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Staging for Street Festivals

Martin Ruff

What stage hire do you need for a street festival?

Adding a main stage to your street festival can be a little more complicated than is sounds. 

The limited space, road closure times and working around trees and street furniture are just some of the things you need to consider before taking on the challenge.


But all is not lost. We have stages of all shapes and sizes, from stage decks and platforms to trailer mounted stages, our team will find a solution for your needs. 


We recently did just that for the UK Mexican Arts Society who put on their autumn Day of the Dead festival in the streets of Sommers Town, adjacent to the British Library in London.


They needed a stage large enough for a 7-piece band, with sound and lighting, but they only had their road closure two hours before the start of the event.

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As with many of our projects, we visited the site soon after the client first made contact and were able to discuss their requirements in detail while measuring up the different areas in the street. We were then able to find a location that would fit our 6 metre wide trailer stage with inflatable canopy. 


This is perfect for just this type of event, as we can drive the trailer right to the location, and within half an hour have the stage deck opened up and the canopy inflated.


The beauty of our trailer stages are they come with a basic lighting rig pre-installed, saving vital time on-site. This left our sound engineer plenty of time to install one of our line array PA systems and sound check before the event opened to the public.


We were also able to supply one of our super silent diesel generators to power the stage, sound and lighting during the day. Being a street festival, we do have to be mindful of residents, and although the performances on stage would be making enough noise, the drone of a noisy generator is something you shouldn’t have to put up with for a day.


Just take a look at the video our production team have put together showing the fun everyone had throughout the day.

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