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  Strong Scottish Support for Third Edition of PLASA Focus Glasgow
Scotland's live events and festivals sector throw its weight behind the third edition of the hugely successful PLASA Focus Glasgow, which returns to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Center (SECC) January 18 - 19, 2017. The ...
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Aerosmith's Joe Perry to Receive Les Paul Award at 32nd Annual NAMM TEC Awards
As part of its 32nd annual NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards (NAMM TEC Awards), the NAMM Foundation announces that rocker Joe Perry will receive the prestigious Les Paul Award. The annual award is given on ...
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Proteus Best Debuting Product at Successful LDI for Elation Professional
Elation Professional enjoyed what might possibly be its most successful LDI show to date with an extremely busy booth and just as busy demo room while the company's new series of IP-rated moving lights, Proteus, won an ...
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elektraLite Shines the Spotlight and Turns Heads with New ML-902
Making its official debut at the recent LDI 2016 show in Las Vegas, elektraLite's new ML-902 is a full-featured moving head profile spot luminaire powered by a bright 120W cool white (6,500K) COB LED that delivers an output ...
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Hot New ADJ Lighting to Hit the Sunshine State
Come see what's new with ADJ! Following the successful launch of 13 exciting new products at the recent LDI 2016 trade show, ADJ and DuraTruss/Global Truss America will be hosting a New Products Open House at the ...
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Showfile Ltd. Announces a New Contributor from the World of Fine Art
Showfile Limited, the distributor of digital scenery, video, and still images for theatre projection and television chroma-key green screen, has announced the addition of artist and designer Nancy Wood as a major new content ...
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K-array Welcomes Global Network of Distributors in Italy for Annual Meeting
On October 20, 2016, K-array invited its network of partners to attend the annual global distributor meeting at its headquarters in hills of Tuscany, Italy. The GDM provided the opportunity for distributors to deep dive into K-array' ...
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The 1975 Soars to Arenas with 84 GLP X4 Bar 20s
A key member of Los Angeles' leading lighting design collective, Seven Design Works, Tobias Rylander has been making extensive use of GLP's award-winning X4 Bar 20 LED battens to illuminate various touring lighting ...
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GLS Calls on Chauvet to Add Sizzle to East London's New Wringer + Mangle
Even by the standards of chic East London, the new Wringer + Mangle club stands out for its pulsating atmosphere and high-energy entertainment. Making a critical contribution to both is a dynamic lighting kit fitted by GLS that ...
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Harman Professional Solutions Supports "Song of the Human" Sound Installation in New York
Harman Professional Solutions announces it is supporting "Song of the Human," a performance and sound installation by acclaimed British composer Pete M. Wyer. The new composition premiered on October 12 at a free concert in the ...
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Technotrix Takes Control at Riot Fest with Martin Audio MLA
Returning to its new home in Douglas Park for the second year in a row, Riot Fest featured four stages of Martin Audio provided by Technotrix including the main Riot and Roots stages equipped with MLA. ...
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D.A.S. Audio Delivers Big at Opening of National Museum of African American History and Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum. Located on the National Mall, it has close to 37,000 objects in its collection related to such subjects as community, family, the ...
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Theatre in Review: A Life (Playwrights Horizons)
Is there is a more consistently surprising playwright than Adam Bock? Each of his plays seems to spring from its own unique well of inspiration. The sinister suspense of The Receptionist, the stunning sexual encounter at the ...
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Theatre in Review: Tick, Tick...Boom! (Keen Company at Theatre Row)
Johnny, we hardly knew ye: One of the most stunning theatre stories of our time is that of the songwriter/librettist Jonathan Larson, who for years labored in obscurity, then died suddenly the night before the first preview, at New ...
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Goddard Group Announces Slate of New Projects
In conjunction with IAAPA 2016 in Orlando, Florida, Hollywood-based entertainment design firm Goddard Group has unveiled new details about the company's roster of upcoming immersive projects across Asia, North America, and ...
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Roscolux #359 -- the Color that Keeps on Giving
On the show floor at LDI October 21, Rosco Laboratories presented a check from the sales of Roscolux #359 Medium Violet to Behind the Scenes, the charity that assists entertainment technology professionals in need due ...
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Powersoft Sponsors New PAcalculate App
Powersoft announces that it is sponsoring the multi-platform PAcalculate app, which runs on mobile devices such as Android, iOS, Windows-Phone, Blackberry -- including smartphones and tablets. ...
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Rose Brand Inc. Introduces Räder Busch Hinges, Nicopress Wire Rope Cutters, and LiftAll Bucket Slings
With the release of the Rose Brand hardware catalog V-6, the company rolled out Räder Busch hinges, Nicopress wire rope cutters, and LiftAll five-gallon bucket slings.
The Räder Busch hinges (http://bit ...
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David Lemmink Joins Solotech
In an ongoing commitment to the global touring market, Solotech announces that David Lemmink joins its rental division as director of engineering.
Lemmink has over 30 years of experience in the entertainment, broadcast, and ...
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Show Distribution Corp. Announces Thierry Pouliot Fletcher as Director of Business Development
Show Distribution Corporation, a company specializing in the fabrication, distribution, and installation of scenic equipment, theatrical rigging, and automation for the show business and entertainment industry, announces the ...
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Pulsar Factory Has a Second LED Installation Surpassing 100,000 Hours of Operation
Back in May 2003 Pulsar Light installed their own LED lighting on the front of the building, confident in its reliability, longevity, and durability. Twelve Chroma Panels were installed on the south-facing front of the factory ...
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McLaren Engineering's Teams with Cirque du Soleil La Nouba for Creative City Project Performance
McLaren Engineering Group, a full-service engineering firm with offices throughout North America, including Orlando, Florida, was tasked with adapting Cirque du Soleil La Nouba's Bamboo Aerial Act for use in a stunning ...
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Shawn Mendes Builds His Sound with Adamson
Up and coming Canadian singer-songwriter Shawn Mendes recently toured the United States and Canada with an Adamson E-Series sound reinforcement system provided by Cleveland, Ohio-based Eighth Day Sound. ...
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Chauvet Professional's Rogue RH1 Hybrids Rock Garth Brooks' Yankee Stadium Concert
Mickey Mantle, Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter ... many of baseball's greatest legends have experienced butterflies in their stomachs the first time they entered the colossus that is Yankee Stadium. Apparently so too do country music ...
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Blue Man Group Takes Freespeak II and HelixNet to Las Vegas and on World Tour
The world-renowned Blue Man Group (BMG), the anarchic trio of silent bald-and-blue stage performers, has adopted two sets of Clear-Com's FreeSpeak II digital wireless intercom systems and HelixNet digital network partyline system ...
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Tannoy QFlex Tames Acoustics for Albuquerque Church
The sanctuary at Central United Methodist Church, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a long, shot-gun style room that seats up to 1,000 congregants at every service. The room features traditional architecture with an abundance of hard ...
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Theatre in Review: Love, Love, Love (Roundabout Theatre Company)
Decade after decade, selfishness never goes out of style; so goes the message of Love, Love, Love. Mike Bartlett, last seen in New York with his "future history" play, King Charles III, returns with a once-over ...
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Dante Training Program to be Offered at the 2017 NAMM Show
Demonstrating a continued commitment to serve its community of professional audio members and attendees, the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) has announced it will feature Dante training and certification ...
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Lectrosonics Introduces the DBa Digital Belt Pack Transmitter
Lectrosonics introduces the DBa digital belt pack transmitter as part of the DSW (digital secure wireless) microphone system. Featuring 24 bit/48kHz digital audio for pristine sound quality, the DBa is ideal for use in theaters, ...
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TC Furlong Hosts Sixth Digital Console Expo
TC Furlong, Inc. will host its sixth Digital Console Expo on Tuesday, November 29 between 3:00 - 8:30pm. Manufacturers include Allen & Heath, Ashley Audio, Avid, DigiCo, Mackie, Midas, PreSonus, QSC, Roland, SSL Live, ...
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PixelFLEX Announces a New Partnership with SpaceView
In an effort to offer their clients an even greater understanding of how LED video can transform any environment, the award-winning LED video manufacturer PixelFLEX announces a new partnership with SpaceView. As an augmented ...
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CAST Group's CEO and BlackTrax Among Canada's Finest Innovators
Gilray Densham, owner and CEO of CAST Group, has won an Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award, a prestigious innovation award in Canada.
Densham has been awarded the David E. Mitchell Award of Distinction, the second highest ...
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Double Exposure Pays Off for Chauvet Professional at LDI
LDI 2016 was twice as nice for Chauvet Professional, as the company's new freestanding theatrical lighting demonstration booth drew large and appreciative crowds throughout the three-day show. Located across the aisle from ...
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Klark Teknik 1176-KT Now Shipping
Klark Teknik announces the shipping of its 1176-KT FET-style compressor marking homage to the classic 1176LN model. With an entirely modernized and discrete signal path utilizing custom-engineered Midas input and output ...
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Five More Audiologists Enter Sensaphonics Gold Circle
On October 7 - 8, the experts in safe sound at Sensaphonics, makers of in-ear monitors and hearing protection products, held its final Gold Circle seminar of 2016. Five audiologists from across the country came to Chicago for the ...
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Durham Marenghi Picks Robert Juliat Lancelot and Cyrano for Rio 2016 Olympics
Lighting designer Durham Marenghi chose Robert Juliat followspots for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games, employing 10 Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HMI followspots and four Robert Juliat Cyrano 2500W HMI followspots for the ...
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Midas Pro2 Delivers Winning Streak with Glen Hansard
As one of Ireland's most successful musicians, Glen Hansard has built a solid 25-year reputation on his emotive songwriting and captivating live performances. This year, touring has been big on the agenda. After completing a European stint ...
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O.A.R. Tours with Bandit Lites
American rock band O.A.R. recently wrapped their summer tour with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites. The tour coincided with the band's 20th anniversary complete with a double compilation album entitled XX released ...
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K-array Chosen for Historic Gran Teatro de la Habana in Cuba
The Gran Teatro de La Habana is located in the Paseo del Prado in the heart of the capital city of Cuba. It is located within the Palace of the Galician Center, which was built as a place of social reunion for the Galician immigrants in ...
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Theatre in Review: Duat (Soho Rep at Connelly Theater)
In the first act of Duat, the performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones delves into his past, examining his family and contradiction-filled upbringing with a novelist's eye. In the second half he...well, I don't really ...
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Robe Enjoys Busy Award Winning LDI
Robe enjoyed an action-packed LDI expo in Las Vegas, this year all the more memorable for collecting a coveted 2016 Parnelli award in the "Indispensable Lighting Technology" category for the hugely successful BMFL ...
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Rose Brand Inc. Posts Blog Article on How to Clean Curtains, Cycs, and Nettings
End users often wonder how to clean their curtains, cycs, and nettings. Now, Rose Brand has created a blog article at http://bit.ly/cleaningfabrics to instruct them. The article describes how cleaning is important to maintain the ...
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Bandit Lites Named Lighting Company of the Year
Bandit Lites is celebrating another remarkable year as it was once again named "Lighting Company of the Year" at the 16th annual Parnelli Awards. Hosted by Grammy-nominated composer/guitarist Andrew Below, the yearly gala ...
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Six Schuler Shook Projects Receive IES Awards of Merit
Schuler Shook's lighting designers received recognition from the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) for their recent lighting designs. The IES bestowed on Schuler Shook six awards of merit for lighting designs across a ...
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TEA Delivers Successful SATE 2016 Conference on Experience Design
"'Best SATE ever' is the phrase I heard again and again from delegates during and after the conference," said TEA president, Steve Birket. "The three SATE co-chairs: Traci Klainer (Luce, an illuminating subsidiary of ...
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Powersoft to Provide Users with Free Training from Experts Dave Rat and Steven Kemland via Webinars
Powersoft, a manufacturer of professional power amplifiers, is furthering its commitment to providing cutting-edge training for users of its industry-leading amplification technology with a series of free webinars. New webinars, ...
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Listen Technologies Appoints Audio Biz as Manufacturers Representative
Listen Technologies, a provider of assistive listening products for more than 17 years, has partnered with Audio Biz, a manufacturer representative firm, to drive sales of Listen Technologies products in Northern and Central ...
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Adlib New Glasgow Warehouse Launch is a Big Success
Over 150 guests attended the launch of Adlib's new warehouse and office facility in Glasgow which took place last week.
Located on an industrial estate a stone's throw from Glasgow International Airport, the event offered locally ...
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From Stage to Studio, Top LDs Visualize their Designs with Capture
An increasing number of lighting designers have turned to Capture lighting design software to visualize their designs and help sway clients. One advocate is lighting designer Jason Robinson, who uses Capture to create virtual ...
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DPA Microphones Heats Up the Stage with Latin American Superstar J. Balvin
As a live and studio sound engineer, one of the challenges that John Buitrago faces daily is maintaining balance between the final studio production and the live elements of the band on tour, especially the drums. For Latin American ...
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Ben Rector Tours with "Brand New" Stealth Core 2 DiGiCo SD9s
Ben Rector's career is a textbook case of what the new music industry landscape looks like: a sea of independent musicians touring and working hard to break through public consciousness when up against major label-backed artists. The Tulsa ...
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Eiki Projectors Deliver Clarity at Calvary Aurora
Founded in December of 1999 as a small non-denominational church, Calvary Aurora is one of the many affiliates of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, California, which today is home to some 30,000 believers. Calvary Aurora is home to a wide ...
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Camp Jam Rocks Out with TASCAM US-20x20
Musicians who grew up before Camp Jam came along can only wish they had been luckier. Available as a five-day summer day camp and as a six-day overnight camp, Camp Jam gives kids and teens the chance to learn from and perform with ...
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Theatre in Review: Sell/Buy/Date (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center Stage II)
I didn't see Sarah Jones' debut piece, Bridge and Tunnel, in 2004, so for some of you I may be stating the obvious, but still it needs to be said: When it comes to the multiple-character solo show format, the lady simply has ...
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Winners of LDI Awards Announced
The LDI Awards were given out Saturday night at LDI, the annual trade show held in Las Vegas, October 17 - 23.
The Paky Award, named after Pasquale Quadri, founder of the Italian lighting manufacturer Clay Paky ...
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Lighting and Video Designers Are Invited to Become Part of Tupac Martir's Lux Festival 2017, Colombia
Light magician and creative director, Tupac Martir, has announced his latest creative project -- Lux Festival; a light and video showcase where the dynamic canvas for the adventurous event is the colonial architecture and cobbled ...
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Mega-Lite Introduces the O Blinder 400
The O Blinder 400 was designed for temporary outdoor and indoor production featuring four punchy, pixel-controlled LED blinders. The fixture is capable of attaching multiple blinders together to cover different areas with targeted coverage ...
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Clark Williams Appointed Executive Vice President for Christie
Christie, a company that helps customers create the world's best shared experiences, announces that Clark Williams has been appointed executive vice president in charge of a new Christie team, content management and ...
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EAW Expand Applications Engineering Team
Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) announces the addition of Bryan DiFabio to the application engineering team at the company's Whitinsville, Massachusetts headquarters. The announcement was made by Adam Shulman, director of ...
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The Future of Audio Pops Up in New York City
Audio specialist Sennheiser is inviting New Yorkers to journey into the future of audio, with the opening of its new SoHo pop-up store. Open up to end of February starting from October 21, it is a destination for truly unique ...
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Theatre in Review: Plenty (The Public Theater)
In his 1978 drama, Plenty, David Hare gave us one of the most fascinating -- and disturbing -- heroines in modern dramatic literature. When we first meet Susan Traherne, we can't be sure she hasn't murdered the naked ...
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Harman Professional Solutions Completes the Picture with the Martin VDO Face 5
HARMAN Professional Solutions introduces the Martin VDO Face 5 video panel, a 5mm video panel for outdoor and indoor applications. The VDO Face 5 creates a complete visual solution when mixed with other Martin LED video products, ...
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Christie Pandoras Box 6.0 and Widget Designer 6.0 Mark their Official Launch at LDI 2016
The new Christie Pandoras Box 6.0 media server is officially launching at the LDI 2016 show in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Pandoras Box system combines the newest rendering technology with intuitive media and show control. ...
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Pliant Technologies Highlights CrewCom -- An Industry-Changing Intercom at LDI 2016
Pliant Technologies, the new professional products division of CoachComm, is featuring CrewCom, an innovative professional wireless intercom product, at LDI 2016 (Booth 1780). CrewCom offers the industry's highest ...
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Spotrack -- Follow-Spotting for the Modern World at LDI 2016
Spotrack, the innovative system that turns moving lights into followspots, allowing one human operator to follow a performer with up to twenty lights, will be on show in Las Vegas from October 21-23rd, as part of this year's LDI
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2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards Honorees Announced
Four theater artists will be honored by the Henry Hewes Design Awards Committee during the presentation of its 2016 Awards in a luncheon ceremony to be held November 7, 2016. In honor of the late Jane Hewes, who worked on the ...
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ADJ Group Expands with Opening of New Facility Near Mexico City
In order to adapt to a growing and changing Mexican market for entertainment technology, the ADJ Group announce the opening of a new distribution center facility near Mexico City that will serve all ADJ Group brands: ADJ, ...
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InLight Gobos Releases New Website
InLight Gobos has just released its new responsive mobile friendly website. The new website allows for faster, easier navigation and ordering through mobile devices, the company says. The site gives users access anywhere at any time ...
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MUSIC Appoints Jamie O'Callaghan to Lead TANNOY's Global Sales
TANNOY, part of Music's brand portfolio, announces the appointment of Jamie O'Callaghan as head of global sales for its lifestyle division. O'Callaghan's vast experience in worldwide distribution and his tremendous ...
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Middle Atlantic Earns Patent for Essex QAR Series Rack Design
Middle Atlantic Products announces it has secured patent number 9,301,605 from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its Essex QAR Series Rack. Featuring an innovative approach to rack design that speeds up integration and ...
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Sennheiser Expands SpeechLine Digital Wireless Range
Audio specialist Sennheiser is expanding its SpeechLine Digital Wireless system with new products that further enhance its flexibility, including two fully wireless Tablestand units, a Qi-based wireless charging solution and a new ...
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More Jewels for Robe
Quality, innovation and serious WOW factors are all core philosophies defining Jewel, the Hakkasan Group's newest night destination venue in Las Vegas, right in the heart of the Aria Resort & Casino ... a stunning looking space ...
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AV Stumpfl Wins Upper Austrian Award of Innovation
Upper Austria is an innovative state and is a leading business location in the global environment. Its success in advanced technologies and innovative products, people and services is honored and celebrated with the Upper Austrian State ...
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Theatre in Review: She Stoops to Conquer (The Actors Company Theatre at Theatre Row)
Everyone involved with TACT's revival of She Stoops to Conquer wants you to have a good time; this may be the most solicitous cast in in town. Before the play begins, the actors drift into the house, welcoming us and thanking us for ...
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Philips Lighting to Launch an Array of New Entertainment Products at LDI 2016
Philips Lighting announces it will launch a raft of entertainment lighting on booth #1115 at the LDI Las Vegas exhibition, one of the USA's most prominent entertainment technology trade shows, taking place October 21-23 at ...
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Texas Scenic Company to Complete Acquisition of Pook Diemont & Ohl and acouStaCorp
Texas Scenic Company (TSC) announces that it is proud to welcome Bronx-based stage equipment contractor Pook Diemont & Ohl, Inc (PDO) and variable acoustic banner manufacturer acouStaCorp LLC to its family of brands ...
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Christie Fosters Creativity Without Limits at LDI 2016
The power of unlimited creativity will be unleashed at the Christie booth during the LDI 2016 show at the Las Vegas Convention Center October 21-23. Christie is highlighting how easy it is for stagers and designers to break ...
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Zylight Named Distributor for LDDE Theatrical, Specialty Lighting
Zylight, a manufacturer of LED lighting solutions, announces it is the exclusive distributor of the LDDE line of theatrical and specialty lighting in North and South America. Manufactured in Austria and known for high output and ...
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Clear-Com Showcases New HelixNet Digital Beltpack at LDI 2016
Clear-Com showcases its new HelixNet beltpack (HXII-BP-X4) for the HelixNet digital partyline intercom systems at LDI 2016. In addition to a lighter-weight, tougher, and more ergonomic design, the HXII-BP-X4 wired beltpack ...
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Surf's Up! Elation Professional Website Receives Full Makeover
Surfing the lighting industry Web just got a lot better with the launch of Elation Professional's newly designed www.elationlighting.com website, a thorough makeover that features a more ...
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Bigfoot and Beacon Line Array's Upgraded to Include AIR Wireless Capability
Anchor Audio, Inc. announces the newest arrival to the Anchor AIR product line -- the Bigfoot and Beacon AIR. The company first released the AIR wireless companion technology in June 2016 at the InfoComm International trade ...
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Analog Way's VIO 4K Converter Updated with New Enhancements
Analog Way releases a new version of the VIO 4K, highlighting ARTIS. ARTIS is a new high-quality scaling technology. Also available is the loop-through for DVI, HD15, and HDMI inputs and the possibility to import or export a ...
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Focusrite Novation Inc. Names Craig Lewis Director of Sales
Focusrite Novation Inc., the wholly owned US subsidiary of the U.K.-based manufacturer Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd., announces the appointment of industry veteran Craig Lewis to the position of director of sales ...
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Desert Trip Festival Shines on with Roger Waters and Syncrolite
A historic gathering of rock's biggest legends known as the Desert Trip festival took place during the first two weekends of October. Showcasing six of the biggest acts in rock history, Desert Trip pushed each of these headliner acts to ...
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Solaris Flares Light Up the Stage at 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival
When the house lights dimmed at the iHeartRadio Festival 2016, the lighting system, designed by Tom Kenny, included one of the largest rigs of TMB's Solaris Flares ever, the company says: 222 of the 1 kilowatt LED fixtures, ...
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Fermaten Trends with Robe
Fermaten is a busy community-based live music and performance venue in Herning, central Denmark, which has a lively entertainment program encompassing around 140 shows a year and a capacity of 700 -- expanded from 500 eight years ago ...
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Theatre in Review: Communion (Urban Stages)
There's a dark cloud hanging over Urban Stages these nights, in the form of Daniel MacIvor's exceedingly grim three-hander. The characters in Communion are coping with loss -- of life, of faith, or of peace of mind -- and ...
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Leo Beranek, Noted Acoustic Engineer, Dies at 102
Leo Bernanek, whose career as an acoustic engineer was part of a life of extended accomplishment, died on October 10 at his home in Westwood, Massachusetts, the New York Times has reported. He was 102. ...
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Winners Announced of Joseph Jefferson Awards
The Joseph Jefferson Awards, given to honor achievement in Chicago's professional theatre scene, were given on Monday, October 17. The design winners are:
Scenic Design - Large
Jeffrey D. Kmiec, Deathtrap, Drury ...
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ADJ Prepares to Unleash More than a Dozen New Lighting Products at LDI 2016
ADJ is preparing to unveil 13 more at this month's LDI trade show in Las Vegas with a focus on value and performance. The new fixtures will continue the evolution of the brand's mid-range product line offering value for event ...
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Morpheus Lights Introduces New Ayrton Luminaires at LDI 2016
Morpheus Lights, the exclusive US distributor of Ayrton LED luminaires, will present a dynamic 240-fixture display of new Ayrton LED products at LDI 2016, booth #2059, at the Las Vegas Convention Center from October ...
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Clear-Com Launches Agent-IC for Android at LDI 2016
Clear-Com has officially launched the Android version of Agent-IC -- the mobile app that enables remote users of Eclipse HX digital matrix intercom systems to securely connect and communicate with their smart devices including ...
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SGM Launches the Much Anticipated G-4 Wash
SGM releases a new addition to G-range of moving heads. The G-4 Wash is a lightweight and compact high-power Fresnel wash light with superb color mixing and very low power consumption, the company says. ...
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Wenger and J.R. Clancy Launch "Creativity of Engineering" Branding at LDI
Wenger Corporation and J.R. Clancy will unveil the US launch of their new branding campaign -- The Creativity of Engineering -- at LDI 2016 this week.
The campaign's theme and messaging will be carried throughout ...
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Martin Audio Delivers Significant Upgrade to MLA Software
Martin Audio has announced an upgrade to Display, the software brain of the MLA Series. This represents what R&D director, Jason Baird, now describes as "the world's most accurate prediction and optimization array software, ...
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LS Media Scores Avid Hat Trick
An Avid agent for the last 10 years, LS Media has been offering Avid VENUE operator training for the manufacturer's live mixing systems. Now LS Media has added two more Avid distinctions: It has become the exclusive Canadian ...
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Making Its London Debut: Spotrack at Donmar King's Cross
Spotrack, the system that turns moving lights into followspots under the control of a human operator, is now appearing nightly as a key element of the lighting design for the Shakespeare Trilogy, produced by the Donmar ...
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All Important Key Players in the Sector Represented at Prolight + Sound 2017
Once again, Prolight + Sound is set to become the sector's focal point as regards event and AV media technology. The key players from all sections of the industry have announced their intention to exhibit at the event from April 4-7 ...
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Christie Boxer Adds New Dimension for the Radio City Rockettes Live Theatrical Productions
Christie has partnered with Radio City Music Hall to provide its state-of-the-art Boxer 4K30 projectors to enhance and add a new dimension to the world-famous Radio City Rockettes productions, including the upcoming Christmas ...
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University Hall Marks New Era for Performing Arts, Humanities, and Sciences at UMass Boston
The University of Massachusetts Boston held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, October 17, ushering in a new era, and welcoming the public to tour the new arts and humanities building know as University Hall. Set on the shores of Boston ...
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Theatre in Review: Orwell in America (Northern Stage at 59E59)
Considering that he was such a stickler for the facts, it's fascinating that Orwell in America aims to get at the truth of its title character through an entirely fictional set of incidents. To be clear: George Orwell never ...
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SGM Launches a New Battery-driven Wash Light
SGM releases its new compact wash light which has already been preordered in large quantities, the company says. The P-1 is an IP65-rated battery-driven RGBW LED wash/blind/strobe light with a small footprint and high output, ...
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Avolites Gears Up for a Milestone Software Release with Launch of Ai Version 10
Avolites is gearing up to launch the latest update to its Ai software -- Ai version 10 -- which will see an overhauled user interface for a more intuitive experience and new features developed for the real world demands of Coldplay' ...
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Rose Brand Inc. Introduces Sizzle, Multi Sizzle, and Dark Iridescent Showstopper Fabric
With the release of the 2017 Rose Brand Catalog, the company rolled out Sizzle, Multi Sizzle, and Dark Iridescent Showstopper Fabrics. These metallic fabrics are all flame retardant and lightweight. The Sizzle knit fabrics (
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SelbyGuard Rain Protection
SelbyGuard Rain Protection has appointed Inner Circle Distribution (ICD) of Sunrise, FL as exclusive North America distributor for its line of rain hoods and rain domes.
The premium product line, which offers weather ...
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Renkus-Heinz ICONYX Shipping with Dante
Renkus-Heinz announces the immediate availability of new Dante-enabled versions of ICONYX Gen5 and IC Live for Fixed Installation. Iconyx IC Series and IC Live ICL-F Series models are now available in RD versions, offering Dual ...
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Martin Audio Names Brad Stephens Southeast Regional Sales Manager
Martin Audio has appointed Brad Stephens to the position of southeast regional sales manager.
Stephens' duties in this newly created post will include engaging more closely with the company's sales reps and customers in ...
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DPA Microphones -- Win $2,800 for Sharing Your DPA Experience
As part of an exciting contest, DPA Microphones is asking the audio community to tell how they use DPA mics today or how they would have used them if they had DPA mics.They just have to go on the company website, to share their ...
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Avlex and MIPRO Introduce ACT 2400 Series Wireless Systems
Avlex Corporation, the North American distributor of MIPRO products, announces the new MIPRO ACT 2400 Series wireless systems. Consisting of several models encompassing both single- and dual-channel half rack receiver systems ...
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A.C. Lighting Inc. Supplies Jands and Chroma-Q Solutions for BridgePoint Church to Meet Ministry Goals
BridgePoint Church in St. Petersburg, Florida has set the goal of reaching the entire St. Petersburg peninsula by planting ten campuses over ten years. To achieve this, BridgePoint needs to be relevant to the community and fully enable ...
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InLight Gobos Assists in Candyland Projections
InLight Gobos, Dallas Texas has recently completed two projects for Artist: Jay Shinn. The permanent installations were done in the Houston Intercontinental Airport, Houston, TX. The first is named: Celestial Candyland, 2016 ...
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New Rental and Production Company Chooses Robe Pointes and Spikies
Event Lighting is a brand new rental and production company in Centurion near Pretoria, South Africa, offering lighting equipment and design services for all production scenarios plus a fund of knowledge and experience from its ...
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New Products Detailed in Latest Straightpoint Catalog
Straightpoint's global distributor network has received the manufacturer's latest catalog that details new products, including the Wireless Low Headroom Link and Wireless Impact Block. They are among a myriad of other force ...
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Theatre in Review: Daddy Issues (Theatre at St. Clement's)
One thing you can say about Daddy Issues is that, with its cast of swishy gays, kvetching Jews, and drunken Irish, it serves as a veritable compendium of stage clichés, for easy reference. Drama students could also profitably use it ...
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Theatre in Review: Stuffed (WP Theater at McGinn Cazale Theatre)
Having gone legit for the first time in her career, Lisa Lampanelli hasn't so much written a play as convened a coffee klatsch focused on that troublesome trio: women, food, and body image. Prepare yourself for wisecracks about -- ...
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Warren Katz of Global Scenic Services, Dies at 44
Warren Katz, owner of Global Scenic Services, passed away October 14, 2016. He was 44. Katz purchased the Connecticut-based scene shop in 2006, building it up from a 6,000-sq.-ft. facility to 50,000-sq.-ft., and from eight ...
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Three More ESTA Standards Approved, Published
On Tuesday, October 11, the secretary of ANSI's board of standards review issued notices that three more ESTA standards had been approved as American National Standards. They are now published and available on the ESTA ...
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TMB Set to Debut New and Innovative Technology at LDI 2016
At LDI this year, TMB will once again feature new technology in a laid back setting of the TMB lounge at booth 1787. Take a stroll from one product to another or just sit down and relax in the midst of terrific new gear: from ...
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Prolyte to Present Verto Truss at the LDI Show
Prolyte Group will exhibit at the LDI 2016 show October 21 - 23 in Las Vegas in stand 2053, premiering the new Verto truss on the North American continent.
The Prolyte stand will feature several products on display, ...
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Luke Jenks Appointed to Run CODA Audio USA
CODA Audio announces the appointment of Luke Jenks to the position of managing director for CODA Audio in the USA. With more than 20 years industry experience with Meyer Sound Laboratories in the USA and Europe, Jenks brings ...
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Live Design International Teams Up with Girl Scouts to Help Homeless Community
Knowing that the live production industry can be a force for good, Live Design International (LDI) has teamed up with the Girl Scouts of Central West Florida, to help provide items for their "Share the Season" badge ...
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Focusrite's New Clarett OctoPre Offers Eight "Air"-Enabled Mic Pres Plus 192kHz A-D/D-A
Focusrite announces the launch of a new eight-channel mic pre/A-D/D-A, the Clarett OctoPre, designed to allow the rapid addition of eight mic/line inputs and line outputs with the company's successful Clarett range of audio ...
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LOUD Appoints Thom Stalcup to VP of Operations
LOUD Technologies Inc. (LOUD) has announced the appointment of Thom Stalcup to the position of vice president of operations.
Stalcup comes to LOUD with 30 years of experience in operations, engineering, and program ...
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Fermaten Trends with Robe
Fermaten is a busy community-based, live music and performance venue in Herning, central Denmark, which has a lively entertainment program encompassing around 140 shows a year and a capacity of 700 -- expanded from 500 eight years ago ...
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Product Launches, Industry Seminars, and Live Demo Area Set the Stage for Prolight + Sound Middle East 2016
The countdown has begun to the inaugural edition of Prolight + Sound Middle East, with scores of product launches, industry seminars, and a live demo area setting the stage for three days of busy networking at the region's dedicated ...
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LITEC at PLASA London
LITEC was represented at the Area Four Industries UK booth at this year's PLASA Show last month in London. On display were LITEC's high-load fork and end-plated trusses, new heavy-duty "Dado Cube," crowd barriers, the ...
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Legendary SoCal Venue Gets Legendary Sound with Renkus-Heinz
Since opening its doors in 1980, The Coach House has established itself as a landmark of the Southern California music scene.
As founder Gary Folgner observes, Southern Orange County was a much different place 36 years ago. "There ...
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Theatre in Review: The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout Theatre Company/American Airlines Theatre)
The clock is ticking more insistently than ever in Simon Godwin's production of the Anton Chekhov classic, about a landed family on the verge of being dispossessed of its estate. As the once-wealthy, now-fading Ranevskaya and ...
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Theatre in Review: Oh, Hello On Broadway (Lyceum Theatre)
For some reason, the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have taken to playing Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, "legendary bachelors" and superannuated residents of the Upper West Side. Despite being roommates for 40 ...
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DTS Lighting Now a Permanent Fixture at Group One Ltd.
Group One Ltd., the US distributor for Avolites and elektraLite lighting products as well as DiGiCo, Calrec, and other pro audio lines, announces that it has now officially inked a US distribution agreement with ...
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Michael "Mickey" Curbishley Joins TAIT as Senior Vice President of Live Event
TAIT announces that Michael "Mickey" Curbishley has joined their team as the senior vice president of live event.
Curbishley joins TAIT with over 30 years of entertainment experience having most recently served as Global ...
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Take1 Insurance Debuts Live Event Industry's First Comprehensive Insurance Policy Covering Malicious Acts
Take1 Insurance announces the introduction of its Take1 Combined Crisis Cover, the industry's first comprehensive, affordably priced insurance protection policy for the live and special event industry that provides immediate ...
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PixelFLEX to Bring an Augmented Reality Experience to LDI 2016
On October 21, 2016, Nashville-based LED video manufacturer PixelFLEX will launch an Augmented Reality LED video experience at the LDI conference and trade show inside the Las Vegas Convention Center. Located in Room N103, PixelFLEX ...
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ADJ Launches the Focus Spot One: Redefining the Compact Moving Head
Following the success of the popular Focus Spot Three Z, ADJ announces the expansion of the Focus Series with the introduction of the Focus Spot One. Sitting at the start of the Focus line-up, the new Focus Spot One is extremely ...
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Harlequin Floors' Metallic Flooring Takes Stage Space to the Next Level
Harlequin Floors announces Hi-Shine Metallic, the newest addition to their line of high gloss display floors. Hi-Shine Metallic features a reflective metallic surface for a shiny, "mirror" look floor ideal for events, set design, ...
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Robe Premieres New Products at LDI 2016
Robe is ready to rock the LDI 2016 expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center October 21 - 23 on booth 1715 where the featured product will be the new Spiider LED wash beam luminaire -- the next big thing -- from Robe, ...
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Le Maitre Unveils New MVS SMART Haze Machine Featuring Internet of Things Technology at LDI 2016
Le Maitre, a provider of pyro, smoke, haze, and flame, will be unveiling their new MVS SMART at this year's LDI 2016, October 21 - 23 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in booth 1645.
Le Maitre's MVS SMART is the latest ...
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LynTec Sets the Power Control Bar High at LDI 2016
LynTec, a manufacturer of innovative electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting systems, will display its expansive electrical options and new enhancements to its RPC platform at LDI 2016. ...
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Shure Releases Wireless Workbench 6.12 System Control Software
Shure Incorporated announces the release of the latest version of its Wireless Workbench System Control Software -- version 6.12. The update is designed to put maximum power and flexibility into the user's hands. The addition of ...
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Martin Professional and ChamSys Add Support for the CRMX Nova USB Dongle
LumenRadio, a manufacturer of reliable wireless technologies for the entertainment industries, announces that Martin Professional and ChamSys Ltd. have chosen to add support in their respective control software for the ...
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Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Third Annual Vectorworks Design Scholarship
As part of Vectorworks' commitment to education and the future of creatives, global design and BIM software developer Vectorworks, Inc. announces the third annual Vectorworks Design Scholarship. Beginning now, current ...
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Theatre in Review: Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (Lynn Redgrave Theater)
You could say that Chris Gethard's solo piece is about his career in suicide. As he freely admits, from the age of 14 he has been dogged by panic attacks and pervasive feelings of sadness. There was, he insists, no reason for this: ...
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Theatre in Review: Heisenberg (Manhattan Theatre Club/Samuel J. Friedman Theatre)
Heisenberg begins on a meet-cute note when Georgie Burns, a woman in her early 40s, approaches Alex Priest, a man in his 70s, and kisses him on the back of his neck. They are total strangers, in London's St. Pancras Station. ...
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Cineo Lighting Showcases Full Array of Products at LDI 2016
Cineo Lighting, a producer of lighting systems available for the motion picture, television, and photography industries, will be exhibiting its latest new products at LDI 2016 October 21 - 23 in stand 1044. These products ...
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Staging Concepts Introduces the Moda Seating Wagon
Staging Concepts, a provider of custom staging solutions, has launched the Moda Seating Wagon, its latest modular seating solution for performing arts venues. Designed to provide additional audience seating for any size venue, this ...
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Roland Professional AV Helps Bring "The Future. Redefined." to the World
On September 9, 2016, otherwise known as "#909day," Roland premiered more than 30 new products to a global audience during a first-of-its-kind, 24-hour streaming online music festival -- "The Future. Redefined." -- featuring live ...
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Audinate Updates Dante Via with Multichannel and ASIO Support
Audinate, creator of the audio networking technology Dante, announces the immediate worldwide availability of Dante Via version 1.1, a major update to the popular audio networking software. New features of this update ...
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Penn Elcom Expands Cable and Rack Manufacturing in Hastings
Penn Elcom has expanded the capacity of its specialist cable and 19" rack manufacturing facility in Hastings, east Sussex, UK, with a substantial investment in new cable-cutting and stripping machinery from Schleuniger. ...
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Airstar Lighting Solutions Reach New Heights at Rio Olympics and Paralympics
Airstar, the inventor and manufacturer of balloon lighting solutions, was once again involved in what is arguably the most important sports event of the year: The 2016 Rio Olympics.
For the 2016 milestone sporting event, Airsta ...
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Chauvet Professional's Rogue R1 FX-B Gives moe. More Looks
People who go to a moe. concert thinking they know what to expect, have probably never been to a moe. concert before. The quintet from upstate New York epitomizes the freewheeling improvisational unpredictability of jam band music, as it ...
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Christie Technology Helps LUMA Projection Arts Festival Draw Record Crowds to a Resurgent Binghamton, New York
Nine Christie Roadster HD20K-J 3DLP projectors showcased local artists and their creations -- including the area's own Johnny Hart, creator of the beloved BC comic strip -- onto five historic buildings at the annual LUMA Projection ...
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White Light Walks the Line for Million Dollar Quartet Tour
Following its success in the West End, Las Vegas, Canada, and on Broadway, the smash-hit Million Dollar Quartet is returning to the UK for a brand-new touring production. This energetic musical tells the story of the afternoon in ...
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Advanced Concepts & Designs Helps Downtown Vegas' New Hot Spot to Rock
Las Vegas-based commercial audio, video, lighting, and control systems contractor Advanced Concepts & Designs recently completed the design and installation of the audio, video, lighting, and control systems at Freedom Beat, a new ...
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DiGiCo SD5 and SD10 Consoles Keep the Australian Pink Floyd Show a High Flier
With over four million tickets sold to concerts that have taken place in 35 countries, the Australian Pink Floyd Show has amazed millions of concertgoers with an uncanny replication of the classic UK band's legendary live show. ...
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SSL Live Proves Its Worth for the Pope
During a recent week-long tour of Mexico, Pope Francis addressed record audiences at five venues around the country, accompanied by SSL Live L500 and L300 consoles in a variety of roles.
Miguel Angel Tapia Trujillo was the ...
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Theatre in Review: Public Enemy (The Pearl Theatre Company)
"Does anyone here have one good word to say about politicians?" So says Jimonn Cole, mic in hand, speaking directly to the audience at the Pearl. He is ostensibly playing Thomas Stockmann, the eye of the hurricane in the Henrik ...
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Theatre in Review: Inner Voices (Premieres/TBG Theatre)
If you need any further proof that musical theatre is in fine fettle these days, try a visit to Inner Voices. This trio of solo musicals brings together new and veteran talents to tackle conventional material, resulting in ...
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ETC Celebrates 40th Anniversary with New Product Releases at LDI
The LDI trade show has played a big part in ETC's history, being the site of countless product launches that have propelled the company forward. In a nod to that tradition, ETC will mark its 40th anniversary at this year's ...
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Chauvet Professional Plans High Impact Launches at LDI
At the Chauvet Professional and Ovation LDI booths (1315 and 1515 respectively) the company is introducing an impressive collection of new fixtures with unique performance features that the company says will likely have them ...
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"MonitorMix" for Android Now Available for Yamaha CL/QL/TF Digital Mixing Consoles
Yamaha Corporation Japan announces the release of the "MonitorMix" application for Android. "MonitorMix for Android" is now available via free download from Google Play.
The "MonitorMix" application for Yamaha CL, QL, and TF ...
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141st Audio Engineering Society Convention Brings the Best in Professional Audio to Los Angeles
AES Los Angeles 2016 "was a runaway success," proclaimed Phil Wagner, president of exhibitor Focusrite Novation Inc. "We were busy non-stop the entire time with high-quality clientele. It will be memorable as one of ...
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Audinate Expands Offices in Sydney and Portland
To support the rapid adoption of Dante audio networking technology, Audinate has expanded its Australian global headquarters in Sydney, Australia, and more recently, its North America headquarters in Portland, Oregon. The ...
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Mackie Master Fader v4.5 Now Available for Free Download
Mackie announces the immediate availability of Master Fader v4.5, the control app for their DL32R, DL1608, and DL806 digital mixers. Now supporting the new Mackie AXIS digital mixing system, Master Fader v4.5 is packed with new ...
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GDS Appoints Jands Australian Distributor
GDS announces the appointment of Jands as its exclusive distributor in Australia. With a headquarters and manufacturing facility in Sydney, a factory in Melbourne, and offices in Brisbane and Perth, Jands is an established ...
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Clay Paky Mythos and Sharpys Shine at 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden
Clay Paky Mythos and Sharpys lit up the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) at New York City's iconic Madison Square Garden. Lighting designer Bob Barnhart used a large complement of the fixtures for the live telecast, ...
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WI Moves the Monolith for Beyoncé
Beyoncé's Formation world tour is one of the highest-profile and most talked about of the year so far, with everyone wowed by the massive "Monolith," a four-sided LED / video sculpture that moves and rotates and is right at the ...
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Soundbox Productions Adds Elation ACL Series to Inventory
Soundbox Productions of Hamilton, Ontario has added Elation Professional ACL Series effect lights to its growing inventory of Elation products. Soundbox acquired ACL Bar LED battens in August which join a purchase of ACL 360 ...
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Hank Williams Jr. Gets Rowdy with Bandit Lites
Country music legend Hank Williams Jr. is wrapping up his co-headlining tour with Chris Stapleton with a lighting package provided by Bandit Lites.
Lighting designer Bart Burnham shared the vision for the production came ...
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L-Acoustics KS28 Delivers a Fitting Final Show for Kyosuke Himuro
The final live show by Kyosuke Himuro, one of Japan's most successful pop singers, was an emotional experience for 50,000 Japanese pop fans, being the very last time that they would see the singer/songwriter on stage. Thanks to L ...
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Theatre in Review: Slumber (Hideaway/House of Yes)
Everyone wants to run away with the circus, it seems. Even as Cirque du Soleil storms Broadway, the Canadian troupe has passed through New York with two more touring shows. Meanwhile, earlier in the season, St. Ann's Warehouse opened Bia ...
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Wenger Corporation in Talks to Acquire SECOA, Inc.
Wenger Corporation of Owatonna, Minn., and SECOA, Inc. of Champlin, Minn., announce that they are in advanced talks to combine the two companies. Under the proposal, the combined entity would be wholly owned and operated by ...
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Elation Professional Gears Up for Huge LDI 2016
Elation Professional will be at LDI, October 20-22 at Booth 2515, at the Las Vegas Convention Center showing a broad line-up of new cutting-edge lighting innovations then head out to the Silver Parking Lot and the LDI Live ...
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GLP Announces Release of New 30W X4 Atom
GLP announces the release of the upgraded 30W version of their X4 atom fixture. Adding a new high power light source into the unit has doubled its brightness, and introduced greater optical efficiencies within the unit, the company ...
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Luminex Debuts LumiSplit Family of DMX/RDM Splitters at LDI 2016
Luminex Network Intelligence will introduce LumiSplit, a new range of robust DMX/RDM splitters, at LDI 2016, the International Live Design show in the Las Vegas Convention Center, October 21-23. Visitors to Luminex booth ...
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Registration Now Open for USITT 2017
Online registration for USITT 2017 March 8-11 in St. Louis is now open. With more than 5,000 attendees and 300 exhibitors expected at the Conference & Stage Expo, early registration and hotel housing reservations are encouraged. ...
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Shure Recognized on Crain's Chicago Business' "Eureka! Chicago's Most Innovative Companies" Top 10 List
Shure has been recognized by Crain's Chicago Business as one of the top ten most innovative companies in the Chicago area. Annually, the publication's "Eureka! Chicago's Most Innovative Companies" list leverages Ocean Tomo, a ...
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PreSonus Releases StudioLive AR USB Hybrid Mixers
PreSonus is now shipping its StudioLive AR USB-series hybrid mixers. Lightweight, versatile, and feature-rich, they are musician's mixers, packed with analog connections and digital tools for live performance and studio use. The ...
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KLANG:fabrik Wins Gold in 2016 PLASA Awards for Innovation
The 2016 PLASA Awards for Innovation were held in September at this year's busy PLASA Show. Hosted by PLASA managing director Peter Heath and presented by PLASA chairman Ed Pagett, the aim of the awards is to ...
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Logic Systems Brings Color to Presidential Debate Site with Chauvet Professional
US presidential debates are serious business, but that doesn't mean they can't also be surrounded by some festive touches. Such was the case at Washington University in St. Louis, host of the second debate between Hillary Clinton ...
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EAW Upgrades Cleveland Indians Fan Experience
Cleveland Indians Stadium, aka Progressive Field, recently replaced the original Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) distributed loudspeaker system with clusters made up of new EAW MQX and MK2391i loudspeakers. Wrightson, Johnson, ...
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A Record-Breaking PA Gets the Word Across at the 2016 WYD
The 2016 World Youth Day drew approximately 2.5 million pilgrims from all over the world to the Campus Misericordiae in Krakow (Poland) and the daunting task of ensuring that not only the music of performers at the event, but in ...
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GLD Installed in Sweden's Royal Chapel
An Allen & Heath's GLD-80 digital mixing system has been installed in the chapel at the Royal Palace of Stockholm in Sweden replacing the incumbent analog mixer.
The Chapel hosts a weekly mass for the Royal Parish, consisting of ...
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Theatre in Review: Holiday Inn (Roundabout Theatre Company/Studio 54)
Holiday Inn arrives with such a winning smile and lively spring in its step that I'm sorry to say that it doesn't put one in more of a holiday mood. But in adapting the 1942 film, a classic of its kind, to the stage, its ...
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Theatre in Review: That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody (DR2 Theatre)
Some shows would seem to be beyond criticism; surely this show's title tells you all need to know, right? It certainly leaves one in little doubt about what to expect on arrival at the DR2, and, to be fair, you get what is promised: a ...
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Artistic Concepts Groups Plans Open House November 11 - 12
Artistic Concepts Group (ACG) in Chantilly, Virginia, a multi-service theatrical provider for the event industry from full-service system sales to parties, is hosting a two-day grand opening of their new location. The dates for the ...
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Online Dante Certification Program Now Available
Audinate, creators of the audio networking technology Dante, announced that Level 1 of the popular Dante Certification program is now available online. This online course allows customers the opportunity to become certified ...
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Audiotonix Announces Partnership and the Appointment of Group One Ltd as the New US Calrec Distributor
Effective immediately, Calrec announces the appointment of Farmingdale, New York-based Group One Limited as its distribution partner for the United States. The announcement comes from James Gordon, CEO of Audiotonix< ...
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Robe PARFect Solution to Light Sistine Chapel Replica
A recent life size replica of the Sistine Chapel was built in the heart of Mexico City adjacent to the "Monumento a la Revolución" (Monument to the Revolution). Housed in a temporary structure, this unique project was the brainchild of ...
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Maxin10sity Leaves Lasting "Legacy" with Karlsruhe Projection Mapping Spectacular
Maxin10sity, the Hungarian projection mapping specialist, is making its mark in Germany, staging one of the longest projection mapping festivals in the world (August 7 -September 20, 2016) in the city of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg ...
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Wolf Trap's Filene Center Upgrades with grandMA2 Lighting Consoles
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, the only unit of the US National Park Service dedicated to presenting the performing arts, has added multiple MA Lighting grandMA2 lighting consoles to its Filene Center. A.C.T ...
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3G AV Upgrades Audio System For Knitting Factory Concert House
The Knitting Factory Concert House in Boise, Idaho, recently underwent an audio upgrade with a new PA system installation by 3G's AV install division.
A part of Knitting Factory Entertainment, which includes other venues in ...
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Toby Keith Takes Bandit Lites on Interstates and Tailgates
Toby Keith knows what his fans want -- more Toby Keith -- and the multiplatinum country singer with more than twenty #1 hits is happy to oblige them as he continues his Interstates and Tailgates tour with a new design and lighting ...
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One Hundred Chauvet Professional Rogue R1 FX-B Fixtures Give Red Bull's Elektropedia Room a Club Atmosphere
The Red Bull Elektropedia Room at Belgium's 10-day Lokerse Feesten festival delivered a high-energy club-like feel with a stunning fast-moving light show designed by Ignace D'haese, Jonas Weyn, and Tijs Coene of Arf & Yes
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Turbosound Flex Array Draws Crowds at Rock Werchter 40th Birthday Blitz
For the third year in a row, Turbosound's Flex Array has been the weapon of choice for Rock Werchter's Jupiler "House of The Bull" stage. Held annually, 150,000 festival goers from all corners of the world descend in the quiet ...
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HSL Breezes the UK on George Benson Tour
UK lighting and visuals rental company HSL supplied lighting equipment and crew to the recent UK tour by iconic soul and jazz singer / songwriter and guitarist George Benson.
Benson, who had his most popular hits in the 1970s ...
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West Shore Church Upgrades to Allen & Heath dLive and ME-1s
Spire AVL of Carlisle, Pennsylvania has replaced an older digital mixer at the West Shore Church in Mechanicsburg with an Allen & Heath dLive S7000 Surface. Spire AVL's Seth Shoemaker explained the upgrade. "The church' ...
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Theatre in Review: I Like It Like That (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater)
Audiences at jukebox musicals can be remarkably forgiving; mostly they just want to hear the songs they know and love. So it is with I Like It Like That, which draws on the salsa hits of the 1970s and stars Tito Nieves ...
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Theatre in Review: The Trial of an American President (Theatre Row)
"What if?" These words are heard repeatedly in The Trial of an American President. What if, indeed: Dick Tarlow's play, written with the research assistance of Bill Smith, imagines a trial of George W. Bush, in ...
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4Wall Acquires Assets of Beame
4Wall Entertainment, a national provider of stage and theatrical services, has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Lititz, Pennsylvania-based lighting, rigging, and labor provider Beame. This is the latest in a ...
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Mountain Productions Announces New Chief Financial Officer
Mountain Productions, Inc., a provider of staging and entertainment event production, announces that Sean Mulvehill, CPA, has been appointed chief financial officer.
Mulvehill is a certified public accountant and previously ...
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Lightware USA Partners with High End Systems on All-in-One Lighting and Video Control Platform
High End Systems, makers of lighting products and control systems, has partnered with Lightware USA to create an all-in-one lighting and video control platform for live events. Lightware USA is the US sales and support office ...
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US Navy Adopts ESTA Standards
The June 2016 edition of NAVFAC P-307, a publication of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Navy Crane Center Weight Handling Program Management, has a new section 13 entitled "Entertainment Hoists." The section calls ...
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New World Symphony Prepares for a 4K Future with Hitachi Cameras
Hitachi Kokusai Electric America Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) has partnered with New World Symphony (NWS), an orchestral academy based in Miami Beach, Florida, to help transition the live production of its world-renowned outdoor WALLCAST ...
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Top Billing at Reading and Leeds for Fall Out Boy and Jands Vista
A Jands Vista console was at the heart of Fall Out Boy's headline performances at the recent Reading and Leeds Festival main stages. The Chicago, Illinois band has spent the past decade working their way up the festivals' bill, and ...
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Jeff Ravitz and Bandit Light Electric Forest Festival
Bandit Lites has accomplished another successful weekend of lighting one of the nation's best musical events: the Electric Forest Festival, the multi-genre musical occasion with headliners including The String Cheese Incident, ...
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Meyer Sound LEO Family Lends Intimacy to Celine Dion's Transatlantic Francophone Tour
For more than a quarter century, Celine Dion has captivated millions worldwide with music that reaches straight for the heart. On her recent arena-scale tour of French-speaking lands on both sides of the Atlantic, Dion relied on a Meyer ...
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Bose Products Chosen for Nashville's The Stillery Restaurant
The Stillery is a locally owned restaurant started by veterans of Nashville, Tennessee's nationally noted culinary scene. It offers Southern comfort food combined, as you might expect in Nashville, with live music. The owners wanted to ...
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Tuacahn Center for the Arts Comes Back to L-Acoustics for Another Decade of Great Sound
One could say that Tuacahn Center for the Arts, the 42,000-sq.-ft. arts center located in the mouth of Utah's Padre Canyon, is steady as a rock. Not surprising since it's located adjacent to the Snow Canyon State Park and features a canyon ...
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Multi-Dimensional Elation Platinum FLX Shines on 2016 AAU Junior Olympic Games Celebration of Athletes
Full service production company GVPmedia, Inc. utilized the multi-functionality of Elation Professional's Platinum FLX moving head on the AAU Junior Olympic Games Celebration of Athletes, using the award-winning hybrid moving ...
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ER Productions Creates Laser Design for Pet Shop Boys Inner Sanctum dates at London's Royal Opera House
As one would expect from a Pet Shop Boys' tour, the first-class set and spectacular production design didn't disappoint, providing the audience with a visual feast worthy of the highbrow location. Body poppers and dancers in inflatable fat ...
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Hiring Independent Contractors vs. Employees: Understand the Difference or Pay the Consequences Session at LDI
This important session on the ever-changing labor laws and classifications is presented by the ESTA Business Resource Group. "Hiring Independent Contractors vs. Employees: Understand the Difference or Pay the Consequences" will ...
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Theatre: Afterplay (Irish Repertory Theatre)
A man and a woman, both of a certain age, meet in a seedy Moscow café one night in the 1920s. They enjoyed their conversation the evening before -- even if the main topics were chapped lips and chilblains -- and they are looking forward to ...
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Evans & Sutherland Presents World's First True8K Digital Full-Dome Demonstration Using Christie Mirage at GSCA
Christie and Evans & Sutherland are major partner-level sponsors of the annual Giant Screen Cinema Association International Conference and Trade Show (GSCA) taking place October 4 - 7 at downtown Toronto's Fairmont ...
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d&b audiotechnik Introduces New Loudspeaker Solutions for Permanent Installation
The new 24S and 24S-D point source loudspeakers from d&b audiotechnik are designed for permanent applications including night clubs, live performance venues, houses of worship, multipurpose centers, and sports venues. The company ...
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ENTTEC Introduces the Phero 33
For designers that have zero patience with dim, bulky, and muddy linear LED units, ENTTEC says the Phero 33 RGB Pixel Bar is the answer. The Phero 33 is a linear LED fixture that's bright, beautiful, and demands to be seen on the ...
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Entry-level RGB White Light Laser System Laserworld EL-230RGB Released
Entry-level laser systems used to be equipped with single color or RG laser sources. The Laserworld EL-230RGB is a new RGB white light laser system with sound-to-light, stand alone, and DMX operation mode. Especially entertainers, mobile ...
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Empire PRO is Now an Authorized Distributor of Mackie Professional Audio Systems
Mackie announces the appointment of Empire PRO as an official Mackie distributor for the USA.
One of the nation's largest distributors of professional audio, video, and lighting equipment, Empire PRO is a provider of full ...
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Danley Introduces the J3-94 -- the Newest Member of the Jericho Horn Family
Tom Danley and his team have engineered the newest member of its massive Jericho Horn Series -- the J3-94 Jericho Horn. Designed for the demanding requirements of stadiums and concert venues, where high impact, high fidelity, and ...
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AMX by Harman Debuts Cost-Effective, Low-Bandwidth 4K Networked AV Solution
Harman Professional Solutions, a provider of networked AV, announces the new AMX N2300 Series of 4K video over IP solutions. This addition to AMX's existing range of 4K products adds an extremely cost-effective 4K video distribution ...
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Chroma-Q Color Force II Receives Special Commendation at PLASA 2016 Awards for Innovation
Chroma-Q launched their new Color Force II range of professional LED luminaires at PLASA 2016 to much interest from visitors. The product received a special commendation at the show's Awards for Innovation -- with judges ...
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Jands Vista Powers Lighting Designs Nominated for 2016 Parnelli Awards
High-profile lighting designers, Rob Sinclair and Chris Reade have been nominated in the 2016 Parnelli Awards "Lighting Designer of the Year" category, for their Peter Gabriel and Dierks Bentley concert tour designs utilizing ...
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Robe Helps Dave Matthews Band Celebrate 25
The Dave Matthews Band played its 25th anniversary tour in the US and Canada this summer. The lengthy annual DMB summer tours have actually acquired legendary status and are known for improvised renditions of their regular songs as much as ...
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White Light Launches a Revolution at the Victoria and Albert Museum
You Say You Want a Revolution? "Records and Rebels 1966 - 1970" is a brand-new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum that explores the era-defining significance and impact of the late 1960s. The era is relived though photography, ...
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PR Live Helps Put Party on the Map
Event technical production solution specialist PR Live supplied stunning large format projection -- using a combination of their new d3 Technologies server and six Christie 20K high powered projectors -- which was ...
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Theatre in Review: Underground Railroad Game (Lightning Rod Special/Ars Nova Theater)
From the Department of Truth is Stranger than Fiction: When Scott Sheppard was in the fifth grade, he took part in a bizarre classroom exercise designed to educate him and his classmates about the horrors of slavery. Known as The ...
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Theatre in Review: The Roads to Home (Primary Stages/Cherry Lane Theatre)
Sometimes I think we have it all wrong when we call Horton Foote a playwright; really, he's a composer, wringing music both merry and melancholy from the everyday conversation of his characters, most of them residents of the ...
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Soho Rep Abruptly Closes Walker Street Space
The Off Off Broadway company Soho Rep has abruptly closed its Walker Street space, complicating the company's future plans and depriving New York's downtown theatre scene of a key venue. The theatre's current tenant, My Name is ...
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Robert Juliat Dalis Cyclight and ETC Eos Consoles Form a Colorful Collaboration
Robert Juliat announces it is the first manufacturer to collaborate directly with ETC to have its award-winning eight-color Dalis cyclight fully calibrated with the Eos family of lighting desks. Operators and lighting ...
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QSC, LLC Acquires Ultra-Stereo Labs, Inc.
QSC, LLC announces the acquisition of Ultra-Stereo Labs, Inc. ("USL"), effective September 30, 2016. The acquisition will allow QSC to offer a portfolio of audio-visual processing and B-chain solutions under the QSC and USL ...
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PixelFLEX Goes on Set with MediaLight Inc.
With over 22 years of experience in motion picture production, MediaLight Inc. is a New York City-based lighting and video design firm in the motion picture industry who has seen a number of revolutionizing technology innovations. ...
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Focusrite Announces Red 8Pre Interface
The Red series of interfaces represents the pinnacle of Focusrite's interface range, and Focusrite announces the launch of Red 8Pre. With 64 inputs and 64 outputs (including a total of 16 analog inputs and 18 analog outputs) and ...
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Allen & Heath Offers More Presets for Microphones
Allen & Heath announces the availability of further ProFactory Mic presets for Audio-Technica microphones, following the successful collaboration with microphone manufacturers, Shure and Sennheiser, to provide ...
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Erika Kulbach Joins Electrosonic as Business Development Consultant and Sales Account Manager
Electrosonic announces that Erika Kulbach has joined the Burbank, California office as business development consultant and sales account manager. She will be responsible for seeking and developing new business and maintaining ...
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Chauvet Professional's Ovation E-260WW IP Is the First IP65 Rated ERS Style Luminaire
With an output greater than that of a 750W HPL ellipsoidal, the Ovation E-260WW IP is bright enough to work effectively at outdoor events, theatrical performances, and concerts. What's more, the new LED fixture from Chauvet Professional< ...
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Adlib Open Event to Inaugurate New Warehouse in Scotland
Entertainment production specialist Adlib inaugurates its new Scottish warehouse in Glasgow with an afternoon / evening event on Thursday, October 13, 2016.
Adlib has invested over £1million in the Scottish operation since its ...
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The First International Video Mapping Festival of Montréal
From October 6th through 8th, Montréal will host its very first festival dedicated to video mapping. With the support of numerous internationally acclaimed creative studios from Montréal, the first edition of MAPP_MTL will emerge at ...
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L-Acoustics Sound Keeps CBC/Radio-Canada's Historic Studio 42 State-of-the-Art
CBC's Studio 42 at Maison Radio-Canada in Montréal is to Canadian television what a legendary room like Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center is to US broadcasting history. Coincidentally first opened 42 years ago, the flagship studio has been ...
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Costa Rica National Theatre Chooses Robe
The stunning Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, the country's historically and culturally significant national theatre located right in the heart of capital San Jose ... has made its first purchase of Robe moving lights ... choosing ...
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Hawaii Church Says "Aloha" to elektraLite
Inspire Waikele Church in Waipahu, Oahu needed a lighting system for two distinct purposes: for its live singing and live streaming. So when the church team learned that they could accomplish both with one versatile lighting system that ...
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Theatre in Review: What Did You Expect? (The Public Theater)
The newspapers, airwaves, and Internet are so full of reports trying to explain how this country got into its current predicament that, really, you could spend all day trying to take them in. But more and more, I'm relying on Richard ...
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PLASA 2016 Enjoys Successful Return to West London
The decision to relocate the PLASA show back to Olympia proved to be a great move, securing the shows continued future as a key event on the industry's calendar. The quality of the audience was strong across all three days, with 60% ...
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Hog 4 OS v3.5.0 Offers New Features and Enhancements
High End Systems has released its latest OS for Hog 4 lighting consoles. Hog 4 OS 3.5.0 offers numerous new features and enhancements for the platform's wide user base; the company is also touting new features in development for ...
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PreSonus Ships AIR Loudspeakers for Mobile and Installed Systems
PreSonus is now shipping its compact, lightweight AIR-series active loudspeakers, which provide a rich, extended low-end and natural high-frequency extension in an enclosure that will easily fit in the back seat of a small car. ...
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Sennheiser and Neumann Nominated for Prestigious NAMM TEC Awards
Audio specialist Sennheiser and Neumann.Berlin have received Outstanding Technical Achievement nominations across three different categories in the 32nd Annual NAMM TEC Awards. Sennheiser was nominated for its Wireless ...
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GoboPlus.com and CutColourPlus Enjoy a Successful PLASA 2016
GoboPlus.com turned out in force on its fully recyclable cardboard stand at PLASA 2016. The whole stand, with graphics designed by GoboPlus.com's Vicky Fairall, was made entirely of cardboard, including the lectern, ...
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Robe for Innibos 2016
Innibos -- an action-packed, high-profile arts and music festival staged in and around Mbombela (Nelspruit) in South Africa during the winter presenting Afrikaans music, theatre, literature, and visual arts -- again featured Robe ...
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Fineline Lights Shambala Festival
Fineline Lighting headed for some beautiful countryside and chilled vibes renewing its long-term acquaintance with and commitment to the eco-conscious Shambala festival -- a three-day family-friendly event staged at a secret ...
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St. Mary's Catholic Church Begins a New Chapter with ICONYX
The old St. Mary's Church, built in 1967, was admittedly due for a remodeling. Then in May of 2011, the city of Joplin, Missouri, was devastated by a catastrophic F-5 tornado, claiming scores of lives and hundreds of structures, including ...
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Bandit Brings the Lights for Forecastle Festival
Bandit Lites continued its epic summer of festivals by providing the lighting for The Forecastle Music Festival, July 15 - 17. With a record breaking 65,000 in attendance, Forecastle proved that it is one of the country's must-see ...
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Ashly and Dante Rev Up the National Corvette Museum
The National Corvette Museum opened in 1994, just a quarter mile from the famous sports car's production facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It has numerous historical and technological exhibits, but the main draw is an ever-rotating ...
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DMX Productions Goes Elation for Punjabi Artist Diljit Dosanjh's UK Tour
Birmingham, UK-based production company DMX Productions is increasingly turning to Elation Professional products to add a dynamic flair to a variety of shows and events. One example is an early summer UK tour by Punjabi ...
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Theatre in Review: All the Ways to Say I Love You (MCC Theater at Lucille Lortel Theatre)
It's like the title card in a boxing match -- Judith Light vs. Neil LaBute -- in which one of the most honest, probing actresses currently working in New York is pitted against a playwright known for his hopeless addiction to ...
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Theatre in Review: Nat Turner in Jerusalem (New York Theatre Workshop)
Nat Turner in Jerusalem introduces us to Nathan Alan Davis, a very interesting young writer who, a play or two down the road, is going to give us something really interesting. But not just yet: His current effort ...
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