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Accident During Load-In Kills Tour Manager, Singer in U.K.

GUILDFORD, U.K. — The tour manager and one of the 10 singers for Fisherman’s Friends, a male vocal group, died from injuries caused by a falling steel loading dock door at the G Live venue here. Tour manager Paul McMullen, 44, died at the scene of the freakish accident, which occurred during the mid-day load-in for a performance Feb. 9. The show was cancelled. Singer Trevor Grills, 54, was also pinned by the heavy steel door. He was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to his injuries Feb. 11.

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PLCyc LED Performs in Great American Mousical

CHESTER, CT – Goodspeed Musicals recently debuted The Great American Mousical, a whimsical, musical comedy that celebrates life in the theatre, directed by Julie Andrews.  The production team was challenged to bring the excitement and spectacle of Broadway into a compact 200-seat venue. To accomplish this, co-lighting designers Richard Pilbrow and Michael Gottlieb brought in a new and compact lighting tool, the PLCyc LED luminaire from Philips Strand Lighting and Philips Selecon.

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Green Hippo Hippotizer Software v3.2

LONDON – Green Hippo has launched Hippotizer version 3.2 software, available for download from the website. The software offers new features and more than 100 enhancements and is suitable for installation on HippoCritter, GrassHopper, HippoPortamus and HD models.

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Greg Russell Joins AC Lighting

PHOENIX – A.C. Lighting Inc. has appointed Greg Russell as Southwestern US regional sales manager, based in Phoenix. Russell has been working in the production entertainment industry for more than 25 years providing lighting, sound, rigging, design, installation and production management to a range of high profile artists, venues and television shows.

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AVnu Alliance Opens Bridge Certification; Adds 50th Member

BEAVERTON, OR — The AVnu Alliance, which certifies Audio Video Bridging (AVB) products for interoperability, has launched certification testing for AVB-enabled networking bridges at its appointed testing house, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL). AVnu Certification is available to Alliance member companies. The AVnu Alliance also recently added its 50th member, Palo Alto-based Symphony Teleca Corporation (STC).

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Clear-Com Relocates U.K. Headquarters

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Clear-Com relocated its U.K. headquarters. The new office is at 2000 Beach Drive, Cambridge, just down the road from the company’s previous U.K. headquarters. The company said the new facility will enable Clear-Com to continue its expansion in the region, while expanding resources available to its staff members.

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Epic Production Technologies Scales Back

WINNIPEG — Epic Production Technologies, once a major North American provider of concert and theatrical lighting and staging for Billy Joel, Elton John, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, Green Day, The Lion King and Phantom of the Opera, appears to have sharply scaled back its operations. Press reports noted layoffs at company locations in Winnipeg and Burnaby Canada and in Oxnard, CA. Senior executives including Marc Raymond, Ted Fowler and Brian Konechny are also reportedly no longer working for the company.

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Grammys 2013: Circus Looks, Dress Projections, Tributes and More

LOS ANGELES — Honoring musical genres ranging from rock to hip hop, Latin, folk, pop, jazz and electronica, the 2013 Grammy Awards also featured a diverse array of visuals, with memorable looks including Taylor Swift’s carnival-themed wonderland and video twists including Carrie Underwood’s video-mapped dress and immersive LED for Frank Ocean’s performance of “Forrest Gump.”

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Christie Lites Adds MA onPC Command Wings

ORLANDO – Christie Lites has taken delivery of their first 50 MA onPC command wings from A.C.T Lighting.  “We purchased the onPC command wing units to extend usage of the flexible and powerful grandMA control system to customers who need portability on location or find that it’s physically difficult to use a full grandMA2 console,” says Christie Lites CEO Huntly Christie.

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LightConverse Software Saves Time at Moscow’s MuzTV Awards

MOSCOW – The 10th anniversary 2012 Muz TV Awards, held at the Olimpisky Stadium in Moscow, provided a backdrop to demonstrate the capabilities of LightConverse 3D Show Platform software and server hardware in action. The software was used throughout the virtual design process for preliminary mapping visualization and projector placement using exact 3-D models of the actual show. This saved days, if not more, of expensive venue time.

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