UK – The Events division of leading UK sound and lighting installer Northern Light is providing specialist technical support to the Festival Fringe Society for a number of their key events and venues.
2010 marks the Festival Fringe’s biggest and most exciting line-up to date and the number of shows has increased by 17 percent since last year to total a phenomenal 2,453 this year!
For the 64th consecutive year the Fringe will offer the world’s best and most original comedy, theatre, dance and physical theatre, events, exhibitions, children’s shows, music, musicals and opera.
Nick Read, Head of Hire and Events for Northern Light, says: “We’re delighted and proud to be supporting this world renowned event in our home city of Edinburgh. We’ve been working with the Festival Fringe organisers to ensure that they benefit from our extensive experience in theatre, events, live music, opera and comedy and receive all the technical support they require. Northern Light is supplying state of the art lighting, sound and AV equipment and staging plus technical labour and advice for both festival organised events and visiting theatre companies and performers.”
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Northern Light, Head of Hire and Events, Nick Read
Kath M Mainland, Chief Executive Officer for the Festival Fringe Society says: “Northern Light has been extremely supportive of the 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. Their practical advice and technical expertise has helped us to deliver a number of key Festival events and the advice service that they offered to performers has proved to be extremely beneficial. It has been a pleasure working with Northern Light.”
Northern Light has already been busy servicing a number of events on the run up to the Festival including, on June 4th, the Fringe Festival School Poster Competition and award ceremony at the Museum of Childhood. The company provided lighting, stage design, PA and crew.
Northern Light has also designed and installed decorative lighting, staging and PA for Fringe Central – the Fringe participants’ centre.
Read discusses: “Fringe Central is the destination hub for festival participants and press alike. It’s run by the Fringe Society and will play host to a series of exciting events, including a number of events curated by the Royal National Theatre. Throughout the Festival, Fringe Central will host special educational sessions aimed at those requiring more information about staging their shows. Northern Light has been tasked with ensuring that the building is easily recognisable and visible from the outside, yet provides an oasis of calm and a well equipped performance and creative space inside.”
As the largest arts festival in the world, the Fringe attracts performers and audiences from all around the planet. The 2010 Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme is bursting with talented artists from every area of the arts world. Nowhere else can you see such a variety of world-class ability and such a diverse range of shows.
Read concludes: “Northern Light considers it an honour to be part of our Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which is set to be the biggest and most exciting to date.”
About Northern Light
Northern Light is the UK’s leading provider of sound, lighting and stage technologies and has been delivering excellence in designing and installing theatre, stage and events systems for almost forty years.
The Northern Light Events division – winner of Best Technical Services Company at the Scottish Event Awards – offers technical support to a wide variety of clients including performance artists, event managers, festival organisers, musicians, corporate bodies and venues of every description.
Northern Light is the official technical sponsor of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
With the largest hire stock in Scotland, and one of the largest in the UK, Northern Light offer advice and technical expertise that is second to none.
Northern Light contact: Nick Read, Head of Hire & Events or Lois Ferguson, Marketing Manager on 0131 622 9100
http://www,northernlight.co.uk
