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LAS VEGAS –  Avolites had cause for celebration last week at the LDI exhibition in Las Vegas. The British manufacturer of creative lighting and video control tools scooped the ‘Gold Star Best Software Award 2017’ for its newly launched media server software update, Ai v10.1. Organized by one of the entertainment technology sector’s leading magazine titles, Projection Lights and Staging News (PLSN), the Gold Star Awards recognize excellence in the field of product development.

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NYC-  Scott Parker says, “Apollo has been a supporter of Super Saturday since the start. Every year Apollo brings a new selection of terrific Gobos for our special effects and templates session.” Since its founding in 1992 by Joel and Keersten Nichols, Apollo Design Technology, Inc. has gained a worldwide position in the production and distribution of special effects products to the entertainment lighting industry. Establishing itself early as a leading producer of custom gobos, the company has expanded into other related products used by lighting designers to create stimulating visual effects for theater, corporate events, concerts, houses of worship, and architectural applications.

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[caption id="attachment_280999" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ayrton’s Michael Althaus (left) CEO Chris Ferrante (right) and award-winning LD Cory FitzGerald (center) [/caption]

LAS VEGAS – Top lighting designer Cory FitzGerald teamed up with programmer Jason Baeri to produce lighting looks at Ayrton’s LDI booth earlier this month. Overseen by Ayrton global sales manager, Michael Althaus, the light show put Ayrton’s latest fixtures through their paces and served as a showcase for what the new fixtures could do. The visuals also drew notice from the event’s organizers, winning an award for “Most Creative Use of Light” at the show.

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LAS VEGAS – The inaugural PLSN Gold Star Awards honored product manufacturers with a total of 24 awards bestowed, in recognition of each product’s quality, innovation and ability to expand the technological boundaries of live event production. Product categories range from lighting fixtures to video products, software, rigging automation and more. The awards were bestowed earlier this month, during the LDI convention in Las Vegas. PLSN editor Nook Schoenfeld and publisher Terry Lowe met with the winners to present the awards on the exhibition floor.

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TORONTO, ON,– Chroma-Q®, a world-renowned brand of premium performance LED lighting solutions, manufactured in North America, is excited to announce that the newly released Chroma-Q Inspire XT™ won the 2017 PLSN Gold Star Product Award for Best New Interior Architectural Light at Live Design International (LDI) in Las Vegas (November 17-19, 2017). The Chroma-Q Inspire XT is the newest and eagerly anticipated addition to the award-winning Chroma-Q Inspire™ color-mixing LED house lighting range.

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ANAHEIM, CA – In August, one of America’s largest Christian groups, the Assemblies of God, summoned youth from across the United States to its National Youth Convention and Fine Arts Festival in Anaheim, California. Held August 7-11 at the Anaheim Convention Center, an important centerpiece of the event was a large stage set up used for presentations, services and evening concert celebrations, much of which was live streamed.

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NEDERLAND, CO – The bass guitar is “utterly at the mercy” of Victor Wooten, one critic proclaimed about the artist Rolling Stone magazine named one of the Top Ten bassists of all time. The maestro’s mastery was on full display when his Victor Wooten Trio performed at the Caribou Room, a new live music venue just outside Boulder, CO. Pushing his bass to its creative limits, Wooten took his audience on a musical journey that wove its way through blues, jazz, fusion, rock and other genres.  Keeping pace with him note for note was a Tim Farquhar lighting design that featured CHAUVET Professional Rogue and CHAUVET DJ Intimidator fixtures.

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CLEVELAND, OH – Halsey recently completed the North American leg of her “Hopeless Fountain Kingdom” world tour, which ran from Sept. 29-Nov. 22, and Claypaky Scenius Profile lighting fixtures, provided by 4WallPA, lit the way. The tour, the biggest yet for the 23-year-old singer-songwriter, supported her eponymous second album and included special guests Party Next Door and Charli XCX. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky products in North America.

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WASHINGTON, DC – Critics have rightly hailed the US Library of Congress’ Great Hall as a monumental triumph of architecture. Effortlessly balancing form and function within its spacious confines, the two-story room alternately awes and inspires with its towering Corinthian columns, Romanesque arches, double staircase and a gold-ornamented ceiling that exudes the unbridled optimism of its 19th century designers.

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SOUTHOLD, NY – Longtime Billy Joel crew member Jeff Schock died suddenly Wednesday, November 15, of a heart attack. He was 64.

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LAS VEGAS – Chauvet Professional’s design team felt that they broke new ground earlier this fall when they introduced the multi-functional Maverick MK Pyxis, a new eye candy effect that can do double and triple duty as a wash or beam. Now they have a shiny new accolade to support this belief, as they earned the first-ever PLSN Gold Star Product Award for Best New Effects Light at this year’s LDI Show.

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WASHINGTON, DC – For-A noted that it will highlight portable video switcher, video server, ClassX character generator and LTO video archiving recorder solutions at the 22nd annual Government Video Expo. FOR-A will exhibit in Booth 530 at the upcoming show, which takes place Nov. 29-30 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

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