LONDON, UK – Entec is supplying the current Skunk Anansie festival tour with a control and monitor system, working with the band’s long term engineers Paul Ramsay (FOH) and Simon Higgs (monitors).
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CORNWALL, UK – An Allen & Heath iLive system with 18 ME-1 personal mixers were employed for a special 21st anniversary show of UK band, Tindersticks. Part of a European summer tour, the band performed a special set at the Blue Balls Festival in Lucern, Switzerland, where a 17 piece string section played alongside the regular six piece band.
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ELIZABETHTOWN, PA – Elizabethtown College, a small liberal arts college based here, was looking to upgrade the audio system for its 844-seat performance space, and installed a Soundcraft Vi1 mixing console. Pictured here with the console are Ginette Slaughter and Ryan Carson, student event technicians.
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LAS VEGAS — To date, more than 30 sponsoring companies have stepped up and announced their support for the 13th Annual Parnelli Awards, set for Nov. 23 at the Mirage Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. The event will honor loudspeaker designer Mark Engebretson with the Audio Innovator award. Others to receive top honors include longtime Bruce Springsteen tour manager George Travis (Lifetime Achievement) and Eric Pearce of SGPS (Visionary Award).
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BOSTON and NEW YORK — Separate drug-related incidents claimed the lives of three EDM revelers in late August, with one death canceling an EDM concert in Boston on Aug. 28 and two more deaths leading to the cancellation of the final day’s performances for the three-day Electric Zoo Music Festival set for Randall’s Island Park in NYC over Labor Day weekend, Aug. 30-Sept. 1. (E-Zoo 2012 is pictured here).
Read More »SCOTTSDALE, AZ — The Event Safety Alliance announced that it has been officially granted 501(c)(6) status by the Internal Revenue Service. This designation establishes the ESA as tax-exempt entity, and marks a milestone in establishing the Event Safety Alliance as the preeminent event safety organization in the U.S.
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Front-of-house engineer and producer Brad Divens (Garbage, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Jane’s Addiction, Linkin Park) is one of a growing number of engineers turning to live tools from Waves Audio.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Mid-America Sound provided an L-Acoustics K1 system for Hillsong United’s “WelcomeZion” U.S. summer arena tour. The worship band, which grew out of the youth ministry at Sydney, Australia’s Hillsong Church, returns for a second three-week run of North American dates in November. The performances support the band’s 12th full-length album, Zion.
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NEW YORK – The U.S. Open is the final major Grand Slam tennis tournament of 2013, with a purse of $34 million and over 700,000 fans expected to attend between now and Monday, September 9th. Audio Inc., provided the audio infrastructure, which includes eight channels of Sennheiser Digital 9000 wireless, (12) channels of evolution 300 series wireless and six channels of evolution 300 series in-ear monitors (IEMs).
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TOLEDO, OH – The Hollywood Casino here hosted their Spotlight Summer Nights series of concerts for the first time this year in an open-air venue on the banks of the Ohio River. Parks Audio Systems proposed a system from RCF loudspeakers to cover the outdoor grounds. Their choice – an RCF TT Series line array coupled with dB Technologies subwoofers. Headliners for the series included Air Supply, Leann Rimes, Wynonna, Chevelle, Ronnie Dunn and Travis Tritt.
Read More »DEDHAM, MA — Parsons Audio will hold its 23rd annual Expo on Thursday, Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Dedham Holiday Inn here.
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NASHVILLE – Sound Image’s Nashville office supported Las Vegas-based Imagine Dragons’ 2013 Night Visions tour dates in the U.S. with an Adamson Energia E15 line array system. Along with North America, the band, boosted by more than 4 million downloads of its hit single, “Radioactive,” also toured Europe. Pictured here, from left, are monitor engineer Jared Swetnam, FOH engineer Scott Eisenberg and system engineer Andrew Dowling.
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