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UAE - Maestra Group has provided a complete turnkey technical solution to the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan (SMK) Emeriti Ladies Tennis Tournament in Abu Dhabi for the second consecutive year. The competition was staged in a private residence in the city.

Central to this year's event was a 23m x 5m 10mm outdoor LED video wall provided by Maestra and run on the company's new Dataton 6 Watchout servers which were linked with Hawk-Eye Innovations software to provide real-time game feedback, analysis and results to spectators.

Maestra designed and produced a range of custom video content that played during the opening of the tournament each evening.

Inside a private pool-house also on the property, Maestra provided a further 6 x 6mm LED screens running from

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Egypt - More than 300 LED and discharge fixtures from PR Lighting graced the for the inaugural opening of the 22nd 2016 African Handball Cup of Nations Championship, which took place over 10 days at the end of January.

They were deployed by the Chinese manufacturer's Egyptian partner, Hi-Lights, to meet an inspired concept by Ahmed Arafa, considered the best designer / operator in Egypt.

Hi-Lights themselves are the country's largest service provider (and one of the biggest throughout the Middle East). They were awarded the contract by the Egyptian Handball Federation & Ministry of Youth and Sports to provide the lighting, sound, video projection and LED screens.

One of several international companies working for the client, their appointment was based on their creativity and quality of service and production over 25 years' experience.

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UK - An audio system supplied by pro audio specialists, The Warehouse Sound Services, hit all the right notes at the inaugural Celtic Connections on Campus concert series produced by Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) this month.

The world's largest Celtic music festival, Celtic Connections saw Glasgow play host to 2,100 artists and 300 events across 20 venues last month. This year, as part of the festival, more than 500 people enjoyed four days of live music performances at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).

More than 500 people enjoyed the four days of live music performances at the GCU campus, as part of the world's largest Celtic music festival.

GCU Audio Technology and Audio Systems Engineering students used a system provided by The Warehouse at the free concert series which featured up-and-coming talent drawn from Scotland's universities, colleges and schools.

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Strictly FX was founded in 1996 by industry veterans Mark Grega and Ted Maccabee. Our expertise and knowledge of the world’s leading pyrotechnic, laser, and flame manufacturers allows us to curate astonishing live events. With over 500+ shows performed a year, there’s good chance you’ve seen some of our work!

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South Africa - Wild & Marr, distributors for Harman Professional audio products in South Africa, will be hosting a free one-day workshop on all the latest techniques and workflows that Soundcraft Vi Digital Consoles can provide in today's Live, Broadcast and Theatre environments. This will be held on 3 March 2016 at MGG Productions, Marlboro, Johannesburg.

It will be hosted by Harman senior application engineer for tour sound, Ed Jackson. The course is open to audio industry professionals on a reservation basis, including sound engineers, broadcast, events, theatre, houses of worship, rental, installation and production companies.

Practical topics will be covered in the workshop including: Vi basic operations and patching, How to best accommodate visiting engineers, Troubleshooting, Show Management, Copying, pasting and the use of library functions and Vi local rack, stage

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USA - The Long Reach Long Riders and Behind the Scenes will host their annual fundraising raffle at the USITT Conference in Salt Lake City 117-19 March. This year's raffle will celebrate the 13th Anniversary of the Long Reach Long Riders annual charity motorcycle ride. The Riders have raised over half a million dollars for charity in their years of touring some of the country's most beautiful areas.

The Behind the Scenes Boutique will also be open for business during the show featuring an assortment of great Behind the Scenes swag and the famous Long Reach Long Rider T-shirts and kazoos.

Tickets for the raffle are an affordable $5 each or five for $20 and can be purchased at the Behind the Scenes booth throughout the show. Winning tickets for nine regular prizes and one grand prize will be drawn at 1pm on Saturday, the final day of Stage Expo.

The prizes, provided by t

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UK - Last month, famous landmarks across London were completely transformed with extravagant and colourful lighting displays. These were part of Lumiere London - a free lighting festival which took place across some of the capital's most iconic spaces. As the complete production solution specialist, White Light was called upon to provide the lighting support for several of the installations.

Taking place from 14 - 17 January, Lumiere London was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London. The range of spectacular displays included the lighting of Westminster Abbey, a purpose-built Garden of Light in Leicester Square and even images of A-list actors projected onto BAFTA's headquarters.

With its strong reputation in lighting across various markets, WL was contracted by Unusual Services and White Productions on behalf of Artichoke to provide its support.

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UK - Novus Leisure has carried out a major upgrade to its multi-room Sway Bar in London Holborn's fashionable Great Queen Street, imbuing it with a cool New York vibe.

Of the venue's five rooms, three were earmarked for a major technical and design overhaul as part of the £1m refurbishment, and Middlesex Sound & Light (MSL) specified Martin Audio's new CDD (Coaxial Differential Dispersion) installation range of loudspeakers in each. The spaces concerned were the now sophisticated basement Cocktail Bar (previously Crystal Bar) and Club Room (a conversion of the former Groovy Wonderland), as well as the Ground Floor Bar and Kitchen upstairs. MSL also installed new lighting.

Novus Leisure project manager, Graeme Sutherland, says that the aim was to bring a traditional 1980s style disco into the modern age and give the venue greater flexibility, with the ability to host

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USA - The North American International Auto Show held each January in Detroit steers the upcoming year for global car sales. The primary goal of every manufacturer at the show is to create focus and impact for the latest models, ensuring the world is geared up and ready for the latest and greatest from each brand.

Creating the cohesive vision this year for Fiat Chrysler Auto's booth, designed and built by George P Johnson Experience Marketing, James Klein Events were brought in to curate the show production. This featured a spectacular hourly 'Superstorm' that saw each of the Jeep, Dodge, Ram, Alfa Romeo, Mopar, Chrysler and Fiat brands 'takeover' the entire stand with hundreds of moving lights, dozens of HD video pixel-mapped elements and "awesome surround sound scores".

James engaged Michigan-based Sound Reality Corp. who incorporated the much sought-after dynamic audio

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USA - Powersoft delivered the audio to a crowd of 71,088 gathered for Super Bowl 50 at Levi's Stadium last week, with over 120 of its K10 high-performance power amplifiers and eight custom subwoofers featuring Powersoft M-System drivers. The pre-game and halftime entertainment portions of the event - powered solely by Powersoft amplifiers - featured energetic performances by Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Beyoncé and Bruno Mars, and reached no less than 111.9m viewers worldwide.

Elite audio services supplier, ATK Audiotek, provided system integration and audio services for the landmark event, creating an agile audio solution that consisted of 18 mobile speaker carts - each equipped with JBL VT4889 line array elements, JBL VT4880A subwoofers and Powersoft K10 amplifiers. The speaker carts were rolled onto the field for the pre-game, halftime and post-game portions of the event.

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Grammy Awards - Taylor Swift's 1989 won the album of the year award at this year's Grammys in Los Angeles last night. The singer - who is the first woman to win the award twice - also won best pop vocal album and best music video for her track Bad Blood. Rapper Kendrick Lamar won the most prizes on the night with five awards.

Ed Sheeran also won his first two Grammys for song of the year and best pop solo performance for his number one hit Thinking Out Loud. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars won two awards for their hit Uptown Funk, including record of the year, while Meghan Trainor was named best new artist. Muse won best rock album for Drones, and Tony Bennett collected his 18th Grammy for best traditional pop vocal album.

There were also a number of acts who gave tribute performances - Lady Gaga sang a medley of David Bowie songs, Jackson Bro

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South Africa - Brian Madiba is a theatre crew freelancer who is passionate about running. This year will be his tenth Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon race but many are not aware of what it takes for this man to be there. A couple of friends in the industry, Alistair Kilbee from Gearhouse Splitbeam and Duncan Riley from DWR Distribution, decided to lend a hand.

Running is in Brian's family, it's what his brothers and uncles do, and the sport he has participated in for the past 27 years. He trains every day, twice a day in fact when he is not working.

Based in Johannesburg, Brian makes use of public transport to get to the Two Oceans in Cape Town. It means catching a mini bus and travelling some 1 400 kilometres.

When he arrives in Cape Town, usually on a Thursday, Brian stays in a tent in Newlands at the Runner's Village, designed to give runners who have financial const

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UK - Sound Directions Chessington based UK distributor for Active Audio, Ashly, Cambridge Sound Management, Fulcrum Acoustics and SoundTube has appointed Hanieh Motamedian in the role of business development manager.

Hanieh will be responsible for account management and sales functions in the UK market, this position arising as a result of increased sales growth and demand for Sound Directions.

Having previously been engaged in the Voice-Alarm market with Application Solutions Limited in the role of sales manager where she was responsible for sales forecasting, securing new business and providing excellent customer service, Hanieh has plenty of experience to bring to her new role at Sound Directions.

Hanieh added, "Customers can expect an excellent level of attention and service from me in my new role. My aim is to quickly analyse requirements and provide service level

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Germany - Swedish lighting designer, Palle Palmé provided an imaginative lighting design for a pre-Christmas season at Stockholm's famed Berns Salonger - using exclusively LED fixtures from the GLP impression catalogue.

The Motown Featuring Afro-Dite revue is one of the Dr

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The Netherlands - JBL Professional will be holding a two day JBL Intellivox training close to the JBL/Duran Audio R&D and manufacturing facility in Zaltbommel, The Netherlands on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 March 2016

The training course will cover all the basics required to get started with JBL Intellivox. In addition to this there will be demonstrations of a wide range of JBL Intellivox and JBL AXYS products as well as a factory tour.

To receive additional details about the event and to receive a registration form, contact Anja Stapper (Anja.Stapper@harman.com) who will be co-ordinating the registrations for the event.

(Jim Evans)

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Germany - Movie Park Germany is a film and amusement park in Kirchhellen that offers visitors a taste of Hollywood through a host of rides, shows and attractions including functioning movie studios. Popular since opening in the late '90s, the park is divided into five areas, each with its own character and collection of attractions. In one of the most popular areas, Hollywood Street Set, multi-functional Elation Platinum SBX fixtures have been installed to add an extra layer of excitement to a 4-D cinema experience based on the animated movie Ice Age: No Time for Nuts.

The 3D film Ice Age: No Time for Nuts takes visitors through a sensory experience that includes physical effects in synchronization with the film such as shaking seats or wind effects. Eight Platinum SBX hybrid moving head fixtures installed in the cinema's ceiling project film-supporting special e

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UK - This week the Current RMS Team is celebrating hitting the 1,000-user mark with close to 700 rental businesses worldwide now relying on the system to manage their hire processes.

Launched just 15 months ago, Current has experienced rapid growth, illustrating the need for AV, lighting and production hire businesses to be able to work on the move, raise quotes on the fly, check stock availability and generate invoices from any device and location.

"Current has been so well received across the UK and we are now seeing significant growth across USA, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East - that's the beauty of the cloud, businesses can sign up within 60 seconds online and receive the same level of support from us, no matter where in the world they are," says business manager Lisa Kenward.

Since launch, Current has heavily invested resource in development, building

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USA - True variety shows have all but disappeared from American television, but if anyone can revive the genre it's Neil Patrick Harris who headlined the eight-episode Best Time Ever live variety series on NBC. Lighting designer Matt Ford of Magic Lantern Creations in Woodland Hills, California selected Clay Paky Mythos fixtures for the rig.

Featuring live performances, mini game show segments, sing-a-longs and pre-recorded pranks, "It was incredibly important to have a rig that was extremely flexible because it was a live variety show," Ford explains. "On most reality competition shows there is a lot more predictability, but Best Time Ever had a lot of unknown variables that you had to adjust to on the fly. We had to react to whatever was thrown at us. Most of the acts were new, things were shot from many different angles and one time we had to reblock a couch s

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The Netherlands - The first four-day Integrated Systems Europe exhibition came to a close on 12 February with a final count of 65,686 registered attendees. This represents a 6,338 (10.7%) increase on the 2015 edition and officially positions ISE as the world's largest AV and systems integration tradeshow.

"The volume of attendee traffic and its spread over the four days confirms our belief that the extra day was necessary and that it adds value for visitors and exhibitors," stated Integrated Systems Events managing director, Mike Blackman. "I'm delighted to say that the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and I would like to thank everyone who attended and contributed."

With 1,103 of the world's leading AV manufacturers and service companies filling the RAI's exhibitions halls, visitors had the opportunity to view the latest products and technologies. Members of the

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World - Sound designers are specifying the Meyer Sound Leopard linear sound reinforcement system to support a growing number of musical theatre productions in America and Europe alike. With support of six productions on three continents, Leopard is making an impression in the world of musical theatre with its level of clarity, power, and precision.

For Motown: The Musical in London, noted sound designer Peter Hylenski chose to deliver the soulful sounds of this West End hit musical at London's Shaftesbury Theatre with 28 Leopard line array loudspeakers and six 900-LFC low-frequency control elements, supplied by London-based Autograph Sound. "Motown is an extremely dynamic show," says Hylenski. "With Leopard, the low-level dialogue is crisp and articulate, while the full musical numbers have punch and clarity."

"Leopard was the right choice for this tour," says Poti

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UK - PSCo has announced that they will be distributing Samsung's much anticipated portfolio of LED in the UK and Ireland. PSCo has placed the first order for Samsung's 1.5mm ultra fine pixel pitch LED as a demonstration unit for its Reading showroom, demonstrating its commitment to both Samsung and channel partners.

Mark Taylor, LED business development manager at Samsung is responsible for the 'go to market' strategy on this product line. Announcing this news, Mark commented, "PSCo has been extremely successful in LED, and are the first distributor with a full product and support offering for the channel. We have strict criteria for our LED distribution partner to meet and I am delighted that PSCo met it all! We are very much looking forward to the future with the team at PSCo."

"We've always prided ourselves on the levels of operational and technical support we can offer

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USA - DPA Microphones has promoted Christopher Spahr to VP of sales and marketing, USA, James Capparelle to marketing manager, USA, and Gabriel Antonini to national sales support/business development manager.

"We are delighted to announce these three well-deserved promotions," says Niels J°rgen Øhrgaard, EVP of sales, DPA Microphones. "DPA has enjoyed tremendous growth and success over the past few years and it is no coincidence that Christopher, James and Gabriel have all been a part of it. Their pride and passion in our products are the driving force behind everything DPA does. We look forward to their continued contributions and hard work as DPA continues to build upon its reputation as the industry's best."

As VP of sales and marketing, USA, Spahr's new role will include managing the dealer network in the East and increasing overall sales. Spahr will also be

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