ZAF: MA Lighting for Clash of the Choirs

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by ETA - July 7, 2016

Photo credit: Duncan Riley Blond Productions was involved, for the third consecutive year, to supply the full technical for the televised competition Clash of the Choirs held at Global Access Studios in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mauritz Neethling from Blond was responsible for the lighting design, having control via a grandMA2 light.

DEU: GLP X4 Bars Help Rick Kay Create Catwalk Magic at AFW

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by ETA - July 5, 2016

When German based freelance LD Rick Kay (of the CORE Berlin collective) joined forces with local rental company Lautwerfer at the end of 2014 to help deliver the inaugural Alternative Fashion Week it was to mark the start of a rapidly evolving journey. Today the event has expanded from its

ITA: Clay Paky lights the poetry of Francesco de Gregori

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by ETA - July 5, 2016July 4, 2016

Bergamo's Creberg theatre sold out. The show was full of genuine musical masterpieces: the first half promoted the singer's new album with songs crammed with Dylan's metaphors and rhetorical figures, fully translated into Italian, and the second half was devoted to his own verses, from "Rimmel" (Mascara) right up to

UK: AX800A Compact Line Array Debuts at Exmouth Festival

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by ETA - July 4, 2016July 1, 2016

This year's Exmouth Festival saw the UK debut of Proel's brand new Axiom AX800A compact line array, used for the very first time at a live event after the first units of the new product began shipping this month. ESW Solutions, the South West's premier provider of professional audio, video, lighting

USA: Blue Man Group in Las Vegas Switches to Robe

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by ETA - July 2, 2016July 1, 2016

Photos credit: Lindsey Best Award-winning, critically-acclaimed and highly successful performance art company Blue Man Group has recently started incorporating Robe moving lights into their show at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Blue Man Group is a heady mega-mix of music, technology, art and excitement which immerses and delights audiences

USA: EAW Sets The Mood For Coachella Gobi Stage

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by ETA - June 30, 2016June 30, 2016

The Vandals immersed fans in a blanket of sound compliments of an Adaptive System from EAW. The Coachella Festival, held on the grounds of the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, is arguably one of the most prestigious music festivals in the United States. With recent attendance records topping 200,000,

ITA: Clay Paky Illuminates The “Out-Of-Place Pianist”

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by ETA - June 30, 2016June 29, 2016

Photos by Maurizio Martorana Paolo Zanarella is a contemporary classical music composer, who loves improvisation and is on the constant look out for new forms of expression, such as hovering with his baby grand piano 50 feet (15 metres) above the ground at the Sanremo Casino. His outstanding, poetic performance of the

USA: Grease Musical is Hopelessly Devoted to DPA Microphones

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by ETA - June 29, 2016June 29, 2016

d:screet 4061 Omnidirectional Microphones deliver cohesive sound during live televised musical. When Grease: Live, a television adaptation of the 1971 musical Grease, aired on FOX, Audio Supervisor/Designer Bruce Arledge knew that DPA Microphones would provide the perfect audio support for the multitude of actors on set. Brought on by Producer Greg Sills and Production

USA: Robe BMFLs Out On a Limb with Steven Tyler

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by ETA - June 29, 2016June 29, 2016

Photo credit: Theo Wargo (for Getty Images) Steven Tyler - singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known as lead singer of legendary American rock band Aerosmith - played a special high profile concert in the David Geffen Hall at New York City’s Lincoln Center called ‘Out On a Limb’, in support of

UK: Jon Sword gets a Feeling for CDC six

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by ETA - June 29, 2016June 28, 2016

The Feeling FOH engineer Jon Sword has had been touring the band with a Cadac CDC six console on their recent Jeff Lynne’s ELO arena support slot. The tour has seen both engineer and band fall in love with the amazing sounding compact Cadac. Sword has been The Feeling’s FOH man