NASHVILLE, TN – The Nashville Rescue Mission's division for homeless men has been providing food, shelter, medical care and counseling since 1954 – requiring, in return, attendance at worship services. Those services, which include music, are held nightly in a 400-seat chapel, 364 times a year.
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AUSTIN, TX – Neon Trees was a featured act at SXSW this year and has been appearing on tour with My Chemical Romance and also a number of one-off fly dates. To meet the band's mixing needs, stage manager/monitor engineer Mike Bangs and FOH engineer Neal Duffy are using a pair of Allen & Heath iLive T112 consoles.
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ORLANDO – Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems, Inc. and Dan Dugan Sound Design announced plans for an InfoComm debut of the Dugan-MY16 card for current model Yamaha digital mixers and processors including Yamaha 01V96, DM1000, 02R96, DM2000, M7CL, LS9, DSP5D, PM5D, and DME24/64N. Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems will be the sole distributor for the card, which will be available to customers within North America.
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AUSTIN, TX – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences & Festivals, a unique convergence that showcases original music, independent films, emerging technologies and a lot of networking, returned to Austin earlier this year, along with DBS Sound engineer Patrick Mundy, who chose a Yamaha M7CL-48 digital audio console as his main source of audio.
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NEW YORK – For BeBe and CeCe Winans' last tour together, the brother and sister duo showcased their contemporary gospel music using Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeakers, supplied by Blackhawk Audio of White House, TN. The Winans have been recording together since 1984 and won two 2010 Grammy Awards for "Best Gospel Performance" and "Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album."
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INDIO, CA – As rock festivals go, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has carved out a prominent spot since kicking off in 1999, serving as a showcase for upcoming summer tours. Despite being located in the middle of nowhere with desert heat that averages in the triple digits, Coachella is North America's first high-profile festival of the season, drawing more than 200,000 concertgoers over three days.
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LAS VEGAS – On Stage Audio (OSA) purchased a 54-box Martin Audio MLA Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array system, joining North Carolina-based Special Event Services (SES) as key North American members in the MLA worldwide network. Other rental companies are also pooling resources to provide the gear to European customers.
Read More »FRANKFURT – For the 12th year over 100 international pro audio and music industry magazines voted to award the Musikmesse International Press Awards (MIPA) for the past year's best audio equipment, presented to the winners at a ceremony held during the recent Musikmesse Prolight + Sound expo in Frankfurt, Germany.
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WENHAM, MA – MFI Productions recently upgraded the audio system at the 1,600-capacity A.J. Gordon Memorial Chapel at non-denominational Gordon College with a new, white NEXO GEO S12 line array.
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TAMPA – The sound system at 2,600-capacity Iglesia De Dios Pentecostal M.I. Church was upgraded recently as part of a new AV setup that includes Aero Series 2 and Avant gear from D.A.S. Audio. Mick Hall, account manager for GC Pro (Guitar Center Professional Division), was involved in the design and installation
Read More »NEW YORK – The American Theatre Wing announced the nominees for the 2011 Tony Awards, to be televised June 12. The nominees for Best Sound Design of a Play include Acme Sound Partners and Cricket S. Myers for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; Simon Baker for Brief Encounter; Ian Dickinson/Autograph for Jerusalem; and Christopher Shutt for War Horse. The nominees for Best Sound Design of a Musical include Peter Hylenski for The Scottsboro Boys; Steve Canyon Kennedy for Catch Me If You Can; Brian Ronan for Anything Goes and Brian Ronan (again) for The Book of Mormon.
Read More »NEW ORLEANS – Production Resource Group's (PRG) Los Angeles office used an L-Acoustics KARA System for 15 episodes of the TV game show Wheel of Fortune, which was taped before a crowd of 3,000 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center over three days in mid-April – enough for three weeks of broadcasts.
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