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Alcorn McBride Helps Animate Texas State Fair Icon

Alcorn McBride Helps Animate Texas State Fair Icon

DALLAS – A new and improved Big Tex was back welcoming guests to the State Fair of Texas last year. The iconic giant cowboy figure, which had been greeting fairgoers since 1952, was destroyed by fire near the end of last year’s State Fair.  The rebuilt Big Tex is even bigger, and enhanced this time around by SRO Associates and Texas Scenic and their use of Alcorn McBride’s V4 Pro frame-accurate controller and AM4 Digital Audio Machine. 

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U.K. Bhangra Showdown Lit with Entec Gear

WEST LONDON – Entec Sound & Light supplied a full production package for the 2014 Bhangra Showdown staged by Imperial College’s Punjabi Society. The vibrant event was a full-on dance competition that showcased the color, style and energy of Bhangra, with eight of the best university Bhangra dance teams in the UK battling for the title. Entec has been involved since the start of the show in 2008.

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Lighting Structure Falls in Malta, Four Crew Members Injured

TA’ QALI, Malta — The lighting support structure for a concert version of the Maltese rock opera Gensna fell at 10:50 a.m. on March 17 and injured four crew members. One of the workers, Emanuel Ronayne, 48, received life-threatening injuries to the chest; the other injuries were not life-threatening. The accident occurred at the Malta Fairs and Conventions Centre here. Of the four crew members injured, Ronayne and one other were hospitalized; the two others were reportedly treated on site for bruises and shock.

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Prolight + Sound 2014, Frankfurt, Germany

Prolight + Sound 2014 Finishes Strong

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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Hell and Heaven Metal Fest Canceled near Mexico City

Hell and Heaven Metal Fest Canceled near Mexico City

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.

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Long Reach Long Riders Announce 2014 Ride Sponsors

BALTIMORE — The Long Reach Long Riders announced sponsors for their 11th annual charity motorcycle ride.  Reprising their roles in the 2013 ride, Dana Taylor and the Short Reach Short Riders are sponsoring the LRLR T-shirts and Limelight Productions and Sapsis Rigging, Inc. are each sponsoring a chase car.

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Colour Sound Support for Rudimental Continues

Colour Sound Support for Rudimental Continues

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.

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