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[caption id="attachment_279705" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chris Young utilizes Bandit[/caption]

NASHVILLE  – Chris Young is rounding out the year with a new album and a tour run that covers the country as part of Jason Aldean’s They Don’t Know tour. Bandit Lites is providing the lighting package for the award winning artist, whose sixth studio album is set to drop this month and features his most recent single, “Losing Sleep.”  Bandit supplied Elation CuePix Blinder WW2 fixtures, Robe Pointes, Ayrton MagicPanels and Martin Atomic 3000 Strobes.

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Internationally Renowned Bassist Recorded and Toured with King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon

LAS VEGAS – The Parnelli Awards board of advisors announced that Grammy nominated composer and bassist extraordinaire Tony Levin will be the host for the 17th annual Parnelli Awards, to be held at the Hilton Anaheim on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 as part of NAMM Live.

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SANTA ROSA, CA – The Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, formerly known as the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, noted that although several performances were cancelled this month due to wildfires in the area and the arts complex sustained significant fire damage, the main building was spared and the venue’s management hopes for performances to be resuming again soon.

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NYC – The Innovation Grants are a commitment from USITT to invest in research that will move our industry forward. Each cycle offers up to $110,000 of research funding to explore ideas that will adapt current technology for entertainment use or will create new technology for our industry. These new and innovative proposals will address technology challenges faced by the entertainment industry. The focus of Ian Garrett’s research will be: Emerging Immersive Technology to Time-Shift Live Performance with Augmented and Virtual Reality.

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BARRINGTON, RI – Since its founding in 1999, the CVS Health Charity Classic has raised over $20 million for New England charities. The nationally televised event brings some of the top names in golf to compete for a generous prize fund at the Rhode Island Country Club.  This year, the classic’s organizers offered visitors even more attractions beyond the greens with a concert by Grammy winners Huey Lewis and the News, and “Rhode Island Crave,” a food festival featuring a bountiful trove of delicacies from over 80 restaurants and 100 different craft beer and wine selections.

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WORLDWIDE – From now until 31 December, MILOS is focusing on their range of roofs and how their features, coverage and loading capabilities provide everything you require. Whether your needs are small or large…MILOS roofs have got you covered! Two videos will be produced during this spotlight period. The first video is about MILOS roofs for your small to medium events and can be viewed here. (https://youtu.be/tl0EMn-zTcM)

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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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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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