Reddit mentions of Concert Lighting, Third Edition: Techniques, Art and Business

• Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, and Entertainment
  
  
• A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting Third Edition
  
  
• Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life
  
  
• The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook
  
  
• Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business
  
  
• Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting (Great theatrical resource for history and theory, and beautiful photographs.)
  
  
• Bullet Proof ... I Wish I Was: The Lighting & Stage Design of Andi Watson (The text reads like an design student's pseudo-intellectual wet dream, but the pictures are great.)
  
  
• Photometrics Handbook
  
  
• Stage Design: Concerts, Events, Ceremonies and Theater

As others have said contacts are the key. Try local production companies they often supply the gear for the concerts and have great contacts. Two must read books are:

1. Concert Lighting by James Moody http://www.amazon.com/Concert-Lighting-Techniques-Art-Business/dp/0240806891
   
   
2. A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting by Steve Shelly http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Stage-Lighting-Edition/dp/0415812003
   
   good luck