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[caption id="attachment_276941" align="alignnone" width="800"]elektraLite out with Trace Adkins[/caption]

GRAND RAPIDS, — Trace Adkins is currently out on a US tour through October supporting his 12th and latest studio album, Something’s Going On. Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Odyssey Lighting USA, who has worked with the country music artist since 2014, is once again supplying the lighting complement for the tour, which includes elektraLite LED fixtures as well as an Avolites lighting console.

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[caption id="attachment_276938" align="alignnone" width="800"]d3 Media Servers in use at the Grammy Awards[/caption]

LONDON – d3 media servers have played a major role in some of the biggest awards ceremonies around the world, including the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, 37th Annual Brit Awards, the EE British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), 41st Laurence Olivier Awards, 37th edition Blue Dragon Awards, iHeart Radio Awards and the MTV Movie Awards.

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[caption id="attachment_276930" align="alignnone" width="800"]Destiny of Desire gets assist from Chauvet Professional[/caption]

CHICAGO – Karen Zacarias’ “Destiny of Desire, An Unapologetic Telenovela in Two Acts” is aptly subtitled. The raucous, freewheeling “play within a play,” makes absolutely no apologies as it follows the lives of  two Mexican woman (one born to wealth, the other to poverty) who are switched at birth. Parodying the telenovelas commonly seen on TV, the play unabashedly takes audiences on an emotionally charged journey that is at turns, harrowing, hilarious and ultimately thought provoking. Intensifying the myriad of moods that runs through this fast-paced play is a richly textured lighting design by Pablo Santiago that features CHAUVET Professional Rogue R2 Wash fixtures.

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[caption id="attachment_276919" align="alignnone" width="460"]HARTING celebrated its partners with their annual Distribution Awards[/caption]

LAS VEGAS – HARTING held its annual Open House and Distributor Awards at the Electronics Distribution Show (EDS) on May 17th at the Mirage in Las Vegas.  This annual tradition for the company gives its distribution partners the opportunity to see how HARTING is shaping the future with their technologies.  This year the theme was “Tomorrow’s technologies trusted today”, highlighting how HARTING’s technologies make future-forward applications possible.

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NEW YORK – ESTA’s Production Equipment Rental Group (PERG) recently announced that Rental Guard, its online missing equipment database and alert system, has helped members avoid roughly $1.5M in attempted thefts by fraud and played a role in the recovery of more than $1.4M of stolen equipment.

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HELOTES, TX. – The MEGA team is getting ready for Infocomm 2017 and this year we are MEGA EXCITED!!!! We will have three booths full of new products, between RGBlink, Mega and PR Lighting and TAF truss, we have a lot of new products to show you this year. Please make plans to stop by and visit with us.

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COLUMBUS, OH – Soundgarden, which had performed 12 of the 18 shows slated on the band’s 2017 reunion tour, canceled the last six shows after the death of frontman Chris Cornell around midnight after the band’s May 17 show in Detroit. The death of Cornell, 52, the Seattle grunge rock icon who also garnered acclaim as frontman for Audioslave, Temple of the Dog and his own solo shows, had been classified as a suicide by a medical examiner.

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KNOXVILLE, TN – More than 1,500 ProPower RPD power distro racks are in service across North America, and Teri Productions of Knoxville, TN owns a fair share of them.  Recently, the venerable, full-service rental and staging company has been building their inventory to accommodate new business with a variety of tours and events, ranging from Lil Wayne to motivational guru Tony Robbins.

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BOSTON – Grammy-winning American indie folk band Bon Iver is wrapping up its “22, A Million” North American tour with a complement of Claypaky A.leda B-EYE K20s delivering impressive pixel and beam effects. The tour has been supporting the band’s eponymous album, which was released last year. 

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LOS ANGELES–  Flogging Molly concerts tend to be raucous affairs with plenty of moshing, sing-alongs and foot stomping energy, as this seven-piece band steamrolls its way through its unique blend of Celtic and punk music. Lighting designer Peter Therrien of JDI Productions is capturing these good time feelings on the band’s current US and European tour with a colorful, fast-moving lightshow created with Chauvet Professional Rogue and Legend fixtures.

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[caption id="attachment_276857" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chris Tomlin courtesy of Daley Hake[/caption]

NASHVILLE – Chris Tomlin, the Grammy Award-winning Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter who has seen his album sales climb past the 100 million mark, recently wrapped his national tour, “Worship Night in America.” Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the multi-artist event that featured performances by Phil Wickham, Zach Williams, Mosaic MSC and Big Daddy Weave and included songs from Tomlin’s 11th studio album, Never Lose Sight.

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