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Parnelli Awards 2013

More Than 30 Sponsors Sign On to Support 2013 Parnelli Awards

LAS VEGAS — To date, more than 30 sponsoring companies have stepped up and announced their support for the 13th Annual Parnelli Awards, set for Nov. 23 at the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.  The event will honor longtime Bruce Springsteen tour manager George Travis (Lifetime Achievement) and Eric Pearce of SGPS (Visionary Award) along with Audio Innovator Mark Engebretson.

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Blue Planet Lighting Plans Sept. 10 HES Open House in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS — Blue Planet Lighting is hosting a High End Systems Open House at their Las Vegas location on Sept. 10, 2013 from 10am to 4pm. A large variety of HES gear will be available for hands on demos including the Nano Hog 4, Full Boar 4, DLV, Trackspot Bolt, SolaWash, TechnoArc and more. The Las Vegas location is at 5720 S. Arville Rd., Suite 102, Las Vegas, NV 89118; 702.222.2103.

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E-Zoo 2012. The Labor Day weekend event on Randall's Island in NYC has grown substantially since it was founded in 2009.

Drug-Linked Deaths Cancel EDM Show in Boston and E-Zoo Festival’s Third Day in NYC

BOSTON and NEW YORK — Separate drug-related incidents claimed the lives of three EDM revelers in late August, with one death canceling an EDM concert in Boston on Aug. 28 and two more deaths leading to the cancellation of the final day’s performances for the three-day Electric Zoo Music Festival at Randall’s Island Park in NYC over Labor Day weekend, Aug. 30-Sept. 1. (E-Zoo 2012 is pictured here).

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Wild Oats photos by Lynn Batten, courtesy of Minack Theatre

“Wild Oats” at U.K.’s Minack Theatre Lit with White Light Gear

PENZANCE, U.K. — For the Shattered Windscreen Theatre Company’s production of Wild Oats at the outdoor, seaside, carved-from-the-granite Minack Theatre here in August 2013, White Light provided lighting equipment to the specifications of LD Ken Allford. The gear, which complemented the Minack Theatre’s own stock of fixtures, included a range of ETC Source Four profiles, Philips Selecon Acclaim fresnels, Robert Juliat followspots and PAR fixtures.

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For the Zac Brown Band’s recent tour (pictured here), for example, Sew What? made a white cyclorama that under UV light revealed a full-color image of the Day of the Dead-inspired cover of the band’s album, Uncaged.

Sew What? Supports Zac Brown Band, Other Acts with Soft Goods, UV Imagery

RANCHO DOMINGUEZ, CA — Sew What? Inc., based here, has been supporting popular acts including The Zac Brown Band, Sublime with Rome, and Little Big Town with new stage drapery designs and invisible UV imagery. For the Zac Brown Band’s recent tour (pictured here), for example, Sew What? made a white cyclorama that under UV light revealed a full-color image of the Day of the Dead-inspired cover of the band’s album, Uncaged.

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2013 MTV VMA lighting rig includined Martin fixtures

2013 MTV VMA Rig Includes Martin Fixtures from VER

BROOKLYN, NY — For the much-discussed and tweeted-about 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, held at Barclays Center here Aug. 25, the lighting rig was hardly at the center of attention, but was nevertheless an integral part of the show. LD Tom Kenny’s rig included Harman’s Martin lighting fixtures, supplied by VER.

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Creamfields 2013 photo by Marc de Groot

Creamfields 2013 Supported by LarMac Live, Others

LONDON — LarMac Live, based here, provided production support for the Creamfields UK dance festival in Daresbury, Cheshire, U.K. for the fourth consecutive year. Ian “Lar” Greenway worked with Cream and Live Nation as production manager with an assist from Matt Smith and Siobhan Shaw. The long roster of production companies supporting the two outdoor arenas and nine tented areas also included Colour Sound Experiment, XL Video and Adlib.

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