NEW YORK — Although its top sustained winds were less than feared, Hurricane Irene’s size, voluminous rainfall and inland flooding forced the cancellation of outdoor and indoor music events over a wide swath of the U.S. eastern seaboard, canceling events from the Identity Festival in Miami to the American Folk Music Festival in Bangor, ME. For event organizers, it was pretty clear that their shows simply could not “go on.” Some venues, including Atlantic City casinos, were evacuated as the storm approached. All permits for outdoor events in New York City were revoked. And with mass transit shutdowns, even indoor shows like Broadway’s The Lion King and Mary Poppins and the Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana at Radio City Music Hall had to be canceled.
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LOS ANGELES — LD Todd Roberts of Visions Lighting, LLC used 20 Elation Professional 189W Platinum Beam 5Rs for the L.A. Rising concert at the Los Angeles Coliseum, headlined by Rage Against the Machine, and also recommended them to light Coldplay’s performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, which was staged in a tennis stadium and shot from overhead by a blimp.
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LONDON — Martin Professional’s EMEA sales organization announced that David Martin has been hired as key account manager serving the UK market. He previously worked for Martin as club sales manager at Martin UK in the early 2000s.
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LAS VEGAS — Justin Lang, editor of PLSN Magazine, announced the introduction of PLSNtv. “Projection, Lights & Staging News has long been the leader in news, products and opinions for the live entertainment industry. Now we’re taking it up a level,” Lang said.
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LONDON — The iTunes festival returned to London’s Roundhouse for the 31 days of July, 2011, with performances by more than 60 artists from around the world including Adele, Arctic Monkeys, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, the Foo Fighters, Linkin’ Park, Moby, My Chemical Romance, Paul Simon, The Script, White Lies and others.
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LONDON — Take That’s Progress Live 2011 Tour reunited the band’s five original performers for the first time in over 15 years, and they played to packed stadiums in the band’s biggest tour to date. But if the tour was big, so was the giant figure of “OM”, a 20m high animated man, brought to “life” as a primitive god-like figure during the on-stage action. In reality, OM was designed and engineered by Brilliant Stages with the expert help of mechanical engineer Andy Edwards.
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