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(8/5/2020)

-ESTA's Second Event Safety Standard Approved by ANSI's Board of Standards Review

ESTA's Second Event Safety Standard Approved by ANSI's Board of Standards Review

On July 6 ANSI's Board of Standards Review approved another ESTA Technical Standards Program standard: ANSI ES1.9 - 2020, Crowd Management. This standard -- the second to be published in a series of event safety guidance ...More

(8/5/2020)

-Meyer Sound Summer Webinar Program to Wrap with Grateful Dead Round Table

Meyer Sound Summer Webinar Program to Wrap with Grateful Dead Round Table

Meyer Sound's Summer Webinar Program will wrap with a final "Festival Friday" round table session featuring the decades-long sonic explorations of Meyer Sound with the Grateful Dead and their related bands. The round table ...More

(8/5/2020)

-Brompton Technology Processing Helps TDC Deliver Australia's First Full Virtual Production for TV Commercial

Brompton Technology Processing Helps TDC Deliver Australia's First Full Virtual Production for TV Commercial

Australia's leading supplier of video technology and production for the live events and entertainment industry, TDC - Technical Direction Company, was approached by production company Exit Films to work together on ...More

(8/5/2020)

-4Wall Provides Lighting and Video Gear for GUM Studios' Virtual Production Studio

4Wall Provides Lighting and Video Gear for GUM Studios' Virtual Production Studio

GUM Studios is an established multi-location film stage and equipment rental facility with production capabilities in the New York Metropolitan - Tri State Area area. GUM Studios caters to production companies, advertising ...More

(8/5/2020)

-Houserasten's Forest Showcase in Germany Showcases DJ Morten Heuer with Claypaky Mini-B LED Moving Lights

Houserasten's Forest Showcase in Germany Showcases DJ Morten Heuer with Claypaky Mini-B LED Moving Lights

Cube Entertainment in Rostock, Germany selected Claypaky Mini-B fixtures for the Forest Showcase with psytrance DJ Morten Heuer at the Housersten electronic dance music club tour in northeast Germany. Due to COVID-19, this ...More

(8/5/2020)

-API Consoles Chosen for Prestigious New Clive Davis Institute Campus in Brooklyn

API Consoles Chosen for Prestigious New Clive Davis Institute Campus in Brooklyn

The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts has purchased a 32-channel API Legacy AXS console with Final Touch automation, plus two The BOX consoles, for its new campus in ...More

(8/5/2020)

-Harlequin Floors Opens New European Distribution Center

Harlequin Floors Opens New European Distribution Center

Harlequin Floors has launched its new manufacturing plant and distribution center in Liège, Belgium.
The new 2,000 sqm plant based in Liège will manufacture Harlequin Liberty sprung floor panels and will ensure an even faster ...
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(8/4/2020)

-COVID-19 Update, August 4, 2020: Holding Patterns

COVID-19 Update, August 4, 2020: Holding Patterns

There's no agreement on a stimulus bill. Schools are reopening -- bumpily at best -- or they aren't but the president insists they must. And, in a shocking interview, he reveals how little he understands about the pandemic. Today, real ...More

(8/4/2020)

-Stimulus Update: Corporate CEOs Push for RESTART Act

Stimulus Update: Corporate CEOs Push for RESTART Act

Michael Strickland, of Bandit Lites, reports to LSA that a letter, written by former Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz and signed by more than 100 CEOs from businesses large and small, may help cause a ...More

(8/4/2020)

-#LightItInRed Supports #WeMakeEvents Red Alert Campaign

#LightItInRed Supports #WeMakeEvents Red Alert Campaign

UK-based grassroots campaign initiative #LightItInRed is part of the August 11th "Red Alert" day of action being organized and coordinated by #WeMakeEvents and PLASA (the Professional Lighting & Sound Association).< ...More

(8/4/2020)

-LEDucation 2020 Provides Valuable Platform with First-Ever Virtual Trade Show and Conference

LEDucation 2020 Provides Valuable Platform with First-Ever Virtual Trade Show and Conference

The LEDucation 2020 Virtual Trade Show and Conference begins in a few weeks. New registrants still have time to sign up for the lighting industry's first-ever virtual trade show and conference. ...More

(8/4/2020)

-Powersoft Pledges Percentage of Profits to Crew Nation Fund

Powersoft Pledges Percentage of Profits to Crew Nation Fund

Live music inspires millions around the world, but while artists have been able to embrace the new possibilities afforded by social media and streaming sites in the wake of COVID-19, the talented men and women who so often stand behind ...More

(8/4/2020)

-Robe Supports NeFestival in Ostrava

Robe Supports NeFestival in Ostrava

Colors of Ostrava is usually the largest multi-genre live music and performance festival in the Czech Republic and one of the most popular events on the European festival calendar, offering 22 stages of diverse and vibrant ...More

(8/4/2020)

-How to Improve Audio in AV Installations: Waves Commercial Audio Webinar on August 10

How to Improve Audio in AV Installations: Waves Commercial Audio Webinar on August 10

On Monday, August 10, 2020 (11:00am and 10:00pm EDT), Waves Audio will be hosting a webinar showing how users can improve audio quality dramatically in AV installations with Waves' new Commercial Audio (CA) products, the Waves ...More

(8/4/2020)

-Thanks to Its New DAS Audio Sound System, Services at Taylor Church are More Engaging than Ever

Thanks to Its New DAS Audio Sound System, Services at Taylor Church are More Engaging than Ever

As an interdenominational, full gospel, pentecostal church where everyone is welcome, Taylor Church offers a series of innovative ministries designed to help everyone gain a meaningful worship experience. Recognizing the value of a ...More

(8/3/2020)

-COVID-19 Update: August 3, 2020: The Comeback

COVID-19 Update: August 3, 2020: The Comeback

Despite faint rays of hope, the pandemic rages through the US and elsewhere. Here, the government seems paralyzed as hopes are pinned on the development of the vaccine in the foreseeable future. Congressional negotiations for new ...More

(8/3/2020)

-Attention Crew Members: Action Needed for Targeted Senate Outreach

Attention Crew Members: Action Needed for Targeted Senate Outreach

Just as NAMM has organized to lobby the industry to obtain government relief for live events workers, the National Independent Talent Organization (NITO), representing those who work in the live music industry, has also ...More

(8/3/2020)

-#WeMakeEvents Enters Red Alert with Backing of Leading Industry Organizations

#WeMakeEvents Enters Red Alert with Backing of Leading Industry Organizations

The #WeMakeEvents campaign, which is raising the alarm for the live events and entertainment sector, now has the collaborative support of 17 trade bodies and several more production companies and manufacturers. Together, they have ...More

(8/3/2020)

-PERG Releases Safe Return to Work Guidelines

PERG Releases Safe Return to Work Guidelines

A message from Harry Box, manager of the ESTA Production Equipment Rental Group (PERG):
"PERG is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of the PERG Safe Return to Work Guidelines, Precautions for Preventing ...
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(8/3/2020)

-Southard Audio Brings Harrisonburg's Divine Unity Church Outdoors with Martin Audio WPS

Southard Audio Brings Harrisonburg's Divine Unity Church Outdoors with Martin Audio WPS

Virginia's Southard Audio recently overcame the challenges of lockdown when it deployed its brand new Martin Audio WPS system for the first time, helping the congregants of Harrisonburg's Divine Unity Church to move ...More

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