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LAS VEGAS — Yes, it’s August — and still summertime. But the 2016 Parnelli Awards aren’t some hazy abstraction on the distant horizon. The final awards ballot will be posted online in less than a week. Voting will continue for the month of September. And before you know it, October will be here, and the Parnelli Awards staff will be getting the usual last-minute requests for a seat at this year’s awards gala.

BATON ROUGE, LA — PSS will provide the audio for the upcoming Louisiana Rising: A Benefit Concert for Flood Relief.  The nationally broadcast event will air live on Labor Day, Sept. 5, from 7-9pm CST. 

NEW YORK – When live studio audio mixer and EAG Productions owner Eduardo A. García heads out on tour with urban artists Colombian band Alkilados and the “Queen of Cumbia” Totó La Momposina, he always makes sure to bring along his DPA microphones.

HERMITAGE, TN — Hermitage Hills Baptist Church, located in the Nashville area, was looking to update the sound system to support contemporary worship services within their 1,600-seat worship space. Georgia-based Diversified offered a solution to overcome acoustic challenges posed by the need to preserve clear sightlines and keep the overall expense of the upgrade to a minimum: a RoomMatch system from Bose Professional.

MT PLEASANT, PA — AV integration firm Good Sounds of New Stanton, PA, designed and deployed Pennsville Baptist Church’s new sound system, choosing WorxAudio’s X5i-P line array system. “The project has been a huge success,” says Dwight Brown, Good Sounds’ owner/principal system designer. “The speakers that we replaced were just not right for the room and didn’t complement the praise music that was so important to the service. The new WorxAudio system sounds terrific and there isn’t a bad seat in the house.

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KETTLE RIVER, MN — Monty Lee Wilkes, a noted FOH engineer, producer and occasional tour manager, died Aug. 26, 2016 in hospice at his parents’ house after a lengthy bout with terminal cancer. He was 54. Wilkes’ work spanned nearly every musical genre, with his resume including credits with The Replacements, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Joe Strummer, Curtiss A, The Suburbs, Soul Asylum, Prince, The Smithereens, Beastie Boys, Britney Spears, The Go Go’s, Engelbert Humperdinck, Soul Asylum, The Suburbs, Babes in Toyland, Lisa Marie Presley, Red Kross, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The B-52’s and the Commodores.