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2019 Music Products Industry Archive
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In celebration of “Make Music Day,” Guitar Center and She Shreds Magazine partnered to highlight the inspiring voices and artistry of five groundbreaking guitarists across diverse genres.
On Friday, July 19, at 3:30 p.m. at Summer NAMM, Alfred Music will host an interview with Patrick Nettesheim from the nonprofit organization Guitars for Vets.
Music Expo Turkey has added a new section to the show: "Live Performance Stage" Hopefully, more than 20K visitors will get in touch with your products through multiple ways during…
Berean Church in Lincoln, Nebraska worships in a modern 2400-seat auditorium well-equipped with lighting, video projection and audio systems, including Allen & Heath dLive S Class digital mixers at both…
KORG headed to Atlanta, Georgia for another Brew Music event, partnering with Ken Stanton Music to showcase the brands thriving line of synthesizers including the newly released minilogue xd module…
This past Saturday (June 29), Paul Reed Smith joined the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) to celebrate the opening of the “Wire & Wood: Designing Iconic Guitars” exhibition – the…
Blackstar Amplification joined Canada’s premier musical instrument and gear exhibition, Cosmofest, for their fifth annual music festival right in the heart of Toronto, where thousands gathered for live performances, gear…
Guitar Center has celebrated the opening of its latest retail location – a 16,000-square-foot facility in Anchorage, Alaska (2880 Seward Highway, Anchorage, AK 99503).
Buffet Crampon USA, North American distributor of Buffet Crampon professional, intermediate and student clarinets, recently partnered with Make-A-Wish Central & South Texas and the San Antonio Symphony to grant the…
Chuck Rainey, the studio bassist, live rhythm section member and music educator, has joined other critical bass players in choosing GR Bass amplification, a boutique manufacturer of bass amplifiers, speaker…
Since emerging from bankruptcy less than a year ago, Gibson has made significant progress in the key areas that matter most to guitarists around the world.
In a longstanding trademark dispute with Gibson Brands, Inc. over the cancellation of Gibson’s V-Shaped guitar trademark, Warwick, led by owner Hans-Peter Wilfer, successfully argued that the V-Shaped guitar cannot act…
Providing an immersive and supportive visual setting for their choreography as they swayed to the evocative sounds of traditional Polynesian music was a lightshow designed by David Seligmann-Forest that featured…
Tool, comprised of Danny Carey (drums), Justin Chancellor (bass), Adam Jones (guitar), and Maynard James Keenan (vocals), has been touring with a sound system supplied by Eighth Day Sound. Along…
Yamaha recently joined veteran’s group Guitars for Vets (G4V) to hold a live music performance in observance of National PTSD Awareness Day, as well as to celebrate the recent milestone…
His rig, which was supplied by Squeek Lights, was anchored by three pods holding collections of CHAUVET Professional Rogue R1 FX-B and EPIX Strip Tour fixtures in very different configurations.
Rather than replace the failed system with an equally doomed solution, Logic Systems Sound and Lighting completely re-conceptualized the entire approach. They installed four clusters of two point source Danley…
The Yamaha Young Performing Artists (YYPA) program recognized the 2019 winners during its annual Celebration Weekend, held June 22-25, 2019 at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Casio is now a sponsor of Raue Center of the Arts, located in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The Company gifted its flagship Celviano Grand Hybrid Piano to Raue Center Café and…
Organized by Skippen Dam, Tumult - The Sanzaru Order techno/rave events travel from club to club in Belgium. Adding to the immersive effect of the Tumult experience is an intense lightshow featuring…
After being rescued from disrepair by the church, the Brooklyn Tabernacle now features a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500 Stadium, installed in early 2019 by lighting designer Abner Torres of Out of…
The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) has announced the new federated music education association relaunched in the nation’s capital, the DC Music Education Association (DCMEA).
Working in close collaboration with designer Devon Turnbull of Ojas speakers, Jason Ojeda of Global Audio recently created a one of a kind high-powered audiophile sound system for community-based hospitality…
For Dustin Klein’s recent work on Papadosio’s second annual Summer Sequence at the Pisgah Brewing Company, part of creating this space relied on weaving the lighting around the band’s music…
ADJ Lighting has planned a two-day summer ADJ Road Tour event at Soundcheck Nashville to demo their latest lighting, audio, and video technologies, as well as offer informative Tech Sessions…
Marshall Amplification and The Women’s International Music Network (the WiMN) have announced the performers for their 2019 She Rocks Showcase scheduled during the Summer NAMM conference in Nashville.