Deva Fest - Full Production

A brand new type of festival came to Chester in the form of Deva Fest; with full production proudly provided by DD Music Group.

Called "Deva Fest" after the Roman name for Chester (Deva), this brand new family festival set out to be different from the start. With value in mind the organisers had gone to town with nothing left on the table to give festival goers an incredible weekend.

With three days of incredible music, a free fairground and a plethora of activities around the site including roman gladiators fighting, fire dancing, carnival parades and more... There was something for everyone. The festival even had a free bus service to get back and forth to Chester railway station!

Headline artists included; "I love it when you call" rockers The Feeling, Big band Jazz extraordinaire  Zoot Series, and the world renowned Symphonic Ibiza live orchestra.

We had a blast providing our complete production services to this extremely successful event; working with our brand partners we provided an impressive 10m stage to fill the giant big top as well as full lighting and audio production.

This festival saw the debut of our brand new festival comms system with our on site network which has three independent forms of communication; Text based comms, Hard wired shout system and a custom scripted Q-Lab cue light system. The systems worked perfectly and all three in tandem provided a great way of communicating in different situations.

Project Manager & FOH: Sam Stoddard
Monitors: John Doolan
Crew: Chris Geddes, Jacek Ignaszak, Shaun Stoddard & Phillip Geddes
Lighting: Steve Mckie

Audio Highlights:

FOH Console: Allen & Heath D-Live C3500
Monitor Console: MIDAS Pro 1
Guest Consoles: MIDAS Pro 1 & Allen & Heath D-Live S7000
48 way analog splits
Sennheiser G4 Radio Systems (1G8 Band)
16 x elements of RCF line array
12 x 4000w Horn loaded subs

Lighting Highlights:

Console: Avolites Quartz
Artnet DMX Distobution
20+ Moving lights
Halogen Blinders
Clay Packie Sharpies
Rolling Ground package

Stage + Misc. Highlights:

Build into a Big Top
Rolling Risers
Backstage Prep area
Extra long access ramps
Flying backdrop truss
Line Array Wings @ 7m high
25m Mojo Barrier
30m+ Cable Tracking
Stage drapes and Blackout screens

For enquiries about having DD Music Group provide your festivals complete production call 01270 581974 or email sam@ddmusicgroup.co.uk

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