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Hometown Hero Voting Begins!

Hometown Hero Voting Begins!

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 »Hometown Hero Voting Begins!

Parnelli Awards Nominations NOW OPEN!

Nominations are now being accepted 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. Anyone can now nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best in our industry for a Parnelli Award, the most prestigious award in our industry. The deadline for Parnelli nominations is Dec. 16, 2022, 5 p.m. PST.

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More than 450 Proteus Workhorses Light The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours til Dawn’ Stadium Tour

The Weeknd 2022 tour. All photos by Todd Kaplan

Big concert tours were back in a big way this past summer and The Weeknd’s ambitious “After Hours til Dawn” outing is perhaps the best example. Lighting designer Jason Baeri is using over 450 Elation Proteus Hybrid™ and Proteus Excalibur™ moving head luminaires as workhorse fixtures on the tour, an elaborate, visually striking show that has been selling out major stadiums across North America since July. The first leg of the all-stadium tour kicked off on July 14 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and concludes on November 27 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The tour is also scheduled to visit South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

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Robe for Saaremaa Opera Festival 2022

Robe was the moving light of choice for the 2022 Saaremaa Opera Festival staged in a purpose-built tented arena erected beside the charismatic Kuressaare Castle in the south of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, which was the dramatic location for five days of popular opera and other performances, all presented this year by the Silesian Opera (Opera Śląska) from Bytom, Poland.Read More »Robe for Saaremaa Opera Festival 2022

ShanXi Broadcast TV Station’s News Studio in China Deploys GLOSHINE LED Screens

Recently, the upgraded live stream news studio at the ShanXi Broadcast TV station was completed and features around 100 sq. meters of GLOSHINE fine pixel pitch LED video screens throughout the station. Shenzhen GLOSHINE Technologies LTD assisted in the construction, providing the HD displays to present the current development of ShanXi. The live stream video display has been one of the most important projects for the ShanXi Broadcast TV Station since its 2021 upgrade of the HD broadcast system. Since this project was completed, the Shan’Xi Convergence Media Group has proceeded to upgrade the video walls one after another in all of its studios.Read More »ShanXi Broadcast TV Station’s News Studio in China Deploys GLOSHINE LED Screens

Ultratec to Launch Polar Vortex at LDI 2022

Ultratec Special Effects will be premiering its new Polar Vortex snow machine at LDI 2022 in Las Vegas, with exhibits open November 18-20. Embodied by a one-piece heavy-duty polymer plastic casing, the Polar Vortex uses its voluminous power to create artificial snow. Once installed, the snow nozzle remains hidden in the scenery, showering snow over the desired area. Here’s a sneak peak video from Ultratec:

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33rd Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival Lit with All-ADJ Rig

A lighting rig comprised exclusively of ADJ fixtures was used to light this year’s Long Beach Jazz Festival. Hosted on an outdoor stage in a stunning waterfront setting, the event featured three days of performances from a stellar lineup of bands playing everything from classic R&B to hot summer night jazz. These were enhanced by a lighting system that incorporated ADJ’s Focus Profile and Focus Wash 400 automated luminaires alongside 18P HEX IP and 32 HEX Panel IP static LED wash fixtures, while a Vision Series LED video wall at the rear of the stage was utilized for I-Mag.Read More »33rd Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival Lit with All-ADJ Rig

CHAUVET Professional Maverick Silens 2 Profile Makes Quiet Contribution to Concertgebouw Brugge

Music critics can be blunt, some might say even brutal, when expressing their opinions. So, concerts at any venue do not always receive rave reviews when it comes to their musical virtuosity. However, there is one thing that virtually every writer praises about every performance at Concertgebouw Brugge – the quality of the acoustics! Completed in 2002, the Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem designed venue has been hailed the world over for, as one critic wrote, “its acoustic wizardry,” the result of a series of technological innovations that reduce the length of reverberations.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Maverick Silens 2 Profile Makes Quiet Contribution to Concertgebouw Brugge