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NEW YORK – A pair of oversized gun-shaped scenic elements and supporting truss toppled forward and on top of Marilyn Manson during his concert at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Sept. 30. Band and crew members quickly lifted the scenery off the performer, who was taken to a hospital on a stretcher. Reports noted that Manson’s shows that had been slated for Oct. 2 (Boston) through Oct. 14 (Houston) would be postponed and rescheduled at unspecified dates.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — For the U.S. citizens on the island of Puerto Rico, Hurricane Irma was bad. Even though the eye of the storm did not hit the island as it passed by on Sept. 7, the storm was powerful enough and close enough to leave more than one million residents without power and three fatalities in its wake. But then came Hurricane Maria on Sept. 20, which was worse. Its eyewall made a direct hit, ripping off roofs with its Category 4 winds as it scraped across the 100-mile-wide island, defoliated the landscape, destroying crops and knocking out power for almost 100 percent of the island’s 3.4 million residents.

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[caption id="attachment_279564" align="alignnone" width="800"]STRIKE 4's illuminate the new Lil Caesars Arena in Detroit[/caption]

DETROIT – Covering 650,000 square feet and rising eight stories above the ground, the new Little Caesars Arena stands as a symbol of the comeback taking place in America’s “Motor City.” On Sept. 12, Detroit’s hometown hero Kid Rock christened the multi-use complex by performing its inaugural concert as part of a six night home stand that sold out in one day. 

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[caption id="attachment_279561" align="alignnone" width="800"]Outsidelands at dusk with TMB festoons[/caption]

SAN FRANCISCO – It’s summer in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.  200,000 people are enjoying three days of live Rock & Roll, and more. . .  No, it’s not the Summer of Love, 1967, it’s the tenth annual Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival, where the crowds are cleaner, and Flower Power is now a sustainable, green business.  And flying high over the stage is a festoon lighting system featuring IMS DMX-controlled RGBWW lamps.

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[caption id="attachment_279549" align="alignnone" width="800"]Big What Festival makes use of Chauvet DJ Gear[/caption]

PITTSBORO, NC – Parades aren’t the first thing that come to mind when you think of outdoor music festivals, but this didn’t stop members of the alt rock group Big Something from taking alto saxophones and trombones in hand and marching through picturesque Shakori Hills Park to kick off their namesake Big What Festival.  Joined by a meandering line of other musicians, the band mingled with the crowd as they worked their way through a breezy series of tunes, setting the tone for three days of eclectic and engaging music, with an impressive collection of updated psychedelic art in the background. 

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[caption id="attachment_279528" align="alignnone" width="800"]Luke Combs Under Chauvet Lights[/caption]

AUGUSTA, GA – Rising young country star Luke Combs released his album “This One’s For You” in June. Within three months, it had skyrocketed to No. 1 on the country charts, and No. 5 on the Billboard 200. In early September, the Asheville, North Carolina, native shared his good fortune in true country music fashion by working to benefit a good cause.

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[caption id="attachment_279525" align="alignnone" width="363"]The Fairmont Events Venue[/caption]

ATLANTA – The Fairmont is right off Huff Road on Fairmont Avenue. An existing warehouse space, it is being transformed into a modern, industrial venue with 21 foot ceilings and stunning clerestory windows. The Fairmont will be a large venue, totally 19,000 square feet of event space. It will feature a sleek 4,000 square foot pre-function space with built in bar, polished concrete floors and a wall of windows. The pre-function area can serve as a cocktail space for larger events, or is a perfect venue for smaller gatherings. Multiple sets of frosted French doors will lead into a 15,000 square foot event space. Lush draping is available to soften and shrink the space, if needed.

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[caption id="attachment_279513" align="alignnone" width="800"]Radiohead with GLP Fixtures[/caption]

SAN FERNANDO, CA – Radiohead’s long-serving lighting designer, Andi Watson has been using 48 of GLP’s powerful X4 L LED spots as well as 14 of the award-winning X4 Bar 20 battens (as well as several shorter X4 Bar 10) on the band’s latest A Moon Shaped Pool tour (in support of their latest album). These were supplied by Upstaging in the States, while Neg Earth picked up the European leg of the tour.

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[caption id="attachment_279504" align="alignnone" width="800"] Dan+Shay tour 2017[/caption]

NASHVILLE – Country music duo Dan + Shay – vocalists and songwriters Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney – are engaged in an extensive touring cycle following the success of their second studio album, “Obsessed,” released in June 2016. Lighting is designed, programmed and operated for them by Jeff Mathews of Borealis Stage Lighting in Nashville, Tennessee, and includes Robe Spiider, Spikie and Pointe moving lights.

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[caption id="attachment_279492" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Caravan Stage Company’s theater ship Amara Zee[/caption]

BC, CANADA- The Caravan Stage Company’s theater ship Amara Zee is finishing the two-month run of “Nomadic Tempest” in British Columbia, Canada where MA Lighting’s dot2 core is providing lighting control for the complex shipboard production.  A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting products in North America.

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