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NEW YORK – LD Peter Greenbaum recently added fixtures from Chauvet Professional to his rig for live performances by artists featured on The Today Show in New York’s Rockefeller Center. WorldStage provided the new fixtures, which include nine Chauvet Professional Maverick MK2 Spot moving lights.

NASHVILLE — Bandit Lites has once again increased its touring inventory, this time adding Elation’s ACL 360i fixtures. These compact fixtures combine bright LED illumination, continuous 360° pan and tilt rotation, strobe effects and selectable dimming curve effects. The fixtures were recently out with American rock band Shinedown’s “Carnival of Madness” tour, pictured here. For those shows, LD Sooner Routhier used them for accent and back lighting, placed behind Plexiglas.

MEXICO CITY – Responding to the rapidly increasing demand for its lighting and trussing products in Mexico, Chauvet has opened a new office, warehouse, service center and showroom in Lerma, just west of the nation’s capital. Located close to major highway and rail transit channels, the new facility will house an extensive inventory of CHAUVET Professional, ILUMINARC and CHAUVET DJ lighting fixtures, as well truss from the company’s TRUSST division.

ALBANY — Ferrini- Konarski Associates, a manufacturers rep firm with offices in Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, NY, has been representing ETC since 1990. Today, a 12-person sales group covers 35 counties in New York State that are beyond the metro New York City area. Partners Norman Traino and Brian Horner, like ETC itself, are retooling to keep up with the shift from traditional incandescent fixtures and dimming systems to more energy-efficient lighting alternatives.

NEW YORK — For Bayside’s tour in support of the most recent album, Vacancy, LD Eric Price used a dozen moving lights from Chauvet Professional, including six Rogue RH1 Hybrids and six Rogue R2 Washes. JR Lighting Design of Orland Park, IL, near Chicago, supplied the fixtures for the New York-based rock band.

SPOKANE, WA – Although it has locations across the US, the Red Lion Hotel chain isn’t ranked among the giants of the hospitality industry. The Spokane-based chain is, however, second to none when it comes to customer service. This much is evident from the many accolades the chain has won, including multiple Number 1 ratings for customer satisfaction in the prestigious Metrix Hospitality Index.

CALIFORNIA – Group One Limited is proud to put together a Roadshow of gear to show off to the entertainment community on the west coast of America. Starting off at the 4Wall facility in Las Vegas on September 15^th, the show hits seven cities in all with 4-hour open houses. They will display new software from Avolites, the DTS Family and Elektralite fixtures.

Click here to register online for the city of your choice! (www.G1Limited.com/roadshow):

LAS VEGAS – All four ETCP examinations, including the new Portable Power Distribution Technician Certification (PPDT), will be offered at LDI in Las Vegas, NV on the morning of Saturday, October 22, 2016. Interested applicants must submit their application and fee to the ETCP office no later than September 26, 2016.

MARBELLA, Spain – Rental company Sonobalance provided Clay Paky and other fixtures to light an all-night party at the Nikki Beach Marbella beach club earlier this summer. The light rig included 12 Clay Paky Mythos units with an MA Lighting grandMA2 ultra-light desk for control. David Calero Vioque managed the lighting for the event, using the fixtures to add to the festive atmosphere, using the Mythos as both a spot and beam fixture. The resort, pictured here, opened in 2003.

LAS VEGAS — The 2016 Parnelli Ballot has been finalized, and voting has begun! The ballot, which includes the six North American finalists for the Parnelli Award for Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year award (chosen during a separate round of voting in July) is posted online at parnelliawards.com, and it’s up to YOU, the PLSN reader, to decide who among the nominees will step up to the awards podium at the Rio in Las Vegas on the evening of Oct. 22.

HUNTINGTON, IN – CSD Group of Fort Wayne Indiana updated the look of services within venerable College Park Church in Huntington, IN with LED fixtures from Chauvet. CSD Group installed four Ovation F-95WW Fresnel fixtures from Chauvet Professional and 18 COLORband PiX tri color LED battens from Chauvet DJ.