ANAHEIM, Calif., Dec. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Yamaha will be
presenting three major concert events on the NAMM Yamaha Grand
Plaza Stage at the 2020 NAMM Show, to be held January 16-19, 2020 in Anaheim, California.
This year marks the first NAMM Show in which Yamaha will be
presenting every major event on the Grand Plaza stage. These
productions will include the blockbuster main event of the weekend,
and all three will feature superstar-caliber artists, among them
multiple GRAMMY® honorees.
The stage itself will be situated outdoors on the opulent
Anaheim Convention Center Grand
Plaza, between the Anaheim Marriott and Hilton Anaheim hotels. The
Grand Plaza concerts will dazzle the audience with wall-to-wall
visual and multimedia effects over the course of the weekend.
Beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, January
16 will be the "NAMM Foundation Celebration for Music
Education," featuring three-time GRAMMY-winning singer and
songwriter Sarah McLachlan. The
concert is a salute to musicians and music lovers who devote
themselves to nurturing and motivating budding musicians as
teachers, mentors and advocates, as well as those who inspire by
example on stages large and small.
On Friday, January 17 at
6 p.m. Yamaha will present the
premier event of NAMM, the "Yamaha All-Star Concert on the Grand
2020," a multi-artist, multimedia spectacular for all attendees.
The Concert on the Grand has built a lasting reputation as the big
draw among NAMM events every year. While the coming roster of
featured acts is still under wraps, every year some of the finest
Yamaha Artists gather under the spotlights for a pulsing, energetic
performance. Past performers have included such luminaries as
Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Tony
Bennett, John Legend, Earth, Wind & Fire, U2 founder and
drummer Larry Mullen, Jr., and many
others.
The weekend's festivities on the Grand Plaza Stage will
culminate on Saturday, January 18 at
6 p.m. when Yamaha presents the
"Tower of Power 50th Anniversary Concert." The event will be a
celebration of a half-century of inspiring musical achievement from
dynamic soul/funk/R&B ensemble Tower of Power as they treat
NAMM attendees to a retrospective of decades of groundbreaking
music. The playlist will run all the way through to the present day
with selections from their powerful new disc, Soul Side of Town,
the band's very first Billboard No. 1 album. Tower of Power has
enjoyed a place on the Yamaha Artist roster during its entire
50-year existence as a band.
Yamaha commercial audio systems will power every aspect of the
Grand Plaza Stage during NAMM. NEXO loudspeaker systems will
deliver a 360-degree audio experience through its flagship,
high-output modular STM system, with dozens of speakers used in the
main arrays, as downfills and in front of and behind the stage.
Sending signals from the front-of-house and monitor positions will
be the Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 digital mixing consoles, the same systems
used worldwide on national and regional concert tours, at
festivals, in houses of worship and other diverse live and
installed sound system applications.
"This year's Yamaha concert events will ignite passions and
touch hearts in ways that will last long after the final notes are
played," said seven-time Emmy award-winning producer Chris Gero, chief artist relations executive,
Yamaha Artist Relations Group/Yamaha Entertainment Group. "A music
lover of any age will find something to grab on to and remember
from this year's show, possibly even going on to play some
formative part in their own musical journey."
For more information, please visit the Yamaha booth at the 2020
NAMM Show in the Anaheim Marriott Hotel, Marquis Ballroom,
January 16-19, 2020.
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About Yamaha
Yamaha Corporation of America (YCA) is one of the largest
subsidiaries of Yamaha Corporation, Japan and offers a full line of award-winning
musical instruments, sound reinforcement, commercial installation
and home entertainment products to the U.S. market. Products
include: Yamaha acoustic, digital and hybrid pianos, portable
keyboards, guitars, acoustic and electronic drums, band and
orchestral instruments, marching percussion products, synthesizers,
professional digital and analog audio equipment, Steinberg
recording products and NEXO commercial audio products, as well as
AV receivers, amplifiers, MusicCast wireless multiroom audio
systems, Blu-ray/CD players, earphones, headphones,
home-theater-in-a-box systems, sound bars and its exclusive line of
Digital Sound Projectors. YCA markets innovative, finely crafted
technology and entertainment products and musical instruments
targeted to the hobbyist, education, worship, music, professional
audio installation and consumer markets.
SOURCE Yamaha Corporation of America