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    Chauvet Professional’s NEXUS 4X4 Nominated for a 2013 Parnelli Award!

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    parnelli-awards-logoLadies and gentlemen, we are proud and happy to announce that we have been nominated for a 2013 Indispensable Technology Award for the Chauvet Professional Nexus 4X4!

    We would LOVE it if you voted for us over at the Parnelli Awards site!  Members of FOH Magazine and PLSN Magazine are eligible to vote, so get out those membership numbers (found on your magazine label or in your email) and submit a vote for the Nexus 4X4!

    Thank you to everyone who nominated Nexus 4X4 for the IT Award!!!  Now get out there and VOTE!  Voting is open until October 31, 2013!

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    Last Week’s TOP TEN POSTS on the Chauvet Professional Blog

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    Last week was an excellent week of fun posts on the Chauvet Professional Blog!  We love seeing what tickles you the most – we love to make you, the readership, very happy!

    Check out last week’s TOP TEN POSTS on the Chauvet Professional Blog, starting with the number one post of all time!

    #1, and still crushing it:
    Cat West, Lighting Director for KASKADE, Rocks the Rig AND the STAR WARS Dress!

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    #2 from last week:  CHAUVET Professional Lights Edinburgh Airport Tower

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    #3 from last week:  SWAG TUESDAY at Chauvet Professional!

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    #4 from last week:  Ovation LED at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts – Load-in Photos!

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    #5 from last week:  Ovation E-190WW LED Ellipsoidal Wins the WFX 2013 Best LED Fixture Award

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    #6:  Congratulations to Oscar Dominguez’ Emmy-Winning Design for The Voice!

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    #7:  Be Careful of FALLING TRUSS!

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    #8:  Gary Clark Jr. Playing BRIGHT LIGHTS on the Chauvet Professional Blog!

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    #9:  Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders NFL Intro and Chauvet Professional!

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    and last but not least for this week, #10:  Got A Case of the Mondays? How About Some Awesome Grooves?

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    Thanks for reading, everyone! Stay tuned for more news and fun stuff from Chauvet Professional!

    Afternoon Groove – Sam and Dave Playing “Hold On, I’m Coming” LIVE!

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    This is too awesome not to share.  Just ran across this while looking for another video — this is Sam and Dave playing Hold On, I’m Coming, in Olso, Norway during the Stax/Volt European Tour from April 7, 1967.

    Turn it up, get on your groove thang, and get cracking, lighting industry!  Enjoy!

    Don’t forget! HOURS REMAIN in this week’s SWAG Tuesday contest at Chauvet Professional!  LIKE us on Facebook, then SHARE our PAGE with your people to enter!

    Happy Monday afternoon!

    Happy Monday! Tower of Power Asks: WHAT IS HIP?

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    Happy Monday, lighting industry!!

    It’s another day closer to the LDI Show in Las Vegas, NV this year, and we’re all little busy bees here at Chauvet Professional, getting ready to show you our awesome stand for the 2013 show!  We’ll be in Booth 1141 — come by and see us!

    We’ve got something great and energetic for you this morning – Tower of Power playing their awesome hit What is Hip?  We have two great clips for you, one from the 2006 Montreaux Jazz Festival with Carlos Santana and one from the old school days of Tower of Power before they went nuclear power!  Check them out, and enjoy on this fine Monday morning!

    What is Hip?  Montreaux Jazz Festival 2006 with Carols Santana:

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    Travel Day Photos at 30,000 Feet — Texas, Georgia, Florida

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    Happy Saturday to all of you road warriors and lighting industry folks!

    It’s something that people in our industry tend to forget from time to time — remembering that the world is still spinning out there while we’re jetting between shows!  Here at Chauvet Professional we travel quite a bit, so here’s a little something to remind you on this fine Saturday that the world is a beautiful place, so fight for that window seat!

    We recently returned from WFX in Dallas, Texas; check out the fruits of our travel time.

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    The beautiful Omni Hotel in Dallas, conference hotel for WFX 2013.  It’s pixel mapped with goodness:Chauvet-Professional-WFX2013-clouds-11 Chauvet-Professional-WFX2013-clouds-10Have a great Saturday, everyone!

     

    Funky Friday — It’s a JAMES BROWN Video Celebration!

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    HAPPY FRIDAY, lighting industry!

    The day we all LOVE to celebrate every time it comes up — which always strikes as odd in the Entertainment Lighting industry due to the fact that often times, Fridays are just like Mondays, opening up the entire weekend to working and rocking!

    To jazz up your Friday morning, we have an excellent selection of funky and jammin’ James Brown videos to boost your productivity!  Happy James Brown-ing!

    James Brown:  Living in America!

    James Brown:  I Feel Good (complete with the “let’s beckon the Godfather of Soul intro!)

    …and something EXTRA awesome, James Brown on SOUL TRAIN, the full performance!!  This is some high speed James Brown, we hope you enjoy it!

    Have an EXCELLENT Friday!!!

    Thanks to Wikipedia for the photo credit!

    Ovation LED at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts – Load-in Photos!

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    crest-theatre-delray We had a great time yesterday with the awesome crew at the Crest Theatre at the Delray Beach Center for the Performing Arts — we spent the afternoon loading in some Ovation LED fresnels, LED ellipsoidals, and LED cyc washes into the venue with technical director Holland Ryan and his excellent crew! Check out some candids of the day, we had a blast — and no one got burned from hot fresnels, lekos and cyc cells because our LED line is cooler than a jazz bass player! crest-theatre-20 crest-theatre-4 crest-theatre-2 crest-theatre-22 crest-theatre-7 crest-theatre-23 crest-theatre-5 crest-theatre-15 crest-theatre-19 crest-theatre-18 crest-theatre-21

    Gary Clark Jr. Playing BRIGHT LIGHTS on the Chauvet Professional Blog!

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    Happy Thursday, lighting industry!  One more day until that thing we all love…  the weekend!  Whether you’ve got shows this weekend or just shows on the couch, we’ve all got one more day of the week before we get to that coveted two-day bit of peace we all love to wait for all week!

    We’ve got something extra special and rocking for you this morning…  from the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Gary Clark Jr. playing Bright Lights!  What a great tune from a fun artist.  We hope this gets your morning jumping, grooving, and rocking!

    SWAG TUESDAY at Chauvet Professional!

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    It’s a special day at Chauvet Professional — we’re starting SWAG TUESDAYS on the Chauvet Professional Facebook page, where all you have to do to enter is LIKE us on Facebook and SHARE our page with your people!

    Every Tuesday, we’re going to be picking three names to receive an awesome Chauvet Professional t-shirt and a great pair of Chauvet Professional TRUSST work gloves!  These gloves are solid, we use them in our toolkits to load in Chauvet Professional trade shows.  Great gloves!

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    LIKE Chauvet Professional on Facebook, then SHARE our page with your friends.  it’s that easy!  We’ll pick three people next week to receive gloves and a t-shirt, so tell your people to LIKE us and SHARE our page!

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