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AER performs at Miner Family Winery Stage at BottleRock 2015 in NAPA, CA

Bottlerock Festival Returns with VUE Audiotechnik Gear

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.

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Two Dead, 32 Injured After NH Circus Tent Collapses

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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Nearly a million people assembled in Rome to hear various speeches along with some musical accompaniment.

Arsenal of Outline Butterfly Systems Provides Sound Reinforcement for a Million People in Rome

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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Hometown Hero Awards 2015

2015 Hometown Hero Sound Finalists Announced!

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.

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Two Revelers Die After Attending Hard Summer Music Festival

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.”

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Attendee Killed in Tent Collapse at Chicago-Area Music Festival

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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