WASHINGTON, DC – NAMM announced July 16 that it has joined the call to action on behalf of the live event industry and has sent a letter to Senate leaders, urging further assistance to the industry in the form of payroll support, tax relief and loan guarantees. Bandit Lites chair Michael Strickland also urged everyone in our industry to appeal to Congress for support.
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HOUSTON – The City of Houston’s “Shell Freedom Over Texas” July 4th celebration, a live broadcast that paired a variety of artists with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, triumphed over Covid challenges with an assist from a pair of DiGiCo SD10 consoles provided by audio vendor LD Systems.
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HOCHDORF, Switzerland – Billed as Switzerland’s first open-air streaming festival, SummAIR featured a tight program of live bands mixed on an advanced Allen & Heath dLive setup. Pictured here is Simon Münger from MSL Eventtechnik GmbH with the dLive systems prepped before the festival.
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SINGAPORE – With low ceilings and less than 2,600 square feet in space, Singapore’s Tin Box: The Live House, a live music venue within the Chijmes building complex, turned to d&b’s compact A-Series augmented arrays before opening this year.
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ATLANTA – The Roadies of Color United (R.O.C.U.), co-founded by William Reeves and Lance “KT” Jackson in March 2009, celebrated their first decade with a get-together in Stone Mountain, GA earlier this year. This first-annual event added momentum to the group’s ongoing mission: to recognize and remove the barriers to diversity in live event production.
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LOS ANGELES – Group One Limited, distributor of companies such as Avolites, Calrec, DiGiCo, Klang, Solid State Logic, XTA and others, announced that it has opened a new office facility in the Los Angeles region. The new Chatsworth, CA-based facility, with both office and warehouse space, brings the audio console distributor closer to customers while increasing the company’s geographic footprint.
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JACKSON, MI – Pinelake Church reached out to InteRise of Nashville, TN to seek guidance on designing and installing a new sound system that would be able to keep up with changing audio needs for the services at their Reservoir Campus. Philip Hagood and Wade Russell from InteRise worked with Pinelake’s Kevin Hoober on a solution centered on d&b audiotechnik’s Soundscape system.
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WINNEBAGO, IL – When the Winnebago, Illinois campus of Crossroads Community Church moved into their own building after years of meeting in various rented spaces,… Read More »White Train Entertainment Uplifts Crossroads Community Church with QSC Line Array
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LAS VEGAS — In early July, FRONT of HOUSE and PLSN Magazines conducted a follow-up to the Covid-19 Entertainment Technology Economic Impact survey in April. Over the course of a week, 2,910 magazine subscribers and others responded (most on the first day). The results are bleak and show an industry on the edge, highlighting a desperate need for additional PPP funding.
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MELBOURNE, Australia – The Cube, a premium live streaming event space which is gaining serious traction in the world of live DJ streaming, has been… Read More »The Cube, a Live Streaming Event Space in Australia, Relies on DiGiCo SD9
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WINTER PARK, FL – Crown Design Group helped Action Church transform a former Masonic Lodge into what would emerge as that worship community’s church broadcast site. The site features new audio, video and lighting technology throughout, including two KLANG:fabrik immersive IEM mixing systems.
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RAVENNA, Italy – Leading the way in a new era of live entertainment, Ravenna is once again hosting its opera and classical music festival, deploying a d&b Soundscape immersive sound system to bring it to life. Two DS100 processors with the d&b Soundscape software plus over 60 d&b loudspeakers are being used for the live concert – one for the audience, and one to create the “virtual acoustic shell” for the musicians.
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