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Low Tide, Sennheiser Wireless Combine for Bay of Fundy Concert Success

As part of Parks Canada and CBCMusic’s Quietest. Concert. Ever., Sennheiser broadcast award-winning artist Serena Ryder to an audience of 1000 at Fundy National Park’s Herring Cove beach. Photo by Christian Isaac

Low Tide, Sennheiser Wireless Combine for Bay of Fundy Concert Success

NEW BRUNSWICK, Canada — With outdoor concerts, timing is everything — especially for an event — Parks Canada and CBCMusic’s Quietest. Concert. Ever — staged on the Bay of Fundy’s sea floor while the tide was out. The performance by Serena Ryder was heard by a wireless headphone equipped audinece of more than a thousand. The event will be broadcast to a wider audience via a one-hour TV special on CBC Sept. 25. The production team only had six hours between high tides to set up and execute Ryder’s performance.

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K-array KX12 Coaxial Speaker

K-array KX12 Coaxial Speaker

K-array says its new KX12 coaxial speaker and accompanying systems can serve as a solution to the problem posed by the reduction of high frequency dispersion when frequency increases with traditional coaxial speakers and systems.

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FOH editor George Petersen

The Leap of Faith: H.O.W. System Upgrades

All faiths share a common thread of spreading the message. Now exactly what that message is may vary considerably among church members and different religions, but every church can be helped in that endeavor with a sound system that provides clarity and intelligibility to the message and ensuring that every member of the congregation can receive the word.

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The FOH crew included, from left, Greg Price, Ben Rothstein and Myles Fontaine Crosby (mixer for opening act Kenny Wayne Shepherd). (c) Steve Jennings

Van Halen Tour 2015

The Van Halen 2015 Tour kicked off on July 5 at the White River Amphitheatre (Auburn, WA), with an additional 40 stops throughout North America — playing mostly sheds and arena venues — and wraps up in early October. The staging and lighting is uncharacteristically bare for a major rock tour, but it all serves to focus on the guitar pyrotechnics of Eddie at center stage, joined by his brother Alex on drums, son Wolfgang on bass and on-again/off-again singer David Lee Roth returning to the lead vocal slot. The outing is in support of a new live album, Tokyo Dome Live in Concert, which was recorded during VH’s previous tour.

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