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Hometown Hero Recognition Helps as a Recruiting Tool, Too

Hometown Hero Lighting Company Nominations Now Open!

LAS VEGAS – Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards. These awards honor the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. The best part about this is that PLSN readers – the people who actually work with these companies – get to decide who’s really the best.

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VL2600 Profile provides essential answers for Jack the Ripper musical

In lighting Musicalteatret’s Jack the Ripper musical at Copenhagen’s intimate Folketeatret (People’s Theater), lighting designer Mikkel Bedsted faced some major lighting challenges. He found his solutions in the new VL2600 Profile, the versatile, feature-rich LED stage luminaire from Vari-Lite, a Signify (Euronext: LIGHT) entertainment lighting brand.

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Woodstock 50 Festival Organizers Focus on DC-Area Venue for Aug. 16-18 Event

COLUMBIA, MD – The Woodstock 50 festival, originally planned to take place Aug. 16-18 at Watkins Glen in upstate NY, has taken potential audiences on a wild ride of twists and turns as the much-anticipated event speeds toward the finish line. By July 25, after plans for a second NY State site, Vernon Downs, came up short, a new site was announced – 32,000-capacity Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD.

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GLP KNVs Burst onto Sweden’s Largest EDM Festival

GOTHENBURG, Sweden – The 2019 Summerburst Festival was held June 7-8 in Gothenburg, with a second Summerburst EDM event set for Stockholm Aug. 30-31. Production manager and designer Daniel Hellsten, who has worked closely with Summerburst events since they launched in 2011, introduced GLP’s KNV Cubes this year. The new fixtures greatly impressed visiting LDs.

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Firefly Festival Burns Bright with Bandit Lites

DOVER, DE – The 2019 Firefly Music Festival, staged June 21-23, drew close to 50,000 revelers with top acts including Travis Scott, Kygo, Death Cab for Cutie, Post Malone, Vampire Weekend, Passion Pit, Panic! At the Disco, Zedd and Tyler, the Creator, among others. LD Gabriel Fraboni lit the main stage with more than 200 fixtures including GLP JDC1 Hybrid Strobes, Robe BMFL Wash Beams, Robe MegaPointes and VL 3500 Washes supplied by Bandit Lites.

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