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[caption id="attachment_279993" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Voice South Africa[/caption]

SOUTH AFRICA – Robe was the moving light of choice for the second season of The Voice South Africa. Multi-Media were again appointed as technical production company by TV producers AMPN, with Joshua Cutts of Visual Frontier once again appointed as lighting designer. The show, aired on M-Net, and this year moved from a 500 capacity studio to the 3000 seater Mosaiek Teatro in Fairland, Johannesburg, reflecting the popularity of and anticipation for the popular singing contest. With that came the creative brief from series director Darren Hayward to “go for it” with more drama and excitement.

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[caption id="attachment_279990" align="alignnone" width="800"]AQUA 350 BEAM[/caption]

PR Lighting has announced a new addition to its successful IP65-rated AQUA range, which has enjoyed a spectacular launch at key trade shows around the globe this year. The waterproof and dustproof Aqua 350 Beam moving head features a 350W lamp (6800K color temperature), and thanks to its advanced optical system delivers a precise, tight and powerful 2.1° parallel beam. This makes it ideal for all outdoor situations, particularly where an outdoor searchlight and big air looks are required.

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[caption id="attachment_279985" align="alignnone" width="800"]ProPlex gear[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – This year, Felix Lighting has added significantly to their rental inventory of ProPlex Devices and Cables.  In addition to their ProPlex IQ Two 1616 and 416 Nodes, Opto-Splitters, hundreds of Ethernet cables and ten runs of ProPlex Fibre cable, nine EZ-LANs form the heart of the California company’s state-of-the-art portable networking systems.  “ProPlex makes complex show networking easier and more reliable, and our lives easier,” says Ryan Herrera, VP of Business Development at Felix Lighting.

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[caption id="attachment_279979" align="alignnone" width="640"]Survivor: Game Changers Finale[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – For the season finale of “Survivor: Game Changers” earlier this past summer lighting designer Victor Fable decided the time was right to add more LED fixtures to the lighting rig of the popular competitive reality television series and turned to new generation LED fixtures from Elation Professional for the task. “We wanted to move to more LED and try something different without taking away the success of past live shows,” said Fable, who has traditionally used a profusion of discharge lamp fixtures on “Survivor” finale shows. “We wanted to see how much could be rolled over to LED and see how much more bang we could get with the extra fixtures it allowed us to use.”

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[caption id="attachment_279973" align="alignnone" width="800"]Robe beams in work on the Joanne Tour[/caption]

MONTREAL – Although Lady Gaga’s Joanne tour has been on hold since Sept. 11 as the artist recuperates from body pain caused by fibromyalgia, her fans are wishing Gaga a speedy recovery, and the tour is set to resume with a show in Montreal on Nov. 3, 2017. Along with Gaga herself, fans will be treated to a one-of-a-kind production design, which includes lighting effects from more than 200 Robe lighting fixtures supplied by Solotech for LD/production designer LeRoy Bennett’s design.

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[caption id="attachment_279773" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chamsys products in use[/caption]

RENO, NV –An impressive yacht with wheels that help it sail through the sand sits glimmering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. Not far away, half-buried on the quiet playa, is a massive 747 jet made of foam, lights twinkling in its fuselage. Sights like these make the annual Burning Man Festival the closest thing on earth to living out the fantasy of Lewis Carroll’s classic “Through The Looking Glass.”

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[caption id="attachment_279767" align="alignnone" width="1875"]Join the Journey Sunsphere[/caption]

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE – More than 82,000 individuals and corporate donors gave to the University of Tennessee’s 1.1 billion dollar Join the Journey campaign, which focuses on making the overall cost of earning a degree more affordable, with funds going towards undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, faculty support, athletics and other university initiatives. Bandit Lites was honored to donate the lighting for the sophisticated soiree, which culminated with a private event at the Knoxville Convention Center.

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[caption id="attachment_279755" align="alignnone" width="800"]Arcade Fire gets assist from GLP[/caption]

SEATTLE – After spending the early part of the summer on the European circuit, Canadian band Arcade Fire released their new album, Everything Now, in late July and have since kicked off the North American leg of their “Infinite Content” tour. The tour lighting includes PRG-supplied GLP fixtures.

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[caption id="attachment_279741" align="alignnone" width="800"]Plaza Mariachi[/caption]

NASHVILLE – As Nashville has grown more diverse so has the choice in ethnic restaurants and entertainment establishments. Plaza Mariachi, a unique Latin culture destination that caters to the city’s rapidly growing Hispanic community, is an excellent example of the trend. Formerly a supermarket, the 60,000-square-foot space was imaginatively converted to the themed, multi-use facility it is today with art, music, entertainment, food and retail all under one roof.

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[caption id="attachment_279738" align="alignnone" width="800"]Naughty By Nature[/caption]

PHOENIX – When an event is billed as an “Old School House Party,” you can’t do much better than to book Naughty By Nature as your headliner.  The New Jersey threesome of Treach, Vin Rock and DJ Kay Gee defined hip hop in the 1990s, with some of the earliest crossover hits like O.P.P. and Hip Hop Hooray. Setting an appropriately frenetic tone for The It Factor Ltd event in Arizona, the Grammy-winning trio got the crowd on its feet with their rapid-fire rap. Supporting them every pulsating step of the way was a John Garberson-designed lightshow that featured 12 Rogue R2 Washes from CHAUVET Professional.

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DALLAS – ChamSys is offering church techs four introductory hands-on lighting console sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, October 11 and 12 at WFX this week. Phil Watson from Chamsys, pictured here, will be available to teach anyone interested. Free of charge, the 45-minute sessions will take place in room C-145 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas.

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LAS VEGAS – PLSN readers have chosen the six regional winners of this year’s Hometown Hero Award competition. These top vote getters from each of five U.S. regions plus all of Canada will be automatically entered on the Parnelli Awards ballot. PLSN readers will then get a chance to vote on which regional company will be awarded the coveted honor of Parnelli Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year. The Parnelli Ballot will be posted on parnelliawards.com in early November. The nominations process for all remaining Parnelli Award categories is now underway.

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