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  Happy Holidays!
Please note the Lighting&Sound America, Protocol, and PLASA New York offices will close on December 21st for the holidays and reopen on Wednesday, January 2nd. We would like to thank all of you for your great support ...
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Chauvet Professional Shows Off Fixtures at the NAMM Show
Chauvet, a manufacturer of professional lighting, will display an assortment of fixtures in booth 5574, at the NAMM Show 2013, running January 24-27 in Anaheim, California. Highlighted in the show are Chauvet Professional ...
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Elation Unveils the Rayzor Q7 -- Its Smallest, Fastest Moving Head LED Ever
The Rayzor Q7 is the smallest and fastest moving head LED wash / beam that Elation Professional has introduced to date. This luminaire will cut through other visual effects in a room with its powerful "Rayzor"-sharp seven-degree ...
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CAST releases WYSIWYG R30
CAST Software yesterday released WYSIWYG R30, the latest edition of its lighting design and pre-visualisation suite. R30 is available to download now from the members only area of the CAST website at the URL below. The release ...
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USITT Presents the Gift of Training
The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) is ushering in the New Year with a new series of training sessions on the latest sound, lighting, and design products for members in the field, USITT executive director Da ...
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PR Lighting Adds W-DMX to New Fixtures
Wireless Solution Sweden AB's award-winning W-DMX technology is now available in the newest moving head in the XLED moving head range of products by PR Lighting, the XLED 1037.
Characterized by the use of 37 x 10W RGBW ...
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Artistic Licence Engineering presents "The Future of Lighting Control" to the Society of Light and Lighting
Artistic Licence Engineering saw company founder, Wayne Howell, present a seminar to the Society of Light and Lighting entitled "Controlling Interest -- The Future of Lighting Control."
Taking place in mid-December at the ...
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GLP Pilots Tungsten-to-LED Transfer at Illinois Performing Arts Venue
The progressive Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA) in Illinois recently carried out a technical upgrade that has seen a number of GLP's impression Spot One and Volkslicht Zoom LED fixtures replacing traditional ...
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PRG Best Boy 4000 Shapes Lighting at Robbie Williams' Concerts
British pop-star Robbie Williams brought high-octane production to the stage at London's O2 Arena for three nights of concerts, Live at the O2, November 22-24. The UK's best-selling solo artist, Williams' much anticipated return to ...
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Tom Kenny Revs Up the VL3500 Spot on The Who's US Tour
Respected rock lighting designer Tom Kenny is harnessing the versatile power of Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Spot luminaires to create a dramatic and evocative, "Quadrophenic" experience for fans attending The Who's mammoth US ...
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Hybrid MAC III AirFX Passes Test on Jason Mraz
Lighting designer Paul Normandale has field tested Martin Professional's new 1500W MAC III AirFX moving head on Jason Mraz's current Tour Is A Four Letter Word world tour and found the luminaire to be a highly ...
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Judy Bayley Theater at UNLV Installs All-Yamaha ES System
Home to many of the University of Nevada Las Vegas performing arts groups, the 550-seat Judy Bayley Theater opened in 1972 and features a raked auditorium, a fully-rigged, proscenium stage, and a thrust-apron that can be used as an ...
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Elektralite Solves Lighting Challenges for Historic Alfred Street Baptist Church
Alfred Street Baptist Church (ASBC) was founded in 1803 in Alexandria, Virginia, and is located in one of the city's oldest African-American neighborhoods. The church underwent architectural improvements in 1994, including the construction ...
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Without Adding New Rigging Points, Danley Speakers Improve Coverage at Xavier University's Cintas Center
The Musketeers men's basketball team is the standout athletic program at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over the last dozen years, the team has made an appearance in an NCAA tournament in all but one, and Forbes places it among the ...
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American DJ's Portable Matrix Beam LED Brings Blinder and Chase Effects to Mobile Productions
American DJ's Matrix Beam LED is a 5' x 5' square panel that can be set up anywhere to create instant blinder and/or chase effects for stages and mobile productions. Featuring 25 x three-watt warm white Cree LEDs, arranged in five ...
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Analog Way Introduces New Generation of High-End AV Processors
Analog Way announces the introduction of a brand new generation of high-end innovative systems for signal processing and distribution, based on their new state-of-the-art LiveCore platform. Two products of this new generation, ...
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Gator Cases Introduces New Stretchy Speaker and Stand Covers for a Clean Presentation and Protection from Dirt
Gator Cases has released a new line of stretchy speaker and speaker stand covers that provide a clean and professional presentation targeted at mobile entertainers, DJs, and rental services. These stretchy covers keep your gear ...
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RCF Launches Multi-Channel Class D+ Class Amplifiers
RCF announces the new D+ class amplifiers of the UP 8500 range which the result of continuous research.
According to the company, the innovative D+ class circuitry allows the UP 8500 amplifiers to offer efficiency and audio ...
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TAIT Brings Elaborate Scenic Arches to Tim and Faith's Las Vegas Residency
Country superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw took to the stage at The Venetian in Las Vegas last Friday with a spectacularly designed set of elaborate, segmented proscenium arched structures, provided by Tait. Opening night ...
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Clearwing Productions Unveils the 2012 Lagoon Finale for Phoenix ZooLights
ZooLights is an annual lighting spectacular that has been held at the Phoenix Zoo for the past 20 years. This year, Clearwing Productions designed and executed an exciting new event finale encompassing the lagoon. The centerpiece of ...
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New York City's Birdland Soars to New Sonic Heights with Harman's JBL Loudspeakers
New York City's Birdland is one of the most legendary jazz clubs in the world, an intimate room where aficionados can enjoy the world's greatest jazz artists in an up-close environment. Perhaps more than most venues, the sound system at ...
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Dan Spitz Tours with Harman's AKG IVM4500 In-Ear Monitors
As lead guitarist, bass guitarist, vocalist, programmer, engineer, and co-producer of the rock duo Red Lamb, three-time GRAMMY nominee, multi-platinum recording artist Dan Spitz, former member and co-founder of heavy metal group Anthrax, ...
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The PLCyc LED Illuminates at the Eisemann Center
Since its opening in 2002, the Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts has been one of the leading performance venues serving the Dallas/Fort Worth area, heralded not only for the performances inside, but also for the facility ...
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Hofstra University Upgrades TV Studios with Harman's Soundcraft Si Compact 32 Consoles
Hofstra University is Long Island, New York's largest private college, offering a broad range of liberal arts and sciences, education, health sciences, law, and other courses with full accreditation in 19 academic areas. When the Hofstra ...
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PACCAR IMAX Theater Celebrates Golden Anniversary with New Allen & Heath GLD Digital Mixer
To celebrate 50 years of inspiring lifelong learning in the community, Seattle's own Pacific Science Center has enhanced a key facility that continually brings science to life on the big screen by installing a secondary sound system that ...
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Spectrum Productions Supports NASCAR Awards Banquet with Broadcast Pix Granite 5000
Broadcast Pix today announced that Spectrum Productions, a company which offers full AV production and rental services, used its new Granite 5000 2 M/E video control center on November 19 to produce the NASCAR 2012 Nationwide ...
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Harman Acquires Martin Professional
Schouw & Co., parent company of Martin Professional, has entered into an agreement with the global infotainment and audio company Harman International Industries to sell Martin to Harman. The transaction is subject to ...
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Group One and DiGiCo Announce Assistance Program to Help Houses of Worship Affected by Hurricane Sandy
Seeing the destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in the greater Northeast, Long Island, New York-based Group One Limited wanted to find a way to help area houses of worship whose buildings and audio systems were affected ...
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Adhesive Theater Project to Present World Premiere; Benefit Performance NYCCT Planned
Adhesive Theater Project will premiere The Service Road, written by Obie Award-winner Erin Courtney and directed by Meghan Finn.
The Service Road runs from Friday, January 11 - Saturday, ...
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Vari-Lite VL3015LT Spot Luminaire Now Shipping Worldwide
Philips Vari-Lite announces the new VL3015LT Spot luminaire is now shipping worldwide. As the next evolution of the Philips Vari-Lite 1,500W series of luminaires, the company says the VL3015LT Spot combines extreme power and a broad ...
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Kinesys Launches LibraWATCH Load Monitoring App
UK-based automation specialist Kinesys launches LibraWATCH, a new free multi-platform load-monitoring software app which works with Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android operating systems.
LibraWATCH is the latest in the Libra range of ...
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Reel Video Delivers with a New Custom Frame System
In order to serve a wider range of their customer base, Reel Video Systems collaborated with the design and fabrication team at Tyler Truss Systems to develop a custom aluminum frame system for their LED product. While the ...
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Dataton to Usher in a New Era of Innovation at ISE 2013
Dataton, the manufacturer and developer of presentation and show-control products, ushers in a new era of innovation and creativity at the 2013 edition of Integrated Systems Europe at the Amsterdam RAI from January 29-31, ...
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Danley Sound Labs Hires Jonathan Parker as National Sales Manager
Danley Sound Labs announces it has hired pro audio manufacturing veteran Jonathan "JP" Parker to the role of national sales manager. Parker brings to the position over 25 years of sales and marketing experience working with ...
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Fishman Begins Worldwide Distribution Of Asterope Cables
Fishman has begun worldwide distribution of Asterope cables to retail outlets throughout the United States and 70 countries worldwide. As part of the companies' strategic alliance announced in July 2012, Fishman will manage ...
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USAV Endorses NSCA Membership and Business Conference
The National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA) and USAV have announced an endorsement involving NSCA's Business & Leadership Conference and NSCA membership. The partnership provides USAV members with discounted rates to ...
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Philadelphia's SoundGarden Hall Opens with Meyer Sound UPJ-1P
Meyer Sound is helping SoundGarden Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's newest live music concert venue, deliver an all-encompassing experience. Since its September opening, the 2,100-capacity live event space has been serving the ...
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HSL Nominated for Two TPi Awards
Blackburn, UK-based lighting and visuals rental company, HSL has been nominated for two 2013 Total Production International (TPi) Awards -- for Favorite Lighting Rental Company (sponsored by Robe Lighting) and Favorite Video ...
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American DJ's Mega TRI 60 Linear Fixture Provides Vibrant RGB Color Mixing for Stage and Wall Washing
The new Mega TRI 60 from American DJ is long on brightness, according to the company. First, this linear LED color-mixing bar emits a brilliant output, powered by nine bright tri-color (red, green, blue) three-watt LEDs. Second, the ...
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Shure Establishes New Systems Support Group
As the performance and capabilities of professional audio products have evolved, the expectations of end users have risen and the complexity of audio/visual systems has grown. Activities like frequency coordination, software configuration, ...
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Allen & Heath Launches OneMix Personal Monitoring iPad App for iLive
Allen & Heath has launched iLive OneMix, the latest addition to a family of control options for the iLive digital mixing system. OneMix is an iPad app that gives musicians wireless control of their personal monitor mix. Derived from ...
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PR Lighting Adds XLED 1037 to Portable LED Portfolio
PR Lighting has added the new, bright XLED 1037 to its popular XLED moving head portfolio.
Characterized by the use of 37 x 10W RGBW LEDs (containing four colors in one), another feature is its wide linear zoom, with beam angle ...
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Nick Charalampidis Exits Green Hippo
Green Hippo's Nick Charalampidis is moving on to new pastures after five years of top class service at the company.
Over the last two years Charalampidis has enjoyed working on-site supporting Hippotizer projects such as ...
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VenueMagic Adds Device Virtualization Allowing Users to Replace Hardware Quicker and Easier
VenueMagic, a platform of Show Control software, adds Device Virtualization to its Classic, DMX+AV, and SC+ versions making swapping fixtures faster and easier.
Device Virtualization allows a specific device's behavior and ...
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XL Events Supplies LED for Les Miserables Movie World Premiere
XL Events, working with Premier PR, specified and supplied Pixled FX-11 LED for the world premiere of the movie adaptation of Les Miserables.
Following XL's work on the Total Recall premiere earlier this year ...
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New Renkus-Heinz Distributor for France Announced
Renkus-Heinz announces the appointment of a new distributor for France, signing an agreement with French distribution company SoundCo to handle the distribution of Renkus-Heinz products for the French market. They will also ...
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Theatre in Review: Golden Age (Manhattan Theatre Club/City Center)
Art is long; life is short -- a statement that is one of the cornerstones of Terrence McNally's remarkable body of work. (The playwright would probably add that life is complicated, often violent, usually frustrating, and ...
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MAC 101 Rig Looks Big, Packs Small on Deftones Tour
With ever-increasing fuel costs, the mandate from alt-metal band Deftones for this fall's North and South American Koi No Yokan tour was for a stand-alone lighting package that could play a wide variety of venues while maintaining ...
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Christie Technology Weaves a Magical Holographic Image of Tribal Storytelling at Tillicum Village
Christie is bringing the past to life at Tillicum Village, a Native American cultural experience, with holographic images powered by two Christie HD10K-M Series three-chip DLP projectors. Using built-in Christie AutoStack and ...
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Wybron Announces New Promotion: 50 Shades of Grape
The oldest, award-winning lighting tool in the iTunes app store, Gel Swatch Library, was released two days after the app store debuted July 10, 2008. Wybron announces version 2.0 is now in the app store. Everyone who has purchased Gel ...
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Theatre in Review: The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons)
The Great God Pan begins with a meeting between Jamie and Frank, childhood playmates who haven't seen each other in a quarter of a century. (They are now 32.) To say the least, they make a study in contrasts. Jamie, a ...
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Applications Open for Hemsley Internship January 1-15
Applications for the 30th annual Hemsley Internship Program will be accepted from January 1- 15, 2013. Interviews for finalists will be held in New York on March 16, 2013 in conjunction with the Hemsley Lighting Portfolio Review
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Stage Lighting Super Saturday 2013 Adds Richard Pilbrow to the Seminar Line-Up
Richard Pilbrow, internationally known lighting designer, has agreed to speak at the eighth annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday seminars. Pilbrow is passionate about the advancement of computer technology that allows ...
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New Sales Management in Place at Turbosound
Turbosound announced the appointment of Sean Martin to head up international sales for the brand, with overall responsibility for the company's home market and its widespread export markets. ...
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Theatre in Review: Golden Boy (Belasco Theatre)
If you want to understand why Lincoln Center Theater is so crucial to the life of the New York theatre scene, go see Golden Boy. Clifford Odets' epic indictment of the American Dream is a big piece, in every sense of the word ...
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Theatre in Review: Bare (New World Stages)
The great world spins faster these days, but musicals are made at an increasingly glacial pace. This is not to their advantage. Consider the case of Bare, which first saw the light of day near the end of the Clinton administration, ...
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d&b audiotechnik on the Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center
Christmas in New York is iconic. For the last eighty years, the start of the holiday season has been officially marked with the lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Decorated with over 45,000 LED lights and met by the famous ...
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TAIT Rocks Radio City's Famed Christmas Spectacular with Custom Video Wall and Full Video/Motion Integration
For the 2012 production of the famed Radio City Christmas Spectacular, celebrating the 85th anniversary of the Rockettes performing in New York, show producers turned to Tait's rental fleet to produce dynamic, yet sustainable scenic ...
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First Robe Robin DLF Wash Moving Lights on Tour in the UK with The Human League
The first of Robe's new Robin DLF LED Wash lights to go on tour in the UK were ideal for Rob Sinclair's lighting design for The Human League's recent UK tour -- which incorporated ten of the PLASA Innovation Award winning ...
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Innovason Releases NOVA 2.4.0 with Integrated Pandora Functionality
Following the unveiling of the prototype of the revolutionary Pandora digital panning algorithm at ProLight + Sound 2012, Innovason has announced the integration of the release version into a brand new software release for Eclipse ...
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Iconyx Delivers a Top-Down Approach for Two Aquatic Centers
For an audio professional, creating a sound system for a large aquatic center is not a simple task. The combination of high walls, corrugated metal roofs, and an abundance of concrete, glass, and water makes for an acoustical environment ...
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WorldStage Supports "Celebration of Science" at Venues Across Washington, D.C.
People and equipment from the east and west coast offices of WorldStage collaborated to provide a full complement of video, audio, and lighting services for "A Celebration of Science" in Washington, D.C., a new initiative ...
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Midas PRO2 Proves a Perfect Fit for Family Life in New York
With a wide-ranging media ministry spanning music, theatre, and broadcast, Family Life is a non-denominational Christian organization that uses the creative arts to spread its message across upstate New York and Pennsylvania. To ...
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K.C. Hooper, Apollo Design Product Specialist, Passes Away
Apollo Design product specialist K.C. Hooper passed away on the morning of December 12 due to complications from cancer.
He is survived by his wife, Jody (née Kanner), and three sons: Kaulin, Kauner, and Kaury. ...
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USITT: 2013 Stage Expo Expected to Set Records
USITT says it anticipates a bigger, better Annual Conference & Stage Expo than ever in 2013, with more exhibitors and excitement.
USITT already has surpassed last year's 30,000 square feet of exhibit space sold for the 2013 Stage ...
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Starin to distribute Turbosound in the US
Music Group announces that effective immediately Starin Distribution has been appointed to distribute Turbosound products in the US.
Headquartered in Chesterton, Indiana, Starin services the needs of professional audio resellers ...
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Shure Accepting Entries in Second Annual Get The Gig Internship Competition
Shure Incorporated today announced its second annual "Get the Gig" Artist Relations internship competition. Entries are now being accepted for the summer 2013 program, where one winner will get an "inside look" at the music industry ...
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Full Compass Staff Volunteers Produce CD Benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation
Full Compass Systems, one of the nation's leading retailers of pro audio, pro video, AV, lighting and musical instruments, has produced a holiday CD titled A Winter's Wish to help raise funds for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of ...
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Sanecore and CUK Audio Named Symetrix Distributors of the Year
Symetrix announces Sanecore and CUK Audio as Distributors of the Year. Sanecore, who distributes Symetrix in China and Hong Kong, has won the award for the Asia-Pacific region. In the Europe/Middle East/Africa region, ...
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Theatre in Review: 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti (59E59)
Penny Fuller is having a few people over for the holidays; I'd drop in if I were you. Actually, the soiree in question is being hosted by Virginia Carpolotti, the put-upon Pennsylvania housewife who is the center of 13 Things ...
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Historic Greenhouse Glows with Chauvet Professional
An architectural staple and great example of greenhouse design, the Jewel Box in Forest Park turned into a giant gem for a surprise birthday party, lit by 58 Chauvet Professional fixtures. Listed on the National Historic Register, ...
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The Live Oak Uses Midas To Realize Vision of Awesome Audio
Having spent 38 years in the construction business, Bill Smith of Fort Worth, Texas decided the time had come to build something for himself and the community. Located in Ft. Worth's historic near south side, The Live Oak Music ...
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Prairie Sun Diversifies From Studio To Stage With DiGiCo
Prairie Sun Live (PSL) sprung from Prairie Sun Recording -- a high-end recording facility in Sonoma Country that's produced music with legendary artists from The Doobie Brothers to Van Morrison and Tom Waits in its more than 35- ...
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Robe DLXs for GH Hotel Installation
Landmark Australian live music and performance venue The GH Hotel in St Kilda, Melbourne has recently taken delivery of 12 Robe DLX Spot moving lights -- which have been added to the lighting rig in the main room. ...
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Outline Sound Systems Chosen for Algerian Anniversary Musical
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its independence this year, Algeria commissioned a special large musical production to tour the country. The important show, attended on opening night by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the entire ...
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Jands Gets The Memo
Healesville, Australia's newly refurbished Memorial Hall is now known as "The Memo", a new cultural focus for the Healesville and Yarra Valley Region. It has a contemporary art space, a 300 seat performing arts facility, and 3-D digital ...
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USITT Seeks Designs for USA National Exhibit at PQ 2015
The quest to create an exhibit representing the United States at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is a long process that starts now -- with a new competition to design the exhibit space. ...
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Vivien 2013 Is Released for Members Only
CAST Group of Toronto, Canada, announces that Vivien 2013 -- virtual event designer is available now for download for members only.
Vivien 2013, made by CAST (also makers of WYSIWYG lighting design software) is the most ...
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Bandit Lites Gears Up for 2013 with Clay Paky Sharpys and GrandMA 2
Bandit Lites has added more gear to its rental equipment inventory, with hundreds of additional Clay Paky Sharpys and several MA Lighting grandMa 2s set to hit the road on 2013 tours and shows. ...
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Rat Sound Systems Adds Midas Pro 2's to Inventory
Rat Sound Systems of Camarillo, California, has taken delivery of two additional Midas Pro 2's to add to an existing inventory of Midas Pro 6, Pro 9, and XL8's that have been staples in their touring world throughout the year ...
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Lightware U.S.A. Taking Orders for 25G Hybrid Line of Digital Matrix Switchers
Lightware U.S.A., the US distributor for Budapest-based Lightware Visual Engineering products, is now taking orders for the 25G Hybrid, a revolutionary line of digital matrix switchers, which work in tandem with Lightware's ...
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Young People's Theatre of Toronto Thrives with Lectrosonics Wireless
With a history spanning greater than 47 years, Toronto's Young People's Theatre (YPT) is the largest theatre for young audiences (TYA) company in Canada and a significant institution in the Canadian professional theatre community. In ...
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Houston's HS for the Performing and Visual Arts Installs Yamaha AFC System
The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) of the Houston Independent School District in Texas evolved in 1971 from a realization that gifted young artists need highly specialized and rigorous training in the arts to be ...
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Christie Roadster HD14K-J Three-Chip DLP Projectors Added at Casas Church in Arizona
Christie announces the selection of its projection technology for Tucson, Arizona-based Casas Church. A 61-year-old Christian ministry, Casas was looking for powerful display technology to light up the large stage of its spacious ...
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W-DMX at the 58th Barretos Cowboy Festival in Brazil
Wireless Solution Sweden AB held center stage at the 58th Barretos Cowboy Festival (Festa do Peão de Boiadeiro de Barretos), one of the largest rodeo and music events in Brazil, held at the Super Bull arena in the city of Barretos. ...
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XL Events Wins 'Best Technical Supplier' at Eventia Awards
XL Events was delighted to receive the Gold Award for Technical Supplier Of The Year for the third consecutive year at the UK event industry's biggest awards ceremony. Held at the Hilton Hotel, Park Lane, London, the Eventia ...
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Robe Lights Nina Badric Tour
Croatian pop star Nina Badric kicked off her latest tour with a gig at the Drazen Petrovic Hall in Zagreb, Croatia in front of 5,000 enthusiastic fans. The lighting rig was designed by Dalibor Radic and included 24 Robe MMX ...
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American DJ Receives Judgment in American Audio Trademark Case
American DJ received a final judgment, against defendants V2Go Technology Corporation and American Audio Laboratory, Inc. in the amount of $619,391.91 plus interest, for the defendants' infringement of the federally ...
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AVnu Alliance Welcomes New Member Axon and Forms Pro Video Subgroup
AVnu Alliance, an industry forum that certifies Audio Video Bridging (AVB) products for interoperability, has added broadcast infrastructure equipment developer Axon Digital Design to its membership roster. In addition, Jan ...
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Stage Technologies Automates Cinematic New West End Musical The Bodyguard
The Stage Technologies UK rentals team was contracted by production manager Matt Towell to provide a 50-axis automation and control system for the new West End musical The Bodyguard. The system comprised equipment for ...
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CAD MH510 Headphones Offer Studio Performance and Consumer Style
The new Sessions MH510 professional headphones from CAD Audio have been designed for performers in recording and live audio environments as well as audio enthusiasts who want to experience their favorite recordings exactly as the ...
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Dominic Harter Returns to Harman to Head Up Soundcraft's Global Sales
Dominic Harter has rejoined Harman to head up Soundcraft's global sales operation, following the promotion of Adrian Curtis to VP sales of the Harman Professional EMEA sales team.
Harter originally joined Harman in ...
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Eiki Introduces Pro-Switch 400S Scaler/Switch/Image Processor
Eiki International, Inc. announces the new Pro-Switch 400S Scaler/Switch/Image processor.
The Pro-Switch 400S is designed to integrate with any projection or display system, offering easy integration and low maintenance while at ...
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ENTASYS Delivers Low Profile, Big Sound for Legendary San Francisco Theater
The Lincoln Highway was the first automobile road across the United States, stretching from New York's Times Square to San Francisco. Marking the road's western end, high on a hill overlooking the Pacific and the Golden Gate Bridge, is the ...
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PixelFLEX LED Curtain for Meatloaf Tour
To simplify the video presentation during his most recent tour without sacrificing results, while also making life a lot easier for his road crew, legendary performer Meatloaf turned to PixelFLEX, designer and manufacturer of a ...
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Pete's Big TVs Supplies Jersey Boys Singapore and South Africa
Video equipment rental company Pete's Big TVs continues its long relationship with the Jersey Boys tour by supplying gear to Jersey Boys Singapore. The show opened November 22 at the Sands Theatre at The Marina Bay ...
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Texas Scenic Company Completes Jobs in Puerto Rico
Texas Scenic Company (TSC) has completed installation of stage equipment for two prominent facilities in Puerto Rico: the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico and the Centro Bellas Artes in Humacao. ...
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ABS Helps Oregon History Museum Visitors Remember the Columbus Day Storm with Video Exhibit
Visitors to the Oregon History Museum in downtown Portland are reliving the Columbus Day Storm of 1962 with the help of video and audio systems integration firm Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS). Presented by Portland General ...
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Theatre in Review: P.S. Jones and the Frozen City (TerraNOVA Collective)
This may be a case of splitting hairs, but: P.S. Jones and the Frozen City is described in its publicity materials as a comic-book superhero adventure story -- and it is true that the title character cherishes comic books, which, as ...
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Theatre in Review: Working (Prospect Theater Company/59E59)
"I hear America singing." That's the first line of Working, in a nod to Walt Whitman, and there couldn't be a better time to hear these voices, each of them a brilliant detail in a theatrical mural of everyday people on the ...
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Christie Lites Nashville Opens with Holiday Celebration
Christie Lites Nashville is open for business at its 12th fully stocked location. Even before its official December 1 opening, Christie Lites Nashville began shipping tours and trade show packages from its new 50,000-sq.-ft. ...
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Sapsis Rigging Opens Midwest Region Office
Sapsis Rigging, Inc. (SRI), has opened a satellite office in Bowler, Wisconsin, placing one of the company's top hoist technicians in the Midwest to serve the needs of schools, theatres, performing arts centers, arenas, special ...
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L-Acoustics Product Videos Now Available
L-Acoustics announces two L-Acoustics videos are now available online, "ARCS Wide and ARCS Focus" and "Constant Curvature Line Sources."
In the "Constant Curvature" video, Scott Sugden, head of application,touring for the ...
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Cerwin-Vega! Unveils P-Series
Cerwin-Vega! introduces its new P-Series professional PA system, which delivers power and bass punch, suited for any sound reinforcement application, from live performances to public speeches. The P-Series family includes two active ...
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Electrosonic Acquires Global Immersion, a Leading Digital Immersive Theatre Designer and Integrator
Electrosonic announces its acquisition of Global Immersion, a leader in the design and integration of high performance digital immersive theater attractions. Global Immersion will continue to serve the planetarium, ...
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Jim Kempf named Director of Design, Automated Rigging at TAIT
Jim Kempf has joined Tait. In his role as director of design for automated rigging, Kempf will oversee the newly-formed winch and hoist design department, in addition to the existing track and rig design department. He will also ...
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QSC Audio Products Named One of the Top Ten Orange County Workplaces
QSC Audio Products has been named one of the Top Orange County Workplaces for the third year in a row, according to the daily newspaper, The Orange County Register. The responses were based upon anonymous survey results from ...
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Theatre in Review: Dead Accounts (Music Box Theatre)
I'm beginning to think the time has come for somebody to start an Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Broadway Stars. You might think that such happy individuals don't constitute a disenfranchised minority, but, based on this ...
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Meyer Sound LEO to Power the Nobel Peace Prize Concert Today
The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Concert takes place today, December 11, at the 9,700-capacity Oslo Spektrum arena, one day after the European Union was awarded with this year's Nobel Peace Prize. An annual musical spectacular, this year's ...
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SGM Sets Up New Operation in Germany
SGM Lighting has boosted its penetration in key territories with the formation of SGM Germany.
Spearheading operations for the Danish lighting company will be the Michael Herweg and Thorsten Sattler, who were ...
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Straight No Chaser Uses NEXO Rig at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis
Logic Systems Sound & Lighting, Inc. of Valley Park, Missouri, recently provided a NEXO GEO S12 rig to the historic Fox Theatre in St. Louis for a Straight No Chaser concert. On the road, Straight No Chaser has built a ...
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GC Pro Keeps Morehouse College at the Cutting Edge of Sound
Morehouse College, a beacon of men's liberal-arts education, particularly for African Americans, has given the country its share of Rhodes Scholars, ministers, economists, and doctors, but it seems to have a special affinity for the arts. ...
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D.A.S. Audio Deployed at New Hampshire's Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center
Part of The Common Man family of restaurants, The Flying Monkey Movie House and Performance Center in Plymouth , New Hampshire, attracts audiences from all around New England and beyond for shows featuring some of the best contemporary ...
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Richard Pilbrow Honored by The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Theatre design consultant, Richard Pilbrow, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Considered a pioneer of modern stage lighting, Pilbrow was honored for his outstanding ...
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Showline SL Bar 640 Luminaire Performs on the Latin Grammy Awards
On November 15th the biggest names in the Latin music industry gathered for the 13th annual Latin Grammy Awards at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the live Univision broadcast was seen in over 10 million ...
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Christie Lites Appoints Arcofab as Preferred Truss Supplier
Christie Lites, a supplier of production lighting rentals, and Arcofab, a North American manufacturer of trusses, support systems, and motorization solutions for the entertainment and event industries, announced that Christie ...
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Richard Brooker Chooses Waves Audio for The Bodyguard Musical
Waves Audio is the DSP manufacturer-of-choice for UK-based sound designer Richard Brooker in the new stage musical adaptation of the award-winning film The Bodyguard, which recently opened in London at the Adelphi ...
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Cadac Makes Changes at the Top
Cadac has announced a restructuring of its operational management at its Bedfordshire, UK headquarters. The changes are intended to accelerate growth and product development and include the appointment of David Kan as CEO and ...
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Blue Man Group Makes Leap from 2D to 3D with digiTHIN
Members of the musical performance phenomenon Blue Man Group (BMG) are putting a lightweight screen, digiTHIN, to creative use when they appear to materialize from a video projection in their latest production. The screens, developed by ...
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Florida's Sound Media Expands Turbosound Inventory
Since Sound Media, a sound and lighting production company located in Hollywood, Florida, purchased the Turbosound Flex Array (TFA-600H) system a year ago, the company has experienced a growing presence in the south Florida ...
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Allen & Heath Appoints New Distributor in Taiwan
Allen & Heath has appointed a new distribution partner in Taiwan called Seapower. The company has close contacts with Allen & Heath's Chinese distributor, Sanecore, and therefore has access to a wealth of product ...
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Umphrey's McGee Touring with MAC Viper, MAC rig
New US production company ECTO Productions, based in Chicago, Illinois, has recently made its first lighting purchase of exclusively Martin fixtures and is supplying Martin Professional's MAC Viper Profile for the Umphrey's ...
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Yes Rentals Invests in Robe
Yes Rentals, based in Tournai, Belgium, is a leading European dry-hire lighting rental specialist. According to the company, Yes is currently enjoying a rapid growth trajectory and feeding a consistent demand by the market for Rob ...
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Theatre in Review: Glengarry Glen Ross (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre)
If we're going to have certain plays revived over and over again, it is at least interesting to have the opportunity to compare different productions. From the minute the curtain goes up on the current revival of Glengarry Glen Ross
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Theatre in Review: Volpone (Red Bull Theatre/Lucille Lortel)
That Volpone is a tricky one, and not just because of his suave and swindling ways. If Volpone, the character, is hard to pin down, the play that bears his name can prove just as elusive. My only other experience with Ben Jonson's ...
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Theatre in Review: Restoration Comedy (The Flea Theatre)
At the Flea these days, they're partying like it's 1696. The theatre has been transformed into a Restoration playhouse, with all its attendant disorder and flirtations. When you enter, a full company of rakes, bawds, harlots, and other ...
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First Robe MMX WashBeams in Benelux for Selah Sue Shows
The first concert staged in the newly refurbished and re-launched Het Depot in Leuven, just outside Brussels, Belgium, featured four days of performance by hot emerging young Belgian singer / songwriter Selah Sue. ...
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QSC Audio Products Receives Thought Leadership Award from Channel IQ
QSC Audio Products, a manufacturer of power amplifiers, loudspeakers, digital signal processors, digital sound transport, and network audio for professional audio systems, announces that the company, as well as three individuals, ...
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New GLP impression X4 Form Unique Festoon in Marc Janowitz's My Morning Jacket Set Design
Marc Janowitz, long-time lighting and production designer for Kentucky psychedelic rock band My Morning Jacket, has kept up his tradition of using the evolving series of GLP impression LED heads by specifying 50 of the latest ...
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Robert Juliat and Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd Light Up Hong Kong
Robert Juliat's Hong Kong distributor, Pacific Lighting (HK) Ltd, reports a healthy market across the region with a bumper crop of Robert Juliat sales over the last quarter.
"The increased appetite for Robert Juliat ...
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Clay Paky Sharpy Fixtures Accompany Kelly Clarkson on Her Stronger Tour
Clay Paky Sharpy fixtures are living up to the name of Kelly Clarkson's Stronger tour with their punchy performance on the road. "With their very bright concentrated beam and fast effects, the Sharpys hold their own for such ...
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Electrosonic's Audio-Visual Systems Expertise Showcased in Five Thea Award-Winning Projects
Electrosonic announces that it has taken part in five projects that have captured Thea Awards for Outstanding Achievement. Presented by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), the Thea Awards recognize and honor ...
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Firehouse and L-Acoustics Help Create New York City Sensation
Since its Amsterdam debut in 2000, Sensation has grown to become one of the world's most successful and respected indoor electronic dance music (EDM) festivals. After producing more than 70 events for over two million people in two dozen ...
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Countryman Associates Helps First Baptist Church Snellville, Georgia Deliver the Message
Located roughly 23 miles east of Atlanta, First Baptist Church Snellville is a Southern Baptist Church on the go. In their sanctuary that seats approximately 1,500 people, the two weekly Sunday services attract an average of 900-1,000 ...
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JoeCo BlackBox Recorders Capture Mumford & Sons
Portland, Maine-based mobile recording company Satronen Sound took JoeCo BlackBox Recorders on the road to capture a series of US shows on the Gentlemen of the Road tour, headlined by Mumford & Sons. BBR1B 24-track ...
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Ashly Processors, Amplifiers, and Network Fader Remote Control Rejuvenate St. Clement Church in Missouri
St. Clement of Rome Catholic Church has served as the spiritual bedrock of Des Peres, Missouri for over half a century. Today, over 5,000 parishioners call St. Clement home, and over 500 students attend its schools. Like most mid-sized ...
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Spyders Drive Media at Microsoft Windows 8 Launch at New York City's Pier 57
There were Spyders in the house when Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 at New York City's Marine & Aviation Pier 57, which had been extensively transformed into a press event venue for the launch announcement. Data engineer Dan Barry, ...
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Professional Wireless Systems' Frequency Coordination Sizzles at the Latin Grammy Awards
As the Latin music world's hottest artists came together for the 13th Annual Latin Grammy Awards earlier this month at the Mandalay Bay hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque ...
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Theatre in Review: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Roundabout Theatre/Studio 54)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is an evening full of revelations -- murderers unmasked, mystery men identified, hidden lovers brought to light -- but the biggest revelation involves the show's cast; watching them cavort on stage ...
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Alcons Audio Announces the QR24 Line-Source Array Column
Alcons Audio introduces the QR24 line-source array column, a modular two-way column loudspeaker to be used as vertical array system, for both permanent and (limited) portable applications.
The QR24 combines a perfectly natural, ...
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Robe Launches DLS Profile
The Robe Robin DLS Profile is is the latest product in the DL range of luminaires that use the Robe RGBW LED module.
The DLS adds a system of four fast, smooth, framing shutters within the optical path design of the proven DLX ...
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QSC Introduces the New AcousticPerformance Line of Loudspeakers
QSC Audio Products announces the launch of the AcousticPerformance line of professional, two-way, full-range loudspeakers, ideal for a variety of installed sound reinforcement applications which require higher SPL and a stylish ...
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Jands Appointed as Aurora Multimedia Distributor in Australia
Jands Pty Ltd, an audio, lighting, and staging supplier, announces they have been recently appointed as the exclusive distributor in Australia of Aurora Multimedia, the Morganville, New Jersey-based maker of IP-based control ...
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VenueMagic Announces Integration with P.I. Engineering's X-Keys Controllers
VenueMagic, a platform of show control software, announces full integration with P.I. Engineering's X-Keys controllers.
Employing external controllers with the VenueMagic line of show control software allows lighting ...
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Bandit Lites Unveils Martin MAC Aura and MAC Viper at the CMT Artists of the Year
Bandit Lites announces the latest acquisitions to its rental equipment inventory, the Martin MAC Aura and MAC Viper Profile. With 2012 coming to a close, the company says Bandit looks to tackle the busy year of 2013 with ...
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Outline GTP Line Array Loudspeaker System Installed in Missouri's James River Assembly
The James River Assembly of Ozark, Missouri, recently upgraded its aging sound system with Outline's GTO line array loudspeaker cabinets as the sonic centerpiece. The new system, designed and installed by Special Event Services
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Sound Image Upgrades Audio System at Gibson Amphitheatre with V5 Presets for Harman's JBL VerTec Line Arrays
Delivering world-class audio to the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City in California, Escondido, California-based Sound Image recently upgraded to Crown I-Tech HD power amplification and added the new V5 presets to the ...
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DBS Audio Installs Meyer Sound UltraSeries at Drexel University
Flux is Drexel University's multipurpose venue built to enrich the campus music scene and to provide a well-equipped facility for students learning to run a music venue. To ensure these future industry professionals would have hands-on ...
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Hitachi Introduces an Ultra Short Throw 3LCD Projector with Networking Capabilities and Wireless Operation
Hitachi America, Ltd., digital media division, business solutions group now offers its CP-AW252WN ultra short throw 3LCD projector, which combines an array of versatile features including a new projector quick connection iOS app, a ...
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Shure and Sound Well Technology Company Celebrate 45-Year Partnership
Sound Well Technology is celebrating 45 years as a valued Shure distributor. To commemorate the partnership, Sound Well Technology principal Arthur Chiu has accepted a special congratulatory certificate from Shure ...
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Lighthouse LED Video and TS Sports are Golden at California Memorial Stadium
Lighthouse and TS Sports have installed Lighthouse HD10 LED video screens and three sets of LED video fascia at California Memorial Stadium, longtime home of University of California Berkeley Golden Bears football. ...
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Theatre in Review: The Songs I Love So Well (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Contra the old show business saw, Phil Coulter is a man who needs an introduction -- at least to American audiences -- and, in The Songs I Love So Well, he gets a dilly. The show opens with a video sequence featuring Sinead O' ...
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Riedel Communications Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
Riedel Communications, a provider of real-time networks for video, audio, and communications, celebrated its 25th anniversary on its premises in Wuppertal, Germany.
More than 1,400 guests from the broadcast, event, theatre, and ...
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American DJ Introduces the Battery-Powered Jelly Go Par64 2-in-1 RGB Effect
American DJ has unveiled the battery-powered Jelly Go Par64, a glowing LED lighting fixture that lets DJs, bands, and mobile entertainers create bright color washes entirely free from the constraints of cords, plugs, or power ...
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Talamas Broadcast Expands Supply of DPA Microphones
As part of its continual effort to provide the highest quality equipment available to its clients, broadcast sales and rental company Talamas Broadcast has added more DPA Microphones gear to its equipment arsenal. It recently ...
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Fulcrum Acoustic Forms Exclusive Partnership with Muse Audio for China Distribution
Fulcrum Acoustic announces an exclusive partnership with Chinese audio company, Muse Audio, for distribution of Fulcrum products in China. The partnership further strengthens Fulcrum's reach in Asia, complimenting their ...
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Lightware U.S.A. Releases Lightware Plus Line of DVI Matrix Switchers with Built-in Power Supplies
Lightware U.S.A., the US distributor of Budapest-based Lightware Visual Engineering productions, announces its latest DVI matrix switchers, the Lightware Plus line, will begin shipping in December. The new MX9x9DVI-Plus, ...
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Dimatec Makes Major Investment in Philips Selecon LED Luminaires
The French distribution company Dimatec has made a substantial investment in a range of Philips Selecon LED luminaires.
Dimatec, which distributes and imports lighting equipment brands to service film, television, events, ...
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$99 WiFi Light Controller and SDK by MEA Mobile on Kickstarter
MEA Mobile announces funding for the next generation of its breakthrough WiFi controller will be crowd sourced through Kickstarter. The goal is to enable easy hardware connection to mobile platforms. The full project specs can be ...
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ARX Adds i-Switch SUB to Reference Series
ARX Systems, the Australian based designer and manufacturer of digital and analog interface and signal processing products has added the new i-Switch SUB to their popular reference series of signal processors. ...
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NSCA Announces the 2013 Business & Leadership Conference
NSCA2013 Business & Leadership Conference (BLC), February 21-23, in Phoenix, Arizona. During the 15th annual conference, attendees will learn from world-class speakers and hear from industry peers on their ...
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ARRI Relocates in Toronto
ARRI announces the relocation of the Canadian office just west of the greater Toronto area in Mississauga. Situated only minutes south of Highway 401 and conveniently located near Toronto's Pearson International Airport, this ...
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HES Gear Shines On Wakarusa Music Festival
The Wakarusa Music Festival is an annual grassroots festival held in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, where the beauty of nature synchronizes with the euphoric sounds of live music. Since 2004, Wakarusa has celebrated music with scenic ...
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K-array Takes its Place Alongside the Masterful Artwork of Rodin
The Rodin Museum is one of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's prized museums, and has been run by the Philadelphia Museum of Art since 1929. The museum, which contains a priceless collection of 'the father of modern sculpture' Aguste Rodin ...
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Theatre in Review: Ingenious Nature (Soho Playhouse)
Baba Brinkman isn't your average confessional monologist. For one thing, his medium of choice is rap, despite his provenance as a white native of Vancouver, Canada. (His mother's assertion that he is "the greatest rapper alive" ...
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Tait Sets a New World Record for London 2012 Landscape Video Display
Tait Technologies has been awarded a Guinness World Records title for the world's largest landscape video display. Consisting of 634,500 individual pixels, Tait's pixel tablet debuted at the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony on ...
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Martin MAC III AirFX Is Now Shipping
After a successful ramp up and pre-order campaign, Martin Professional's newest MAC III family luminaire is now shipping. The 1,500W MAC III AirFX is an extremely bright and highly versatile lighting fixture, a new concept that ...
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The Broadway League Reveals "The Demographics of the Broadway Audience" for 2011-2012 Season
The Broadway League's 15th annual demographics report, The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2011-2012, compares current theatergoing habits to previous seasons in predicting trends for the future. ...
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Scott Robbins Named Executive Vice President of Sales, Harman Professional
Reaffirming his commitment to providing channel partners, distributors, manufacturers reps, and team members with strong sales leadership and responsive support, Harman Professional president, Blake Augsburger, today promoted ...
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LumenRadio Partners with 0energyLighting Inc.
LumenRadio, manufacturer of wireless lighting controls, announces 0energyLighting Inc. as its newest OEM partner. The US based company is the manufacturer of the FlexAray stage and studio LED luminaries with its unique patent ...
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Harman's JBL Professional Launches VTX Field Evaluation Program for Auditioning VTX Line Array Systems
Harman's JBL Professional announces the launch of its VTX field evaluation program, making a complete JBL VTX/Crown Audio VRack system available for sound contractors and potential clients to audition in the US. To launch the ...
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Parsons Electric Fits Brooklyn Nets' Barclays Center with Harman's AKG DMS700 Digital Wireless Systems
Newly constructed over one of the busiest transportation hubs in New York City, The Barclays Center, home to the National Basketball Association's Brooklyn Nets, has finalized its internal PA and is now equipped to host concerts, ...
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ESP Vision Releases Vectorworks 2013 Plugins for Windows and Mac OSX Systems
Modeling plugins for use with Vectorworks Spotlight 2013 on Windows and Mac OSX operating systems are now available from ESP Vision. As the 3D community continues to demand the highest level of product functionality, ESP ...
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Entertainment Sciences Group Hires Sean Karpowicz as its New Director of Marketing
Entertainment Sciences Group, a manufacturer of show control systems and VenueMagic show control software, announces the hiring of Sean Karpowicz as their new director of marketing. Karpowicz brings a diverse background ...
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DiGiCo/Optocore Network Propels Streisand's Back to Brooklyn
Barbra Streisand's Back to Brooklyn tour, a 12-date run of fall shows, brought the singer back to her roots in Brooklyn, New York in the city's new Barclays Center. She jokingly mentioned that the last time she performed in the ...
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An Awards Hat-Trick for Le Mark
Le Mark celebrated at the 2012 Hunts Post Business Awards, hosted by the Hunts Post, a newspaper in Huntingdon, a county in the southeast region of the UK. Winning every award they were nominated for, the Le Mark team bought ...
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TEAM Cancer Awareness -- A Wellness Initiative in the Commercial AV Industry
Everyone knows someone who's had cancer, and while no one can predict where or who it will strike, most people agree that encouraging healthy choices and receiving regular medical checkups are key to avoiding and treating the disease. ...
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A Civil War Christmas (New York Theatre Workshop)
Gather around the tree, children. Aunt Paula will tell you a Christmas story, and, if you're sated with sugarplums, it's just the thing: It's about war, death, and slavery, and it is set in a world where young men are led to slaughter and ...
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Plugfest Returns, RDMnet Draft Expected to Debut
PLASA Control Protocols Plugfest, the event where manufacturers and developers can test their products for interoperability with other manufacturer's products, is scheduled to take place January 25-28 at the DFW Marriott Solana in ...
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CAST Beta Testers Get First Peek at WYSIWYG R30
CAST Group of Toronto, Canada announces the beta version release of its lighting design and previsualization suite, WYSIWYG R30 in underway for testing by the carefully selected beta test team.
CAST's beta testing program aims to ...
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Rose Brand Extends the Deadline for the Rose Brand Scholarship
In response to feedback from students and professors, Rose Brand has extended their scholarship application deadline to January 6, 2013. Rose Brand hopes this extension will give the maximum amount of students the opportunity to ...
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Patrick Woodroffe Presents at Italian Conference Organized by Clay Paky
Nearly three hundred people attended the "Illuminando le Star" (Lighting the Stars) conference with Patrick Woodroffe, organized by Clay Paky in Rome on November 14. The event was sponsored by AILD, APIAS, the British Embassy ...
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FUNA International Appoints Greg Dauberger as Senior Vice President of Sales
FUNA International (FUNA), a subsidiary of SAM Electronics, an L-3 company, has appointed Greg Dauberger as senior vice president of sales. In his new position, Dauberger will manage the company's global sales ...
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Radial Introduces the Tossover Variable Frequency Divider
Radial Engineering announces the Tossover, a 500 series module that enables you to divide the frequency bands of an audio signal to separately process lows and highs or combine the two in series to create a band-pass filter. ...
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Take1 Updates Entertainment and Rental and Staging Industry Coverage to Include All Reusable Media
Take1 Entertainment Insurance, a division of U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. announces that, effective immediately, it is amending its policies on software, media, and data storage devices to include all reusable media that is part ...
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Firehouse Productions and Harman's JBL VTX Line Arrays Help Global Citizen Festival Raise Poverty Awareness
The Black Keys, Foo Fighters, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and many others rocked out recently in New York City's Central Park for the Global Citizen Festival, a free concert highlighting the effort to combat poverty around the world. New ...
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4Wall Nashville Tours with TobyMac
TobyMac, recent American Music Awards winner for "Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist," is hitting the road this month with lighting equipment provided by 4Wall Nashville.
The Hits Deep tour, which features lighting ...
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RMB Audio Finds New Solutions with MLA Compact At NC State Fair
RMB Audio has provided audio for the J.S. Dorton Arena at the North Carolina State Fair for 21 years, and even though they've used Martin Audio throughout that time, this year marked their first deployment of the MLA Compact ...
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Turbosound Supplies Seven Stages for Virginia's Richmond Folk Festival
The Richmond Folk Festival is a celebration of traditional music, with artists from around the world performing on seven stages spread across 17 acres of riverside parkland in downtown Richmond, Virginia. The event features the unique folk ...
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Lectrosonics Debuts Dual-Channel Slot-Mount Eng Receivers
Lectrosonics, a manufacturer of wireless microphone systems and audio processing products, announces the introduction of the SRB and SRB5P (domestic) and SRB/E01, SRB5P/E01 (export) two-channel slot-mount Digital Hybrid Wireless ...
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