LOS ANGELES – Post Malone hit the road this fall with a 38-date North American arena tour that also featured Roddy Ricch. The tour, in support of Malone’s latest album, “Twelve Carat Toothache,” featured a unique triple-thrust stage design and an L-Acoustics K Series system with nearly 200 enclosures provided by PRG.
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PASS CHRISTIAN, MS – Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church opened a new main worship location in 2021 that now serves parishioners who had previously attended three smaller churches. Magnolia AV Solutions provided a system that includes ICONYX IC24-RN steerable arrays, DC12/2 steerable arrays, CX41 loudspeakers and a CA82-RD1 point source speaker from Renkus-Heinz.
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NEW ORLEANS – Allen & Heath reps Highway Marketing worked with Assurance AV Solutions to provide a dLive system with a central CDM64 MixRack and a C3500 dual-touchscreen control surface for One Hope Church. The dLive also feeds an ME-U hub, which distributes audio and channel naming information to multiple ME-1 personal monitor mixers on stage.
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NORTH AMERICA – The readers of FRONT of HOUSE have spoken and we are pleased to announce the six finalists for the Parnelli Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year Award. FOH readers voted for their choice of the six top regional sound companies in North America — one for each of five U.S. regions, and a sixth for all of Canada.
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BERLIN, Germany – Artist and composer Stefanie Egedy has been inviting visitors to experience Bodies and Subwoofers (B.A.S.), a series of site-specific installations where the audience can feel the effects of low frequency sound (LFS) on the human body. For an upcoming installation this month as part of the CTS Festival in Berlin, the artist will once again rely on SL subwoofers from d&b audiotechnik.
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UK/Europe – Sound designer Greg Pink turned to Autograph Sound for a setup that included KV2 Audio loudspeakers for a touring production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, “Cats.” Instead of theaters, the production is being staged at large arenas.
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LONDON – The fifth Women in Live Music Awards (WILMAs), which champions women in the European industry, were held Dec. 15 at the Rose Shure Experience Centre in London. As an event sponsor, Britannia Row provided personnel and equipment. Senior apprentices Olesya Lesyk and Rebecca Nicol (pictured here) set up a small L-Acoustics P.A. system for the event.
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USA – Trans-Siberian Orchestra returned to the road this holiday season with twin productions mixed on DiGiCo Quantum7 consoles. A total of six Q7’s are touring with these Clair Global-supported tours. Titled “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The Best of TSO and More,” the tours both wrap up Dec. 30.
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MINNEAPOLIS – Richard “Nook” Schoenfeld, a Parnelli Award-winning LD and Editor Emeritus of FRONT of HOUSE’s sister publication, Projection, Lights and Staging News (PLSN) magazine, died on the morning of Dec. 14, 2022. He was 65.
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MADISON, MS – Broadmoor Baptist Church’s weekly Sunday services typically include four to eight vocalists and as many as ten musicians onstage. Earlier this year, the church upgraded with a pair of KLANG:vokal immersive IEM mixing processors paired with a dozen KLANG:kontrollers. Pearl, MS-based Stage Center Lighting provided the gear.
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UK/USA – Clair Global, Eighth Day Sound and Britannia Row Productions supplied audio gear and crew for Scottish singer / songwriter Paolo Nutini as he embarked on a sell-out UK tour; his first in five years. The audio setup included a d&b audiotechnik KSL P.A. system along with Solid State Logic and Allen & Heath desks.
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DUBAI, UAE – Dubai’s Al Wasl Dome was recently repurposed into a 3,000-seat concert venue. To celebrate its reopening, the dome hosted A.R. Rahman’s all-female Firdaus Orchestra, a 30-piece choir, and singer Abi Sampa and her band. Sound designer/mix engineer Phil Wright supported the event and relied on DPA Microphones solutions.
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