NAPA, CA – The BottleRock Festival returned to Napa Valley for a third year, welcoming more than 100,000 music, food and wine enthusiasts. One of the event’s five stages featured an exclusive lineup of VUE Audiotechnik products including al-Class Line Array Systems for mains, h-Class subwoofers, side-fills and stage monitors, and V Series System Engines for amplification. Delicate Productions provided the gear.
Read More »LANCASTER, NH — On Aug. 3, a day after a Chicago-area storm killed a music festival attendee and injured 15 others taking shelter from a rain and hailstorm in a tent, another storm packing close to 60 m.p.h. winds and hail flattened a circus tent in New Hampshire, killing two — a father and his daughter — and injuring 32.
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ROME — A gathering of people concerned about changing educational policies drew close to a million people to Rome’s San Giovanni (St John Lateran) Square earlier this summer. To ensure that the featured speech-makerse could be heard by such a large gathering of people, Cipiesse Srl provided mains, front fills and delay towers that relied heavily upon Outline’s Butterfly components.
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FORT MYERS, FL — Arthur ‘Rusty’ Roepke, owner of Tech-Tronics Sound, Lighting, and Staging, provided a D.A.S. Audio Aero Series 2 system for The Ranch Concert Hall and Saloon, a recent addition to Southwest Florida’s country music scene.
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The newest version of Powersoft Armonía Pro Audio Suite has been released and is now available for download from the Powersoft Armonía Support Forum.
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LAS VEGAS — FRONT of HOUSE readers have chosen the six regional winners of the 2015 Hometown Hero Award competition. These top vote getters from each of five U.S. regions plus all of Canada will be automatically entered on the Parnelli Awards ballot. FOH readers will then get a chance to vote on which regional company will be awarded the coveted honor of Parnelli Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year.
Read More »LOS ANGELES — Two women, aged 18 and 19, died after attending the Hard Summer Music Festival staged at the Los Angeles County Fairplex in Pomona, CA on Aug. 1. Live Nation cited cardiac arrest and a possible seizure as the cause of the two deaths, but reports also quoted a coroner’s official calling the deaths “apparent drug overdoses.”
Read More »WOOD DALE, IL — A local resident attending the Prairie Fest in this Chicago suburb died Aug. 2 when a storm with high winds, hail and rain flattened the tent that a group of people had sought for shelter. The victim was identified as Wood Dale resident Steven Nincic, 35. Fifteen others were taken to a hospital, including three who sustained serious injuries; others were treated for minor injuries at the scene.
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RIO VISTA, CA — Re:church, launched earlier this year in this East Bay Area community, is poised for growth, mixing audio for worship services and performances on an expandable digital console – Harman’s Soundcraft Si Expression 1.
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HENDERSONVILLE, TN — Centerline Audio Visual provided a stereo pair of Danley SM-100B full-range loudspeakers extended by a single flown Danley DBH-218 subwoofer to convert a gymnasium at Hendersonville First United Methodist Church into a space suited for contemporary worship services.
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GWANGJU, South Korea – Techdata, Harman’s distributor for audio gear in South Korea, worked with rental company Total Korea to provide JBL VTX line arrays and Crown I-Tech HD amplifiers for opening and closing ceremonies staged for Universiade, which drew close to 20,000 student athletes from 170 countries to the stadium in Gwangju July 3-14, 2015.
Read More »FLORENCE, Italy — To meet the changing needs of the pro audio industry, K-array is announcing an evolution to its distribution channel including new distributors in new markets as well as modifications to its distribution process in existing markets.
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