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Hometown Hero Nominations Now Open!

LAS VEGAS – Each year, PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards, honoring top regional lighting production companies in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, Southwest and Canada. Nominations are now open! We invite you to let us know who you think is worthy of stepping up to the podium at the next Parnelli Awards to be honored as Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year.

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HES SolaFrame 750s Color the Rainbow Kitten Surprise Tour

OMAHA, NE – Indie pop/folk rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise are touring with High End Systems’ SolaFrame 750s as the focal point of their production. Described as Kings of Leon meets Modest Mouse, the North Carolina band is selling out venues on their 2018 tour, “How to: Friend, Love, Freefall.” Cour Design’s Erik Anderson and Gordon Droitcour of Nashville designed the show, specifying the SolaFrame 750 LED automated fixtures from tour vendor 4Wall Entertainment for its wide range of features in a compact unit.

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Sponsors Embrace Second Year of Parnelli Awards at NAMM

ANAHEIM, CA – With a 7.6 gain in attendees (to 115,085), a nine percent rise in exhibitors (to 1,931) and the first-ever Parnelli Awards ceremony held during the event, 2018 was a banner year for the NAMM Show. And with solid support from both new and returning Parnelli Awards sponsors, the 18th annual Parnelli gala, set for Jan. 25, 2019, is shaping up to further establish the new tradition of the Parnelli Awards staged during NAMM.

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Fyre Festival Organizer Pleads Guilty to Additional Charges for Bogus Ticket Sales

NEW YORK — Billy McFarland’s Fyre Festival, originally set up as a two-weekend event in the Bahamas in late April and early May 2017, ended up costing 80 investors close to $26 million. After pleaded guilty to related fraud charges in March, McFarland, who faced up to 40 years in prison, was expected to get between eight and 10 years in a plea deal. But wait, there’s more.

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Genetic Productions Lights R.LUM.R at Bonnaroo with Elation Fixtures

MANCHESTER, TN – Genetic Productions provided gear, crew and the lighting design for R.LUM.R’s Bonnaroo performance. LD Zac Coren lit R.LUM.R, a former classical guitarist who went from Bonnaroo attendee to performer within a two-year span. Working with Genetic Productions president Andrew Sparks, Coren lit R.LUM.R with a variety of Elation fixtures including Artiste DaVinci, Dartz 360, Paladin and ACL Curtain batten fixtures.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd Heads Out in Style

NASHVILLE – For Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Last Of The Street Survivors Farewell Tour,” which runs from May through December, LD Jonny “Tosar” Tosarello wanted to create a look that was as epic as the iconic Southern Rock band itself. He succeeded in doing just that with help from a collection of 28 Chauvet Professional Rogue R2 Wash fixtures supplied by Premier Global Productions.

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