KOSTRZYN, Poland — The Woodstock Trainstop 2009, the 15th such festival to be held in Poland, marked 40 years since the original Woodstock took place with support from Fotis Sound. The free concert, held on the Poland/Germany border, drew a crowd of 420,000. The main stage was equipped with Midas gear, with both analog and digital consoles provided.
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VENTURA, CA — The seventh annual Ventura Hillsides Music Festival held at Arroyo Verde Park featured the Neville Brothers, Traffic co-founder Dave Mason, Keb’ Mo’ and Jay Nash. The 2009 event also marked the seventh year that a full loudspeaker system from L-Acoustics has been deployed for the park’s natural amphitheater setting.
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FARMINGDALE, NY —Outline, which inaugurated its U.S. branch (Outline North America LLC) just a few months ago, announced that representation of the brand is complete throughout most of North America, including Canada.
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MADISON, WI — Full Compass Systems announced the recent promotion of Mark Nash as their new company President. At the company’s ribbon cutting for their new building, with employees, friends, and government officials in attendance, Jonathan Lipp presented Nash with the position of President, promoting him from his former Executive Vice President role.
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LOS ANGELES — Panic! At The Disco toured North America in late summer with Chester French, Fall Out Boy and reunited headliner blink-182, and that meant lugging racks of wireless equipment from one RF-congested city to the next. But Panic!’s production manager and FOH engineer, Jason Decter, credited Sennheiser’s wireless technology for keeping the panic behind the scenes to a minimum.
Read More »NEW YORK — Madonna, U2 and AC/DC are among the finalists for Billboard’s 2009 Billboard Touring Awards, which will be awarded Nov. 5. The awards are based on box office results globally from Oct. 1, 2008, through Sept. 30, 2009.
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VISTA, CA — The new sound system provided for city-owned Moonlight Amphitheatre by Acoustics Dimensions includes 34 Powersoft amplifiers. The 900-seat venue, with a 1,200-capacity lawn area, stages Broadway musicals and uses separate vocal and music systems.
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NEW YORK — Blue Microphones launched the Encore series of live microphones with a press event at Esquire Magazine’s new Signature Space at the Soho Mews featuring U2 opening act Bell X1 and singer-songwriter Zee Avi. The artists performed with the new Encore 100 and 200 microphones.
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PHILADELPHIA — Metropolitan Acoustics incorporated AKG wireless microphones for the University of the Arts’ Ellen and Ronald Caplan Center for the Performing Arts at Terra Hall. The system is for two side-by-side theaters.
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BERGAMO, Italy — The Trescore music festival, one Italy’s largest, drew tens of thousands to hear Afterhours, J-Ax, Calibro 35, Le Luci Della Centrale Elettrica, Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti and Ministri. Airone S.r.l. provided RCF TT+ Series as the main PA system, which included TTL33-A line arrays, TTS28-A subwoofers and TT25-SMA stage monitors.
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MORRISON, CO — Production rental company Slamhammer Audio provided sound and staging for a recent performance for the Hip Hop group Atmosphere at Red Rocks, the natural arena 15 miles west of Denver framed by two monolithic rocks. Gear from Martin Audio played a significant role.
Read More »KIEV, Ukraine —Anastacia’s four-month tour of theatres and arenas in the U.K. and Europe wrapped up in Ukraine with DiGiCo D5s at both Front of House and monitor positions, as they had been throughout the tour, operated, respectively, by Tony Blanc and Becky Pell.
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