How do I set up a PA for an outdoor chorus?

[octoruss]

Hello amigos!
This isn't a recording question so much as a live PA question. But I figured there had to be at least one guru here that might be able to help me out.

ON July 4, I have to set up and operate a PA system for an outdoor chorale concert. This will entail 30 singers on a small stage outside plus someone with a keyboard simulating an organ sound.

Sheepishly I admit I have not sone this before, and am looking for some advice on mic choice, placement and monitor choice and monitor placement. Given that it will be outside, I assume I'll need at least 2 or 3 condensor mics with windscreens, running into a powered mixer. But how should I set up the mics?

And for monitors, should I place two in front of the chorus and one in front of the pianist? Or one in front of ther chorus and one in back?

Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
octo

 

[Track Rat]

If you could come up with three or four PZM mics and place them on the floor in front of your group, that would work good. Not as much of a problem with wind blowing into the mics (which even with wind screens can sound like a tractor pull on a windy day).

 

[wes480]

i really need to get some pzm mics to play with...i dont see how the floor resonance can do justice to human voice...or whatever.