ST. LOUIS – On the second weekend in July, Live Nation brought live music back to three sheds – in St. Louis, Nashville and Indianapolis. By “sheds” we mean the amphitheater parking lots. But these lots could hold a thousand cars, so full-blown productions including delay video screens and speakers were involved. Live Nation turned to local vendors to supply all the gear except backline.
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NASHVILLE, TN – HelloooTV.com is a weekly online concert experience that uses DiGiCo’s Quantum7 console at front of house, an SD10 for monitors (both supplied by Clair Global) and a KLANG:fabrik monitoring solution. Performances are shot live at a soundstage at Special Events Services’ (SES) facility in Nashville, with each live audio mix streamed as a set.
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HUNTINGTON STATION, NY – FOH engineer Vincent J. “Vinnie” Kowalski, Jr. passed away July 17, 2020 of an apparent heart attack. He was 58. Perhaps best known for his work with Peter Frampton, Kowalski also mixed other artists including Blondie, John Fogerty, Dream Theater, Savatage and Kirk Franklin.
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NEW YORK – IATSE released a set of guidelines detailing a possible Covid-19 Safety program for stagecraft workers in entertainment venues and workspaces like theaters and live performance venues. This comes as Broadway and most of the live event/performance industry enters nearly the fifth month of being shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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NASHVILLE – Blake Shelton recently recorded a concert performance outside Nashville that will be featured on the screens of 300 drive-in movie theaters this Saturday,… Read More »Blake Shelton’s July 25 Drive-In Concert Makes Use of Sennheiser Technologies
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ORT im INNKREIS, Austria – Since its inception in 2011, the Woodstock der Blasmusik festival has been attracting crowds of up to 60,000 brass music… Read More »Woodstock der Blasmusik Festival Goes Online with Allen & Heath
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BRISTOL, PA – For a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear that was staged at Bristol Riverside Theatre earlier this year, sound designer Brad Ward deployed an RCF rig including four HDL 28-A Active Line Array Modules, two TT 22-A Active Two-Way Speakers, one SUB 9004 Active Subwoofer and one RCF HD 21EN paging horn.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand – Marking the country’s much anticipated return to live music events, Reggae band L.A.B. played a sold-out show for 6,000 fans at Spark Arena in Auckland. College Hill Productions supplied an L-Acoustics K1 system for the event, which had been relocated from a smaller local theater venue due to overwhelming demand.
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CROWBOROUGH, U.K. – All Saints Church in Crowborough, East Sussex upgraded its sound system with Electro-Voice EVA (expandable vertical array) loudspeakers driven by Dynacord IPX series amplifiers. The new system, designed and installed by local supplier Ashdown Audio Visual, provides the church’s 600-member congregation and musicians with a new level of sonic clarity during services.
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WASHINGTON, DC – NAMM announced July 16 that it has joined the call to action on behalf of the live event industry and has sent a letter to Senate leaders, urging further assistance to the industry in the form of payroll support, tax relief and loan guarantees. Bandit Lites chair Michael Strickland also urged everyone in our industry to appeal to Congress for support.
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HOUSTON – The City of Houston’s “Shell Freedom Over Texas” July 4th celebration, a live broadcast that paired a variety of artists with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, triumphed over Covid challenges with an assist from a pair of DiGiCo SD10 consoles provided by audio vendor LD Systems.
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HOCHDORF, Switzerland – Billed as Switzerland’s first open-air streaming festival, SummAIR featured a tight program of live bands mixed on an advanced Allen & Heath dLive setup. Pictured here is Simon Münger from MSL Eventtechnik GmbH with the dLive systems prepped before the festival.
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