The group invited the Internet phenomenon P.S. 22 Chorus to share the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Under the direction of Gregg Breinberg, the P.S. 22 Chorus is a school chorus from Staten Island, New York, whose performances have "gone viral" on YouTube.com, inspiring over 13m views. In addition to the large amount of Sennheiser wireless and wired microphones and personal monitors that Celtic Woman normally travels with, FOH engineer Wayne Pauley needed additional Sennheiser e 935s to mic the P.S. 22 Chorus.
Celtic Woman's stage show is elaborate, and Pauley relies on an extraordinary number of Sennheiser units to make it happen night after night. "At any given time, we could have up to 19 people on stage with Sennheiser 2000 Series wireless personal monitors, giving us 38 RF mixes for monitors alone," said Pauley. "With a few exceptions, everyone is singing into headworn mics connecting to Sennheiser SK 5212 body-packs that pair with Sennheiser EM 3732 receivers.
"We use Sennheiser's 5000 Series antennas and 3000 Series splitters and combiners, with Sennheiser NET 1 units to handle monitoring and remote control for all wireless channels."
A multitude of wired mics populate the rest of the stage, with Sennheiser e 902, e 904, e 905, e 906, e 914, and MD 441s joining Neumann KM 184s to project the backing band.
See Sennheiser at PLASA Focus: Leeds 2010 - stand S-B16.
(Jim Evans)
