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Black Cat Music will be attending the Federation of Music Services 2012 Conference taking place at the Wyboston Lakes Hotel in Bedfordshire, 15th to 16th June and also exhibiting a comprehensive range of equipment for music education, performance and rehearsal.

Performance equipment including examples of music stands, orchestral chairs, staging, choral risers, conductor’s equipment and music folders will be on show. In addition Black Cat Music offer a range of theatre products embracing staging, tiered audience seating, orchestra pit-fillers, make-up stations and costume racks. Black Cat Music is the Master Distributor in the UK and Ireland for Wenger Corporation - a company widely recognised as world leaders in fully guaranteed staging and music performance equipment.

Also at the show are Music Practice Rooms offering an affordable and flexible solution to noise problems in schools. Sound-isolating Music Practice Rooms [www.musicpracticerooms.com] allow music teachers and students to rehearse within a controlled environment that minimises the acoustic impact upon other classes. The flexibility of the modular design permits Music Practice Rooms to be configured to fit available spaces.

Martin Loft and Brigitte Downs from Black Cat Music will be available on the stand to demonstrate products and provide advice. Don’t forget to pick up your FMS Delegates discount voucher from the Black Cat stand. Whether you are looking for musical performance equipment, event staging, audience and performance seating, theatre equipment or acoustic solutions, Black Cat Music can provide high-quality equipment, which is as durable as it is elegant and easy to use.

The organisers say the 2012 FMS Annual Conference [http://www.thefms.org/training-and-events/conferences] ‘FMS Leading the Way’ will be, “an exciting conference for an exciting year in music education. In England, Music Services, and their partners, are working tirelessly to ensure a smooth transition for the September launch of the 122 new ‘Music Education Hubs’ recently announced by Arts Council England. These hubs will provide instrumental lessons, bands, choirs, orchestras, and other music-making opportunities in and out of school for all children in their local area. Basically they will bring to life the Government’s ‘National Plan for Music Education’.”

When Mountain Harmony Ladies Barbershop Chorus bought Wenger Tourmaster Risers and 4th Step Additions from Black Cat Music, Chairman, Heather Allsopp was delighted with the service received.

Heather asked that her appreciation be passed to all concerned, saying, “ I must thank you and the warehouse staff for the exemplary service I have had, not forgetting Coopers Carriers who provided the service at this end. Nothing has been too much trouble and everyone I have dealt with has gone out of their way to help, which has made the whole business so much easier for me.”

The fifty strong, Mold, Wales based barbershop chorus now enjoys the benefit of Toumaster Risers which are ideal for choirs on tour as they are designed to fold away, roll into place and set up smoothly and easily. Tourmaster is easy to take up stairs, around tight corners, across the parking lot and load into a bus or van. Thanks to precision engineering and use of high quality materials Tourmaster risers will deliver reliable operation for a long, long time.

Until May 31st visitors who ‘like’ the Black Cat Music Facebook page are in with a chance to win an iPad.

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Black Cat Music exhibited a comprehensive range of equipment for music, performance, practice and theatre at the 2012 MMA Conference held at Rugby School, Warwickshire, 18th to 20th May. Products on show from the Black Cat Music range included music posture chairs, music stands, the z3 iPad stand, Preface Conductor's stand, Mighty Bright lights, music folders and of course sound-isolating practice rooms.

Alice Dagger, Marketing Manager of Black Cat Music said, “as usual, the MMA Conference was both fun and interesting for all involved. Congratulations to the organisers, and many thanks to Rugby School for kindly hosting the event'.

Sales Manager, Teresa Rogers, added, 'it was great to catch up with so many familiar faces from the MMA (Music Teaching Professionals) Association. We had plenty of new products to talk about, such as our new Wenger conBRIO music posture chair, the Edge instrument storage system, and our z3 iPad stand. It was great to see so much interest in our sound-isolating Music Practice Rooms, which are a really good cost-effective solution for creating extra space and solving noise problems in school music departments'.

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Black Cat Music will be exhibiting a comprehensive range of equipment for music, performance, practice and theatre at the 2012 MMA Conference taking place at Rugby School, Warwickshire, 18th to 20th May.

Performance equipment including examples of music stands, orchestral chairs, staging, choral risers, conductor’s equipment and music folders will be on show. In addition Black Cat Music offer a range of theatre products embracing, tiered audience seating, pit filler staging, make-up stations, costume racks and stage boxes. Black Cat Music is the Master Distributor in the UK and Ireland for Wenger Corporation a company widely recognised as world leaders in fully guaranteed staging and music performance equipment.

Also at the show are Music Practice Rooms offering an affordable and flexible solution to noise problems in schools. Music Practice Rooms [www.musicpracticerooms.com] allow music teachers and students to rehearse within a controlled environment that minimises the acoustic impact upon other classes. The flexibility of the modular design permits Music Practice Rooms to be configured to fit available spaces.

Expert staff, experienced at advising and supplying equipment for the diverse needs of performers, technicians, architects, events companies and teachers will be available on the stand to demonstrate products and provide advice. Whether looking for musical performance equipment, event staging, audience and performance seating, theatre equipment or acoustic solutions, Black Cat Music can provide high-quality equipment, which is as durable as it is elegant and easy to use.

The Black Cat team exhibited at the ISM 'Going for Gold' Conference 2012 showcasing some exciting new products and offering a special discount on Black Cat products to ISM delegates.

Martin Loft (pictured on the Black Cat stand) congratulated the organisers on an interesting conference programme including some great live music.

This year's annual conference held at LSO St Luke's and Guildhall School of Music & Drama (13 and 14 April) was described as “a hugely enjoyable event with performance at its heart.”

The ISM holds a unique position, with its membership reflecting the broad spectrum of activity in professional music making, composing and performing, along with those directly involved in music education at all levels, from nursery to conservatoire and university. The ISM conference is an essential calendar event.

This year's conference celebrated aspiration and achievement through a wide variety of thought-provoking talks, debate and live music, including legendary conductor Sir Colin Davis in conversation with journalist and writer Richard Morrison, a concert celebrating 100 years of jazz composer/arranger Gil Evans by the Guildhall Jazz Band, Professor John Irving’s talk on Mozart and a masterclass with Guildhall students led by soprano Amanda Roocroft.

During April, Black Cat Music is offering an additional 5 per cent discount on their best selling Classic 50 music stands. Quantity discount breaks allow purchase prices as low as £38.00. Schools and colleges looking to equip with new music stands designed for robust and regular handling can take advantage of this great offer throughout April.

Already a top seller, the popular Classic 50 Music Stand is tough enough to handle the hardships of regular classroom use thanks to a formula of advanced polymers offering inherent tensile strength that will not bend or dent like metal stands. Its elegant design makes it quiet and rattle-free during performances. And the scratch resistant desk surface also incorporates a unique recess for keeping pencils in place. The patented one-hand height adjustment of the music desk is simplicity itself, requiring no screw or locking collar adjustments. To learn more watch the Classic 50 put through its paces at YouTube.com For full details on the April offer can be found on the Black Cat Music web site.

Lancaster and Morecambe College discovered that by installing three Music Practice Rooms, the college not only made more effective use of available space, but was also able to reach out to support musicians in the local community.

Head of Music at Lancaster and Morecambe College, Pete French explained that “this is only the third year we have been running this course and we required proper facilities. There was a need for music practice rooms because we had facilities that were a little bit outdated and we wanted something new to accommodate the new course that we are building on.” Describing the new suite of music practice rooms supplied and installed by Black Cat Music he said, “the facility used to be a lecture theatre - it was just one space we could use - fortunately now we've got three spaces. The music practice rooms are being used every day with all three year groups time tabled in, so they are getting maximum use. We also have some work with an outside community organisation called ‘More Music in Morecombe’ who are now hiring them out on a Tuesday night, so we are getting use in the evenings as well, not just in the daytimes.” The opportunity for other local musicians to hire the facilities is also important for the college within the community.

The rooms, from MusicPracticeRooms.com , use a prefabricated panel design that is affordable, easy to install and allows rooms to be custom configured to suit available space. “We are very happy having them here,” continued Pete French. “After the college had planned how we were going to use the existing space they built in the floor plinth in what was the old lecture theatre and got the maximum use of space available. Black Cat Music then came up and erected the music practice rooms in a pretty short period of time, last summer. The service we got from Black Cat was absolutely spot on,” said Pete. “The music practice rooms have changed the whole nature of the course, because they are so sound-proofed. Before we had a big echoing lecture theatre, now we have three contained spaces. The students love them and yes, they work very effectively.”

“We found out about MusicPracticeRoms.com on the Internet. We got prices from several other possibilities, some of which were a lot more than Black Cat Music, which came out the best in terms of overall cost.” Information and technical specifications for Music Practice Rooms can be found at MusicPracticeRooms.com or by contacting MPR on 0844 846 9740 for a free consultation.