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IRVING, TX — John “JR” Reid, 60, passed away on Monday, July 13 in his hometown of Irving, TX. JR was a popular account rep for many years in the entertainment business.

NASHVILLE, TN – With winners chosen by the fans, the K-LOVE Fan Awards brings together the biggest names in Christian music, sports, books and movies. Held at the Grand Ole Opry House, the annual awards show is produced by Go Live Productions and each year has grown in both size and popularity. Overseeing the production is Production Manager and Show Director Scott Moore who strives to capture the spiritual significance of the evening through a dynamic yet functional lighting and video package which was supplied by Elite Multimedia.

CHILLICOTHE, IL – Lighting designer Preston Hoffman created a dynamic and flexible production lighting design for the 2015 Summer Camp Festival staged at Three Sisters Park in Chillicothe, Illinois, U.S.A. His stage, the Moonshine Stage, was based primarily around 16 x Robe BMFL Spots and 10 x Robe Pointe moving lights.

LOS ANGELES – Kinetic Lighting supplied and designed the lighting array for the musical accompaniment to a big Independence Day party at Los Angeles’ Grand Park. The setup for one of the event’s two stages included 25 of Chauvet Professional’s Next NXT-1 pixel-mappable RGBW LED panel fixtures.

NEW YORK, NY – 4Wall New York recently provided equipment to the Mannes School of Music for the New York premiere of Flight, an operatic drama based on the true-life story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee who lived inside the Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris for several years.  

NEW YORK – Visitors to www.usitt.org will find a new, improved USITT website, redesigned for easier access to USITT’s resources, programs, and growing backstage community.

ST. LOUIS, MS – Harman Martin Professional lighting fixtures supplied by Solomon Group were used for the 2015 FIRST Championship Events and Concert.

NASHVILLE, TN – Lighting designers often like to talk about how they capture music in light, but Chris Lisle has taken this concept a step further on the Chase Rice tour. The well-known Nashville LD, who’s done standout work for the likes of Miranda Lambert, One Republic and Robert Plant, wove images of music and light together in dramatic fashion for the up-and-coming country star by converting faux guitar cabinets into lighting effects, courtesy of 16 Nexus Aw 7×7 LED panels from CHAUVET Professional provided by 4Wall Nashville.

LOS ANGELES — When the script calls for a SWAT searchlight in the city’s night sky, you can pay big bucks to hire a full-sized helicopter and invite the wrath of angry neighbors complaining about the noise as it flies overhead for repeated takes. Or you could find an alternate solution, like film LD Matt Ardine, who used Philips Vari-Lite’s 1200W VL4000 Spot fixture to simulate the SWAT copter’s beam for a recent three-day video shoot in Los Angeles.

LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors announced that one of the visionaries of the modern music festival, Kevin Lyman, will serve as host/MC for the 2015 Parnelli Awards. The award show takes place at the Rio Resort and Casino on Saturday, Oct 24. Considered the “Grammys for Live Events,” it celebrates and honors those in lighting, audio, video, staging and all related professionals involved in putting on concert tours and live events.

BRIGHTON, MI — For a Brighton High School performance of the Tony Award-winning musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It, the school’s Musical Theater troupe benefited from Chroma-Q Color Force 12 multi-purpose LED fixtures specified by lighting sales and production company E2i Design.