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(2/10/2011)

-AV Concepts Expands Inventory and Staff

AV Concepts Expands Inventory and Staff

AV Concepts has acquired more than $1million in new equipment and has launched an aggressive recruiting campaign - due, the company says, to exceptional growth already contracted for 2011. In 2010, it enjoyed a strong performance ...More

(2/9/2011)

-Theatre in Review: Black Tie (Primary Stages/59E59)

Theatre in Review: Black Tie (Primary Stages/59E59)

For someone whose great subject is the decline and fall of an entire way of life, A. R. Gurney has provided us with steady amusement for the better part of three decades. He shows no sign of flagging invention in Black TieMore

(2/9/2011)

-Brilliant Stages Rate in Pollstar's Top 50 Worldwide Concert Tours 2010

Brilliant Stages Rate in Pollstar's Top 50 Worldwide Concert Tours 2010

Brilliant Stages, UK-based fabricators of specialist staging, was delighted to discover that its work was internationally represented in three of the top five tours of 2010.
According to Pollstar's recent listings of ...
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(2/9/2011)

-Renovated Grand Ole Opry House Gets Vari*Lite Units

Renovated Grand Ole Opry House Gets Vari*Lite Units

When Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House was struck by a devastating flood last May, the damage to the entire facility was extensive. With less than six months to get the venue back up and ready to go for the Opry's 85th anniversary ...More

(2/9/2011)

-K-array Makes Audio History at Verona Opera Festival

K-array Makes Audio History at Verona Opera Festival

The Verona Opera Festival is famed for its historic venue -- a 2,000-year-old Roman amphitheatre, built in 30 AD. Since the opera's inception in 1913, performances at the Festival at the Arena di Verona have been ...More

(2/9/2011)

-Pyrotek Special Effects Supplies Pyro for Rush's Time Machine Tour

Pyrotek Special Effects Supplies Pyro for Rush's Time Machine Tour

Working on his third world tour with Rush, Pyrotek Special Effects' long-time pyrotechnician John Arrowsmith, worked with the production designer Howard Ungerleider to accomplish the various effects, and specific ...More

(2/9/2011)

-Bavarian Film Awards Places Trust in Martin Pro Lighting, LED Displays

Bavarian Film Awards Places Trust in Martin Pro Lighting, LED Displays

On January 1h, the 32nd Bavarian Film Awards (Bayerischer Filmpreis) ceremony was held at Prinzregententheater in Munich. The event, one of the biggest live productions carried out by the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation< ...More

(2/9/2011)

-Tokyo's New National Theatre Gets Aviom Personal Mixing System

Tokyo's New National Theatre Gets Aviom Personal Mixing System

Aviom's personal mixing system has become the perfect partner to the orchestras that play at New National Theatre Tokyo (NNTT). The quick and simple setup associated with the Aviom system allows the theatre's technical crew ...More

(2/9/2011)

-Squeeze Tours with Bandit

Squeeze Tours with  Bandit

Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, otherwise known as Squeeze, reissued many of their hits in a new album titled Spot the Difference, challenging fans to notice the one detail changed in each new version. ...More

(2/9/2011)

-WSDG-E Upgrades Audio at Swiss Music Hall

WSDG-E Upgrades Audio at Swiss Music Hall

Commonly known as "'tis" to six generations of fans, the Atlantis Basel's has been one of Switzerland's largest and most popular music halls for 63 years. Founded as a café in 1947 by explorer Paul Seiler, 'tis moved to ...More

(2/9/2011)

-Projection Studio at NewcastleGateshead Initiative's 2010 Enchanted Parks

Projection Studio at NewcastleGateshead Initiative's 2010 Enchanted Parks

London-based, The Projection Studio was commissioned to create a magical work on the Almond Pavilion in Saltwell Park, Gateshead for the NewcastleGateshead Initiative's 2010 Enchanted Parks event. This occasion ...More

(2/9/2011)

-Martin Audio Backs Up Showcase Gospel Concert

Martin Audio Backs Up Showcase Gospel Concert

Founder-owner Harold Cummings and his company, Drummer Boy Productions, recently provided an entire Martin Audio system for a concert by leading Gospel artist Fred Hammond at the Jesus People Ministries ...More

(2/9/2011)

-Simon Productions Provides SLS Ribbon Driver Line Arrays for 2011 NAMM Show Concert

Simon Productions Provides SLS Ribbon Driver Line Arrays for 2011 NAMM Show Concert

NAMM Samson featured a lineup of musicians that included Peter Erskine, Victor Wooten, Alex Acuna, Billy Sheehan, Stu Hamm, Steve Vai and Jack Bruce. Simon Productions, a Los Angeles-based, sound reinforcement ...More

(2/8/2011)

-30% Increase in Visitor Registrations for PLASA 2011

30% Increase in Visitor Registrations for PLASA 2011

Over 6,500 visitors have confirmed their attendance at London's entertainment and installation technology trade show, PLASA 2011, one month after registration opened on January 1. The unprecedented surge in visitor registrations ...More

(2/8/2011)

-Christie Steals the Show at the InAVation Awards 2011

Christie Steals the Show at the InAVation Awards 2011

Christie's MicroTiles product was awarded Most InAVative Digital Signage Product in the Technology Awards category at the prestigious 2011 InAvation Awards, presented at this year's ISE exhibition in Amsterdam. Last ...More

(2/8/2011)

-Studiotec New Martin Professional Distributor in Finland

Studiotec New Martin Professional Distributor in Finland

Martin Professional Scandinavia has appointed Finnish company Studio Tec as its new distributor in Finland. Effective February 1, Studiotec is the exclusive representative of Martin Professsional products across the country ...More

(2/8/2011)

-Robe LEDWash 600s for Roncalli Circus

Robe LEDWash 600s for Roncalli Circus

Newly purchased Robe ROBIN LEDWash 600 moving lights were one of the star attractions for the seventh Circus Roncalli Christmas season, staged at the Tempodrom Möckernstraße, Berlin. The venue becomes one of the ...More

(2/8/2011)

-W-DMX Lights Brazil's Xaixa Econômica Federal Bank

W-DMX Lights Brazil's Xaixa Econômica Federal Bank

W-DMX, from Wireless Solution Sweden AB, made Christmas a colorful event for the Caixa Econômica Federal Bank in Brazil during a special installation running December 10- January 1.
The challenge: to send a reliable ...
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(2/8/2011)

-Clay Paky Alpha Beam 700s on Usher's OMG Tour

Clay Paky Alpha Beam 700s on Usher's OMG Tour

Usher has followed the release of his new album Versus with the OMG Tour, his first big-budget spectacle since 2004. Embarking on a 25-date tour of America, the platinum-selling artist remarked that his show would ...More

(2/8/2011)

-The Pasadena Symphony and POPS, Performing with Audio-Technica Microphones

The Pasadena Symphony and POPS, Performing with Audio-Technica Microphones

The Pasadena Symphony and POPS is using microphones from Audio-Technica. Complete Production Rentals, a local provider of rentals, sales, and service of sound and video equipment, uses Audio-Technica microphones ...More

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