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
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
‘The Need for Speed’ – the ability to work fast and sometimes furiously – “is imperative” explains lighting designer Tom Kenny referring to the 2023 iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina event staged at the Kaseya Arena in Miami, Florida, in conjunction with LPS Production.Read More »The Need for Robe Speed at iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina
The Belmont University Pop Showcase, an annual concert featuring Belmont’s best pop acts, returned to the Curb Event Center October 28th with a lighting system provided by Bandit Lites. The concert acts as a competition, with the artists who perform having underwent a rigorous evaluation including demo submissions and live auditions. The day of the event, the four finalist perform to both students and the public, and a panel of industry experts choose the winner.Read More »Bandit Lites Partners with Belmont’s Student-Run Pop Showcase
To deliver a fresh and revamped visual aesthetic for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s 2023 Tour of North America and Europe, Lighting Designer Jeff Ravitz selected and deployed an array of Martin lighting fixtures to create a versatile and powerful stadium rig. Read More »Bruce Springsteen Takes the E Street Band Back On the Road with Martin Lighting Solutions
Odyssey Innovative Designs, a leading DJ and pro audio accessories manufacturer sadly announced the passing of one of its company pillars, Dave Lopez.
Color has always been “a huge part of our design process,” Dayne deHaven says of the work that he and his collaborator at the District 5 design studio, Tyler Shapard, have been doing for The Band Camino. Fans of the red-hot rock-pop trio would readily agree; the band’s music is so evocative, that each song calls out for its own distinct color signature. Ironically, though, on the band’s recently concluded 25-date tour, the show begins in virtual darkness, as eerie electronic sounds resonate over a blacked-out stage. That’s only fitting, since the tour was called Screaming in the Dark, a nod to the group’s latest hit album The Dark.Read More »District 5 Colorizes The Band Camino’s Screaming in the Dark Tour with CHAUVET Professional
Showlight is delighted to announce that it is back, and will return soon! Following the enforced postponement of Showlight 2023 and a bumpy ride during the pandemic, the committee has reassembled, been invigorated, and is forging forward to the next in the series of this unique industry-favorite networking event. Read More »Showlight to Return… SOON!
Arvid Müller’s Charles Tante, the perennial favorite classic Danish comedy film based on the 1892 play Charley’s Aunt by Brandon Thomas, has been reborn as a brand new stage musical by Mads Æbeløe Nielsen, Nikolaj Tarp, Claus Reenberg, and Rob Hartmann.Read More »Ayrton Diablo Lights ‘Charles Tante’ at Denmark’s Fredericia Musicalteater
It came as a surprise to many when USM Alger of Algeria upset heavily favored Al Ahly SC of Egypt at the TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup 2023 to be crowned the king of African football. The team from Cairo was established as a perennial football (soccer) power, and few expected they would lose to the Algerian underdogs, but surprises were everywhere on the field at the King Fahd Stadium as the teams battled in this 1-0 game.Read More »Concept K Brings Added Energy to African Super Cup with CHAUVET Professional
Ryan Schaminee is a Netherlands-based freelance Gaffer and Light Board Operator who also works internationally on a wide variety of commercial, television, and film projects utilizing various Astera products almost every day. He finds the Astera ranges reliable, highly flexible, and appreciates the great quality of light, all attributes that assist him in thinking quickly and laterally to come up with inventive and cool looking lighting solutions that are spot on.Read More »HydraPanels Highlight Versuni Awards Commercial