Thursday, September 23, 2010

Live Wedding Music – Bands With Class and Soul

From soul and funk to Motown, jazz, swing, rock & roll and big band sounds, there’s nothing like live music. Live music is a magical thing.

It’s best played with feeling.

If you’re hiring a live band for a wedding or special event, you may want to keep in mind that live bands really are different from DJ’s. DJ’s can push buttons, and they can keep a big stream of loud, wild music going on for hours. Your guests will probably leave, of course.

If you’ve hired a really great band, let them be a great band!

Don’t run over to the bandstand while they’re playing dinner music and scream “hit it” the second the busboys start clearing the entree plates.

Let them read the room, manage the flow and pacing of keeping your guests alert, happy and having a good time.

Do, by all means, give the band a list of songs you like.

And then allow them to use their skill and knowledge to create some magic for you.

You can always listen to a steady stream of your favorite music on an iPod. In the car. At the beach. At home.

But how often do you get to listen to, dance to and enjoy the texture and variety of a live band?

Not all bands have class and soul. But if you’re one of the lucky people who has hired one that does…maximize its potential, utilize it well.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

“Mad Men” Mid-Century Music

Thinking of having live music for your wedding or event?

A jazz wedding, perhaps…or a vintage “Mad Men” party with Mid-Century overtones of Audrey Hepburn, Gene Kelly, James Bond and cinema noir movies…Camelot, rock & roll and 1950’s Broadway musicals?

Good for you!

Mid-Century is the BEST! It’s perfect generation-spanning music for weddings and events. It’s from that amazing time when swing, jazz, blues crossed over into pop, rockabilly and good old fashioned rock & roll and includes the music of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Peggy Lee and Patti Page… and so much more.

Camelot…the 1950’s and 1960’s. This amazing music is at the very heart of what people of all ages and cultures relate to, are moved by and will remember hearing at your wedding or event for generations to come…even if they’ve never heard some of the songs before.

Why not have a bonanza of really TERRIFIC live music for your event, not just the same old songs you’ve heard a thousand times.

(Hopefully, by now, you’re as sick of “Butterfly Kisses” and “Celebration” as we are.)

Optimizing the magic of live music played well and with a lot of variety…can help you have an event that your guests will still be talking about twenty years from now.

OK, FIFTY years from now.

Why else would you hire a live band?