I just got done shoveling snow (again) and thought I would take a few minutes to update this blog. Even though “wedding season” has been over for a few months, I had a handful of weddings over the last couple of months.
At the end of January, I made the drive to Pierre, SD to DJ a Renaissance themed wedding reception at View 34. If you haven’t been to View 34 in Pierre, I highly recommend checking it out – it’s a beautiful building that has an amazing view. The reception that I DJ’ed was fairly small, and the bride and groom were a fantastic couple. To match the theme, I wore a costume that I rented from Dakota Costume here in Sioux Falls. If you need a costume for anything, I highly recommend visiting them. Their service was great, and I got just what I needed at a very fair cost.
Here’s a pic of my outfit:
On February 6th, I DJed a wedding reception at Chef Dominiques in downtown Sioux Falls. Another great venue, but it’s a little challenging for DJs. The dancefloor is in a separate room from the dinning area, so I had to make a few announcements on the “dining room” PA in order to move the guests out to the dance area for the first dances. Plus, the ceiling was rather low, and the DJ setup area is a little tight, but I altered my setup a bit and made it work. The bride and groom told me to not worry if nobody danced, since they didn’t expect a dancing crowd, but it ended up being a very lively crowd that danced the night away. They requested that I not play the typical wedding songs and also lay off of the hip-hop and country. So, the playlist consisted of a bunch of great danceable oldies and soul. It did have its challenges, but the night ended up going great!
Here’s a couple of pictures of the dancefloor before dancing began. I ended up using my Colorstrips as a “wall wash” and placed my moving heads on the floor behind the speakers to spotlight the disco ball.
Up next is a dance at SE Technical Institute with my good friend Jeff on Feb 24th. After that, I have a total of 6 Proms before the wedding season gets underway in May.
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King, Jr
I had the pleasure of DJing at the Liebrary Bar again this past Saturday. As always, it was a fun night.
If you need a little something to listen to, here is my DJ set from the evening (actually, it’s the first hour and a half or so – using real vinyl as well as Serato.)
Hope you like it. Some of the lyrics are explicit (since it was a bar setting) so keep that in mind when listening to it cranked up in your cubicle at work.
A lot of us “vinyl” DJs now use Serato (computer program) to manage all of our music. Although it may look like we are “cheating” since we have a laptop in our face, we actually are mixing the music with the vinyl on the turntables.
Just for fun, over the holiday weekend, I did a little mix using all real vinyl. Hope you like it.
A couple of weekends ago, I didn’t have a wedding reception on a Saturday night (had one Friday though) and had a chance to go down to the Liebrary Bar in Sioux Falls and spin some tunes.
As a result, I now have 4 hours of live DJ mixing for you and your ipod to enjoy! I do have to warn you, some of the lyrics are explicit – so don’t go cranking this up in your cubicle at work (use headphones instead!)
I also need to give a big shout-out to DJ Kor aka Jeff Meuzelaar for stopping by after his wedding and snapping the above TwitPic!
Hey brides and grooms, I stumbled across a neat little wedding website called Wedding Wire today.
It has a lot of local Sioux Falls vendors on there with reviews from brides who had them at their wedding. Since I am a one-man show, I don’t do as many gigs as the bigger multi-op companies, so I was surprised to see a couple of reviews on there from my brides!
Allow me to toot my own horn a bit……………..toot, toot :)
