ESCONDIDO, California – November 2019 — For Santana, 2019 was a banner dual-anniversary year. Not only did it mark the 50th anniversary of the band’s mesmerizing performance at 1969’s legendary Woodstock music festival, it also marked the 20th anniversary of the Grammy Award-winning Supernatural album, which won the group an entirely new generation of fans three decades later. To celebrate, Santana hit the road for its Supernatural Now tour equipped with an L-Acoustics K1/K2 system from Sound Image.
Joined by The Doobie Brothers as the opening act, the 29-date North American shed trek kicked off in Phoenix, Arizona and snaked its way east, culminating with a final performance in Wantagh, New York. According to Sound Image Senior VP Rob Mailman, who previously served as Santana’s longtime FOH engineer before passing the torch to Kevin Madigan this past January, L-Acoustics loudspeakers have long been the band’s touring loudspeaker of choice. “I started mixing Santana in 2003, so...
