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MANCHESTER, NH – Million Dollar Quartet takes audiences back to December 4, 1956, a day when budding stars Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley got together for a jam session at Sun Records Memphis studio. A recent revival of the musical at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, New Hampshire captures the magic of that long ago moment, thanks in part to a transformative lightshow designed by Carl Rajotte, who also served as artistic director and choreographer.

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LOUISVILLE, KY – The Forecastle Music Festival returned to Louisville’s Waterfront Park for three days of music spread across 85 acres. Bandit Lites supplied the lighting for the festival’s four stages, where more than 60,000 attendees enjoyed musical performances from Run the Jewels, Cage the Elephant, Odesza, Sturgill Simpson, PJ Harvey, Spoon, Weezer, LCD Soundsystem and nearly 50 other acts.

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SAN DIEGO – Nathaniel (Nate) Hall, manager of design for Nautilus Entertainment Design, died unexpectedly July 17, 2017. He was 36.

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LOS ANGELES – Live Nation announced that Linkin Park’s North American tour in support of the band’s 2017 album release, One More Light, has been canceled. Frontman Chester Bennington, 41, was found dead July 20, one week before the North American tour was due to launch at the Xfinity Center near Boston, MA. The North American tour leg was to start in Boston July 27 and wrap up in Los Angeles on Oct. 22.

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[caption id="attachment_278223" align="alignnone" width="800"]Plugerville Rocks with LightParts and High End Systems[/caption]

PLUGERVILLE, TX. For the City of Plugerville’s annual July 4th Celebration, the Texas town relied on local vendor Miguel Lara Productions to provide the lighting equipment, featuring their High End Systems automated LED rig and HOG4 control, purchased through Austin-based LightParts, Inc. Michael Ojeda of MLP spearheaded the lighting portion of the project, and spec’d four SHAPESHIFTER C1’s and six SolaWash 37s for the event at the city’s new stadium, the Pfield.

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GOURDON, France – French vocalist Barbara Weldens, 35, was performing at the Festival Léo Ferré in a church in southwest France on the evening of July 19 when she suddenly collapsed and died on stage. The cause of death, still officially unknown, has been reported as cardiac arrest from apparent electrocution. Weldens, who had said on her website that she grew up traveling in a circus, was on the rise, releasing her first album this year after winning the young talent award at the Jacques Brel festival and the Pic D’Or prize last year.

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YONKERS, NY – Altman Lighting continued its expansion of their International Sales division with the appointment of industry-veteran Jimmy “JR” Chai as their new APAC Sales Director. Chai will manage the Asia, Australia and New Zealand sales territories.

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NEW YORK – Fans don’t settle comfortably into their seats waiting for Metallica to appear on the group’s current WorldWired Tour. Long before the metal icons tear up the stage with their sizzling performance, opening act Volbeat kicks off each evening with a growling aggressive show that leaves complacency crushed in its wake. Setting an appropriately edgy tone for the Danish band’s performance is a stage design built around a boxing theme. Niller Bjerregaard, who helped design the set, also puts some punchy lighting on it with a rig that he controls with a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium console.

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SAN FERNANDO, CA– GLP’s subsidiary for The Americas, GLP Inc., has been experiencing continued growth since starting its operation eight years ago. As a result, they have recently moved to new, and larger premises in the Los Angeles district of San Fernando. With a total area of 37,000 square feet, the new building is around three times the size of the previous location, also in Los Angeles. According to GLP Inc. president, Mark Ravenhill. “This represents a big step forward for us as a company and increases our commitment to our markets in The Americas.”

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[caption id="attachment_278187" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Hollywood Bowl show paired Ziggy with a full orchestra[/caption]

MIAMI, Florida – Grammy Award-winning reggae royalty Ziggy Marley and his band, The Melody Makers, have been touring across North America again this summer in support of the artist’s latest record, Ziggy Marley: Live at KCRW. Helping to properly illuminate the trek, known as ‘We Are The People,’ is LD Joel Huxtable, who is carrying a compact Avolites Tiger Touch II desk for lighting control.

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NASHVILLE – Bridgestone Arena, the home game venue for the Nashville Predators NHL hockey team, turned to MooTV, Morris and PixMob for a visual assist during this year’s Stanley Cup Finals. Although the Pittsburgh Penguins ultimately won the Cup, the Predators expanded their fan base with a remarkable 2016/2017 season.

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LAS VEGAS – Morpheus Lights returns as the lighting vendor for Grammy-award winning nu-metal band Korn in support of the 2017 ‘Serenity of Summer’ tour. The U.S. leg kicked off on June 16 in Salt Lake City, and wraps up on August 2 in Cuyahoga Falls, OH.  Then, the band will head off for dates in Europe. LD Thomas “Church” Christmann specified Ayrton DreamPanel Twin fixtures in four flying pods fabricated by Gallagher Staging, with 16 fixtures in each of the four pods – 64 in all.

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