Pro Musik Supports RPR1 Festival in Mainz with NEXO Gear

MEMPHIS, TN – When Christina Aguilera postponed her 2010 Bionic Tour earlier this year, engineer Jon Lemon was able to transition his gig-and the DiGiCo SD8 he was using for the tour's promo leg-onto a 14-date tour for the Smashing Pumpkins in smaller venues, with audio support from Clair.

MORGANTOWN, WV – Panasonic's Tech Services Group recently installed a new audio system designed by Acoustical Design Group at the 14,000-seat West Virginia University Coliseum that included JBL PD Series loudspeakers.

CORBEYRIER and MARTIGNY, Switzerland – Allen & Heath's iLive digital mixing system was used to manage two recent music festivals held in Switzerland – the two-day Festival de Loup in Corbeyrier and the Journée des 5 Continents cultural festival in Martigny.

WHITE PLAINS, NY- At the 2nd Annual White Plains City Festival on July 25, which drew close to 2,500 and featured The Benjamins, Tim Lovelace, J. Antonette and the Dojo Zumba dance crew, a sudden downpour threatened to throw things off. But it only lasted an hour, and didn't faze IAN-Audio, or the Meyer Sound system they had provided.

SHERBROOKE, Quebec, Canada – Plav Audio, Inc., based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, recently purchased Canada's first NEXO GEO T rig, and used it at La Fête du Lac des Nations, a six-day festival that took place in Sherbrooke in mid-July at Parc Jacques-Cartier.

ST. PAUL, MN – Frattalone and Associates, Inc. fixed a persistent 3-second reverb issue within the 108-year-old Landmark Center's Musser Cortile by using JBL CBT column speakers.

LAS VEGAS – The Parnelli Award Board of Advisors announced additional sponsors of the 10th annual Parnelli Awards, set for the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas on Oct. 22, 2010. There are now 23 confirmed Gold Sponsors, seven confirmed Silver Sponsors and six Production Partner sponsors, including B&R Scenery, which has signed on to host the Parnelli Cocktail Hour, which will start at 6:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON, DC – Crosby, Stills & Nash are still touring, with 2010 dates in a variety of venues and festivals in the U.S. and Europe. FOH engineer Kevin Madigan is using his DiGiCo D5 to bring their harmony-infused, mellow protest songs to old and new fans.

FULLERTON, CA – Eastside Christian Church's production staff is using a 16-port Clear-Com Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom frame and Tempest2400 four-channel wireless intercom system for communications across separate production areas for the church's five weekend services.

EDMONTON, KY – Black Stone Cherry uses beyerdynamic mics at the ramshackle wooden farmhouse that serves as the band members' studio, and also on the road. Drummer John Fred Young is the son of Kentucky Headhunters' Richard Young, whose grandmother first let him use the farmhouse for rehearsals.