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DALLAS – Balancing lights with scenic elements will not only help churches create more engaging visuals on their sanctuary stages, it will also allow them to stretch their lighting budgets. This message is at the heart of “Lighting’s Secret Partner,” a WFX learning session by Alex Fuller, the well-known lighting and scenic director at Bethel Church in Redding, CA. Sponsored by CHAUVET Professional, the session runs from 10-10:45 am on Wednesday October 11 in room C-145 at the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in Dallas, during the WFX Conference.

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NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE – County music superstar Toby Keith knows the power of music, whether he is traveling across the United States, or bringing the music of home to more than 250,000 troops in 17 countries. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the CMA Award winner on his Interstates & Tailgates Tour, as he made his way to the fair and festival circuit while still providing the same level of energy that has had his audience raising red solo cups for nearly two decades. With a larger show heading into these customarily smaller venues, the production team had to carefully consider weight loads.

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AUSTIN, TX – On Sept. 16, Willie Nelson announced the passing of Ben “Lovey” Dorcy III, subject of the 2017 documentary, Lovey: King of the Roadies, who had supported bands on the road starting in 1950 until mid-2017, an astonishing 67 years. He was 92.

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OAK RIDGE, TN  – During the early days of World War II, a group of young Methodist scientists and engineers found themselves in eastern Tennessee working on a secret government project. Away from home and yearning for spiritual fulfillment during those difficult times, they gathered for services every Sunday in the town’s movie theatre, forming what would become the First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge.

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ST. LOUIS – U2 and Ed Sheeran canceled shows planned in St. Louis on Sept. 16 and 17 a day after clashes took place between police and demonstrators objecting to the outcome of the Anthony Lamar Smith murder trial. A judge ruled Sept. 15 that former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley, who shot and killed Smith through the driver-side door window after a high-speed case on Dec. 20, 2011, was not guilty of premeditated murder despite potentially incriminating remarks recorded during the chase.

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LOS ANGELES – We’re thrilled to announce Rosco’s acquisition of the Film, Television and Broadcast LED specialist company DMG Lumière. Since its start in Lyon, France in 2014, DMG Lumière has experienced great success, quick growth and its products have been recognized as innovative set lighting tools by filmmakers around the globe. “DMG Lumière is the perfect partner as we look to grow our business, and we’re delighted to welcome them into the Rosco family,” said Rosco CEO Mark Engel.

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ARRINGTON, VA – “Magic is what we do, Music is how we do it,” Jerry Garcia once told an interviewer.  Had the Grateful Dead frontman been around to see the fantastical transformation of his namesake forest at the recent LOCKN’ Festival, he undoubtedly would have agreed that there can be quite a bit of magic involved in lighting too. S. Jeremy Peters turned the thickly wooded “Garcia’s Forest” around LOCKN’s Terrapin Station Stage (named after the Grateful Dead’s mystical 1977 album) into a transcendental canopy of color with 150 pixel-mapped IP65 par fixtures that he controlled with his ChamSys PC Wing and Playback Wing.

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PHILADELPHIA – For Lady Gaga’s 2017 Joanne world tour, which kicked off Aug. 1 in Vancouver, BC on a first North American leg that concluded in Philadelphia Sept. 11, LeRoy Bennett specified more than 500 GLP fixtures, including 294 JDC1 hybrid strobes, 147 X4 Bar 20s and 38 GT1 hybrids. The second North American leg runs from Nov. 5-Dec. 18.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – Students and Early-Career technical theatre artists can gain recognition, cash, and a trip to USITT 2018 in Fort Lauderdale if chosen for one of 14 Young Designers, Managers, & Technicians Awards from USITT. These awards are made possible by generous gifts to USITT from their sponsors in the performing arts and live entertainment, design, and technology industry. They further USITTs mission of nurturing and recognizing excellence in emerging professionals.

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SUNRISE, FL  –  Chauvet reopened its Florida facility on Tuesday September 12, resuming operations in its warehouse as well as its support, sales, service and product development departments following Hurricane Irma. “Fortunately, our associates are all safe and our building made it through the storm with no damage,” said Albert Chauvet, CEO of Chauvet. “We worked together and moved quickly to put everything in place to service our customers.”

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AUSTIN, TX — “Harvey Can’t Mess with Texas: A Benefit Concert for Hurricane Harvey Relief” is set for Sept. 22 at the Frank Erwin Center from 7-11 p.m. ET. The four-hour concert will be broadcast on 11 Texas TEGNA stations and stream internationally on YouTube’s Texas Strong channel from 9-10 p.m. Central.

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