Sunday, January 24, 2010

Modern Vintage Live Music

Vintage music is a glamorous, stylish backdrop for sophisticated weddings and events.

Especially when it’s updated, delicious modern vintage LIVE music, played with originality and improvisational showmanship by a live band that specializes in weddings and events …and plays an enormous repertoire that spans every style and decade of vintage music.

Why vintage?

Because almost all music worth playing — for a great LIVE band, that is — is vintage now.

Retro, contemporary, hip and modern, vintage music transcends cultures and generations.

What exactly is vintage music?

Basically, it’s the timeless “pop” music that was written during the Twentieth Century.

Vintage styles include dixieland, ragtime, Roaring Twenties, Deco, ballroom, early and big band swing, mid-century moderne, Sinatra Rat Pack, rock & roll, doo-wop, Motown, R&B, classic country and the Golden Age of Hollywood, including Old Hollywood and “contemporary” Hollywood. Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, James Bond, Cole Porter, Broadway and the Beach Boys. The Eagles, Aretha Franklin, Nat King Cole… it’s all in there. And much, much more…..

It’s music you can REALLY dance to. Words and feelings you can understand.

I love it when people gather around the stage and call out requests.

Even people who don’t speak English know the words to “Fly Me To The Moon.”

Vintage music is as much fun today as it was when it was simply called…..music.