Thursday, December 7, 2023
Jerry Appelt creates classic Wacken lighting architecture on the “Holy Ground” with weatherproof moving lights As many know, real Wacken fans don’t let the weather stop them. It’s no…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:48PMCHANDLER, AZ – At times it seemed that everything that could go wrong would go wrong at the one-day Desert Sky Music Festival. Not only did rain delay the 2pm start of the first act by ov…
SOURCE: PLSN at 10:20AMRegistration is now open for USITT24, set for March 20-23, 2024 in Seattle. The event promises education, networking events, recruitment opportunities, and the Expo floor along with reimag…
SOURCE: PLSN at 10:14AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
ACT Entertainment continues to expand its reach in the AV technology sector with the acquisition of tvONE, a leading video processing, signal distribution and media playback solutions compan…
SOURCE: PLSN at 04:35PMMonday, December 4, 2023
Who says you shouldn’t attempt to host a golf tournament in Las Vegas in December? While it’s true that the odds for rain and wind (if not snow) increase substantially that late in the s…
SOURCE: PLSN at 08:48AMFriday, December 1, 2023
In its 25th year, Stagehand, a UK-based live event production workers charity, announced the launch of the Christmas fundraiser, #ILoveLive3. This year's campaign recognizes the immense cha…
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:51PMFriday, November 24, 2023
Neville Garrick, the Jamaican-born and UCLA-educated graphic artist, photographer, backdrop painter and LD who provided visual accompaniment to reggae icon Bob Marley’s music, died Nov. 14…
SOURCE: PLSN at 01:29PMMonday, October 30, 2023
The Parnelli Ballot for the 22nd annual awards ceremony has been finalized, and voting has begun! The ballot is posted online at parnelliawards.com, and it's up to YOU, the PLSN reader, to d…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:26PMMonday, October 16, 2023
The 2023 Detroit Jazz Festival featured over 60 performers, late night jam sessions, and 350,000 attendees. Now a division of Display Group, Fantasee Lighting has been providing lights and d…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:26PMTransformation Church in Tulsa, OK, recently completed a redesign of the lighting rig in its 4,000-seat main auditorium, which was created and delivered by 46 Entertainment of Nashville, TN.…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:18PMFor the Luisenburg Festival, Technical Service Provider, Colito Productions, which installs and maintains equipment at the event’s 1,898-capacity open-air theatre, helped support the festi…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:58AMFriday, October 13, 2023
The Megapark in Mallorca, Spain is the largest open-air beer garden in Europe. It has incorporated the new Ayrton Zonda 9 FX among its lighting fixtures. In its design, several features hav…
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:03PMThursday, October 12, 2023
Touring and Mental Health: The Music Industry Manual, edited by Tamsin Embleton and published earlier this year by Omnibus Press, is “like having a therapist in your back pocket,” noted …
SOURCE: PLSN at 01:27PMWednesday, October 11, 2023
The Parnelli Board of Advisors announced that Kevin Lyman, founder of the Vans Warped Tour and currently an Associate Professor at USC, has accepted the invitation to join the Parnelli Board…
SOURCE: PLSN at 07:42PMThe readers of PLSN have spoken and we are pleased to announce the Regional Winners of the PLSN Hometown Hero contest. They are now finalists for the Parnelli Hometown Hero – Lighting Comp…
SOURCE: PLSN at 05:25PMTuesday, October 3, 2023
Whether you’re an old pro or have just recently picked up the clubs, you’re invited to tee up at the 2023 PLSN/FOH Parnelli Classic at Revere Golf Club near Las Vegas on Dec. 2, 2023. It…
SOURCE: PLSN at 01:00PMWednesday, September 27, 2023
Daniel S. “Dann” Whittaker died unexpectedly on Sept. 5, 2023 in Columbus, OH. He founded and ran We3Co, LLC, doing business as ShoPros Ohio LLC, in 2006. Not long after founding the com…
SOURCE: PLSN at 03:31PMSarah Lynn Jakubasz, Lighting Director for ABC’s Good Morning America and GMA3: What You Need to Know, died July 22 of complications related to a Glioblastoma. Good Morning America aired a…
SOURCE: PLSN at 01:43PMFriday, September 1, 2023
From September 1 until October 6, 2023, PLSN readers have the opportunity to vote for the best regional lighting company in each of six separate regions in North America – five U.S. region…
SOURCE: PLSN at 03:38PMMonday, August 21, 2023
For over 20 years the comprehensive Event Production Directory (EPD), an annually updated companion publication to Timeless Communication’s PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines, has also been…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:50PMMonday, August 14, 2023
Nominations are now being accepted for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on Friday, January 26, 2024, during the NAMM Show. Anyone…
SOURCE: PLSN at 01:06PMThursday, August 3, 2023
Vicki “Max” Brenner, a lighting professional with a career that spanned decades from her earliest days with Imero Fiorentino Associates to her last years before retiring as a gaffer for …
SOURCE: PLSN at 06:32PMWednesday, August 2, 2023
Two Green Hippo Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Servers powered the visuals for multiple wraparound LED screens which formed the backdrop for this year’s televised Premios Tu Música Urbano. …
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:11PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
NEW YORK – The synergy of innovation and creativity took center stage in New York as 4Wall Entertainment joined forces with ZeroSpace and disguise, to deliver an unprecedented Virtual Prod…
SOURCE: PLSN at 03:37PMFORT LAUDERDALE, FL – The deepest purpose of art is “not to convey, but to evoke,” the great novelist Jerzy Kosinski once observed. Clifford Michael Spulock demonstrated the power of…
SOURCE: PLSN at 03:28PMAyrton Domino fixtures have hit the road with country music royalty accompanying multi Grammy-winner Shania Twain on her “Queen of Me” global tour. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive d…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:22PMMonday, July 31, 2023
High End Systems Halcyon Gold fixtures were the workhorse moving framing fixtures on the Miss North Carolina and Miss North Carolina Teen Beauty Pageants, held last month in High Point, NC. …
SOURCE: PLSN at 07:32PMFriday, June 16, 2023
Lighting Designer Nicolas Fischtel recently lit 'My Mother’s Courage' in Spain using Astera lighting products. Lighting was absolutely integral to the storytelling which took place over th…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:59PM Leading full-service video and lighting company, 4Wall Europe, added Elation Proteus Rayzor Blade™ tilt FX bars to inventory this past spring and immediately deployed the units on the E…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:45PMYou can’t always get what you want, as Mick Jagger once famously noted, but if you’re a gifted lighting designer, you won’t be deterred by any such setbacks. When one door closes, you …
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:32PMThere are as many ways to tell a story as there are stories to tell. The incomparable Reba McEntire has demonstrated this with the rich and varied narratives that run through her songs. So…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:27PM 
