ATHERTON, CA – For Menlo School's new 54,000 square-foot, bi-level athletic center, designed and built by Kevin Hart Architecture and Vance Brown Builders, Leo's Professional Audio provided a complete AV solution, including audio gear from Tannoy and Lab.gruppen.
Read More »INDIANAPOLIS – IATSE Local 30 is administering a fund for the family of Nathan Byrd, the spotlight operator who died after falling with the rigging in the Aug. 13 stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair. Byrd, a single parent, is survived by two teens, age 13 and 15. The fund will assist with funeral expenses and other basic needs.
Read More »By now we've all seen the video of the Aug. 13 stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair moments before country duo Sugarland was to perform. Opening act Sara Bareilles had concluded her set just a half hour before. The collapse injured dozens; many seriously, killing four in the audience immediately, and truss spot operator Nathan Byrd was later pronounced dead at Wishard Hospital.
Read More »INDIANAPOLIS – A strong, isolated blast of wind that came in advance of a line of thunderstorms knocked down the main stage at the Indiana State Fair at 8:49 pm Aug. 13. The collapse killed four people on site. A fifth victim, Nathan Byrd, 51, died later that night. A spotlight operator who fell with the rigging, Byrd had been among the 45 people hospitalized, many with serious injuries. Although other crew members were seen falling with the rigging, no additional deaths were reported.
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TULSA, OK – The audio crew at Oral Roberts University's Mabee Center went with a flown solution for both loudspeakers and subwoofers for two Oklahoma beauty pageants staged there recently. The two affiliated pageants, which crowned Miss Oklahoma and Miss Oklahoma's Outstanding Teen, ran concurrently from June 7-11 in the Mabee Center's Johnston Theatre.
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CARY, NC – An Aviom Pro64 audio network installed at the new Cary Church of God facility here is helping to distribute 64 channels of audio throughout the church's sanctuary for signal capture for live monitoring as well as audio recording and PA distribution for the church's FOH sound. Designed and installed by Audio Artistry, the Pro64 system supplements the church's original Pro16 Personal Mixing System, which was moved from the former sanctuary.
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DETROIT – Every year, Lomas Brown from the Detroit Lions joins a group of NFL and college-level football players to stage a free two-day linebacker football camp for Detroit-area youth. Sennheiser sponsored the event's dedicated broadcast booth, which lets the high school-age kids participate in the taping of a mock sports broadcast. All who participated in the broadcast activity also received a free pair of Sennheiser headphones and a certificate of completion.
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BALTIMORE – The Roots Fest 2011 outdoor festival featured five days of live music and other performances in late June, with headliners like Talib Kweli and Anthony David featured along with local music and spoken word artists and a variety of plays, dance and performance art projects on multiple stages.
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HAPPAUGE, NY – Happauge High School's 1,500-seat main auditorium can operate as one space or three separate rooms, and it will host anything from theatre and concerts to fundraisers and movie nights. To meet the varying needs of the space, Rich Riedel, owner and president of Riedel Audio and Acoustics, opted for a system from Renkus-Heinz.
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WINNIPEG, MB – Christian artist Steve Bell's solo career began in 1989, but many of his recent performances have been anything but a solo effort. The Juno award-winning singer/songwriter has performed more than two dozen symphony concerts with 12 different orchestras in Canada and the U.S. in recent years, all the while using Neumann 105s for vocals.
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NASHVILLE – 3rd & Lindsley recently underwent a metamorphosis of sorts and celebrated the milestone with a free concert featuring the Kentucky Headhunters for the crowds at Summer NAMM. "We went from a bar that has music to a music venue that happens to have a bar," said owner Ron Brice.
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PHOENIX, AZ – What might happen to our surroundings if people were to suddenly vanish from the face of the Earth? That's the premise of Life After People, a new series on the History Channel. As each day, month, and year passes, the fate of a particular environment is examined.
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