Industry Leaders Stepping Up to Support the 20th Parnelli Awards

LAS VEGAS — The Parnelli Awards Board of Advisors are pleased to announce that, as reservations open for the 20^th awards gala and voting for the Indispensable Technology (“IT”) Awards get underway, the roster of official Parnelli sponsors also continues to grow. The latest addition: LED display manufacturer INFiLED.

“The magnanimous generosity of those industry leaders who have stepped up to support this show has been inspiring,” says Parnelli Executive Producer/Publisher Terry Lowe. “They are the ones who make the Parnelli Awards possible.”

The list of official sponsors for the 20^th Parnelli Awards, which will take place at the Anaheim Hilton Hotel’s Pacific Ballroom on June 3 during the NAMM convention, starts with the returning Platinum sponsor, Group One Ltd. (DiGiCo). Gold Sponsors include 4Wall Entertainment, All Access Staging & Productions, Bandit Lites, Elation Professional, G2 Structures, Gallagher Staging, Harman Professional, MEGA-Lite, Meyer Sound, NAMM, NovaStar, Pyrotek Special Effects, Robe, Rock-It Global, Screenworks/NEP Live Events, Solotech, Sound Image, Special Event Services (SES), Stageline and StrictlyFX.

Silver sponsors include Advanced Entertainment Services, Brown Note Productions, Hemphill Brothers Coach Company, INFiLED, On Tour Logistics, See Factor and Ultratec Special Effects. Cocktail sponsors include Chauvet Professional, Shockwave Cargo and Tyler Truss. Production partners include Access Event Solutions, Atomic and Technical Productions Inc. (TPI).

Garth Brooks showed up to the 19th Annual Parnelli Awards – who knows who will come for the 20th? Here he is with Terry Lowe and Michael Strickland.

Along with the “IT” Awards for lighting, video, staging and audio products, the 20th Annual Awards will honor three giants in our industry with career achievement awards: David Bernstein of Rock-It Cargo (Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award); Peter Morse, pioneering lighting designer (Parnelli Visionary Award); and Sam Berkow, audio game-changer who created SMAART technology (Parnelli Audio Innovator Award).

“This is going to be a very special show, not only because of these three amazing live event industry trailblazers, but because seeing old and new friends in person and networking is something we all need right now,” added Lowe. “It will be an extraordinary evening, and it’s all made possible by these forward-looking companies who know how important this 20th gala event is.”

For more information, visit parnelliawards.com. You can reserve your seat (or table) at parnelliawards.com/reservations. And Parnelli sponsorships are still available. For more information, call or email Greg Gallardo at at 818.216.5336 and gregg@timelesscom.com.