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On August 25 and 26, D’Addario representatives were backstage at the AFROPUNK festival, sampling product, signing up Players Circle members and talking to the artist community about D’Addario and the D’Addario…
The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) has announced their endorsement of Senator Jon Tester’s (D-MT) Guarantee Access to Arts and Music Education (GAAME) Act (S. 3391), which was released…
When David Foster’s “The Hitman” tour passed through the Ravinia Festival outside of Chicago, OSA International had double the responsibility as the gear provider for the Martin Audio MLA system…
Russell Scarborough, proprietor of Russell’s Music World in Norfolk, Virginia, has purchased the entire inventory of Spizz Cymbals from Universal Percussion, the developer and original distributor of Spizz. These boutique…
Rainforest Lumina at the Singapore Zoo currently uses 175 COLORado 1 Solo and 147 COLORado 2 Solo fixtures from CHAUVET Professional. “We used the COLORado 2 mostly on the high…
Darkglass Electronics has added to its pedal range with the new Hyper Luminal Hybrid Compressor. The pedal digitally models the side-chain circuits in some of the best known compressors and has…
JHS has secured exclusive distribution Danelectro electric guitars, Snark tuners, Honeytone mini amps and Billionaire effects in France. The deals come into effect from 1st September. Danelectro saw the introduction of the brand new '59X/XT and…
The Best Small Shops competition is returning this year, inviting independent UK retailers to share what makes them unique, with the chance to attend the competition reception in Westminster later…
Drużkowski Guitars has launched the ‘The Wizard’, an 8 string headless, sold bodied guitar handcrafted to the specifications of American multi-instrumentalist Jordan Rudess (Dream Theatre, David Bowie, John Petrucci). Built by…
Nearly three years after launching, the British Drum Co. has announced Jim Kilpatrick MBE as their International Marching Specialist. Kilpatrick, who was awarded an MBE in 2004 for ‘services to…
On Tuesday, August August 28, we got the following sad news from JAMM Distributing about the passing of John Amstader: JAMM Distributing (originally stood for John Amstadter Music Merchandise) has…
Loughborough Town Hall recently updated its lighting system with CHAUVET Professional Maverick and Ovation fixtures, supplied by Stage Electrics. “The new fixtures are far more efficient than the incandescent units…
