NASHVILLE – Guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has spent most of 2011 touring the world, performing concerts in Europe, Asia, and even Russia. Known for his complex finger picking style, energetic performances, and the use of percussive effects on the guitar, he has returned to the U.S. for a series of summer dates. He has been touring with Heil Sound microphones.
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LOS ANGELES – ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), in association with the I Create Music Expo, recently held its 28th Annual ASCAP Pop Music Awards at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel and Spa in Los Angeles. The event honored pop music songwriters and publishers and was attended by artists, composers and others in the industry.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – Every year, the readers of FRONT of HOUSE Magazine honor some of the top regional sound companies in the U.S. and Canada. Based on reader nominations, we list the top contenders from five regions in the U.S. and all of Canada. FOH readers then get to vote for the top regional sound companies in these six areas. These regional winners then become finalists for the annual Parnelli Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year Award, which will be given at the Parnelli Award Ceremony at the Peabody Orlando on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011.
Read More »NASHVILLE – Sennheiser is co-sponsor of "Music City Gives Back," a free concert event that will take place in downtown Nashville June 7. Headlined by country star Rodney Atkins, the concert will support the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund via the Nashville CVB foundation Music City, Inc. Sennheiser's Sound Tour bus will be parked on site.
Read More »BUENA PARK, CA – The Yamaha Rolling Showroom will kick off its summer tour season with two events in the Midwest featuring YCATS (Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Seminars) training sessions: June 21 in Columbus, OH and June 23 in Livonia, MI.
Read More »BELLINGHAM, WA – Roland Systems Group (RSG) is sponsoring a North American Audio Visual Showcase Tour from June through August. The tour will visit more than 25 cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, for anyone looking for more information about Roland products.
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INDIO, CA – Some 200,000 made the trek to the three-day 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and many more would have attended if the event wasn't sold out. The good news for the many sound professionals hoping to work at the event next year is that the festival will be staged over two consecutive weekends.
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NASHVILLE – For country songwriter Luke Bryan's Emotional Traffic Tour, which opens for Tim McGraw, production manager/FOH mixer Pete Healey and monitor mixer Ed Janiszewski opted for DiGiCo SD8 consoles for the Clair Global-supported tour, with an SD8-24 at FOH and SD8-36 for monitors plus two DiGiRacks.
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NEW YORK – This year's Drama Desk Awards, held May 23 at the Hammerstein Ballroom at Manhattan Center, may have been a little less dramatic than most, as far as the top awards for sound design for a musical and play were concerned. The sound design winners for top musical and play, respectively – Brian Ronan and Acme Sound Partners/Cricket S. Myers – were the odds-on favorites with two awards nominations each.
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MISSION, TX – Palm Valley Church recently hired Mankin Media Systems (MMS) of Franklin, TN to design and build a new facility to replace their 600-seat auditorium with a new 2,500-seat auditorium.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, FL – Allen & Heath's MixPad iPad app, launched earlier this year, allows users to control iLive series digital mixers over WiFi. At First Baptist Church, the app is also being used for personal monitor mixing.
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NEW ORLEANS – Spanning seven days, a dozen stages, and drawing a total audience of about 400,000, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is one of the largest live music events in the world. Metairie, LA-based The Sound Source supported two of the stages with JBL VerTec VT4886 subcompact line array elements.
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