Although they’ve toured together in 2004, 2005 and 2009, Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire are raising the art and technology of co-headlining to new heights on their 2015 “Heart and Soul” Tour currently motoring across the country.
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Moz Sweeps the States on His ‘World Peace is None of Your Business’ Tour with Thunder Audio
Stephen Patrick Morrissey, best known simply as Morrissey or “Moz,” has never been one to shy away from controversy. Whether publicly voicing his disgust for England’s monarchy system or lambasting the global meat production industry for “murder,” the former Smiths’ frontman always has plenty to say — both in speech and song.
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One of today’s most successful festival franchises, the first Electric Daisy Carnival took place in 1997 and has since expanded with events throughout the U.S. and beyond, including Mexico, Puerto Rico and England, with plans to launch festivals in late 2015 and mid-2016 in Brazil and Japan. The focus is electronic dance music (EDM) with the throbbing beats of these rave-style events carrying on throughout the night, accompanied by elaborate lighting displays, carnival rides, fireworks, pyrotechnics and more, creating a dazzling experience of sights and sound.
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Surround Comes to Live Stadium Shows
When it comes to stadium touring, the Grateful Dead pretty much wrote the book on the subject, having done more stadium shows than any band in history. So to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Grateful Dead (the band formed in 1965), the four original founding members (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir) decided to launch an end-of-an-era “Fare Thee Well” mini-tour.
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CARLSBAD, CA — Building on the long history of providing quality smooth jazz in the San Diego area, the San Diego Jazz Festival is a “must-attend” event for R&B and smooth jazz starved fans in “America’s Finest City.” The three-day festival took place over Memorial Day weekend – a perfect time to enjoy great weather and award-winning music. This year’s event featured the premiere live concert appearance in California of the new K-array KH8/KS8 thin array rig, selected by Phoenix-based On Cue Systems.
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It’s hard to believe, but the 2015 Parnelli Awards season is almost upon us. So far, FRONT of HOUSE readers have already stepped up to select the finalists vying for the top regional sound company honor — the Hometown Hero Award. These include DBS Audio (Coatesville, PA), Mid-Coast Sound (Nashville), Clearwing Productions (Milwaukee), Spider Ranch Productions (South San Francisco), Onstage Systems (Dallas) and Toronto’s Sound Art. Congratulations to all!
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John Mellencamp may hail from beyond the outskirts of Bloomington, Indiana, but he has nothing against a big town. His 80-date Plain Spoken tour, which ran from Jan. 21 to Aug. 4, 2015 in support of his late 2014 album release, included performances at two Big Apple icons: Carnegie Hall (April 20), the epitome of classical musical achievement, and the Apollo Theater (April 23), long synonymous with uptown funk.
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Dynamic microphones have been the standard in vocal performance mics for decades. However, if you’re looking for extended bandwidth and fast transient response in a handheld, a condenser mic is just the ticket.
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While big subwoofers tend to get the attention of both sound companies and audiences, the compression driver keeps its intricacies hidden from view, as shown in Fig. 1. This month, we’ll tease out some of the components within compression drivers and help explain why these small devices are every bit as complex — and often more expensive — than their booming big brothers. Along the way, we’ll talk a little bit about how the way something is made influences the cost of production.
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A Rare Look Inside This Leading Industry Supplier
Founded in 1999, Sommer Cable is an innovative designer and manufacturer of high-end audio, video and data cables, connectors, assemblies and electronics. Based in Germany’s Black Forest region, the company recently opened its U.S. branch in Santa Rosa, CA, headed by German/American citizen and 35-year industry veteran Martin Ucik.
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Disney’s The Lion King musical has been enchanting audiences on Broadway for nearly 18 years, and its massive success has spun off tours and productions around the globe. Despite it being a well-oiled entertainment machine, transferring the show into other venues and other countries reveals challenges — like dealing with the capabilities of each new location. Some theatres can easily handle the requirements of the production while others are in markets with less of an emphasis on live theatre.
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CAD Audio has a long heritage in microphones. Its parent company, Astatic, began in 1931 as a supplier of crystal mics for radio applications, along with phonograph cartridges and recording heads, and many years later expanded into the commercial audio/installation market. Even today, many of Astatic’s vintage crystal mic models are still in use and prized by harmonica players.
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