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NEW YORK – When leading Broadway theatre lighting designer and Tony Award winner, Donald Holder, was invited to design the lighting for the new production of Fiddler on the Roof at New York’s Broadway Theatre, he turned to GLP’s new multi-faceted X4 Bar 20s to meet a number of different challenges.

STOWE, VT – For their recent gig at the Rusty Nail in Stowe, VT, Kyle Rose of KTR Lighting used eight Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 Spots to light Gang of Thieves. He called upon the color rendering capabilities of the fixtures positioned on the subwoofers to bathe the band in a variety of hues that reflected the moods evoked by different songs. Throughout the show he relied on the fixtures’ gobos to add depth to the stage, engage the audience and mark out different segments of the show.

NASHVILLE, TN – Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business (CEMB) stages its Showcase Series five times a year, showcasing the talents and technical skills of the students who run the shows. The first one for 2016 took place Feb. 13. Nashville-based Morris, a full service production and integration company, once again provided crew and equipment, offering students a chance to put their hands on real-world gear in an actual arena concert environment.

LOS ANGELES – For Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s (TSO) latest ‘Letters from the Labyrinth’ tour, which included two TSO troupes simultaneously playing East Coast and West Coast venues, production and lighting designer Bryan Hartley once again strived to up the visual ante with video, lasers and pyro and a lighting rig that included more than 100 Robe moving lights on each rig. Each of the TSO treks included 60 Pointes and 44 LEDBeam 100s.

SANTA CLARA, CA — Elation Professional lighting products were used at several locations across Levi’s Stadium for Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7, including CBS’ three main broadcast sets. Elation’s ELAR Q1 color-changing PAR lights were also mounted in the stage deck for the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show. Illuminate Production Services (IPS) of Sacramento provided the Elation products for CBS’ Plaza, Field and Tailgate Super Bowl 50 on-site broadcast settings. The event proved to be the third-most-watched television program in U.S. television history, with a reported 111.9 million TV viewers, on average, for the duration of the event.

NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites is providing gear for three-time ACM nominee Thomas Rhett as he joins Jason Aldean’s “We Were Here” 2016 tour. Collaborating with both Thomas Rhett and tour manager Logan Kornegay, lighting designer Nick Whitehouse built upon their general concept to create the final lighting design. What may look like a standard rolling floor package reveals itself to be compact custom video and lighting lifts that extend to a full height of nearly 30 feet above the stage. Lightweight Ayrton MagicDot-R and Clay Paky Mythos both play a key role.

KNOXVILLE, TN – The Knoxville Chamber Partnership recently held the Annual Governor’s Breakfast at the Knoxville Convention Center, where Governor Bill Haslam addressed a record breaking crowd of 660. Bandit Lites, a member of the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce, provided the lighting for the event as the Governor covered his legislative priorities for this session, which included increased funds for education and infrastructure improvement projects.

NORMAN, OK — Touted as a weather contingency planning workshop for live event professionals, the Severe Weather Summit takes place on March 8-9, 2016. Presented by the Event Safety Alliance in cooperation with the National Weather Center and sponsored by WDT/Weather Ops, the event invites everyone in our business to attend and further their education. The summit features experts from the National Weather Service and industry leading weather forecasting companies.

MEMPHIS, TN – Hope Church in Memphis, TN expanded on its already impressive AV capabilities within its 5,000-seat sanctuary with a dot2 XL-F console with built-in fader wing from MA Lighting and four Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20 lighting fixtures.  Both brands are distributed in North America exclusively by A.C.T Lighting, Inc. The Nashville office of 4Wall Entertainment Lighting handled the lighting and associated rigging install.

NEW YORK – For the Broadway production, On Your Feet, which features the music of Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, LD Ken Posner relied heavily on Chauvet DJ’s Intimidator Beam LED 350 moving fixtures, including 59 of the fixtures in the rig. The fixtures helped Posner tackle a major challenge in creating the lighting design – replicating the concert world on a Broadway stage, which doesn’t have nearly the space of a touring venue.