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4Wall Europe Makes Strong Investment in Elation Artiste™ Luminaires

(L to R) David March (4Wall), Graham Hill (Elation), Marcel Wijnberger (Entedi)

Full-service video and lighting company 4Wall has extended its stock of Elation Artiste series LED moving heads into Europe with purchase of the Artiste Monet™ Profile, Artiste Mondrian™ Profile FX, and Artiste Rembrandt™ Wash luminaires. Following on from 4Wall’s positive acquisition of Artiste series fixtures in the US earlier this year, and in the wake of a series of favorable product demos at the 4Wall facility in Blackburn this spring, 4Wall Europe has acquired a significant quantity of Artiste series units.Read More »4Wall Europe Makes Strong Investment in Elation Artiste™ Luminaires

PRG Opens Starwood Rehearsals in Nashville

Production Resource Group, LLC (PRG), a leading provider of production solutions for entertainment and live events producers, announces the opening of Starwood Rehearsals, a new concept in rehearsal spaces serving Nashville music artists preparing for tour. The Starwood Rehearsals space is a blank slate, allowing for any type of production setup. However, given its location at PRG’s Super Depot in LaVergne, TN, it provides clients with direct access to the entire suite of PRG equipment and expertise.

Production teams have complete privacy at Starwood Rehearsals with exclusive use of the space and the resources to run through their projects from planning to show day. The new, climate controlled 10,000 square foot facility, boasts a 100′ by 100′ rehearsal space, dressing rooms, a green room, board rooms, production offices, and a gallery viewing space. Other venue features include:

  • Two 400A three-phase Camlock AC Services
  • 50,000-pound distributed rigging capacity
  • Multiple loading docks and drive-up ramps available
  • Four individual dressing rooms/offices with isolated HVAC units from main room
  • Private bathrooms
  • 24/7 secure access
  • Secure bus parking and power available
  • 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. load in / load out access
  • After-hours access available with advance notice
  • Dedicated artist parking and private entrance

“With so much pent-up demand for the return of concert touring, artists and their management are experiencing a scarcity of suitable rehearsal facilities. With Starwood Rehearsals, we’re rounding out our service offering by answering that need,” said Randy Hutson, CEO of PRG Music.

From 1986 to 2006, the Starwood Amphitheatre was an outdoor music venue just five miles from PRG’s current facility. The Starwood Rehearsals name serves as a homage to Nashville’s local culture, the rich history of concert touring, and the iconic artists and their production teams who put on shows at the venue.

PRG quietly opened Starwood Rehearsals this spring, hosting several musicians and groups including Dan + Shay, Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line, and Leon Bridges. Demonstrating its flexibility, the space was even used by a corporation to film a video segment for an event.

Further information from PRG: https://www.prg.com/page/nash-rehearsal

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Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH Luminaires Bring Creative Freedom for Bad Bunny Tour

For Bad Bunny’s 36-date El Último Tour Del Mundo 2022, LD Alain Corthout chose Vari-Lite VL10 BEAMWASH luminaires as “a lighting workhorse that would offer the ultimate in creative versatility, while delivering consistent, high output light, even at the more saturated end of the spectrum. I also needed a versatile palette of effects. The VL10 BEAMWASH fixtures gave me all of this and more.”

The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards: A Brief Recap 

Sam Berkow, David Bernstein, Peter Morse

 The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards were held Friday, June 3 during the 2022 NAMM show, with both events taking a big, if asterisked, step toward pre-pandemic normalcy. On the “normal” side, there were plenty of attendees at both events, and everyone there relished the chance to meet up again, face to face, after being kept apart for way too long.Read More »The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards: A Brief Recap 

OneBigStar Reflects Many Facets of MOVE IT With Help From Chauvet Professional

Dance is a uniquely human activity according to the biologists and naturalists who study such things. The “hidden language of the soul,” as Martha Graham described it, is also as unique and special as humans themselves. This diversity was on full display this spring at ExCel London, as the exhibition center hosted MOVE IT, an event that invited some 75,000 people to spread their creative wings and dance, either on stage, or in one of its many workshops and classes.Read More »OneBigStar Reflects Many Facets of MOVE IT With Help From Chauvet Professional

Eastern Lighting Design Chooses Ayrton for Al Jazeera Studio in Doha, Qatar

Set 1 at the new Al Jazeera Media Network’s Studio 5 in Doha, Qatar

Eastern Lighting Design, an international design firm specializing in broadcast, location and special events lighting, employed nearly 200 versatile, feature-rich Ayrton Diablo luminaires and compact Levante wash lights for Al Jazeera Media Network’s new Studio 5 sets in Doha, Qatar. Read More »Eastern Lighting Design Chooses Ayrton for Al Jazeera Studio in Doha, Qatar

In Memoriam | Douglas L. Pope, Live Event Production Manager, 79

PLSN has learned of the death of Live Event Production Manager, Douglas L. Pope on May 30, 2022 at the age of 79. Pope worked frequently with Patrick Stansfield, Imero Fiorentino, and others on a wide range of projects over his long career. Click below for a tribute written by John Purdy, a long-time friend of Pope’s where they worked together on many production events.

Valorant Esports Tournament in Berlin Lit with 930 GLP Fixtures

Michael Straun and Tobias Rylander light three locations in Berlin with vast selection

Team Acend poses with the Champions Trophy after victory at the VALORANT Champions Finals on December 12, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Photo by Wojciech Wandzel/Riot Games

Almost 1,000 GLP lighting fixtures – a near record in terms of brand deployment – were called on when the 2021 Valorant Champions Esports tournament (VCT 2021) reached its conclusion in Berlin. Organized by the video game developer Riot Games, 16 teams from around the world competed for the honor of champions.Read More »Valorant Esports Tournament in Berlin Lit with 930 GLP Fixtures