This year's CMA Music Festival—held June 9-12 in Nashville—sold out months in advance, attracting a record 88,500 fans each day to catch the latest and greatest in the world of Country Music. Over the course of the festival, more than 500 artists and celebrities participated in more than 250 hours of concerts on 11 stages, seven of which were free. This was the first year that Ascend Amphitheater was included as a venue for free shows, and Nashville-based audio provider Morris was on-hand providing production, including its new d&b audiotechnik J-Series system and NoizCalc solution.
by Clive Young Converse sneakers were invented in 1908 and have been beloved by musicians ever since. Now, more than a century later, the company still can't figure out how to make wide-sized sneakers but somehow it learned how to put a guitar pedal in your sole, as evidenced by its latest brainwave: The Chuck Taylor All Wah. Yes—sneakers with a built-in wah-wah pedal.
"When one of those patients sits up at that desk with a set of headphones on and that microphone and the on-air light comes on, they forget about why they're in the hospital. It really is a beautiful distraction." - Mitch Robertson
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