SIGNALS
Fifth Annual Expo-Scène Trade Show
& Conference Returning in April
John Harris Honoured at
Cashbox Canada Legacy
Awards
AVL Media Group
Honoured by Music
Tribe with ‘Best AMER
Performance Install
Award’
Music Tribe – whose brands include
Midas, Klark Teknik, Tannoy, Lab.Gruppen,
Lake, Turbosound, and more – has
honoured AVL Media Group with its Best
AMER Performance Install Award. The
award recognizes outstanding perfor-
mance amongst Music Tribe partners in
the Americas.
“Thank you to our friends at Music
Tribe for recognizing our hard work and
success, as well as a proud ‘thank you’ to
all of the AVL Media Group team for what
we have accomplished together over the
past year,” says Andrew Hope, managing
director of AVL Media Group.
For more information, contact AVL
Media Group: 514-400-0110,
[email protected],
www.avlmediagroup.com.
14 PROFESSIONAL SOUND
On Nov. 22, 2018, the Cashbox Canada Legacy
Awards in Toronto, which are presented by
Cashbox Magazine Canada, honoured Canadian
music industry builder and educator John Harris.
The presentation ceremony took place at Harris
Institute in Toronto, a music industry and audio
production school he founded in 1989.
JOHN HARRIS & LISA HARTT
Cashbox CEO and Editor-in-Chief Sandy
Graham presented the award to Harris, who gave an emotional and heartfelt speech thanking
those who helped him in his personal and professional life along the way. Lisa Hartt, whom
Harris used to manage, gave a live solo performance of her hit “Old Time Movie” and Leonard
Cohen’s “Tower of Song.”
For more information, go to www.cashboxcanada.ca.
RCF Group Acquires DPA
Microphones
RCF Group has acquired Denmark-based DPA Microphones
from The Riverside Company.
In 2017, two prominent European private equity players,
Palladio Holding and Amundi Private Equity Funds, invest-
ed in RCF Group with a minority stake in order to support
and enhance the group in its growth plans. Following the
September 2018 acquisition of EAW, the acquisition of DPA
represents a second important milestone on RCF group’s
growth path.
Kalle Hvidt Nielsen, CEO of DPA, says: “We look forward to
a bright future under new ownership in a group with an un-
compromising quality-oriented approach to the pro audio
business – just like ours.”
DPA CEO KALLE HVIDT NIELSEN
DPA products are distributed in Canada by GerrAudio.
For more information, contact DPA Microphones: 303-485-1025,
[email protected], www.dpamicrophones.com.
CITT/ICTS is bringing its fifth annual Expo-Scène trade show and
conference back to the Palais des congrès de Montréal from April 17-
18, 2019. Expo-Scène is the only major Canadian event dedicated to
professionals in the pro audio, sound, lighting, audiovisual, video, and
multimedia technology markets.
“For our fifth edition of Expo-Scène, we are delighted to welcome
new exhibitors and new technologies and products that will be
showcased during the two-day event,” CITT/ICTS President Angela
Drainville tells PS. “We will be offering hands-on training workshops
prior to the show as well as presenting our educational seminars,
renamed TEC Talks, which provide the sharing of expertise on AV integration, lighting, staging, pro audio and sound, business solutions, and
other related topics with the professionals in attendance.”
Organizers are expecting around 75 exhibitors and over 1,700 visitors from across North America. The TEC Talks program will include a pre-
sentation from LS Media on immersive audio, as well as from SFM/Digiflex on the future of signal transport in live production. GerrAudio will be
hosting Digico console training and there will also be a panel discussion on environmental responsibility in the live entertainment industry.
Visitor registration, as well as a list of exhibitors and a full schedule, is available at www.citt.org/exposcene.