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Canegreen at Cambridge Folk Festival
Canegreen managed the sound at the 40th Cambridge Folk Festival, where an eclectic line-up mixed the traditional folk of Ralph McTel with contemporary sounds of Beth Orton and classic reggae in the form of the legendary Jimmy Cliff.
The audience and artists alike commented on the amazing sound quality produced by Canegreen, as summed up by production manager Ken Rankin: “A high percentage of our audience are musicians and the quality of the sound really effects their enjoyment of the weekend. Since Canegreen has provided our PA there has been a huge improvement and I have had loads of compliments about the sound. Canegreen is on the pulse of the festival, absolutely superb in terms of noise control and quality.”
Cambridge Folk Festival has never been easy to work on, but Canegreen, now on its third consecutive year, has always risen to the challenge, using extensive experience to create a system unique to this event.
The festival is situated in the middle of a residential area, thus the company has to be extremely cautious with the sound levels. The site is also of limited size, with three stages and a lot of people in close proximity, therefore Canegreen had to manage sound dispersion to reach all of the audience at each stage, without hearing the music from the other stages.
Front of house engineer Ange Jones and Canegreen’s Pete Hughes managed the sound throughout the four-day festival. Pete took particular care with system management (attracting some interesting looks as he adjusted the delays using Sound Web on his remote wireless PC tablet in the middle of the audience).
The equipment was selected and the systems designed to complement the dynamics and style of the music played. Flanking the main stage inside a clear-span marquee were Meyer MSL 4s and Meyer 700 sub-woofers with UPA in-fills and flown Meyer MSL 2s covering the audience in the marquee. A cleverly thought out array of three delay positions, using a combination of Meyer MSL 4s, MSL 2s and MSL 3s, achieved good sound levels and quality to the audience outside of the marquee, whilst containing the music within the arena.
This year Canegreen used a state of the art monitor control, with new KT-Helix digital graphics, managed by Seamus Fenton behind a Midas Heritage 3000 console.
Pete Hughes has been managing the sound at the festival for 3 years now, providing the pa and crew for all three stages and he was especially pleased with the final accomplishments on the 40th Anniversary event. Pete commented: “The success of the sound was a credit to everyone in the team, a few of us had input into the system design at this year’s festival; it is important to receive as many different views as possible, and there have been definite improvements year on year.”
9th August 2004
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