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  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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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< ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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More Acts Go Green with Bandit
In 2010, Paramore, Diversity, and Pixie Lott all went green with Bandit Lites in the UK, moving toward more environmentally friendly, LED based equipment. In keeping with the Bandit goal of being 80% green by the end of ...
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Ashly Audio at St. Joseph University Church, Buffalo
St. Joseph University Church, located in Buffalo, is 160 years old; its current building, dedicated in 1925, holds 800 congregants. Above its traditional cross-shaped stone floor soar pillars and walls of gorgeous white stone and ...
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GoVision Screens at Super Bowl Events
Everywhere you looked during Super Bowl week in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area, you'd find NFL-sponsored festivities, star-studded parties, and fans from around the world basking in the aura of the world's biggest ...
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