Outdoor Production · Deadwood, SD
Festivals and Outdoor Events in Deadwood
Power, weather, and a stage schedule that holds
On the ground
This work in Deadwood
Deadwood's outdoor events sit in a narrow gulch with buildings on both sides, so sound bounces and carries in ways it never does in an open field. We aim and limit for that rather than pushing volume at the crowd and hoping it lands. Street level events come with tight vehicle windows, almost no staging space, and residents living directly above the storefronts, so your site plan and load in schedule get worked out with us well ahead of the date.
Conditions in Deadwood
Deadwood sits in a gulch with one main street, one way sections, and parking that fills, so load in gets scheduled with your venue rather than assumed. Several of the best rooms in town are a floor up in historic buildings, which means freight elevators and a real plan instead of a few trips from the curb. The rooms themselves are hard surfaced and lively, so we tune for the stone rather than fight it with volume. The reward is that your guests are staying within walking distance, and nobody slips out of your reception early to beat a drive home.
- From Rapid City
- 50 minutes
- County
- Lawrence, SD
What is included
What you get
Community festivals, street events, rodeo grounds, and outdoor concerts. Outdoor production is a power and weather problem before it is an audio problem, so that is the part we plan first.
- A site visit and a written power plan before the date
- Stage audio sized to the field, the crowd, and the local noise ordinance
- Monitor world for multiple acts with fast changeovers
- Coordination with your stage manager and a running set schedule
- A weather plan with an agreed call time for covering or pulling gear
- Generator ready setup with clean power and proper grounding
- Wind rated stands or ground stacked positions
- An announce microphone for the emcee and sponsor reads
- Load in and load out that fits your site schedule
How we work
Our approach
Power comes before audio
Outdoor sites almost never have the power people assume they do. We walk the site, find out what circuits exist and what else is already on them, and figure out whether a generator is required. Getting this wrong does not cause a small problem. It causes the system going down in the middle of a headline set.
The weather plan is agreed in advance
Afternoon storms in the Black Hills are normal and they arrive fast. Before the date we agree on who makes the call, at what point, and what happens when they make it. Covering gear, pulling a stage, or moving indoors are all workable if they were decided beforehand and chaotic if they were not.
Changeovers are a schedule problem
Multi act outdoor events run late because changeovers eat the schedule. We patch for every act on the bill in advance, work out the order with your stage manager, and keep transitions tight. The last band on the bill is usually the one people came for, and it should not be the one that gets cut short.
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