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LIVE OAK, FL – A procession of over two dozen bands performed on stage at the 9th annual Purple Hatters Ball in mid-June, but this three-day festival has never really been just about the music. Set in a pastoral region of north Florida, and offering sessions in yoga, healing arts and meditation, Purple Hatters is as much about raising consciousness as it is about pleasing the ear buds.  This year’s event had an appropriately expansive lightshow, thanks in part to the addition of the Rogue R1 FX-B LED fixture from Chauvet Professional.

ATLANTA – Analog Way, an innovation-driven designer and manufacturer that specializes in computer and video signal processing and distribution, is pleased to launch its Training Academy for the Americas. The Academy will be located at the new Analog Way facility in Metro-Atlanta which has been equipped with several rooms designed for hands on training. A Technology Instructor has also joined the company as a specialist trainer. Strengthening the training offer in the Americas is Christina Spurlock.

LOS ANGELES – Visions Lighting is one of the busiest production and lighting companies on the U.S. West Coast with a growing client list that includes some of the industry’s most influential events and artists. Southern California-based, this  production company has joined the growing list of rental companies to add Elation Professional’s award-winning Platinum FLX hybrid moving head to its inventory. Visions recently took delivery of 60 of the multi-functional luminaires along with a stock of ACL 360 Bar LED effect lights.

CLEVELAND, OH — The Cleveland Cavaliers celebrated the end to their 52-year championship drought in downtown Cleveland, drawing more than 1.3 million fans and supporters.  The two-mile parade commemorated past and present champions, culminating with a rally on the Cleveland Mall. Premier Event Technology, LMG and EventEQ partnered with George P. Johnson, the overall production company to execute this event by providing audio, video, lighting, and LED to welcome home the 2016 NBA Champions.

NASHVILLE – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. served up big helpings of home-cooked BBQ with sides of the latest products from Clay Paky, Robert Juliat, Chainmaster and Eurotruss at a showcase special event during the recent CMA Music Festival in Nashville. A.C.T Lighting selected Soundcheck, the premier rehearsal studio in Nashville, for its showcase venue. Area rental houses, lighting shops, and lighting designers and programmers were invited to view the products and fill up on some of the best BBQ in town.

RALEIGH, NC – First Assembly Church, an Assemblies of God-affilated church that relocated to a renovated 58,000 square foot industrial facility. installed more than 80 Chroma-Q Inspire color-changing LED house light fixtures to provide an immersive worship experience. Executive Pastor, Danny Collins turned to Douglas Hood, president of Indiana-based CSD Group, to supply a lighting solution for the new building.

LAS VEGAS, NV – The Electric Daisy Carnival, (EDC) produced by Insomniac, returned to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway to celebrate its 20th year of providing high energy dance music in a community of love, respect, and togetherness. EDC took over the infield of the speedway June 17-19, 2016, with attendees taking in 300 DJs from sunset to sunrise each day. Producer  Pasquale Rotella of Insomniac once again put together another visual spectacle that spanned the vast grounds and was enjoyed by the huge crowds in attendance.

HARTFORD, CT – Sir Robert Bryson Hall II and Gerald Earl Gillum, also known as G-Eazy and Logic, wrapped the North American “Endless Summer” tour with a show at Hartford’s Xfinity Arena on Aug. 5. The tour featuring YG, Yo Gotti, and special guests. LMG Touring is providing lighting, video switching, camera packages, and technical support for G-Eazy and Logic. I-Mag provided other video gear for the tour.

BOSTON – Journalists from far beyond New England are used to coming to Westin Copley Place to cover news.  US presidents and Supreme Court justices have frequently given speeches here, and one would-be Commander and Chief, Mitt Romney, used it as his primary election night headquarters. Recently, members of the fourth estate visited the hotel on the banks of the Charles River to make news, rather than cover it, by participating in the 39th annual Boston/New England Emmy Awards.

LAS VEGAS — For Garth Brooks’ “Man Against Machine” tour, the artist is actually working with machinery, including an automated truss setup launched with the latest redesign of the show in late 2015. As part of that redesign, the size of the video screens increased and with that came the need to move them faster. The tour is now using a full Kinesys automation system which was specified by Atlanta Rigging Services (ARS), brought on-board by production to take care of all rigging requirements.

LAS VEGAS – The Electric Daisy Carnival returned to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 17-19, 2016. The event marked 20 years of Electric Daisy Carnivals, and the sixth year in Las Vegas. For the circuitGrounds stage, LD Steve Lieberman and SJ Lighting presented a new visual concept that incorporated lighting, video and set / structural design. The architecture was based on a 360 degree coliseum look – classical lines with industrial attitude. The lighting setup included close to 350 Robe fixtures – 212 Pointes, 83 BMFL Spots and 38 BMFL WashBeams.