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LAS VEGAS — This is the last week for PLSN readers to vote for their favorite regional lighting companies now in the running for the 2015 Parnelli Hometown Hero Lighting Company of the Year award. This stage of the voting process will narrow the current field of 30 regional companies now on the Hometown Hero ballot down to six regional winners (five U.S. regions and all of Canada), and the Hometown Hero preliminary voting deadline is Friday July 31 at 5 p.m.

LAS VEGAS – Hundreds of Elation lighting fixtures were used again this year on Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas, North America’s largest dance music festival, with the latest incarnation of the electronic rave taking place June 19-21 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Lighting supply companies Visions Lighting, AG Production Services, Felix Lighting and Pro Systems all supplied Elation gear to the Vegas version of EDC with many of this year’s awe-inspiring lighting and stage looks again by SJ Lighting.

NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville based rental and production specialist Elite Multimedia has made its first Robe purchase!

Twenty CycFX 8 fixtures are going out on country star Luke Bryan’s new tour as specified by Lighting Designer Justin Kitcheman from FadeUp Design.

LITITZ, PA – Elephants, costumes, hot air balloons, hula-hoops, art, sculptures and The Forest. Each year the Electric Forest Festival gets bigger and better, held at the Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, MI June 25-28, 2015. ATOMIC, a creative company providing set construction, rental solutions, lighting, design and production services for the live event industry, has designed and built the main festival stages for the past three years. New to the roster this year was a semi-permanent Electric Forest entrance sign and the festival stages The Hangar and Jubilee.

CHICAGO, IL – At the mid-year mark, Christie Lites reports a busy and successful 2015 for its new Chicago rental office, which officially opened in January. The full-service, 50,000 square foot warehouse in the suburb of Woodridge, Illinois, marks #13 for this North American stage lighting and rigging rental company.

NASHVILLE, TN – Bandit Lites is proud to be providing the lighting for music legend Brian Wilson’s summer tour, where he and his band, featuring Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin, continue to play the greatest Beach Boys and Brian Wilson songs.

NEW YORK – Chauvet Professional Legends were supplied by Quantum Theatrics for a lightshow celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Cunard Line Queen Mary 2 oceanliner’s flagship transatlantic crossing.

ERLANGER, KY – The tvONE Training Academy provides a complete education program on the use of tvONE products for end users, distributors and integrators.

LITITZ, PA – The Event Safety Alliance (ESA) is pleased to announce the return of the Event Safety Summit, a three-day safety conference and training opportunity designed to meet the unique demands of the live event industry. This year’s Summit will take place December 1-3, 2015, at the world-class rehearsal facilities of Rock Lititz in Lititz, Pennsylvania.

LOS ANGELES – LD Matt Ford, president of Woodland Hills, CA-based Magic Lantern Creations, opted to use Clay Paky Mythos fixtures on three recent TV projects: truTV’s Fake Off, The CW’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us and, pictured here, NBC’s Food Fighters. He credited the fixtures for their ability to provide “Sharpy effects when I want them and great gobo beam patterns, too.”

NEW YORK, NY– LD David Agress commissioned 4Wall New York to supply a Clay Paky B-Eye K20 Wash for the CW show ‘Upfront’.