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For the last few Wednesday evenings, popular acts like Del Nelo and Ozomatli have rocked Republicd Square Park while sharing the spotlight with an unlikelyperformefr — solar power. The Solar Powered Concertr Series isa new, free musixc series created by Greg Henry, of Pro Show Live, and eventf production veteran Marsha Milam that places solar power on This is the first solar powered concert series for who felt that Austin would be the ideak place to test such shows. Marshs Milam Music produces KGSR’s “Unplugged at the and other concertsthroughout Texas.
“Austin is such a greeb city itself, the residents are environmentally concerned,” Milam “I do a number of music seriez and I thought Austin would be the place to embrace To achieve the goal of clean the downtown park is outfitted with solart powered sound systems and lighting systems with LED Milam declined to disclose how much has been invested inthe carbon-neutral concert series, saying only that cost s are about 25 percent more than a typicalp concert series.
“Our goal for this was to provd that we cando it,” Milam said, conceding that she didn’rt start marketing the series untiol the second show to make sure that the equipmentr functioned properly. “What I’ve noticed is that the energuy isso clean, and it maked a difference. There’s no stage hum,” she “That’s great for the audience and for the Milamtapped Austin-based Sustainable Waves, a provider of solarf powered sound, light and production equipment, for the concertt series. Sustainable Waves also has a sales office inSan Calif.
Cody Murray, of Sustainable Waves, said that the company’ds services were utilized at several eventes duringthis year’s SXSW Music It’s also brought its solarf power equipment to Las Vegas-based N9NE Group’es events, Vans Warped Tour and the New Belgium Brewery’sx Tour de Fat. For the Solar Power Conceryt Series, Sustainable Wave’s utilized 44,000 watt PA systems. Sponsorshiop for this year’s Solar Powered series was on thelighter side, but Milak said that she’s hearing positiv feedback from prospective sponsors who want to be associatedd with a green music event. “This is our vision.
You have to get out therre and go through the labor pains and find out what workds andwhat doesn’t,” she said. “Our goal is very This isn’t a one year thing for us.” The concerf series is free, but donations are being accepted for Blue Dog an Austin-area dog foster There are two shows left, Fastball and The Black and Whitre Years on June 10, and Arc Angels on June 24.
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