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(8/8/2016)

-Summerland Tour Kicks Off with RCF HDL50

Summerland Tour Kicks Off with RCF HDL50

Five years ago, Everclear lead singer Art Alexakis created Summerland, a 1990s nostalgia tour featuring a lineup of alternative rock bands who had achieved Top 10 status in that era. This year's tour is headlined by Sugar Ray and Everclear ...More

(8/8/2016)

-Manny Newman Creates Big Changes on Domefest Stage with Rogue Spots and Washes

Manny Newman Creates Big Changes on Domefest Stage with Rogue Spots and Washes

Jam bands expect their lighting designers to be ready to punt at the drop of a hat and come up with a fresh look for a new guitar riff that just pops up in the middle of a set. At the recent Domefest, however, funk rockers Pigeons Playing ...More

(8/8/2016)

-LMG Touring Recreates the Solar Eclipse for Ray LaMontagne's Ouroboros Tour

LMG Touring Recreates the Solar Eclipse for Ray LaMontagne's Ouroboros Tour

American Singer-Songwriter Ray LaMontagne is on tour with his sixth studio album, Ouroboros. The new album features the single "No Pressure" and attributes production from Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The 2016 North ...More

(8/8/2016)

-Steve Winwood Tours with PreSonus

Steve Winwood Tours with PreSonus

Few rock stars could, if they chose, turn to their front-of-house and studio engineer for investment advice. Steve Winwood could. "From the age of 14 I had a keen interest in music equipment," begins James Towler. "But after school ...More

(8/8/2016)

-Robert Juliat Merlin Casts Its Spell in New Zealand on Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2016

Robert Juliat Merlin Casts Its Spell in New Zealand on Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2016

When the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (REMT) came to the Westpac Stadium in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2016, production supplier, MJF Lighting, decided the scale of the production warranted new followspots and invested ...More

(8/8/2016)

-Theatre in Review: Cats (Neil Simon Theatre)

Theatre in Review: Cats (Neil Simon Theatre)

If you read this column even only occasionally, you're probably aware that I've been around more than a year or two. Although there's no truth to the rumor that I cheered on Bert Lahr and Ethel Merman at the opening night of Du Barry ...More

(8/5/2016)

-URTA Announces Candidate Award in Sound Design

URTA Announces Candidate Award in Sound Design

Recognizing the shortage in professionally trained sound designers entering the theatre profession, URTA announces the Candidate Award in Sound Design, providing the opportunity to more potential MFA candidates to meet and interview ...More

(8/5/2016)

-TLS Productions Announces Third Annual Open House and New Product Showcase

TLS Productions Announces Third Annual Open House and New Product Showcase

TLS Productions, Inc. announces the company's third annual Open House and New Product Showcase, Thursday, September 22, 2016, from 11:00am - 7:00pm -- at the company's headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...More

(8/5/2016)

-Alcorn McBride Celebrates Top Ten Ranking in Orlando Business Journal's Best Places to Work List

Alcorn McBride Celebrates Top Ten Ranking in Orlando Business Journal's Best Places to Work List

The Orlando Business Journal has released its list of the Best Places to Work in 2016 and Alcorn McBride scored among the area's top employers. The accolade comes as Alcorn McBride, the manufacturer of audio, video, and show ...More

(8/5/2016)

-Latvian Vocalist Arta Jekabsone Wins 2016 Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition

Latvian Vocalist Arta Jekabsone Wins 2016 Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition

The annual Shure Montreux Jazz Voice competition strives to promote and nurture talented young vocalists from around the world. The 2016 finals were held July 9 in the Petit The'âtre at Montreux Palace during the world-famous ...More

(8/5/2016)

-Lab Gruppen PLM+ Powers Biggest Rock Band in the World

Lab Gruppen PLM+ Powers Biggest Rock Band in the World

Just over a year ago, 1,000 musicians became a viral phenomenon by banding together to perform an epic cover of Foo Fighters' "Learn to Fly." The effort was part of a successful campaign to convince the world-famous rock band to perform in ...More

(8/5/2016)

-Chroma-Q Inspire House Lights Provide Immersive Worship Experience at Raleigh First Assembly Church

Chroma-Q Inspire House Lights Provide Immersive Worship Experience at Raleigh First Assembly Church

Over 80 of the award-winning Chroma-Q Inspire color-changing LED house light fixture have been installed at the First Assembly Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, to provide an immersive worship experience. ...More

(8/5/2016)

-Dream City Church Adds Allen & Heath dLive and ME-1s

Dream City Church Adds Allen & Heath dLive and ME-1s

Dream City is a large and growing church with a central campus in Phoenix, Arizona. In 2015, the church added a campus in Scottsdale, Arizona and renovated its 5,000-seat Phoenix location. In early 2016, Dream City added a third campus in ...More

(8/5/2016)

-Theatre in Review: Austin (Theatre Row)

Theatre in Review: Austin (Theatre Row)

The Cassidy family is a hot mess, and so is the play that portrays them. Austin Cassidy is a former money manager who has just graduated from what may be his twelfth time in rehab. (For this round of recovery, he has been in the Berkshires ...More

(8/4/2016)

-Osram and Clay Paky Acquire ADB Operations to Expand Leadership in Entertainment Lighting

Osram and Clay Paky Acquire ADB Operations to Expand Leadership in Entertainment Lighting

Osram is expanding in the entertainment sector and has acquired certain assets from ADB TTV SAS and continue their business operations. The acquired business will become integral part of Osram's subsidiary Clay Paky. ...More

(8/4/2016)

-ETCP Now Offers Computer-Based Testing for the Portable Power Distribution Technician Certificate

ETCP Now Offers Computer-Based Testing for the Portable Power Distribution Technician Certificate

Computer-based testing for the new Portable Power Distribution Technician examination is now available. ETCP needs as many candidates as possible to test by August 23, 2016 to obtain cut-score information on the new ...More

(8/4/2016)

-Sapsis Rigging and ProPlus Join IATSE Local 16 for Fall Arrest Training Class

Sapsis Rigging and ProPlus Join IATSE Local 16 for Fall Arrest Training Class

Scott Price, ProPlus sales director at Sapsis Rigging, teamed up with IATSE Local 16 for Local 16's annual Fall Arrest Training session at the Moscone Center. ProPlus, the only full line of fall arrest equipment ...More

(8/4/2016)

-PRG Atlanta's Lighting Product Showcase Offers Private and Open House Demos

PRG Atlanta's Lighting Product Showcase Offers Private and Open House Demos

PRG invites visitors to come try out the award-winning PRG GroundControl Followspot System and other proprietary PRG products at the PRG Lighting Product Showcase August 9 - 10 at the company's Atlanta, Georgia location. This ...More

(8/4/2016)

-Parlights, Inc. Joins A.C.T Lighting's dot2 Preferred Stocking Dealer Program

Parlights, Inc. Joins A.C.T Lighting's dot2 Preferred Stocking Dealer Program

Parlights, Inc. located in Frederick, Maryland has become the most recent member of A.C.T Lighting, Inc.'s dot2 preferred stocking dealer program. Launched earlier this year, the program is open to select dealerships, which ...More

(8/4/2016)

-Eighth Day Sound Continues to Invest in Adamson

Eighth Day Sound Continues to Invest in Adamson

Eighth Day Sound, headquartered in Highland Heights, Ohio, with offices in London, Sydney, and Los Angeles, has taken delivery of an additional 120 Adamson E-Series and 72 S-Series loudspeakers. The purchase is designed to ...More

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