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Playing theatres and small arenas around Canada, the production needed a show pack that could adjust to a range of audience sizes, while still remaining manageable for a relatively small crew. With the help of Apex Sound & Light, in Toronto, Blue Rodeo was able to keep the entire show to only one truck. Apex account manager Chris James was especially impressed, commenting, "It's almost unheard of to have an arena show with audio, video, lighting and 15 ft of backline all in one 53 ft trailer. Especially as an easy pack, and not a total nightmare."

With smooth load-ins, usually running less than three hours, and even faster load-outs, Blue R

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Each year, CAST bestows the winner of the Lighting Design category with an educational wysiwyg license, and announces that this year's winner is University of Oklahoma student, Leahe Knott, who scooped the prize for her work on Peter Oswald's translation of Friedrich Schiller's play, Mary Stuart. In a review of the production for the University's Routes website, Laurel Dix noted, "The purity and subtlety of Leahe Knott's lighting draws out each brilliant bit of colour from Lloyd Cracknell's sumptuous costumes."

Knott herself explains: "The story of Mar

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Once again using stately homes as a backdrop, Sennheiser will host three events during May and June. The first is once is again at Edinburgh's Hopetoun House on 21 May, followed by Carlton Towers in Yorkshire on 23 May then finally Knebworth House, Hertfordshire on 5 June.

The roadshows offer an educational and informative series of seminars and hands on workshops, playing an integral part in helping Sennheiser's customers achieve more from their working relationships and equipment, as well as offering support around the third-party brands that the company distributes.

"Each year we look at the issues that are affecting the industry and how we

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As the production team prepared to bring the group's latest album Picture Show to life, lighting designer Matt Guminski would be inheriting part of the largest moving light rig they had ever used and they would capitalize on this by using the power and performance of the VL880 Spot luminaire from Philips Vari-Lite.

"I've been out with Neon Trees since May of last year when I joined them during the middle of their previous tour," began Guminski. "On that tour we really only had a ground package with small moving lights and strobes but

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Ease-of-installation is the driving principle behind this next generation of small format, surface mount surround loudspeakers. The patent pending X-Mount (included with every loudspeaker) enables the loudspeakers to be quickly and securely deployed either vertically or horizontally from a flat surface. Knurled surfaces on the X-Mount's pivot points allow the loudspeaker deployment angle to lock in place in 7.5-deg

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This multi-award winning musical is currently running at the Teatro at Montecasino, Johannesburg before opening at the Artscape, Cape Town, on 19 June 2013.

"I work extensively for Showtime Management productions, the SA Producer for Jersey Boys, on most of their productions," said Kilbee. "Showtime started talking about Jersey Boys three years ago... keep in mind that shows of this scale are always a couple of years in the making."

Kilbee kicked off Jersey Boys in Singapore in November 2012 and, over the 11 week run, the production received rave reviews. The performances in Johannesburg are enjoyin

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Such a wide spectrum places considerable demands on the sound reinforcement system - demands that the previous system was unable to meet. Something altogether more flexible was required, which is why those responsible decided in advance of the celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of

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Wesley Bulla, Dean of the Curb College stated, "Bob Mulloy loved creating opportunities for students to experience the music industry first hand through programs like our showcase series. Today, this program has become a rich tradition on Belmont's campus. Without the partnership with Bandit Lites, our students would not have the chance to produce the high-calibre shows we've seen over the past 10 years.

"These partners have not just loaned equipment for shows, the professionals from Bandit have

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John Lyons of Strictly FX explains, "We have four confetti blowers in a truss over the crowd. At the end of the song 1 + 1, Beyoncé flies over the crowd from the main stage to the satellite stage. As she flies, she leaves a trail of gold Mylar confetti behind to give a 'pixie dust' look. The confetti canons are controlled wirelessly with the W-DMX BlackBox, making the installation fast, easy and reliable. Due to the location, it just make sense to go with wireless DMX, and 120VAC is suppli

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This year's UMF was the first two-weekend, six-day event in festival history and the most successful to date drawing over 330,000 electronic dance music fans. Over 200 DJs and electronic musicians and emerging artists performed each weekend.

UMF also scored another first with the public debut of the Clay Paky Sharpy Wash 330 in the US. Fifty Sharpy Wash fixtures were featured in the innovative Cox Mega Structure, which was purpose-built for the high-energy festival to showcase DJs and artists on stage and shelter legions of dancing fans. Stephen Lieberman of SJ Lighting designed the Mega Structure with lighting and build by AG

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Kenderdine Electrical is one of the largest distributors in New Zealand with many years track record of distributing top brands such as Martin, Robert Juliat, Philips Selecon, Philips Strand Lighting and Osram.

"We are very excited to be working with LumenRadio", says Ruthe Kenderdine at Kenderdine Electrical. "We believe LumenRadio's innovate and reliable products are a perfect complement to our current product portfolio. With the CRMX products, we can provide turnkey solutions to all our clients. Everyone in our team looks forward to bring the CRMX brand

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"I didn't want the small narrow-beamed fixture that is a one trick pony and way over used these days," states Taylor, who also wears the hats of lighting director, programmer and technician on the tour. "I chose the Viper for several reasons. Because of the wide variety of shows we are doing - headlining and support, clubs, theatres, sheds, festivals, and arenas - I wanted a fixture that was very versatile. I wanted something that is bright, but smaller than most of the 1200 W fixtures on the market because of our limited trailer

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"We are very excited about this new collaboration with Dirigent," says ArKaos business development manager, Agnes Wojewoda. "Dirigent has been established for a very long time and is ideally placed to bring our GrandVJ range to the Japanese music market. The team is very eager to start distributing our products, organizing workshops and product training and is in an excellent position to offer full and reliable after-sales support."

"We, Dirigent, have conducted our business in the field of musical instruments, software and DJ equipment in Japan for 24 years," says Dirigent's sales manager, Fukashi Nakaya. "Now we are greatly excited to make this collaboration with the world

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Brunker and Rice will continue to serve OPTI as consultants to ensure a smooth transition and customer continuity.

Said Neil Rice, "I am delighted we have found Rob, whose experience in business management will, I'm sure, re-energise and re-focus our future.

"The recent introduction of LED projectors has revitalised that side of our business whilst Trilite continues to be the de facto brand in the exhibition sector."

(Jim Evans)

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"Abacus Rentals are expanding their inventory to meet the needs of their growing customer base," commented Sai Prasad, HK Audio product specialist at Melody House. "With their second ConTour Array system, they can either meet the needs of large events or split the system to handle two smaller events."

(Jim Evans)

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At the top end of the range DPA is offering podium microphones that incorporate the modular capsules from the d:dicate Recording Microphones (formerly known as Reference Standard), which are noted for their exceptional linear frequency responses, high SPL and superior gain before feedback. These new podium microphones combine the capsules with newly introduced modular active booms to complete their modular nature. A number of different capsules are available and by choosing the exact capsule and boom combination, DPA customers can access the exact microphone for their needs.

Christian Poulsen, CEO of DPA Microphones, says, "Given the flexi

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Booker has toured as a monitor and FOH engineer with many artists, including Scissor Sisters, Spiritualized and PJ Harvey, and won Monitor Engineer of the Year at the Total Production Awards in 2009. He has also produced, mixed and mastered various recording projects and mixed on stage sound and broadcast mixes on numerous TV and Radio shows, including MTV Awards and BBC Live Lounge.

Booker has extensive operating experience of iLive and has written his suggested presets for Dynamic EQ and Multiband compressors based on years of touring with the system.

"The Dyn EQ and Multi BD compressor are both creative and controlling in use. They are the Swiss knife off

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This new position has been created to further improve the quality of technical support for all MKT products in the region. Hughes will be working with both end users and MKT regional partners, and employing his considerable experience and expertise on the deployment, configuration and operation of all Midas and Klark Teknik products.

Hughes comments, "Midas Klark Teknik is an exciting place to be right now, with considerable on-going development and many new products in the pipeline. I'm really looking forward to providing all MKT users with the support to get the very best results out of our products."

MKT brand development manager Richard Ferriday adds, "We are delighted at Rob's return to MKT. Rob is a well

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Combined with a coordinated marketing campaign, the workshops generated enthusiasm for the X32 throughout Brazil. More than 1000 technicians and 700 sales representatives, in 50 of Brazil's major cities, were given hands-on training for the X32 as well as its compatibility with other Behringer products including the P16 personal monitoring system and the S16 digital stage box. The 500th workshop was completed on 15 April, 2013.

"We are

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Midas/Klark Teknik brand development manager, Richard Ferriday comments, "This provides a huge opportunity for growth due to our new competitive pricing policy - and Dhanashree are the perfect partner to take full advantage of that. I welcome Dhanashree to the MKT family and look forward to delighting their customers with plenty of high-quality, reliable and affordable MKT products."

Mr. Abhishek Toshniwal, director of Dhanashree Electronics Ltd. adds, "The Midas and Klark Teknik brands have earned the admiration of audio engineers all around the world for their sonic performance, feature sets and rugged reliability. We are excited to now offer their entire range of top-tier products to our partners. Our aggressive marketing campaign, coupled with highly-com