Monday, April 15, 2024
The 2024 edition of the Event Production Directory is now online. There are thousands of companies supporting live entertainment that are categorized by company specialty including lighting,…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:00AMThursday, April 4, 2024
Special Event Services (SES), a subsidiary of Mocksville, NC-based Concert Stuff Group (CSG), named Jason Alt managing director of technology. Alt comes to SES and CSG from Delicate Producti…
SOURCE: PLSN at 03:50PMWednesday, March 13, 2024
Marshall Bissett, Chairman of the Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors, announced the addition of Butch Allen, Wes Bailey, Carol Dodds, and Anne Militello, to the board overseeing the Award Sho…
SOURCE: PLSN at 06:35PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
William John “Bill” Whittaker, a former lighting designer and owner of Rainbow Lighting Co. who founded and ran Upstate Case Manufacturing Co. for more than three decades, died Feb. 26, …
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:21PMMonday, February 19, 2024
USITT is encouraging job seekers and hiring companies to ramp up their networking plans by connecting with SmartMatch, which will be available before, during and after USITT24. More details …
SOURCE: PLSN at 04:58PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
The 22nd annual Parnelli Awards took place on Jan. 26 during NAMM 2024 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The ceremony, which honored the career achievements of Buford Jones (Audio Innovator)…
SOURCE: PLSN at 06:21PMFriday, February 2, 2024
Integrated Systems Europe 2024 was the most successful edition in its 20-year history, according to Integrated Systems Events, the convention’s organizers. Taking place at the Fira de Barc…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:49AMThe stats are in for the 2024 NAMM Show, and while the annual event is still working its way back from its pre-pandemic glory in January 2020, with 62,000+ show attendees in January 2024 vs.…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:47AMThe annual meeting of members convened on the first day of The NAMM Show, the largest global gathering of the music industry, and officially NAMM (The National Association of Music Merchants…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:45AMSaturday, January 27, 2024
The 22nd annual Parnelli Awards took place at the Anaheim Convention Center on January 26 during NAMM 2024. The awards honored the career achievements of Jim Brammer (Parnelli Lifetime Achie…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:49AMWhile the whole world joined Prince and partied like it was 1999–or nervously awaiting the global calamity of the much-feared Y2K meltdown of the world’s computer systems–Timeless Comm…
SOURCE: PLSN at 03:00AMThursday, January 25, 2024
Robe Lighting will exhibit on booths 1C700 and 1D700 in Hall 1 at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) expo 30th January to 2nd Feb February 2024 at Fira Barcelona in Spain, where it and sist…
SOURCE: PLSN at 12:37PMMonday, January 15, 2024
Just one week from this Friday, on Jan. 26, 2024, the 22nd Annual Parnelli Awards will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center during the NAMM show. And with the live event industry and …
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:28PMTuesday, January 2, 2024
JP Ridgard, an avid user of Obsidian Control Systems’ ONYX lighting control platform, turned to the growing brand’s feature-packed NX4 lighting console for the Lowveld Gin Fest in Mbombe…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:39AMFriday, December 8, 2023
Hayden Borgars says that he’s always tended to view the lighting fixtures in his rig as musical instruments, not merely illuminating with them, but also “playing” them in ways that flo…
SOURCE: PLSN at 06:11PMESTA recently announced the newest members of the 2024-2026 ESTA Board of Directors: Ben Hague of IATSE has been elected as Vice President, Patrick Wallace of Encore Global has been elected …
SOURCE: PLSN at 02:13PMOn December 3-5, Unilumin showcased its top-notch solution at the LDI Exhibition (Lighting and Audio Technology Exhibition) in Las Vegas, USA. XR virtual shooting stage, LED creative display…
SOURCE: PLSN at 01:57PMEven those who might be a little leery about attending an EDM or rave show would probably walk away from a Gryffin concert impressed by what they just heard and saw. Praised by one critic fo…
SOURCE: PLSN at 11:55AMThursday, 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 01:27PM 
