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Ahava Festival Gets in Under the Wire
Held just before the pandemic took hold of the U.S., New Orleans’ new Ahava Festival charity event was assisted by Danley Sound Labs.
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TPG Tackles Country Freedom Festival
TPG fielded a sizable system, including its Bose ShowMatch rig, for the two-day festival headlined by John Michael Montgomery.
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N-Ray Rolls Out at Kassel Festival
SR provider Ambion fielded a beta system of Coda’s new N-Ray line array at the Kulturzelt music festival in Kassel, Germany.
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903pro Goes Classical in Cartagena
Colombian rental company 903pro provided audio support across several locations at the 2020 Cartagena International Music Festival.
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Soundwave Satisfies Dusk Music Festival’s Irate Neighbors
When locals tried to shut down Tuscon's Dusk Music Festival over noise abatement concerns, regional audio provider Soundwave Audio had its work cut out...
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SonRise Music Festival’s Speedy Soundchecks
For the SonRise Music Festival, S&S Production Services fielded Allen & Heath desks.
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Twelve Foot Ninja Attacks Europe with Allen & Heath
Aussie metal/funk/Latin/reggae band freaked out the festivals of Europe this summer.
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Funktion-One Vero Makes Glastonbury Debut
The Vero system was deployed on Glastonbury's Glade Stage
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ABC Tackles Sound at Primo Maggio Roma 2019
Rome’s annual music festival presented 31 acts over two days on a rotating stage.
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Brown Note Takes on Chicago Open Air Festival
Tool, SOAD, Ghost and others annihilate crowd at Chicago festival.
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Eilish Rolls into Coachella with A&H
The young songstress wasn’t the only major artist at the festival using the desk either.
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Jumping at Jazz Fest’s Jazz & Heritage Stage
By Jim Beaugez. Propaganda Group tackled a variety of genres and groups with a new audio system.
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New Festival Rocks Trondheim with Alcons
Iron Maiden, Volbeat and others roared through sets at new festival.
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High Altitude Festival Draws Crowds—And Its PA By Cart
Delivering the PA via horse-drawn cart is just one challenge when it comes to providing sound for Bulgaria’s Meadows in the Mountains festival.
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HK Audio Rolls Up to Rock & Bike Fest
Two sound companies teamed up to cover the annual event.
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Tackling World Music at Salem World Beat Festival
Alpha Sound aimed for flexibility as it handled sound for everything from Native American powwows to Irish dancing.
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DiGiCo Dives Into Coachella
Rat Sound deployed more than 20 SD12 and SD10 consoles for this year’s festival.
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Serving Up EDM in China for 60,000
Adamson PA and monitor rigs keep things moving at ISY.
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DiGiCo Goes 4 for 4 at Savannah Music Festival
DiGiCo is in residence at the Savannah Music Festival, running through April 14.
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Mengo Music Festival Makes Most of VUE
Sinergie Group supplied a VUE Audiotechnik PA system for the 13th annual Mengo Music Festival.
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Adamson Bolsters 538 Koningsdag Festival
The annual 538 Koningsdag festival brought together Dutch EDM fans to celebrate Koningdag (Kingsday) by dancing to the likes of Armin Van Buuren, Jay...
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Mixing Atlanta’s ProgPower Metal Festival
By Strother Bullins. Since 2001, Atlanta has been the host city for ProgPower USA, an annual indoor music festival where progressive rock and power...
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Martin Audio Shuffles into Shambala Festival
This year’s 7,000-capacity Shambala Festival featured 200 acts across a dozen stages of music programming, but Stage Audio Services’ main concern was the main...
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BST Fest Great Oak Stage Upgrades Audio
London’s Barclaycard Presents British Summer Time Hyde Park Festival (BST) just marked its fifth consecutive year at the site and once again, Capital Sound...
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Delicate Digs In at BottleRock
While it had a famously rocky start five years ago, the BottleRock Napa Valley festival has matured like a fine wine, turning into one...
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Inside The One Love Manchester Concert
By Phil Ward. On May 22, a suicide bomber detonated a device in the foyer of Manchester Arena in northern England, killing 22 and...
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Morris Tackles Four CMA Fest Stages
Nashville-based Morris Light & Sound provided audio for four stages at this year’s CMA Festival, serving up Nexo STM line arrays, Yamaha consoles, monitors...
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Firehouse, Shure Take On iHeartCountry Fest
The annual iHeartCountry Festival recently took over Austin’s Frank Erwin Center to bring fans a dozen top names in country music. Providing audio for...
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SE Systems Helps MerleFest Mark 30 Years
The concert business may be heavily focused on festivals these days, but they’re old news to the team behind MerleFest. The venerable event marked...
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Lollapalooza Chile Lands L-Acoustics
The Lollapalooza festival in Chile has become one of that country’s premiere musical events, and this year’s edition was no different. With a main...
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Finger Lakes GrassRoots Fest Sets Line Up
The population of Trumansburg may be 1,800 people for most of the year, but for July 20-23, 2017, that number will swell considerably when...
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dB Technologies Brings It to SXSW
Hundreds of bands and thousands of people descend on South By Southwest every year; helping provide audio at two notable stages this year were...
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DeMiero Jazz Fest Digs Earthworks
The words “jazz festival” might bring to mind small jazz combos, belting vocalists and perhaps some big bands, but you can’t overlook choirs. In...
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Starry Nites Micro-Festival Debuts
Festivals have been trendy for years, but there’s a new sub-trend emerging: The Micro Festival. A prime example is the new Starry Nites Festival...
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Five Years of Luck Reunion
New festivals spring up every year, but as time progresses, they either fade away or make their mark. Falling into the latter category is...
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Inside the Audio (and Mud) of Glastonbury
Coachella, Bonnaroo and Outside Lands may have become the premier festivals of the U.S., but they still have a way to go before they...
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Fort-ified Sound for Sanremo Festival
Some sound providers treat preparing to do festival sound like they’re getting ready for war—so what gear do you take into battle if your...
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DiGiCo Rises to Festival Occasion
RiseUp AS ONE, a live festival held on the US-Mexico border in San Diego last fall, featured artists such as Alejandro Sanz, Miguel Bosé,...
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Alcons Fly at New Bergbad Festival
New festivals seem to pop up every day in the U.S. but in Europe, which adopted festival culture earlier than North America, most of...
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SOS Absolutely at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Bluegrass has always been an intimate kind of music, but when it comes to presenting it in a festival setting? Well, it’s no easy...
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Dusk Music Festival Debuts with MLA
When launching a new festival, there’s a host of concerns that have to be dealt with, from logistics to getting the right inaugural line-up....
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Clearwing Takes On NYC’s Electric Zoo
Tiësto, Hardwell, The Chainsmokers, Bassnectar, Porter Robinson and Steve Aoki were just a few of the acts that played this year’s Electric Zoo Festival...