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WASHINGTON, DC – John Farr Lighting Design of Upper Marlboro, MD used 16 of Chauvet Professional’s Ovation E-910FC color mixing ERS-style fixtures to light the runway at the Capital Bridal Affair & Fashion Show in Washington, D.C. The fifth annual show took place Feb. 28, 2016 within the beaux-arts Mayflower Hotel.

SUN VALLEY, CA — LA ProPoint, which oversees the design, engineering, fabrication, and installation of stage and show systems, is keeping busy with several high-profile projects for arts and entertainment institutions across Los Angeles. Clients include the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, California Science Center, Festival of Arts (Laguna), Ford Amphitheatre, Universal Studios Hollywood and LACMA, among others. Crew members pictured here are installing the Space Habitat into the Space Shuttle Endeavor at the California Science Center.

HAMPTON, VA – Country music singer Eric Paslay’s latest tour features a visual design shaped by show designer Mike Marcario, who is relying upon Elation Professional’s Platinum FLX hybrid moving head to create a unique look for each song. Elite Multimedia is providing the lighting for the tour.

ORLAND PARK, IL – For Easter services at the Orland Park campus of Parkview Christian Church, Jason Reberski, president of JR Lighting Design, Inc., supplied and used Chauvet Professional Rogue RH1 Hybrid fixtures to mesh with, and add to, the visual firepower of the house rig for an impressive holiday light show.

NEW YORK – For jam band moe.’s winter tour, LD Justin Casey chose a rig that included 12 Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s and four Stormy CC RGBW LED Strobes, with a grandMA2 light and onPC Command Wing for lighting control. Although a lot of venues have strobe lights in their house rigs, Casey selected the Stormy CC RGBW Strobes to add color to conventional strobe effects. A lighting designer with Nashville-based Pulse Lighting, Justin Casey has been working with the band since last July.  Moe. tours year-round; their winter tour recently concluded in NYC.

MIAMI – XFINITY East Plaza near American Airlines Arena caters to Miami Heat fans with 23,000 square feet of outdoor space that beckons crowds with live performances on a ntertainment venue in downtown Miami complete with performance stage and dynamic lighting rig from Elation Professional. The 720-square foot stage with back riser for DJ setups is outfitted with Elation SixPar Series PAR color changers and Platinum Beam 5R Extreme beam effects.

NASHVILLE – Morris’ 2016 Integration Roadshow, targeting AVL professionals in the House of Worship market, will be making three stops in the Southeast this spring and summer: Birmingham, AL; Memphis, TN; and Jackson, MS. The Roadshow is free to attend and offers participants a day-long class featuring hands-on learning opportunities, a roundtable discussion, Morris’ preferred brands and a condensed version of one of Morris’ most popular courses, “Art and Science of Mixing,” taught by John Mills, Morris Education and Development Manager.

MIAMI — Financial backers for some EDM festival organizers may not be in a mood to celebrate this year. (SFX Entertainment, now operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, was delisted from NASDAQ on Feb. 10.) But interest in EDM among festivalgoers still appears to be robust. General admission tickets for the Ultra Music Festival, held March 18-20 in Miami, sold out by late January. The event once again kicked off the warm-weather outdoor festival season and kept production crews busy fielding new gear. Pictured here, Ultra’s Main Stage, with BMFL and Pointe fixtures from Robe.

SALT LAKE CITY — At the 2016 USITT Show, held March 16-19, Rosco Laboratories presented their eighth annual royalty check from the sales of Roscolux #359 Medium Violet to Behind the Scenes (BTS). This year’s $3,200 brought the total contribution since this program began to $21,548. Pictured here, from left, are Todd Spencer, Rick Rudolph, Rosco’s Stan Miller, Lori Rubinstein and Mark Heiser. Others supporting BTS during the show included the Long Reach Long Riders ($15K) and A.C.T Lighting ($5K).

CANTON, OH – For the annual ‘Love Is Red’ Christian youth conference, held at Faith Family Church March 3-5, 2016, Aaron Cole, the church’s lighting designer and director, leveraged the pixel-mapping capabilities of Nexus 4×4 fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

TORONTO – Decker LaDouceur, owner and director of the Toronto School of Circus Arts, relied upon BroadWeigh wireless load cell monitoring system to determine the maximum dynamic loads placed on a structure during a bounce for a bungee act. Using BroadWeigh load cell monitoring, the school was able to get accurate readings of the weight load that the performer placed on their rigging hardware and support structure overhead.