FRANKFURT, Germany — The 2014 edition of Prolight + Sound finished strong after four days on March 15, with 897 exhibitors from 42 countries on par with stats from the 2013 event (901 from 41 counties) despite the 2014 event’s month-earlier time frame. Combined with Musikmesse, there were a total 2,242 exhibitors from 57 countries, with a total 110,000 visitors from 142 countries attending the March 12-15 event.
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TEXCOCO, Mexico — The two-day Hell and Heaven Metal Fest that had been scheduled to take place March 15 and 16 at the fairgrounds in this Mexico City suburb has been canceled. State officials cited public safety as the reason for pulling the plug, but town officials and concert organizers, including town spokesman Francisco Vazquez, speculated that politics and economics might have played a role.
Read More »COLUMBIA, MD — Nemetschek Vectorworks announced the sixth edition of the Vectorworks Essentials Tutorial manual by Jonathan Pickup, which has been updated for use with the company’s 2014 version of Vectorworks software.
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WEST LONDON — Colour Sound Experiment continued its working relationship with BRIT Award winning band Rudimental and the band’s LD, Jonny Gaskell, on the most recent U.K. leg of their ongoing live campaign. Fresh from winning the 2014 BRIT Best British Single Award for ‘Waiting All Night’ the bands sold out tour included three consecutive shows at Brixton Academy.
Read More »UDON THANI, Thailand — The staging structure for a free concert held to raise awareness of human trafficking and slavery collapsed at 12:40 a.m. March 13. One of the 11 crew members injured by falling lighting and video structural elements later succumbed to his injuries. The worker who died was identified as Wichit Srichompoo, 35.
Read More »AUSTIN — A 21-year-old suspect evading a DUI checkpoint led police on a high-speed chase that ended when the Honda Civic he was driving crashed barricades set up for the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival near the Mohawk club at Red River Street and 10th Street in Austin. Dozens of bystanders were hit by the speeding vehicle, which also narrowly missed a police car and officer. Three died.
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Philips Vari-Lite’s 1200W VL4000 Spot and the 1500W VL4000GT Spot promise to combine high lumen output (25K and 35K, respectively) with low ambient noise (thanks to a new cooling system design) and impressive, high resolution optics (said to optimize center-to-edge focusing and deliver an unprecedented contrast ratio).
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J.R. Clancy says its new Varion Versatility Hoist is well suited for retrofits with tight spaces and can be used for front-of-house and onstage applications. Unconstrained by the width of the theatre space, the Varion hoist can be installed so that its first line can be dropped within inches of the wall. It can be mounted on any existing infrastructure, including a building’s bar joist, without causing horizontal stresses on the structure. It can be used for electrics, curtains, drops, or front-of-house stage lighting or speakers.
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