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Martin Audio delivers acoustic reinforcement at Red Wing Festival

The annual Red Wing Roots Music Festival in Mt. Solon, VA’s Natural Chimneys Park, offers roots, bluegrass and string band music from Virginia and beyond. Martin Audio rental partners Southard Audio have been providing audio services at this five-stage event since it began in 2013 (providing technical support for the four stages).

The festival, which is attended by around 4,500 people, is a collaboration between Black Bear Productions LLC and The Steel Wheels - the latter a nationally touring band, who perform throughout the US, with many of the members living nearby in the Shenandoah Valley.

Southard Audio have a long relationship with Martin Audio systems, and business partner Jason Misterka wanted to redeploy the large, scalable Wavefront Precision line array system that had been used for last year’s edition of the festival.

At Red Wing, the two main stage audience areas overlap, with many at the back of one stage rotating their chair to watch the other stage. The presence of the actual chimneys in the park creates a visual centre between the two main stage set-ups.

On the Shenandoah Mountain Stage Southard Audio fielded sixteen WPL speaker modules (eight elements a side) on a Stageline SL320 stage, with six SXH218 subs in cardioid configuration. Four CDD-Live 15 provided frontfills and outfills while a single CDD-Live 12 provided VIP fills. The system was driven by two Martin Audio iK42 racks.

The Blue Ridge Timberwright Stage featured 22 of Martin Audio’s smaller WPS modules (eleven a side) mounted to Applied LA12-25 towers, with six SHX218 subs in cardioid configuration and a pair of further WPS for front fills.

Chris Davis created the Display optimisations for both WP systems, doubling as the system tech and FOH on the Blue Ridge Timberwrights Stage, while Jason Misterka took on FOH duties at the Shenandoah Mountain Stage.

Elsewhere, The Roots Stage featured a pair of CDD-Live 15 with four SXC118 cardioid subs and The Hill Stage featured a further pair of CDD-Live 15 with a pair of CSX118 providing low frequency support. Finally, a mobile Yoga sound system was based around a pair of Martin Audio Blackline XP12.

Southard Audio had a large team on duty throughout the four days. These included Matt Hudson, Gary Green, Pam Southard, Eric Shy, Forrest Matter, Bill Crowell, Josh Hebdon, and Jon Furson. Chad Wyatt and Brandon Burkholder worked elsewhere at the Kinfolk stage, with Gordon Davies and Nathan Scholz also utilising Southard’s Martin Audio equipment.

(Photos: Martin Audio/Southard Audio/Black Bear Productions)

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