The Parnelli Ballot for the 22nd annual awards ceremony has been set, and voting is open! The ballot is posted online at parnelliawards.com/vote, and it’s up to YOU, the PLSN reader, to decide who among the nominees will step up to the awards podium at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on the evening of January 26, 2024.
Except for some single-minded fans of genres like opera, or baroque chamber ensembles, it’s impossible for any music lovers of any stripe to attend the Zurich Open Air Festival and not find multiple performances to love. A musical melting pot, the three-day festival held in suburban Glattbrugg, features artists from an incredible array of genres, from ballads to electronic beats, and hard rock anthems to indie tunes. Jazz, blues, and folk join the diverse mix for good measure. The artists on stage represent some of the best in the business, as evidenced by lineup at this year’s (10th annual) rendition of the festival, which featured Robbie Williams, Zara Larsson, Bastian Baker, The Killers, The Chainsmokers and Paul Kalkbrenner to name a few.Read More »Zurich Open Air Festival’s Many Looks with CHAUVET Professional and FeedBack Show System & Service
In its 25th year, Stagehand, a UK-based live event production workers charity, announced the launch of the Christmas fundraiser, #ILoveLive3. This year’s campaign recognizes the immense challenges faced by the live event production industry and aims to provide crucial support to UK-based touring and festival crews dealing with serious physical or mental ill health. #ILoveLive3 launched on Friday Dec. 1, 2023, with tickets available and on sale at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/i-love-live.Read More »Stagehand Launches #ILoveLive3
HARMAN Professional Solutions recently announced the launch of the Exterior Wash Pro Family, engineered to meet demanding and harsh environments while offering creative possibilities with intelligent features to elevate a wide range of lighting designs. These fixtures build on the company’s Exterior Linear Pro family and represent a new era in color performance for architectural lighting.Read More »Martin Professional Introduces Exterior Wash Pro Family
Top-Level comedians have been increasingly getting out of those 3,000-5,000 seat theaters and trying their jokes out in arenas and stadiums. Two of the biggest – Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan – thought they would pair up in a co-headliner mini-tour of just four cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and St. Louis. For the last show in St. Louis, they experimented with leaving the full theater curtain package set on the truck and seeing if they could pull it off selling seats on the extreme sides and behind them to increase ticket sales further. Halifax-based Tour Tech East made it work.Read More »Online Exclusive: Seinfeld/Gaffigan Co-Headlining Tour Ends with “Experiment” in St. Louis
Altman Lighting Inc. announces that Bill Groener has joined the company as its new Chief Operating Officer. Groener’s distinguished career spans more than 40 years in the entertainment, themed, and architectural technology sectors. Before joining Altman, Groener was the COO of The Lighting Design Group, President of Vincent Lighting Systems and the VP of National Business Development for 4Wall Entertainment. Furthermore, Groener held key positions with Color Kinetics, Barbizon, Elliptipar, and Strand Lighting. He was also the principal and sole owner of BGr + A, a sales agency covering the Metro New York area that was dedicated to meeting the diverse lighting needs of the theatre, television, film, and architectural markets. Read More »Bill Groener Joins Altman Lighting as Chief Operating Officer
Robe launches four new products on Booth 911A at the LDI 2023 expo in Las Vegas next week – the iT12 Profile™, the T32 Cyc™, and two new variants of the cool and successful PATT series of scenic illumination, the HolyPATT™ and the MolyPATT™. Additionally, shown for the first time at an expo in North America will be Robe’s new iSeries of IP rated and robustly weatherized moving lights – the incredible iFORTE LTX® currently the most powerful LED moving head on the market – together with iESPRITE®, iPAINTE®, iTetra2™ and iBeam350™ luminaires, all of which are expected to attract huge interest in North America.Read More »Seriously Magical New Tech for Robe at LDI