The morning of 14 September 1814, the American victory in the war of 1812 was signalled when Major George Armistead raised the first American flag over Fort McHenry.
The incident inspired poet Francis Scott Key to write the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ – and June 2012 saw the city of Baltimore stage its Star Spangled Sailabration festival of concerts, celebrations, fireworks, an international parade of ships and air show, featuring the distinctive A/A18 Hornets of the US Navy's Blue Angels display team.
To provide audio support for the Blue Angels display, Continental Air Show Productions called on 12 Community R.5HPT loudspeakers. ‘Obviously, the biggest challenge in providing sound for a Blue Angels air show is competing with the ambient noise of the jets themselves,’ says CASP’s Dave Olmstead. ‘The Community R-Series has been our first choice for our shows over the years, because it’s the only loudspeaker that can provide the levels we need, for the very large coverage areas we have to address, and do it with an exceptionally high degree of intelligibility.’ And they’re rugged enough to withstand CASP’s gruelling schedule of back-to-back shows, from Maine to Spokane and back again.
‘Fort McHenry is where Francis Scott Key wrote the ‘Star Spangled Banner’, so to be able to hear the song performed at this historical site with the clarity that our Community R-Series speakers provide was extremely moving, not only for CASP, but for the thousands in attendance,’ Olmstead adds.
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