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DOVER, DE –The Firefly Music Festival ran from June 15-18, with headliners including The Weeknd, Muse, Twenty One Pilots, Chance the Rapper, O.A.R, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Bob Dylan, Flume, Weezer and The Shins. Bandit provided lighting for the Firefly main stage, Lawn and Backyard stages.

LOS ANGELES – ADJ Lighting have announced two summertime Road Tour dates to demonstrate their latest lighting and audio technologies that will be available third quarter of 2017. The companies will highlight the latest lighting technologies that debuted at InfoComm 2017 in Orlando, Florida earlier this June. The first tour stop will be on Wednesday, July 12th at SoundCheck Nashville, 750 Cowan Street, Nashville, TN 37207. The second stop will be on Thursday, July 27th at ADJ Lighting’s global headquarters in Los Angeles located at 6122. S. Eastern Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90040.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – After Neil Young and friends launched inaugural Bridge School Benefit Concert in Oct. 1986, the concert, which raises funds for a school for special-needs students, had a 30-year run, raising millions with top acts pitching in to support the cause. A 2017 concert, however, will not take place. Concert founders Neil and Pegi Young, who divorced in 2014, cited personal reasons for the cancellation.

NEW YORK – Trans-Siberian Orchestra announced in late June that it is planning a tour this fall despite the death of TSO producer, composer and lyricist Paul O’Neill on April 5. The theme for the 2017 tours will mirror those for the band’s successful tours in 2015 and 2016, “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve.”

NEW YORK – Behind the Scenes’ 2017 Holiday Cards are now on sale. Orders will be taken until September 29, 2017 to arrive by mid-November.

LOS ANGELES – For Nintendo’s 2017 booth at E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2017, organized by the Entertainment Software Association and held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from June 13-15), Ralph Miller Productions and lighting and visual design studio Lightswitch once again turned to 4Wall LA for an extensive lighting package consisting of more than 500 fixtures.

NEWARK, DE — The University of Delaware recently upgraded its main auditorium, 650-capacity Mitchell Hall, with Martin fixtures. Stephen Litterst, technical operations supervisor, chose the MAC Quantum Profile for its reliability, versatility and low-noise operation.

NASHVILLE – For Jason Aldean’s current 33-city “They Don’t Know” road show, Chris Lisle’s brawny and colorful lighting design gets a big assist from Chauvet Professional fixtures. The gear list includes 118 Rogue RH1 Hybrid moving fixtures supplied by Bandit Lites. The Rogues, along with a collection of over 150 other luminaires, are all used to accent the hexagonal-shaped theme of Lisle’s design.

BALTIMORE, MD – Afterglow Lighting recently added grandMA2 full-size consoles, Chain Master chain hoists and Claypaky Stormy strobes to its rental inventory. A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive North American distributor for all three brands.

CHICAGO – At a time when some bands are using exotic, abstract and hard to decipher scenic elements on stage, pop punk phenoms Real Friends are taking an entirely different approach. Touring the USA, Mexico and Australia in support of their second studio album The Home Inside My Head, the Chicago based quintet is performing in front of a downright homey set, complete with a family room couch, Afghan blankets and lamps that look like they popped out of mid-century America.

NASHVILLE – Tens of thousands of people poured into downtown Nashville for CMA Fest weekend, where Predator’s pride, music lovers and tourists took in the city for the biggest multi-day celebration of all things country music. Bandit Lites provided the lighting for Universal Music Group’s Budweiser Dome, a structure that boasted a 35 foot ceiling with a 360-degree projection dome featuring live concerts and the debut of live 360◦ concert films, including immersive performances from Kip Moore, Jimmy Buffett, Eric Church and Gary Allen.