Celebrating 10 Years of Country Music
Wonderful writeup on the ALIA site...
Every January, when the sun is at its hottest, thousands of country music-loving people make the pilgrimage to the Australian country town of Tamworth for the Toyota Country Music Festival which runs over 10 days.
The heat of over 40°C and the flies are no deterrent as the festival, presented by Tamworth Regional Council, is now in its 52nd year and is recognised as the second biggest country music festival in the world, after the CMA Music Festival in Nashville USA. The town comes alive with ticketed and free shows alike, and buskers that line the main streets.
Full Article...
LIVE EVENT SERVICES CELEBRATE TEN YEARS OF THE TOYOTA COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Live Event Services return to provide production for this year’s awards at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment and Conference Centre (TRECC) in NSW. The festival is the second biggest country music festival in the world, after the CMA Music Festival in Nashville USA.
Colin Baldwin commented “this is our 10th consecutive year providing production and management for the awards and concerts held at TRECC. Our relationship with the Tamworth Music Festival stems back 16 years, supplying production for several venues across the festival, we are very proud of our involvement in bringing the awards to life.”
This year’s production included… 120m2 of LED Screens, 5 camera shoot, L-Acoustics KARA main system plus ARCH out-fill, 108p near-fill speakers and X12 foldback speakers, 12 channels of IEMs and 12 channels of wireless mics. A&H DLive S7000 at FOH and A&H S5000 at monitors. Lighting included 16 Clay Paky Mythos, 12 Martin Quantum wash, 6 Martin K20 B-eye, 18 Ek R3 LED wash/beam, 4 Ayrton Mistral, 8 ACME XA400, 8 ACME Icarus, and lots of LED pars, profiles and fresnel’s. Grand MA3 XT is the lighting control of choice.
It’s no small task managing 24 people for the festival and awards… booking accommodation, sorting logistics’ and ensuring the team arrive in Tamworth on time. Many thanks to our Sydney team… Fiona, Dana and Pam.
We would also like to thank our suppliers for their continued support…. Big Day Media, JPJ, CTS, ELS, Broadcast Zone, Raw Energy and Rolling Rock Touring.
Special thanks to Peter Ross (Awards Producer) Barry Harley (Festival Director) Robert Elsworthy and his team at TRECC.
Production Design and Management
Technical & Stage Manager
Show Director
Content Director
Production Assist / ASM
ASM
Audio Crew / FOH Audio Engineer
Audio Crew / Monitors Engineer
Audio Crew
Mix-down Engineer
Lighting Director
Lx Crew Chief
Lx Crew
Lx Crew / Stage assist
Awards Content Director
AV Tech
LED Screen Boss
LED Screen Tech
LED Screen Tech
Camera Chain
Camera Director
Assist Camera Director
Camera Operator
Camera Operator
LES Crew:
Colin Baldwin
Justin Barraclough
Adam Lowe
Sean Costello
Roger Dane
Cass Looveer
Bradley Scott-Kemmis
Jake Smith
Tom Heggen
Andrew Crawford
Alex McCoy
Dylan Hovey
Sean O’Brien
Adam Elliott
Ash Sellers
Reuben Hung
Chris Turnbull
Jack Stafford
Dan Witkowski
Tim Jarvis / BZ
Marty Hankins
Mark Rolski
Dave Russell
James Galea