"This is our first year as a sponsor," notes Sandy Macdonald, Meyer Sound's north eastern regional sales manager, "and it shows the company's strong commitment to the New England music scene at all levels, from touring sound companies to clubs and theatres. It's also a great opportunity for a broad cross-section of the music industry to hear first-hand the astonishing power and clarity of a MILO system."
Meyer Sound is supplying the system in cooperation with Rainbow Concert Productions of Hampstead, NH. The system will include flown main arrays with both MILO and the new MILO 120 expanded coverage high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers, augmented by 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers and other self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers as needed for front and side fills.
Meyer Sound joins a group of Boston Music Awards sponsors that includes the NEMO Music Festival (which opens two days after the awards) and a wide range of media, hospitality and beverage companies. The only other sponsor related to the musical equipment industry is Gibson.
The venue for the Boston Music Awards is the 2,000-capacity Avalon, renowned as one of America's hottest dance and live performance clubs. A keystone property of the trend-setting Lyons Group, the Avalon is located in a historic structure at 15 Landsdowne Street. The club has undergone repeated transformations since it first emerged in the late sixties as The Ark and, a few years later, the Tea Party - the latter serving as the launching platform for Don Law, for many years the premier concert promoter on the East Coast.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
