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ASHEVILLE, NC – Bandit Lites and PULSE Lighting recently wrapped another successful venture with Warren Haynes’ Christmas Jam. Held on Dec. 12, the rock and blues guitarist’s annual charity benefit show celebrated its 27th year and donated the proceeds to Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, which has built 33 houses with donations from the Jam over the years.

NEW YORK — Will uplighting fixtures work as downlighting fixtures as well? LD Blaine Hentz figured they would. For the the Want My Look and Bellami Hair Fashion Show events during New York Fashion Week, he flipped 48 of Chauvet Professional’s WELL FLEX units, positioning them on 12-foot-high silver truss structures to light the runway.

LAS VEGAS — For some of Killers frontman Brandon Flowers’ recent performances, LD Steven Douglas has been using a unique lighting solution for a “close-up wash” — Ayrton’s MADesign.

NORTH CREEK, NY– Creative Stage Lighting (CSL) added SGM’s P2 and Q2 fixtures to its rentals inventory. CSL is a wholesale supplier and distributor of gear for stage and theatrical lighting professionals. SGM’s P-2 LED wash light is pictured here.

CHICAGO – Chicago Children’s Theatre, the city’s largest professional theater company devoted exclusively to children and young families, officially broke ground Dec. 12 on the company’s first-ever permanent home – an adaptive reuse of the former, 12th District Police Station at 100 S. Racine Avenue in Chicago’s West Loop.

WAYNE, NJ – The Passaic County Technical Institute (PCTI), an award-winning high school with a 200 course curriculum which includes their School of Performing Arts, upgraded its theatre facility recently with a Philips Strand Lighting retrofit installation that included PLFRESNEL1 and PLPROFILE4 LED luminaires along with a NEO lighting control console, Vision.net Touchscreens, an A21 Dimming System, and CD80SV Retrofit Dimmer Modules.

DENVER – Lighting designer and programmer Andrew Cass has been a fan of the famously multi genre blues-rock-jam band String Cheese Incident (SCI) from Colorado since his schooldays. In April 2014 he was lucky enough to land himself in the hot-seat of designing their lighting – a long term dream job he absolutely loves.

LOS ANGELES – When STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) began its U.S. fall tour, LD Saxton Waller decided to add Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s to the B-EYE K10 rig he deployed for the band’s 2014 tour, which included their sold-out concerts at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.  Waller obtained the Clay Paky B-EYES and a full-size grandMA2 console from Brown Note Productions, Inc., in Thornton, CO, which has been working with STS9 for the last 10 years.

NEW YORK – Squeek Lights LD Victor Zeiser provided Chauvet Professional fixtures for a tour featuring two hard-rocking bands – Senses Fail and Silverstein. Pooling their resources, the two bands were able to tour with an impressive visual design. Zeiser’s Chauvet-centered rig included six Nexus 4×1 linear COB LED fixtures, 12 Rogue R2 Washes, 10 Rogue R1 Spots and 16 Shocker 90IRC par style fixtures. 

NEW YORK – Canal Sound and Light’s Jason Ayala and Jeffry Kwan used Chauvet Professional fixtures to transform a low-ceiling space on Manhattan’s far West Side. Formerly housing a bagel factory, it had been repurposed to serve as exhibition space. For the Global Spin Awards Expo, which required a staged awards show, Ayala used Chauvet’s PVP S5 LED video panels and Rogue moving fixtures.

NEWTON, KS – Hoopty Lights’ Erich Meitzner got a chance to return to his alma mater for a Newton High School musical production using color mixing LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Meitzner showed the high school students how to make the best use of gear including COLORado Batten 72 Tour RGBW wash lights and COLORdash Par-Quad 7 par-style fixtures.