June Special Supplement Credits Talent and Technology Behind the Year’s Biggest Tours

New York City (June 19, 2002)–Pro Sound News, the #1 magazine serving the concert sound reinforcement industry, has announced the winners of the first annual Centerstage Awards in its new June issue. The new awards honor the front-of-house and monitor engineers behind the top five highest-grossing tours of the previous year, according to grosses reported by Billboard. By providing their expertise to high-flying tours by U2, *N Sync, Backstreet Boys, Madonna and the Dave Matthews Band in 2001, these engineers have earned and deserve recognition.

A special Centerstage Awards supplement in the June issue of Pro Sound News profiles each of the winning engineers and tours. Throughout, these audio professionals look back at the 2001 tours and their careers, discussing the challenges they encountered, the successes they’ve achieved and the inspirations that still drive them to excel in the field of live sound. Each tour profile also includes an equipment roster of the gear used that was used to satisfy the audio requirements of music’s biggest stars. The 18 winning engineers for the 1st Annual Pro Sound News Centerstage Awards are:

U2
Joe O’Herlihy (FOH engineer)
Don Garber (Monitor engineer)
Dave Skaff (Monitor engineer)
Niall Slevin (Monitor engineer)
Raza Sufi (Monitor engineer)

*N SYNC
Tim Miller (FOH engineer)
Dave Brooks (Monitor engineer)
Glen Collett (Monitor engineer)
Dave Lagodzinski (Monitor engineer)

BACKSTREET BOYS
Tim LaMoy (FOH engineer)
Steve Guest (FOH engineer)
Arpad Sayko (Co-FOH engineer)
Tim Holder (Monitor engineer)
Chris Holland (Monitor engineer)

MADONNA
Dave Kob (FOH engineer)
Blake Suib (Monitor engineer)

THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
Jeff Thomas (FOH engineer)
Ian Kuhn (Monitor engineer)

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