Smooth Jazz Under the Stars

LOS ANGELES – Justin Bieber's U.S. tour, which is sold out through the end of the year, is getting support at monitors from DiGiCo's SD8-24, a choice that monitor engineer Tony Luna made back in February, when tour preparations were in negotiations.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Combine the usual drops and bumps with 120-degree temperatures and wind-blown dust, and you get an idea of the conditions that Candlebox put its gear through for recent performances for U.S. troops stationed in Iraq and Kuwait. The Earthworks gear made it through unscathed.

CHICAGO – On Stage Audio (OSA) recently made its inaugural L-Acoustics purchase with the addition of a new monitor package including three LA8-equipped LA-RAK touring racks and 16 coaxial 115XT HiQ wedges. OSA purchased the system at the request of Chicago's Ravinia Festival, which used the gear for three months this summer in its 3,200-seat, open-air, covered pavilion.

GENEVA, OH – Paladin Professional Sound of Valley View, Ohio is providing Electro-Voice loudspeakers, amplifiers and controllers for the Geneva area GaREAT Sports Complex, a two-year-old multi-sport recreational facility on a 175-acre campus that, in its current phase of construction, encompasses more than 450,000 square feet of indoor fields, courts, and tracks for year-round practices and competitions, as well as an outdoor stadium with a field and a track.

OMAHA, NE – The building that houses the Rose Theater originally opened its doors in 1927, but fell into decline in the ensuing decades until 1981, when a benefactor, Rose Blumkin, saved it from the wrecking ball. After purchasing the building, Blumkin deeded it to the Omaha Theatre Company for Young People, along with $1 million for its restoration and an endowment for upkeep in perpetuity.

LAS VEGAS – The regional winners of FOH's 2010 Hometown Hero voting competition have been announced, and voting for coast-to-coast 2010 Hometown Hero honors and all the other Parnelli awards categories is now underway at www.parnelliawards.com/vote. Support for the 10th Annual Parnelli awards program has also increased to record levels as the Oct. 22, 2010 ceremony approaches.