Live Sound
SAE Institute Sponsors HARD Summer Festival
For this year’s Los Angeles HARD Summer Festival, the SAE Institute was the exclusive education sponsor. SAE provides training in the production aspects of...
Music Festival Business
Live Sound
Neumann Captures Aspen Music Festival
Since 1949, The Aspen Music Festival and School has been one of the most famous classical music festivals in the world, hosting more than...
Live Sound
L-Acoustics Rocks Primavera Festival
Barcelona’s annual Primavera Festival is one of the country’s largest, boasting over 100,000 attendees for the event. This year, longtime Primavera audio provider Twin...
Live Sound
DiGiCo Powers Summerfest Once Again
Milwaukee’s annual Summerfest, boasting 11 stages and more than 800 national and regional acts performing over an 11-day span, once again tapped Clearwing Productions...
Live Sound
Warped Fest’s Lyman Hosts Online Course
Kevin Lyman, creator of several touring music and extreme sports festivals including Vans Warped Tour, will host a CreativeLive 'Music & Audio' course on...
Live Sound
SSL Goes to WOMAD
Solid State Logic’s new iLive consoles made a debut at the 34th annual World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAND) festival, provided by Brittania...
Live Sound
Ode to Blues Festival Hits Bangalore
A complete Harman Professional live sound system supported the fourth annual Ode to the Blues Festival in India, with a variety of JBL loudspeakers,...
Live Sound
Pink Noise Takes On Festival Cubano
The annual Festival Cubano, held in Chicago from August 15 to 17, tapped the services of Chicago’s Pink Noise to provide the sound reinforcement....
Live Sound
Avid Everywhere Supports Gent Jazz Fest
Avid was chosen as an exclusive partner of the 2014 Gent Jazz Festival’s Garden Stage live sound workflow—a move which the manufacturer says highlighted...
Live Sound
Adamson Powers Stairway To Heaven Festival
The Stairway to Heaven Festival debuted this year in Krasnodar, Russia, with sound reinforcement company Live Master providing an Adamson Engergia system for the...
Business
SSL Live Joins Killers for Fests
Following their 2013 Battle Born world tour, the Las Vegas-based band The Killers continue their tour circuit, making appearances at a number of music...
Business
Soundcraft Supports MO Festivals
Bob Walter, owner of the small production company Strictly Audio STL, employed a Harman Soundcraft Si Expression 2 console to help mix some his...
Business
Martin Audio Takes on Glastonbury
Martin Audio’s Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) made its Glastonbury debut this year, with the system deployed on the Pyramid Stage at the festival.
Live Sound
Global Citizen Festival to Feature Jay Z, No Doubt
This year’s Global Citizen Festival, held on the Great Lawn in New York City’s Central Park, will feature performances by Jay Z, No Doubt,...
Live Sound
The Big Picture: LED Video Displays for Music Festivals
Whether it’s Coachella, Lollapalooza or SXSW, you’d be hard-pressed to find a major music festival that doesn’t feature larger-than-life video displays accompanying performers on...
Business
MOOGFEST 2014
I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Moogfest and found it was certainly a different kind of festival.
Business
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 60 YEARS
It was in the winter of 1953 that Elaine Lorillard first walked into the Storyville jazz club, downstairs beneath the Copley Square Hotel in...
Business
SETTING THE STAGE: BEING READY IN THE “ANYTHING-CAN-HAPPEN” WORLD OF FESTIVAL STAGING
Wristbands on, hands in the air, lost in the music; the festival audience doesn’t care how that blissful moment came to be.
Business
AUDIO MUST-HAVES: ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR KEEPING THE FESTIVAL ON TRACK
With multiple musical acts gracing each stage, a constantly changing lineup of microphones, DIs and backline are juggled.
Business
ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL
When it comes to supplying sound equipment for an Electric Dance Music (EDM) festival, careful consideration needs to go into the reinforcement of the...
Business
Sound of Thunder at Moogfest
For 2014’s Moogfest, an annual celebration of electronic technology, art, science and music festival based on the vision of analog synth pioneer Bob Moog,...
Business
Sound Works Tapped for Philfest
Northwestern University’s annual Philfest, a collaboration between A&O Productions and Students for Ecological and Environmental Development (SEED), tapped Frankfort, IL-based Sound Works Productions to provide...
Business
DiGiCo Supports MerleFest
Country music stars Alan Jackson and Merle Haggard, as well as bluegrass icons Dr. Ralph Stanley and Ricky Skaggs, were among the 130 acts...
Gear and Technology
Bowers & Wilkins Bows Festival PA
Hi-Fi loudspeaker developer Bowers & Wilkins recently announced a new PA system called Sound System that it claims is specifically designed for a festival...
Business
Aviom Added On Spring Harvest Festival
For this year’s German Spring Harvest Festival, a six-day event that draws together more than 3,000 evangelical Christians, and over 300 artists, speakers and...
Business
Rave Comes of Age
By Steve Harvey. Described variously as "The New Rock and Roll," “the rave wave” and “new rave,” EDM—electronic dance music—has become a major moneymaker...
Business
SE Systems Returns To MerleFest
This year’s MerleFest in Wilkesboro, NC featured over 125 artists, and had audio support from SE Systems of Greensboro, NC, as it has for...
Business
Avid Supports Moogfest Recordings
For 2014’s Moogfest, an annual five-day festival held in Asheville, NC that features some of the world’s most influential electronic artists, a number of...
Business
Mixing the Newport Folk Festival
In 1965, Bob Dylan famously took the stage at the Newport Folk Festival and played an amplified act with guitarist Mike Bloomfield and organist...
Live Sound
Outstanding in Their Field
The complexities of festival production are definitely not for the faint of heart. Arranging a massive outdoor party for several thousand sun-toasted fans, with...
Live Sound
Ten Indicted in Love Parade Stampede
Ten people were indicted this month in connection to a stampede that killed 21 people at the German music festival, Love Parade, in July...
Live Sound
ESI Bows US K2 PA at The Gift
ESI Audio became the first North American sound reinforcement company to deploy the new K2 system from L-Acoustics, using the rig on December 26,...
Live Sound
Troubled BottleRock To Return Under New Owners
After making headlines last summer for skipping out on paying many of its vendors, the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival has announced it will...
Live Sound
PSS Mans Voodoo Experience
Baton Rogue, LA-based sound company Premier Production & Sound Services, LLC (PSS) provided the sound reinforcement system for the Voodoo Experience Festival for the...
Live Sound
Igloofest Adds New Mobile Stage
For the eighth year, Montreal’s Old Port has hosted Igloofest, a month-long outdoor electronic music festival. For 2014, Igloofest has expanded with a new...
Live Sound
Facing The Wireless Spectrum Cataclysm
The CMA Music Festival Fan Fair has been a country music staple since its inception in 1972. With each year’s show growing bigger than...
Live Sound
Ultra Releases Accident Statement
Miami, FL (April 17, 2014)—Organizers of the Ultra Music Festival, a three-day Electronic Music festival that draws more than 160,000 people annually, recently released...
Live Sound
Toronto Fest Petitions Against Funding Cuts
Toronto, Canada (April 17, 2014)—For the past 25 years, the Beaches International Jazz Festival (BIJF) in Toronto has welcomed more than 500,000 people free...
Business
Clearwater to Honor Founders
The Great Hudson River Revival (Clearwater Festival), founded 49 years ago by folk legend and activist Pete Seeger and his wife, Toshi, will honor...
Live Sound
SXSWfm Adds Audio-Technica
SXSWfm, the dedicated online radio station for the South by Southwest Music Festival, used a number of microphones and headphones from Audio-Technica during the...
Live Sound
Mysteryland Sets Lineup
Mysteryland, the world’s longest-running electronic music festival, has announced its line up for its inaugural U.S. festival, scheduled for May 24 and 25 on...
Business
Chandler Backs Green Day At Aussie Fest
As part of its Australian tour, Green Day made a stop at the annual Soundwave Festival in Brisbane, bringing along LTD-2 compressors from Chandler...