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The past few decades’ technological revolution has touched us all, but few more deeply than the musician. Technology has permeated and altered every aspect of making and capturing music – not merely the tools we use, but the very nature of the creative process itself. And none have been more profoundly affected than the venerable drummer. Once the essential backbone of every band, drummers now compete head-to-head with their own digital doubles for a piece of the ever-dwindling musical pie. Those who have survived and flourished have done so by continually reinventing themselves.

Radnor, PA – Now in its 13th year, the Radnor Hunt Concours d’Elegance offers classic car buffs the opportunity to admire a selection of the world’s most exotic vehicles, presenting 100 motor cars in an event billed as Honoring The Art and Colour of General Motors, Zagato and BSA Motorcycles. Recalling the great tradition of the classic French Concours d’Elegance in Paris, the event includes a high-end fashion show and black tie dinner reception. Sound for the event’s sprawling grounds was provided by Community R.5 loudspeakers.

It was the best of halls, it was the worst of halls. This grand old Spanish Colonial-style theater has been through many incarnations since its opening in 1927, beginning life as the Hollywood Playhouse, one of four major legitimate theaters built in the heyday of Tinseltown’s vaudeville era. In 1942 it was renamed the El Capitan (when the original El Capitan Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard was renamed the Paramount), and converted to a radio studio theater, hosting such immortal broadcast fare as Ken Murray’s “Blackouts.”

Ray Charles Plaza Features Life-Sized Sculpture with Flowing Waters and Music

The city of Albany, Georgia has given a nod to its best-known native son with the opening of a park in his honor. Ray Charles Plaza includes a fountain featuring a life-sized revolving, lighted bronze sculpture of the famed musician seated at a grand piano. The sculpture, commissioned by acclaimed artist Andy Davis, is the centerpiece of a five-acre park featuring piano-key studded sidewalks and loudspeakers playing the master’s music.

Rule Number One in the Book of Cool says the hipper you are, the less you have to try and prove it. The Air Conditioned Supper Club proves the point. The nondescript storefront and innocuous signage marking the newest night spot in Los Angeles’ Venice district would be easy to miss, were it not for the lines stretching around the block most evenings.

The area itself has not been known for its nightlife, and the venue’s unremarkable red-beige exterior belies the retro-modern décor inside, where a chic but casual crowd samples exotic cocktails and shimmies shoulder-to-shoulder on the small dance floor to the eclectic grooves of live DJs and local acts.

Rivers Falls, Wisconsin – The Robert P. Knowles Center at the University of Wisconsin River Falls is a busy place, home to the University’s Indoor Track and Field, tennis and multiple intramural sporting teams, as well as a wide and growing range of community activities and events. The massive arena houses a 200-meter indoor running track, a rock climbing wall, basketball, tennis and volleyball courts, exercise center and more. It’s a versatile, cavernous and acoustically challenging venue.

The Jewish Museum Berlin serves as a focal attraction dedicated to two millennia of German-Jewish history. The museum’s new building, designed by world-renowned architect, Daniel Libeskind, includes a majestic 7,200-square-foot glass-enclosed courtyard named the Sukkah, which has become a popular venue for the city’s cultural programs and private functions. To provide crystal clear audio for the events while preserving the aesthetics of the spectacular architecture, the museum has permanently installed a new state-of-the-art sound system.

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On Easter Sunday 1980, Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, California held its first public service, with just over 200 people in attendance. Twenty-eight years later, Saddleback is touted as one of the nation’s largest congregations, with a weekly attendance of over 22,000 and more than 200 ministries serving the church and community.

Portland, OR – With a well-deserved reputation as one of America’s greenest cities, it’s not surprising that Portland’s Oregon Convention Center is among the nation’s most eco-friendly. But aside from its many innovative environmental achievements, the OCC also boasts one of the most technically advanced audio and video infrastructures of any US city. Fiber optics connect the Center’s one million square feet of space, with sophisticated digital signal processing enabling the area’s audio system to be divided in nearly endless combinations and configurations to accommodate nearly every conceivable event.

Coconut Creek, FL – With seven locations in south Florida, Bru’s Room has a well-earned reputation for Buffalo wings, big screen sports and family-friendly environs. The brainchild of former Miami Dolphins linebacker Bob “Bru” Brudzinski and his partner, Wings ‘N Things founder Eddie Hauk, the company has been voted Best Sports Bar in Florida for 19 years running.

Bru’s Room recently opened what promises to be their flagship location in Coconut Creek. The upscale 20,000-square-foot purpose-built facility boasts five different rooms including a family dining area, outdoor covered dock, patio bar, kids ice cream parlor and private lounge, each outfitted with state-of-the-art audio and video systems designed by Coral Springs-based SoundVision Systems, Inc.