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GLENN DALE, MD — Reid Temple’s sprawling, ultra-modern campus belies the church’s humble roots. Originally located in nearby Bladensburg, the church’s original home, Dent Chapel, was purchased in 1900 from the conference of the newly formed Methodist Episcopal Church for the princely sum of $500. Weathering more than a century of hardships and relocations, Reid Temple A.M.E. Church held its first worship service at its current location in the fall of 2004.

MINNETONKA, MN— AVI Sytems of Eden Prairie, MN equipped the corporate auditorium owned by a major company in the food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services industries with an AV system Harman’s BSS Audio Soundweb London networked signal processors.

BALTIMORE, MD — Maryland Sound International (MSI) and FOH engineer Mickey Beck are supporting Josh Groban’s 2011 Straight To You world tour with Harman’s Studer Vista 5 SR digital production console at FOH. Beck called the console “the only one” that could provide the capabilities that the tour demanded, including the ability to operate in a 96 kHz redundant configuration to match the 96 kHz recording of the tour. That, he added, “marks a first for concert sound recordings.”

LONDON — Scottish band GlasVegas is currently on a global tour with a compact Allen & Heath iLive digital mixing system managing its FOH audio. The band has already visited an assortment of venues across Europe and the USA, and is playing at many of the international summer festivals, including a headline spot on the John Peel stage at Glastonbury.

CHICAGO — Fantabuloso ‘Dos’ 2011 took place in mid-May at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, and Gand Concert Sound (GCS) once again provided audio system support that included a NEXO GEO T tangent array rig. Artists appearing at the concert included Pitbull, Mike Posner, Lupe Fiasco, Taio Cruz, T-Pain, Jesse J, Far East Movement, David Gueta, and Tinie Tempah.

LAS VEGAS – Evan Hooton, founder of Colorado-based Pure Quality Sound Productions and longtime audio professional, has joined FOH magazine as Media Director and Blog Master of Pro Audio Space (PAS). PAS has become the number-one social networking site serving the live sound industry and has more than 7,000 members.

CHICAGO — Audiologist Michael Santucci, founder of Sensaphonics, Inc, has been named Lead Audiology Advisor to Hearing Health Science, Inc. (HHS), a start-up company specializing in hearing research and therapy. HHS is set to launch Soundbites, a nutraceutical supplement developed to help prevent noise-induced hearing loss.

INDIO, CA – The three-day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival annually attracts crowds of up to 70,000 a day to see more than 180 international artists perform on six stages at the Empire Polo Club in the California desert. To meet the requirements of the artists performing on the stages in the Mojave and Gobi tents, Rat Sound, the production sound provider for the Coachella Festival for the past eleven years, this year supplied two complete systems comprising a total of 28 EAW MicroWedge12 (MW12) Stage Monitors.