TAMPA, FL – Brad Paisley's H2O Tour is a bit like a traveling mini-festival. The main stage, and draw, is Paisley, but it's supplemented by a two-hour pre-show featuring Easton Corbin, Steel Magnolia and Josh Thompson. They perform in a separate area called the Water World Plaza Stage, which has been equipped with a Sound Image-supplied audio setup including two Allen & Heath iLive-T 112 digital mixing consoles.
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TRIANON, MAURITIUS – Church Team Ministries International (CTMI), which hosts an annual international conference along with services every Sunday, built a new 4,000-seat auditorium to meet its growing needs. Durban, South Africa-based Northwind Recording provide the sound system, which includes an Aviom Pro16 Digital Snake.
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MILWAUKEE, WI – Spanning 11 days, with 11 stages and some 800 bands performing, Summerfest is billed as "The World's Largest Music Festival." Clearwing Productions provided Martin Audio LE700 monitors at four of the 11 stages.
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MILFORD, NH – Earthworks, Inc. named Bill Norton to the newly-created position of Chief Operating Officer (COO). Norton will be tasked with overseeing all aspects of Earthworks' sales and marketing operations.
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SAN FRANCISCO – The times and dates have not been finalized, but Jessica Livingston and Jeff McKnight, co-chairs of the Technical Tours for the 129th AES Convention (Moscone Center, Nov. 5-7) have announced the planned tour sites, along with new tech tour package deals – three "2-for-1" tours this year.
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STOW, OH – Audio-Technica named Mark Donovan to the newly created position of sales engineer – installed sound. Audio-Technica U.S. vice president of sales Marc Lee Shannon made the announcement.
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CHICAGO – Organized annually by Chicago's chamber of commerce, West Fest Chicago offers two days of live music and entertainment on Chicago Avenue at Damen. Audio Integration Services (AIS), the distributor for Void Acoustics in the U.S., supported the event.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – SK Systems' Tom Heinisch used a new DiGiCo SD9 for the Richard Nader Memorial Doo Wop Concert XXI at the Izod Center Arena.
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CHESTER, PA – Community Professional Loudspeakers' WET and R-Series loudspeakers have passed the military spec MIL-STD-810G test standards for resistance to salt fog (test method 509.5), humidity (test method 507.5 (B3)), solar radiation (method 505.5, Procedure II, Steady State), extreme high temperatures (method 501.5, Procedure II, Operation Hot) and extreme low temperatures (method 502.5, Procedure II, Operation Cold). These are the same stringent tests administered by the U.S. Military.
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SCARBOROUGH, U.K. – Europe's largest open-air theatre – opened in the 1930s and set on an island in the middle of a lake near the British seacoast – has been restored more than 40 years after the last staged musical production was performed.
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The staging company will host the Parnelli Cocktail Hour
LAS VEGAS – Venerable live event staging company B&R Scenery has signed on to host the Parnelli Cocktail Hour, which precedes the Parnelli Awards Gala Dinner, on October 22, 2010, at the Rio in Las Vegas.
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ORLANDO, FL – Its 800-seat facility may have been big enough to land Church in the Son on the Orlando Weekly's roster of "mega churches." But it wasn't big enough for the burgeoning congregation, even with three Sunday services. Then, a church member donated a vacant building lot adjacent to the church, and the path toward expansion became clear.
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