GATESHEAD, U.K. — The Gateshead International Jazz Festival was staged at the Sage Gateshead, a music center here, on April 5-7, 2013. The final performance paired Ruby Turner and The Brand New Heavies. To augment the festival sound system, Nitelites brought in RCF TT+ gear.
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LAS VEGAS — For One Night for One Drop, a technically ambitious charity performance pooling performers from seven Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil shows into a single production on a single evening, Sennheiser played a key role. The show was staged at the “O” Theater here on World Water Day, March 22, 2013.
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KIDDERMINSTER, U.K. — Music Group named Rob Hughes Midas Klark Teknik technical support manager for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region.
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INDIO, CA — Rat Sound, located in Camarillo, CA, recently purchased 16 RCF TTS56-A powered subwoofers for their rental inventory. The new gear was quickly put into service at the two-weekend 2013 Coachella Festival, at the event’s new Yuma Tent performance area.
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LONDON — Jamie Orchard-Lisle introduced folk singer Sam Lee to DPA Microphones’ d:facto vocal microphone. Lee, who was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize in 2012, has since adopted it as his go-to vocal mic for live gigs in 2013.
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BOSTON — A benefit concert to raise funds for Boston Marathon bombing victims has been set for the TD Garden Arena here May 30. Performers will include Aerosmith, NKOTB, James Taylor, Jason Aldean, Jimmy Buffett, Carole King, Boston and J. Geils Band, according to TD Garden and Live Nation New England.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Alt-J, a British band that made it onto Rolling Stone’s “Must See Acts” list for Coachella 2013, recently completed a U.S. tour with support from Lance Reynolds at FOH and Ron Sharpless at monitors. Sharpless used a PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 digital console for the band’s monitor mixes.
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EDINBURGH, Scotland — Ward-Steedsy Audio provided and used an Allen & Heath digital iLive system for the Red Bull Chasers bicycle event staged here recently. The system helped the audio crew overcome the challenge of having three PA systems with local inputs at each system mixed and distributed to all three systems simultaneously.
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NEW YORK — Masque Sound provided a custom audio equipment package including Yamaha’s CL-5 mixing console with two RIO 3224 I/O racks for the Classic Stage Company’s (CSC) revival of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical, Passion. The limited engagement recently wrapped at Manhattan’s CSC Theater.
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ALAMEDA, CA — Clear-Com named Samer E. Mouwanes regional sales manager, Middle East, effective on May 13, 2013. He will be responsible for overseeing all sales and customer service activities in the Middle East, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus.
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NEW ORLEANS — Sound designer Michael Paz turned to Outline’s iMode technology for the networking backbone at the renovated Little Gem Jazz Saloon, a nightclub/restaurant in New Orleans’ historic “Jazz Alley.” There are two separate performance spaces one floor apart, and Outline’s iMode can be used to monitor, control and run the same program material through both systems simultaneously, Paz noted.
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HELSINKI, Finland — Finnish string quartet Meta4 has invested in four DPA d:vote 4099 Instrument Microphones, which they are using to capture the sound of two violins, a viola and a cello.
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