PALM SPRINGS, CA – Event Safety Alliance is pleased to announce the official launch of our Event Safety Access Training (ESAT) in conjunction with the 2016 Tour Link Conference. The first delivery of this one-day program will take place Monday, January 11, 2016 at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa in Palm Springs, CA.
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Munich-based live engineer Björn Seeländer, a veteran of concert tours and venues worldwide, has recently been appointed as Live Sound Product Specialist for Waves Audio, the industry-leading developer of professional audio digital signal processing technologies.
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New member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Eighteen Sound, to participate in AES Brazil Conference and trade show this May.
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PLEASANT GARDEN, NC — Pleasant Garden Baptist Church welcomed themselves to the world of digital mixing systems by replacing their analog console, the GL2800, with Allen & Heath’s GLD-112 and Qu-32 mixers in their sanctuary and student center. Pictured here is the church’s technical director, David Marth.
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Avix Tech has been confirmed as NEXT-proaudio’s new Korean distribution partner.
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BIRMINGHAM, AL – The University of Alabama at Birmingham has made a long-term investment in the self-powered Meyer Sound LYON linear sound reinforcement system. Installed in the 1,330-seat Jemison Concert Hall at the school’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center (ASC), LYON has been credited for providing clarity and headroom for lectures and concerts ranging from classical and jazz to pop, rock, gospel, and reggae.
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EDISON, NJ – Quest Marketing, RCF USA manufacturer representative for the Southeast region of the United States, was recently presented with the Arturo Vicari Award of Excellence as Rep of the Year. Pictured here, from left, are RCF’s Tarik Solangi; Quest Marketing’s Jerry Sehi, Jim Greene and John Saviano; and RCF’s Roni Nevo and Arturo Vicari.
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BUENA PARK, CA — Joey Gallagher, CEO of TourReady, noted the imminent availability of a new online database for concert-touring professionals to find work and crew for concerts, tours, and festivals around the world. Called TourReady, the service is still in beta release, “but we’re ready for an expanded audience to use it,” Gallagher said. Also coming soon: access to the service via an iOS app.
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LAS VEGAS — The governing body of the Parnelli Awards announced that production/tour manager Chris Lamb will be the 2015 recipient of the Parnelli Lifetime Achievement Award. “I’m very honored by this award, and honored to join the list of previous winners, all of whom have in some way mentored my life,” Lamb said, “especially my retired partner, Gerry Stickells.”
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WEDEMARK, Germany – Sennheiser named Tim Schuette VP Global Sales, System Integration (SI). Schuette, with more than 15 years of management experience, will be based in Germany and report to John C. Falcone, Senior Vice-President of Sennheiser’s Systems Solutions Channel. Schuette will oversee Sennheiser SI sales teams located in North America, Western Europe, Central Europe and Northern Europe.
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INDIO, CA — Gavin McComb is FOH engineer for the solo tour for Philip Selway, best known as the drummer for Radiohead. For Selway’s performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which featured the IEM-equipped artist on vocals and keyboards rather than drums, McComb used an Allen & Heath’s iLive-T112 surface, an iDR48 and a ME-U with five ME-1s.
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LEXINGTON, KY — DPA Microphones was front and center at the 2015 Kentucky Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on April 10, when artists such as Montgomery Gentry and members of the Backstreet Boys performed. Tony Cottrill, the event’s FOH engineer and Director of Live Sound for the Blackbird Academy in Nashville (pictured here) used supercardioid d:vote 4099D Drum Mics and cardioid d:dicate 2011C Recording Microphones for the drum kit.
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