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| - Like some of the other reviews this one is strictly for an entertainment event I attended at DBG, not the park itself. So my first suggestion to DBG, since they host almost nightly entertainment, is to create a separate page at Yelp so guests can review events separately from tours.
Because the event was at night and it was dark, there's very little of the park you can actually see except for the mood lighted cacti along the trail. The entertainers were a group known as Traveler, whose genre is a wide range of Middle Eastern, Slavic, Celtic and other ethnic music. Some of what they play is very soft and subtle, best appreciated in a venue designed for chamber music. That worked out well for the people sitting in the first 5 rows of an outdoor arena spread out over an area roughly as large as a Walmart. Due to the fact that the band only had 1 microphone (a second one was used for one vocal) and two small 36" stage monitors it was impossible to hear the softer music if you weren't sitting right in front of them and 100% of the banter between the musicians (which is a big part of the show) was "off mike" (unamplified) so they had hundreds of people just dumbly staring at the stage going "what did he say?"
To made a bad thing worse, the venue is set on loose gravel so throughout the entire show there were times that all we could hear is the sound of pudgy geriatric feet slogging their way through the loose gravel to the bar and food concessions. The more they drank (which seemed to be a LOT) the more their Nordstrom shoes would grind into the gravel. Seriously, there was never a moment when someone wasn't getting up to get a drink.
So I guess a dozen or so rich benefactors in the front rows got to see and HEAR the show. The rest of us, not so much. Here are a couple of suggestions to DBG:
1. From the look of this Taj Mahal you are obviously rolling in dough. If you are going to have outdoor concerts please hire a qualified sound engineer and install an audio reinforcement system so everyone can hear, not just your rich friends. Whether or not a band brings its own gear, it is up to you as the venue to provide an adequate sound system.
2. Ditto with lighting. You provide live entertainment almost every night and you dangle a few light bulbs over the stage? Wasn't anyone on your staff embarrassed when the entertainers complained in front of all of your guests that they were performing in the dark and the hapless sound engineer had to climb on some rocks to hang a light bulb in front of everyone?
3. I get that this is a nature garden and loose gravel is natural. But not if it surrounds a place where beautiful music is being played and it's the only way to get to the very popular bar. Spend a few bucks on an astroturf runway around the perimeter of the seating area and roll it out prior to each performance. As it is now it sounds like a war between Cap'n Crunch and the Rice Krispy Kidz throughout the entire performance.
PS - Traveler was entertaining and great fun, at least what we heard from them.
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