SJP Productions Creates Forest of Light at LOCKN’ Festival with ChamSys

ARRINGTON, VA – “Magic is what we do, Music is how we do it,” Jerry Garcia once told an interviewer.  Had the Grateful Dead frontman been around to see the fantastical transformation of his namesake forest at the recent LOCKN’ Festival, he undoubtedly would have agreed that there can be quite a bit of magic involved in lighting too. S. Jeremy Peters turned the thickly wooded “Garcia’s Forest” around LOCKN’s Terrapin Station Stage (named after the Grateful Dead’s mystical 1977 album) into a transcendental canopy of color with 150 pixel-mapped IP65 par fixtures that he controlled with his ChamSys PC Wing and Playback Wing.

PHILADELPHIA – For Lady Gaga’s 2017 Joanne world tour, which kicked off Aug. 1 in Vancouver, BC on a first North American leg that concluded in Philadelphia Sept. 11, LeRoy Bennett specified more than 500 GLP fixtures, including 294 JDC1 hybrid strobes, 147 X4 Bar 20s and 38 GT1 hybrids. The second North American leg runs from Nov. 5-Dec. 18.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Students and Early-Career technical theatre artists can gain recognition, cash, and a trip to USITT 2018 in Fort Lauderdale if chosen for one of 14 Young Designers, Managers, & Technicians Awards from USITT. These awards are made possible by generous gifts to USITT from their sponsors in the performing arts and live entertainment, design, and technology industry. They further USITTs mission of nurturing and recognizing excellence in emerging professionals.

SUNRISE, FL  –  Chauvet reopened its Florida facility on Tuesday September 12, resuming operations in its warehouse as well as its support, sales, service and product development departments following Hurricane Irma. “Fortunately, our associates are all safe and our building made it through the storm with no damage,” said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. “We worked together and moved quickly to put everything in place to service our customers.”

AUSTIN, TX — “Harvey Can’t Mess with Texas: A Benefit Concert for Hurricane Harvey Relief” is set for Sept. 22 at the Frank Erwin Center from 7-11 p.m. ET. The four-hour concert will be broadcast on 11 Texas TEGNA stations and stream internationally on YouTube’s Texas Strong channel from 9-10 p.m. Central.

LOS ANGELES – When electronic music producer Flume returned to Red Rocks in July, a large complement of Claypaky Sharpys and Sharpy Washes, grandMA2 light consoles and MDG theONE atmospheric generators helped the Grammy winner light up the iconic Colorado amphitheater.  Brown Note Productions provided the equipment, which is distributed exclusively in North America by A.C.T Lighting, Inc. Flume, the professional name of Harley Edward Streten, enjoyed a successful Red Rocks debut in 2016.  This year he added the date to an already impressive American tour during which he headlined at Bonnaroo, CRSSD and Electric Forest. 

ANAHEIM, CA – Terry Lowe, publisher of PLSN, FOH and Stage Directions magazines, announced that the editorial teams behind those publications will be shifting their focus from the printed page, internet postings and online video to conduct live, in-person seminars at NAMM 2018.