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PIGEON FORGE, TN — Marshall Whaley with the Smoky Mountain Opry here was looking to update the lighting rig for the venue’s variety shows. He met up with Chuck Dillingham, director of lighting operations at Elation dealer TMG Production Services of Nashville, to discuss various options. LD Susan Rose was also at the shoot-out earlier this year. They opted for Elation Platinum Spot 15R Pro and Platinum Wash ZFX Pro luminaires.

NASHVILLE — Country artist/songwriter Jerrod Niemann and his production team recently partnered with Elite Multimedia Productions by designing a lighting package for his shows as the direct support for Keith Urban’s Raise ‘Em Up Tour.

EDISON, NJ – LD Jason Ayala of Jason Blends (New York) provided Shri Krishna Vrundavana, a Hindu temple based here, with color-changing COLORado Batten 72 Tour and Ovation F-165WW LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional.

REDLANDS, CA — 4Wall Las Vegas recently supported the Redlands Theatre Festival with a donation of lighting equipment that included LED fixtures and more. Buddy Pope, project manager for 4Wall Systems & Design, spearheaded the donation.  Formerly a member of Redlands Theatre Festival, Pope was gratified by the opportunity to support the festival he worked with during and after college.

LOS ANGELES — Journey and the Steve Miller Band are in the midst of their 2014 summer co-headlining tour, and Clay Paky Sharpys and grandMA2 consoles supplied by Tour Tech East are along for the ride. The tour visits 30 cities across the U.S. and Canada.  A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor for both equipment brands in North America.

MIAMI – LD Oscar “El Bro” Florez’s lighting design for Mexican crooner Marco Antonio Solis includes 16 Chauvet Professional Nexus 4×4 panels supplied by Visions Lighting of Brea, CA. Todd Roberts, president of Visions Lighting, credited the Nexus 4×4 panels for helping the crew highlight different sections of the audience during different songs to reinforce the connection between the artist and his fans. Roberts also worked with designer and production manager Andy Ruiz of Marbella Inc. Production Services, Irwindale, CA, on the show setup.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA — The “Art on the Outside” public art program sponsored by West Hollywood is offering Shana Mabari’s Illumetric sculptures to local art lovers here from mid-2014 to mid-2015, and a big part of the appeal of the three sculptural forms positioned on a busy stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard is that, come nightfall, they are lit from the inside — with LEDtronics LED T8 Tube Lights.