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U.K. Artists Go SXSW; Cato Music Mixes on Allen & Heath’s iLive

iLive-T112 surface at FOH with engineer, Fabrizio Piazzini. (photo credit: Andy Sheppard)

U.K. Artists Go SXSW; Cato Music Mixes on Allen & Heath’s iLive

AUSTIN, TX — The British Music Embassy returned for its fifth year at South by Southwest (SXSW), once again occupying Latitude 30 club. The March 12-17 lineup included Django Django, Maverick Sabre, Benjamin Francis Leftwich,  Jonquil, Ben Howard, Slow Club, Twin Atlantic, and Clock Opera. Cato Music supported the venue with gear from American Music and Sound (AM&S), including Turbosound, Allen & Heath and beyerdynamic products.

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Mario Bettencourt with Soundcraft Vi6

Soundco on Remote Island Orders Two Soundcraft Vi6s

PRAIA, Cape Verde — Praia, located on Santiago, one of the islands that make up the island nation of Cape Verde, is located some 350 miles off Africa’s Atlantic coast. As such, it might seem an unlikely place to find a Soundcraft Vi6. But Mario Bettencourt’s rental company, Marius Produções, has been using Soundcraft gear for the last 13 years, and he recently ordered a pair of Vi6s from Portuguese based importers, Tecnimusica.

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SPE Offshore Europe

Taylored Sound Uses Community Pro Gear for Oil and Gas Trade Expo in Scotland

ABERDEEN, UK — SPE Offshore Europe, a biennial trade show for the oil and gas industry, recently drew about 1,500 exhibitors and 50,000 visitors to the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. A PA system was required for close to 25,000 square meters (270,000 square feet) of temporary exhibition space. Taylored Sound designed and installed a system using  Community R.25 loudspeakers.

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Zdrojowy Teatr Animacji

Polish Children’s Theatre Installs Renkus-Heinz Gear

JELENIA GORA, Poland —  Established in 1976 by the Wroclaw actor Andrzej Dziedziul, the Zdrojowy Teatr Animacji, used mainly for children’s productions, is part of the Spa Theatre, which dates back 1836. Also featuring plays for grown-ups, and with some productions staged outdoors, the 200-capacity venue was looking to improve its audio system. The venue’s management turned to M. Ostrowski and CF Series solutions from Renkus-Heinz.

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Lyric Opera of Chicago production of Show Boat

Lyric Opera of Chicago Deploys Meyer Sound Line Arrays for “Show Boat”

CHICAGO — The 3,600-seat Lyric Opera of Chicago, which closed its season with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s 1927 masterpiece, Show Boat, used a Meyer Sound system that included 10 M2D line array loudspeakers, 16 MM-4XP self-powered loudspeakers, two CQ-1 loudspeakers, one 700-HP subwoofer, a Galileo loudspeaker management system and two MPS-488HPe power supply units.

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