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[caption id="attachment_273963" align="alignnone" width="800"]Bandit provides gear to bring the New year in.[/caption]

NASHVILLE — Thousands gathered at Bicentennial National Park to bid farewell to 2016 and usher in 2017 at Jack Daniel’s Music City Midnight: New Year’s Eve in Nashville, which included the iconic drop of the Music Note. Bandit Lites provided the lighting package for the evening, which featured performances by Keith Urban, Styx, A Thousand Horses, Moon Taxi, Charlie Worsham and Fisk City Jubilee Singers.

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[caption id="attachment_273960" align="alignnone" width="800"]Skynet in use[/caption]

Ventura, Ca. – Total Structures closes 2016, its 25th year of business in the United States, with the debut of its latest award winning products. Halo and Sky-net, fall protection solutions for Total’s ground support tower systems and outdoor roof grids, received the Best Debuting Rigging & Staging Product award from Live Design during LDI 2016. Both products are designed to work with new systems as well as existing roof systems.

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[caption id="attachment_273954" align="alignnone" width="800"]HARTING’s Han® 3A size connectors can now be assembled with larger diameter cables – up to M25.[/caption]

ELGIN, IL.– HARTING has expanded the choice of cables that customers can use in its Han® 3A size connectors. The Han® 3A now can be assembled with cable diameters as large as M25 instead of the previous limit of M20. This increase allows the connectors to be configured with any contact insert in the series, including those with higher rated current and bigger cross sections – such as the Han® Q series. The hoods also meet the requirements of protection classes IP 65/67.

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[caption id="attachment_273951" align="alignnone" width="222"]ESTA asks for your help[/caption]

NEW YORK – When ESTA learned it would be losing a long-term source of revenue, the association faced a huge loss of its income in 2017. The immediate impact of this is to endanger the survival of ESTA’s ANSI-accredited Technical Standards Program (TSP). The ramifications of this would be enormous to the entertainment technology industry. Upon hearing of the situation, Ford Sellers, Senior Product Manager at Chauvet Lighting, commented “The work that is done by the TSP is indispensable. It is central to our industry…In fact, it is what makes us an industry, instead of just a bunch of individual projects.”

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NEW YORK – From the outside, the graffiti-marked building at 485 Johnson Avenue looks like just another old Brooklyn warehouse. Inside, though, the cavernous 30,000 square foot structure, with its 30’ high ceilings and Funktion-One sound system, provides an ideal setting for the kind of warehouse party/concerts that define nightlife in New York’s boroughs. The site is so popular, that during NYE weekend it housed two bashes: Get Real with house tech icons Claude VonStroke and Green Velvet DJs on December 29 and the BangON!NYC party featuring Thomas Jack and The Him on December 31.

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[caption id="attachment_273932" align="alignnone" width="800"]Chauvet Fixtures used by Image Production Services[/caption]

LANCASTER, SC – It’s become routine for Nutramax to earn praise for being one of the “best places to work”.  There’s a good reason for this; the global maker of dietary joint supplements is known for its emphasis on supporting employees through team building. A good example of this is its tradition of all-embracing Christmas parties. These carefully planned affairs include bountiful food, beautiful decorations, top flight entertainment and, this December, a stunning light and video show by Image Productions Services, using CHAUVET Professional fixtures and LED video panels.

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LANCASTER, PA — Performance Environment Design Group LLC (PEDG), a Lancaster, PA-based lighting and production design company that began as a partnership in 2000 between Justin Collie and Spike Brant, announced that it has changed its name to Nimblist. Since its founding, as PEDG and under a previous name, the company has created immersive entertainment experiences for the NFL, Bon Jovi and Pearl Jam, among others.

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[caption id="attachment_273927" align="alignnone" width="624"]Red Hot Chili Peppers hit America[/caption]

NEW ORLEANS – After more than three decades on the road, the Red Hot Chili Peppers show no sign of slowing down. In fact, the band is doing just the opposite, as they wrapped up their four-month European leg of “The Getaway Tour” and recently began their North American leg with a show in San Antonio, Texas. With what has been called one of the largest kinetic light installations in touring history, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have literally lit the path for a new concert-goer experience.

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[caption id="attachment_273908" align="alignnone" width="800"]EDC Orlando[/caption]

LOS ANGELES – SJ Lighting is one of our industry’s top production design firms with demanding clients like Insomniac Events, headed by CEO Pasquale Rotella, calling on Steve Lieberman and his team to create spectacular environments for some of the U.S.’s top festivals, year after year. With the dance music festival season now extending well into the fall and growing globally, EDM revelers can party nearly year round. Dreamstate, Escape Psycho Circus and EDC Orlando, all fall festivals that included Elation gear, are three successful examples of EDM’s continued expansion.

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LAS VEGAS — Suppose your company has a new president. Perhaps the previous guy in charge, a skinny dude with a funny name, just headed out the door for an extended vacation in Hawaii. And the new guy storming in is a blustery fellow with a red tie and tangerine hair. And let’s say you just ignored our annual plea to update your company’s listing for the 2017 Event Production Directory. All year long, instead of being informative, your EPD listing can be summed up in a single word. Wrong!

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[caption id="attachment_273896" align="alignnone" width="624"]Phish at MSG on New Year's Eve[/caption]

NYC – (Notorious for their musical improvisation, extended jams and surprise gags, Phish returned to the stage for their annual New Year’s Run at the famed Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, New York. On December 31st, after performing for three hours, Phish began revealing their surprise New Year’s gag at 11:30 pm with a musical production of “Petrichor,” a track from their latest album Big Boat, accompanied by choreographed dancers, sixteen kinetic LED umbrellas that floated above the stage and synthetic rain, made of small crystals, which fell from the ceiling of The Garden.

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[caption id="attachment_273893" align="alignnone" width="800"]Daddy Yankee and Nicky Jam in San Juan[/caption]

SAN JUAN, PR – Daddy Yankee and Nicky Jam closed 2016 on a high and very emotional note, bringing down the house for four electrifying sold-out Cangris concerts at the famed Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot. The two Reggaeton icons had a lot to celebrate, having collectively garnered six nominations for Univision’s upcoming Premios Lo Nuestro awards.

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