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MONTREAL — Michael Golden, executive vice president of JAM Industries, VP of Erikson Music/Korg Canada and son of JAM Industries founder Marty Golden, passed away May 11 after a two-year battle with cancer. He had just turned 50 in February.

COLUMBIA, MD — At the Merriweather Post Pavilion within Symphony Woods here, Sweetgreen restaurant group hosted an all-day music festival featuring Avicii, Kid Cudi, The Shins, Explosions in the Sky, Fitz and the Tantrums, A$AP Rocky, Fun, Delta Spirit, Zola Jesus others. Called the Sweetlife Music and Food Festival, the event was supported by MHA Audio, which relied upon their Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) audio system for sound reinforcement.

TAMPA, FL — Magnum Audio Group recently provided new sound systems for three sports venues at the University of South Florida (USF): a 4,500-seat baseball stadium, a 1,500-seat softball stadium and a 750-seat soccer stadium. Magnum’s Randi Crooks equipped the two larger venues with Community Pro’s WET W2-2W8, R1-66 and R.5-99 loudspeakers along with  R.5SUB subwoofers. For the smaller soccer stadium, just the R1-66 and R.5-99 loudspeakers did the trick.

BATON ROUGE, LA — The Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (LASERS) brought in Technical Services Group (TSG) to design and install an easy-to-use sound reinforcement system for a boardroom and conference center. TSG deployed an ASPEN processor setup from Lectrosonics.

LAS VEGAS — An industry band, The Drunk Unkles, is set to perform at Gilley’s Saloon in the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino during InfoComm 2012. The group, which will be playing June 14, will be raising funds for the NSCA Education Foundation.

HUNTINGTON, NY — Maryland Sound International designed and installed a new sound system as the former Inter-Media Arts Center (IMAC) Theater was renovated and re-emerged as the Paramount Theater. MSI, led by project manager Ryan Beck, installed a JBL VerTec powered line array system from Harman.

FRISCO, TX — Gemini Lighting, Sound and Video deployed the new EAW KF740 Zero Degree Adapter to “flat-front” the top four modules of each main array for EdgeFest 22, which was staged at the FC Dallas Stadium here April 22, 2012. The festival featured performances by The Black Keys, Garbage, Cake, Cage the Elephant, Arctic Monkeys, Switchfoot, Evanescence, The Ting Tings and Dead Sara.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Faced with audio issues ranging from sound quality to interference, Central Seventh Day Adventist Church here decided to switch from conventional wireless microphones to Line 6 XD-V digital wireless. As Pastor Don Gibson recalls, “Our systems were pretty old, and we started having issues, especially after the FCC rules changed. Then the Line 6 systems solved all our problems.”