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Hometown Hero Voting is Now Open!!

LAS VEGAS – From now through the end of September, PLSN readers have the opportunity to vote for the best regional lighting company in each of six separate regions in North America – five U.S. regions and all of Canada. Your votes will narrow the list of 36 companies below down to just six. These regional winners will then automatically appear on the final Parnelli Awards ballot, which will be posted for a final round of voting during the month of November.

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Santana’s “Supernatural Now” Tour Rig Includes Elation Fixtures

WANTAGH, NY – Santana’s 2019 “Supernatural Now” tour visited venues across the U.S. with the Doobie Brothers along for the ride, marking 20 years since the release of Santana’s Supernatural album and 50 years since Woodstock. LD Michael Ledesma’s rig from Innovative Concert Lighting included Elation Protron Eclypse and Elation SEVEN Batten 14 LED strip lights. The tour ran from June 20-Aug. 20, with another show set for Nov. 12 at the new Chase Center in San Francisco.

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Nick Ho Credits ChamSys MagicQ MQ60 Console for Flexible Solution at MWC Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China – For GSMA’s Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in late June, designer Nick Ho used his ChamSys MagicQ MQ60 console for a work-around that helped him meet a tight deadline. “We used a feature in the ChamSys called the ‘Art-Net Retransmit.’ This allowed us to use the MQ60 to transmit the incoming LTC to Pangolin via Art-Net,” Ho said.

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Rammstein Tours European Stadiums with Claypaky Fixtures

VIENNA, Austria – Roland Greil and Patrick Woodroffe of Woodroffe Bassett Design (WBD) specified Claypaky HY B-Eye K25, Scenius Unico, Mythos 2 and Sharpy fixtures for Rammstein’s 2019 summer stadium tour in Europe. WBD also did the tour’s show design, with Florian Wieder serving as production designer, Cuno Hahn as set designer and Faren Matern and Marc Brunkhardt as lighting directors. Neg Earth supplied the fixtures for the tour, which resumes next spring and summer.

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Veteran Rocker Udo Lindenberg Tours Germany with Vari-Lite VL6000 Beams

DORTMUND, Germany – For Udo Lindenberg’s Live 2019 tour, the veteran rocker, artist and activist toured his native Germany, energizing audiences with a spectacle that included up to 50 performers on stage. LD Günter Jäckle included 22 Vari-Lite VL6000 Beams in the rig, crediting the fixture as “retro,” but also “modern.”

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