FRANKFURT, Germany — Every year, the arrival of spring brings the Musikmesse and companion Prolight + Sound music/pro audio tradeshows to Frankfurt, Germany. For anyone who’s never attended, it’s a huge affair — sort of like a combined NAMM / AES / InfoComm / LDI / DJ Expo, with 10 exhibition halls (plus outdoor displays) spread out across the city’s expansive Messe fairgrounds.
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ORLANDO, FL — JH Audio named industry veteran Chuck Reynolds as its director of sales. Prior to JH Audio, Reynolds served as global director of sales at Ultimate Ears for nine years, a company that JH Audio’s Jerry Harvey founded in 1995 before launching JH Audio with co-founder Brittany Harvey in 2007.
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LONDON — Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, a wooden replica incorporating elements of the first two Globe Theatres (1599-1613 and 1614-1642), opened in 1997. To mark the Bard’s 449th birthday in late April (the exact date is unknown), the theatre presented The Magic Numbers. ARC Sound, equipping the main theatre with a comprehensive sound reinforcement system for the first time, provided Harman components including a JBL VerTec speakers and Soundcraft Vi consoles.
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LAS VEGAS — Jonathan Deans, sound designer for Broadway’s 2013 Pippin and Cirque du Soleil resident productions in Las Vegas including LOVE, KA, Zumanity, O and Mystere, has specified a Meyer sound system for Michael Jackson: One, the forthcoming production based on Cirque’s Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour. Previews for the show are set to begin May 23, with an opening date set for June 21.
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COQUITLAM, BC, Canada — The mid-May itinerary for Tegan and Sara Quin had the Canadian sisters jetting from Perth to Singapore and Jakarta before returning to North America for a gig with The Killers in Camden, NJ. Gearforce, based here, supplied a Yamaha CL3 with two Rio3224-D racks for FOH mixer Scottie Baldwin, pictured here.
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SPRINGFIELD TWP, NJ — Orbital Sound, the U.K.-based sound rental company that established a company division here late last year, named Morag MacPherson vice president of the U.S.-based operation. MacPherson will work with Orbital’s international managing director Chris Headlam.
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NEW YORK — Wuppertal, Germany-based Riedel Communications won a Sports Emmy Award in the “Outstanding New Approaches Sports Event Coverage” category for the company’s involvement with the Red Bull Stratos project. Riedel received the honor from the National Academy of Television Arts and Science at the 34th Annual Sports Emmy Awards, held May 7 in New York City.
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BRASILIA, Brazil — Capital Inicial, a post punk/New Wave band that established early momentum in the 1980s and 1990s, has continued to ride that wave of success through the 2000s to the present day. FOH engineer Luis Mazzei has been optimizing the band’s sound with a different kind of Waves — the studio plugin software — since 2001. He was an early adopter of the company’s Soundgrid for live performances as well.
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ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands — Dutch PA company SoundWorks supplied 28 Allen & Heath ME-1 personal monitor mixers for singer Lee Towers, who recently hosted concerts over several nights at the New Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam.
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HONG KONG — DPA Microphones announced that it has opened a new office here headed by Ken Kimura, DPA APAC general manager, who had previously been based in Shanghai.
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LONDON — The London Community Gospel Choir (LCGC) made the Guinness Book of Records with a staged performance featuring 1,169 voices. FOH engineer Raphael Williams and monitor engineer Nikoma Bell mixed the performance on 96- and 64-channel Soundcraft Vi6 consoles, respectively.
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