CHICAGO – Organized annually by Chicago's chamber of commerce, West Fest Chicago offers two days of live music and entertainment on Chicago Avenue at Damen. Audio Integration Services (AIS), the distributor for Void Acoustics in the U.S., supported the event.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – SK Systems' Tom Heinisch used a new DiGiCo SD9 for the Richard Nader Memorial Doo Wop Concert XXI at the Izod Center Arena.
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CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers' WET and R-Series loudspeakers have passed the military spec MIL-STD-810G test standards for resistance to salt fog (test method 509.5), humidity (test method 507.5 (B3)), solar radiation (method 505.5, Procedure II, Steady State), extreme high temperatures (method 501.5, Procedure II, Operation Hot) and extreme low temperatures (method 502.5, Procedure II, Operation Cold). These are the same stringent tests administered by the U.S. Military.
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SCARBOROUGH, U.K. – Europe's largest open-air theatre – opened in the 1930s and set on an island in the middle of a lake near the British seacoast – has been restored more than 40 years after the last staged musical production was performed.
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The staging company will host the Parnelli Cocktail Hour
LAS VEGAS – Venerable live event staging company B&R Scenery has signed on to host the Parnelli Cocktail Hour, which precedes the Parnelli Awards Gala Dinner, on October 22, 2010, at the Rio in Las Vegas.
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ORLANDO, FL – Its 800-seat facility may have been big enough to land Church in the Son on the Orlando Weekly's roster of "mega churches." But it wasn't big enough for the burgeoning congregation, even with three Sunday services. Then, a church member donated a vacant building lot adjacent to the church, and the path toward expansion became clear.
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CHATHAM, U.K. – St Georges Centre in southern England has recently seen a substantial digital audio system installation designed to transform its usability, following a new license agreement for shared use between Canterbury Christ Church University and Medway Council.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary – For the current tour of Europe, Faithless FOH engineer Mark Kennedy is using one of two Midas PRO6 FOH systems supplied by Britannia Row, with the identical consoles leapfrogging each other to keep up with the band's busy summer schedule.
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ZURICH, Switzerland – The opera house in Zurich has been equipped with a new communications system from Riedel Communications. Riedel, a manufacturer of fiber, intercom, audio and radio technology, provided a system combining Artist digital matrix intercom and Performer partyline technology.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. – Adlib Audio has become a member of the L-Acoustics K1/KUDO Pilot Program, joining other PA companies in field-testing the system in collaboration with the L-Acoustics R&D team.
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BELLINGHAM, WA – Roland Systems Group's S-MADI REAC Bridge, a bi-directional signal converter between MADI and REAC, enables connectivity between Roland's REAC products (M-48 Personal Mixing System) and MADI-equipped digital audio mixers/systems including DiGiCo's SD7, SD8 & SD9 and D Series consoles.
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NORTHRIDGE, CA – Harman Professional named Mark Ureda vice president and general manager of the Harman Professional Loudspeaker Group, which includes JBL Professional and Selenium.
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