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Riley Clemmons Calls on Bandit Lites for ‘First Christmas Tour’

Rising artist Riley Clemmons launched her first head-lining tour with a lighting system provided by Bandit Lites. With over 210 million global streams and 50 million YouTube video views since the beginning of her almost decade long career, Clemmons’s soaring vocals and touching lyrics have endeared her to millions of fans around the world. The First Christmas Tour is named for her hit Christmas song.Read More »Riley Clemmons Calls on Bandit Lites for ‘First Christmas Tour’

Creative BackStage and CHAUVET Professional Brighten Up Zona Music Festival

Rain can play havoc with any outdoor festival. That much is true, but in Phoenix AZ? The second driest city in the USA (only Las Vegas gets less precipitation), Phoenix has gone as long as 160 days without rain; that happened back in 1972. The organizers of the inaugural Zona Music festival had no such luck. On December 3, the day the festival opened, Mother Nature dropped .76 inches of rain down on the city, breaking a record that had stood for 115 years.Read More »Creative BackStage and CHAUVET Professional Brighten Up Zona Music Festival

Shurtape Technologies, LLC, Acquires Pro Tapes & Specialties, Inc.

Transaction poised to accelerate growth for both companies through increased investments in manufacturing capacity, sales efforts, and marketing activities

Shurtape Technologies, LLC, an industry-leading producer of pressure-sensitive tapes, today announces the acquisition of Pro Tapes & Specialties, Inc., a tape manufacturer and converter that services a variety of markets, including graphic arts, library and school supply, precision die-cutting and fabricating, contract and custom converting, retail and general industrial. The culmination of a nearly two-decade partnership, the transaction brings together two companies that share a relentless commitment to exceptional product quality and innovation as well as industry-leading customer service.Read More »Shurtape Technologies, LLC, Acquires Pro Tapes & Specialties, Inc.

Parnelli Awards Nominations Close This Friday, Dec. 16th. Don’t Miss Your Last Chance to Nominate!

Nominations are coming to a close for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on Friday, April 14, 2023, during the NAMM Show. The deadline for Parnelli nominations is Dec. 16, 2022, 5 p.m. PST. Anyone can now nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best in our industry for a prestigious Parnelli Award.

Voting for Your Favorite Hometown Hero – Lighting Company Closes Friday, Dec. 16th!

The voting for the Parnelli Hometown Hero – Lighting Company of the Year Award is now open. PLSN readers get to vote for the six top regional lighting companies in North America—one for each of five U.S. regions, and a sixth for all of Canada. These votes will narrow the field from 36 to six regional winners, who will then appear on the Parnelli Awards ballot for a second round of voting. The winner will receive the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year at the awards ceremony in Anaheim, CA.Read More »Voting for Your Favorite Hometown Hero – Lighting Company Closes Friday, Dec. 16th!

AUX Media Group Showcases ROE Visual Products at ATF Event in Singapore

Exploring the Future of Virtual Production at the ATF

AUX Media Group showcased advanced virtual production techniques, utilizing ROE Visual Black Pearl BP2V2 LED screens at the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) in Singapore from December 7-9, 2022. Asia’s leading entertainment content market could gather again for the first time after a three-year break.Read More »AUX Media Group Showcases ROE Visual Products at ATF Event in Singapore

David Garrett is Alive with Robe

Classic and crossover violinist David Garrett is a unique, interesting, and fun artist to light requiring a mix of treatments inspired by multiple visual genres, which is one of the many aspects – and challenges – relished by Lighting Designer Gerard Maijenburg who has worked with him for the last seven years. The European leg of Garrett’s current Alive tour featured over 200 Robe moving lights, picked by Maijenburg to energize his design.Read More »David Garrett is Alive with Robe

InCord Awarded Women-Owned Small Business Certification

(L to R) Meredith Shay and Robin Ritz lead InCord

Colchester, CT-based InCord is honored to announce that InCord has been certified as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). For InCord, this is a milestone and a transition from its founding years, recognizing Meredith Shay and Robin Ritz as sole owners of InCord, a woman-owned and operated manufacturing business entity, on a federal level.Read More »InCord Awarded Women-Owned Small Business Certification

LDI 2022 Visitors Surge to Preview GLP’s Next-Generation Products

Top LD Nate Files meshes together a mesmerizing JDC Line/impression X5 lightshow

At the recent LDI 2022, GLP focused on giving some ‘real-world’ exposure to the JDC Line – now gaining the attention it deserves after the Covid-19 pandemic somewhat choked its initial launch. They were fortunate to have the services of one of the hottest LDs in the industry, Nate Files, to mesh the JDC Line together with the new impression X5 in a mesmerizing, beautifully programmed, integrated lightshow which beckoned visitors to the booth. Files is well familiar with the GLP culture, having been part of the creative team that brought its award-winning large format shows to life.Read More »LDI 2022 Visitors Surge to Preview GLP’s Next-Generation Products

R90 Lighting Covers Seattle and Beyond with Elation LED Lighting

Bustling lighting rental house covers projects from intimate corporate to large-scale festivals

 

One of Seattle’s largest lighting rental houses, R90 Lighting, often turns to Elation Professional products to light a wide scope of projects and has recently added more Elation fixtures to its rental inventory. The concert and event lighting design firm emphasizes the latest in LED technology in its inventory of stage lighting fixtures, a principle the company has held since its founding 10 years ago. R90’s new acquisition includes an LED package of Fuze MAX Profile™, Fuze Wash FR™, Proteus Rayzor 760™, Artiste Picasso™ and Paladin Panel™ luminaires.Read More »R90 Lighting Covers Seattle and Beyond with Elation LED Lighting