order with SES for several of its second generation 19" rack mount distribution units for use on a major world tour.

Chris Fitch, MD at Skan commented, "We have always trusted the build quality and longevity that SES power distribution offers, and we needed to ensure that these racks worked first time every time on this lengthy tour. When Mark Cooper form SES offered me the newly announced second generation rack system, it was an easy decision to make".

SES says it strives to continuously improve its build quality, and the seco

W-DMX systems are already OEM installed in several products in the Music & Lights portfolio

W-DMX in partnership with Music & Lights

Details: 14 March 2016

b>Sweden - Wireless Solution Sweden has announced a partnership with Music & Lights for the distribution of the W-DMX Micro, BlackBox and WhiteBox systems in the Music & Lights sales network.

W-DMX systems are already OEM installed in several products in the Music & Lights portfolio, including projectors by Prolights and ArchWork, and W-DMX has been recognised as a standard of high reliability and quality for professional performance and demanding environments.

Fabio Sorabella, product manager of Prolights says, "We have been testing many different wireless DMX systems and W-DMX w

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