High End Systems Halcyon Gold fixtures were the workhorse moving framing fixtures on the Miss North Carolina and Miss North Carolina Teen Beauty Pageants, held last month in High Point, NC. Platinum Live Productions handled the lighting production, also bringing a Road Hog 4-21 console and HQ-100 hazers out for the competition. Read More »Halcyon Gold Illuminates Miss North Carolina Pageant
Debi Moen has the inside scoop on all the where, what and who hitting the road for an incredibly busy touring season.
Bandit Lites announces the opening of its new facility in Charlotte, NC. After 10 years in the Charlotte market, this is Bandits third new facility. The luxurious space will primarily accommodate the integration team as they continue their expansion into 2023. Bandit Lites Vice President of Operations, Roth Edwards, spearheaded finding and delivering the new facility. After a month’s long search, the location north of Charlotte, North Huntersville was chosen for its amazing community, quality building, and idyllic neighborhood.Read More »Bandit Lites Purchases New Charlotte Office
Special Event Services (SES) has significantly expanded its Ayrton lighting inventory with additional purchases of Domino LT, Bora S, and Khamsin fixtures and further committed to the product line with large first-time investments in Perseo Beams, Diablos, and Zonda 9 FX lights. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton products in North America.Read More »SES Boosts its Lighting Inventory with Commitment to Ayrton Product Line
Live entertainment lighting and trucking company Upstaging marked its 50th anniversary in 2022. During the past half century co-founders, brothers Robert and Don Carone, and Robin Shaw, joined in 1979 by John Huddleston, have turned Upstaging from a garage-based pioneer into a stalwart of the industry. The four share with PLSN some of their reflections growing a company alongside the concert touring industry—the beginnings, the milestones, and what they hope people know about Upstaging today.
Annual HOW event focuses on presenting the best AVL technologies, and elektraLite was both a presenter, showing its products and providing instructional seminars during the four-day event,… Read More »elektraLite Illuminates the Message at the 2022 Experience Conference
When Luke Combs finally hit the road again for his What You See is What You Get tour in 2021, he was happy to be back in the spotlight after the collapse of his 2020 tour due to the pandemic. But this time, the spotlight will be a Follow-Me 3D Six system, which is being supplied by Special Event Services (SES) of Mocksville, NC, and Nashville, TN.Read More »Luke Combs’ Tour Spotlights Follow-Me System
The close of 2022 and the start of the New Year is going to see Bandit Lites reaching an entirely new level of demand across all departments. To meet the expansion, Bandit Lites announces the hiring of industry veteran Paul Strom to the Sales and Integration team.Read More »Bandit Lites Adds Paul Strom to Sales and Integration Team
Charlotte, NC – Neutrik USA announces a dramatic expansion in its operations, and with that expansion comes a new name—Neutrik Americas. Neutrik Americas, a wholly owned subsidiary of Neutrik AG and a member of the Neutrik Group, will now service all the Americas from its Charlotte, NC facility. The goal of this organizational shift is to provide centralized operation for the Americas, with the benefit of consolidated sales and support for the entire region.Read More »Neutrik USA Expands its Horizons and Becomes Neutrik Americas
With Kathy A. Perkins – NC-based LD and Professor of Theatre
CHARLOTTE, NC — Christ Lutheran Church, home to one of the largest Lutheran congregations on the East Coast, recently expanded with a new 1,450 seat sanctuary. AE Global Media provided Mega Systems’ Dicolor U6B LED Display to enhance the church’s visuals and overall worship experience for its traditional and contemporary services.