Ku-ring-gai High School
When Ku-ring-gai High School set out to mark 60 years, they wanted to do it properly. The Generations Concert was an outdoor evening that brought together current students, past students and teachers from across six decades of the school, all on one stage for one night. They came to us to take care of the production side of it, and the brief was about as broad as they come: make it happen.
In practice that covered just about everything. We worked out where the stage should actually sit, sourced all of the equipment, and put the crew on the ground to run the day. Rather than trying to own every piece of kit ourselves, we leaned on the network we have built across the industry to bring in exactly what the event called for, including a d&b PA, a grandMA3 powered lighting rig, and a mobile stage that could roll in and set without eating the whole schedule.
Sound
For audio, the d&b V-Series gave us clean, even coverage across an open outdoor space with plenty of headroom to spare, which is exactly what you want when you are working against open air rather than four walls. Front of house ran on a DiGiCo SD9.
On stage we ran Sennheiser EW-DX handhelds for the vocalists, backed up by a mix of wired Sennheiser and Shure mics for everything else. With a lineup that swung from current students to teachers and alumni, the priority was reliability over anything clever. Every act needed to be able to walk up, grab a mic and go.
Lighting
Lighting was a fully custom floor package run on grandMA3. We deployed EK LT6 Profiles and EK EC12 Washes as the workhorses of the rig, with Beamz PRO Star Color fixtures adding movement and colour across the stage.
The surprise of the night was the Look Unique 2.1 Hazer, which held its own outdoors far better than haze usually manages once it is out in open air, giving the beams something real to cut through.
The Endurance Test... Rain
An outdoor concert and a wet evening is never the pairing you hope for, but the crew put their heads down and kept the night moving regardless. That is the part that never shows up in an equipment list. A show like this lives or dies on the people running it, and ours did not flinch.
Despite the weather, the night came together exactly as it should have, with a huge range of KHS talent getting up to perform across the generations. Thanks to the Ku-ring-gai High School team for trusting us with such a milestone, and to our crew for the hard work and the perseverance on a day that did not make it easy.
