BEAVERTON, OR — Biamp Systems, a leading provider of innovative, networked media systems, today announced that after 28 years in the industry, AV industry veteran Read Wineland is retiring. With his retirement, Michael Frank moves into the role of Eastern North America sales development director.
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TEMPE, AZ – Creative BackStage finished off the Summers Ends Music Festival with a bang. The festival ran from Sept. 24-27 and is one of the largest music festivals in the Phoenix/Tempe area. The featured act ending the four-day long festival was Kanye West, and with Kanye it has to be big.
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KERKRADE, The Netherlands – As the Castle of Love open-air music festival returned for its tenth year, partygoers from across the continent flocked to the site for a weekend of dance music and good times. Following the use of ADJ products in 2014, lighting designer Tom Franken once again chose ADJ lighting to really bring the festival to life, putting some of his favorite fixture to the test on the festival’s main stage, and elsewhere.
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DALLAS – One of the last of the season’s major US music festivals takes place October 2-4 and October 9-11 in Austin, TX. Syncrolite returns to the Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) in a big way by providing SXL automated skylights that will be filling the night sky over Zilker Park with dancing beams of light and ArenaColor wash fixtures illuminating the stage scrims.
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WASHINGTON D.C. – It was a music festival unlike any other: in the shadows of the Nation’s iconic monuments and steps away from The Reflecting Pool, tens of thousands gathered at the inaugural Landmark Music Festival. Bandit Lites provided the festival lighting for the event which worked to raise awareness for the upkeep of the National Park’s monuments.
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LAS VEGAS — And the winners are…Well, the votes are in — voting from readers of PLSN and FRONT of HOUSE magazines wrapped up on Sept. 30. But you’ll just have to wait until the night of the show – Oct. 24 – before all the 2015 Parnelli Awards winners are announced. For now, we can divulge the names of three of the 2015 Parnelli Awards recipients: Chris Lamb, David Cunningham and Pat Quilter, who are being honored, respectively, with Parnelli Lifetime Achievement, Visionary and Audio Innovator awards.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Online registration for USITT 2016 in Salt Lake City is officially open! Register & find hotel housing at our link below. USITT’s 2016 Annual Conference & Stage Expo runs March 16-19 in Salt Lake City. Very early registration – by Dec. 3 – saves the most money, with the lowest rates.
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WILKES BARRE, PA. – Mountain Productions’ Online Rigging Shop, which offers an extensive inventory of entertainment rigging products, including chain hoists, hardware, cables, chain bags, fall protection, CM replacement parts and much more, is open for business. Among the many products that can be ordered on the site are Kask helmets, pictured here.
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LONDON – Twelve Clay Paky Mythos fixtures projected text and images onto the Tower of London in September as part of a celebrity charity event honoring wounded armed forces veterans. The initiative was launched to raise awareness of the Haig Housing Trust, which offers housing assistance to ex-service people. The week culminated in a fundraising event, ‘For Queen and Country’, to mark the charity’s centenary.
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