CMA Music Festival Rocks Music City With L-ACOUSTICS K1

NASHVILLE, TN — The 42nd annual CMA Music Festival, the world’s largest country music festival and broadcast, recently stomped all previous attendance records at its 2013 event, which took place in Nashville from Thursday, June 6 through Sunday, June 9. As usual, the highlights of the festivities this year were the main stage concerts at LP Field, which nightly drew more than 45,000 spectators to cheer and sing along with dozens of the genre’s top artists. For sound reinforcement duties, the Country Music Association (CMA) awarded the contract to Sound Image, which supplied a large-scale L-ACOUSTICS K1 system for the headlining concert each night – all four of which sold out more than six weeks in advance.

ASHBURN, VA — Genesis Technology recently completed a new-build AV installation for the Open Door Presbyterian Church in Herndon, Virginia. The fast-growing AV installer/integrator utilized custom-white Martin Audio W8C loudspeakers, Allen & Heath iLive digital console, a dbx DriveRack loudspeaker control system, Lab Gruppen amplification, Rane crossovers, and Furman power conditioning for the main house PA system.

NORTH PLATTE, NE — Time will tell if JaCee Pilkinton, who was named Miss Nebraska from a field of 16 finalists at North Platte High School recently, will be crowned Miss America, following in the footsteps of Miss Nebraska 2010, Teresa Scanlan, pictured here. (Scanlan was crowned Miss America in 2011).  Clyde Reimers, owner of Lexington, NE-based CL1 Productions, used a Soundcraft Si Expression 3 digital live sound console to support the June 8, 2013 event. Pilkinton plans on competing in the national competition Sept. 15 in Atlantic City, NJ.

DETROIT, MI — Thunder Audio provided a sizable JBL VTX-based system for the Red Bull Music Academy main stage at the Movement Electronic Music Festival here over Memorial Day Weekend, May 25-27. The soundco provided more than 90 JBL VTX Series line array elements for the event, including VTX 25 full-size line arrays, V25s, S28 subwoofers, V25 line array elements, G28 subs, JBL VerTec VT4888 midsize line array elements and VT4888s. Pictured here are, from left, Andy Combs, Innovative Audio Sales; Sam Fotias and Jason Huvaere, Movement; Paul Owen and Tony Villarreal, Thunder Audio; and Mike Fotias, Movement.

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Waves Audio notes the increasing use of its products by live sound engineers, citing Tom Wiggans (UB40, Squeeze, Wet Wet Wet, and Roni Size & Reprazent) as a case in point. Wiggans has recently adopted Waves’ SoundGrid on tour with Irish alt-rock mainstays The Cranberries.