Three times throughout the summer, the city of Sharon in Pennsylvania plays host to WaterFire, a world renowned multi-sensory art event. The day-long event offers concerts, food and an interactive arts experience highlighted by the riverfront waterfire exhibition in the evening where over fifty custom built floating braziers are anchored in the Shenango River; the baskets filled with wood and set ablaze at nightfall to produce a unique and compelling display. Fire and Water are opposing elements, and there’s something synergistic about these flames blazing atop the water in their specially engineered braziers.
“WaterFire has had a major impact on our community, and the event has quickly established itself as the premier art and music festival of our region,” says WaterFire Sharon Chairman Robert Wilson, drawing over 70,000 people to the region.
For the August 23 event, Hermitage, Pennsylvania-based Satin Sound (
) was called on to provide the concert system. Their choice? A line array comprised of 16 RCF HDL20-A dual 10” two-way active line array modules coupled with Meyer 700-HP subwoofers.
“It is our mission to raise the bar on quality, for the smallest event to the largest production,” is the company’s philosophy has stated on their website.
For the concerts, Satin Sound owner John Durisko commented, “the HDL20-A’s covered extremely well with little to no EQ, covering uniformly to a distance of 175-feet,” as he offered up many compliments to the clarity of the rig. He goes on to mention one of the acts for the day with the Pittsburgh Jazz Orchestra, and again, nothing but compliments.
