When looking to hire a male guitar vocalist for a wedding there a few small considerations to make to help decide on your ideal act for the big day.
Firstly, are you looking to have the entertainment for earlier in the daytime perhaps during the afternoon photography session to keep your guests entertained as they enjoy drinks or are you planning on booking the guitar singer for the evening reception as the all out feel good party music.
Of course all highly professional acts will be able to adapt to both settings to ensure everyone has a great time. The key differences the acts will put to their show will normally be in the form of backing tracks.
An act booked to perform earlier in the daytime will tend to lean towards the laid back, purely acoustic guitar sound along with great vocals to create an enjoyable atmosphere of sound to make your day that bit more elegant. A great example of this is Just Martin - An acoustic wedding singer in the north west
There are plenty of occasions where acoustic acts such as this are the ideal choice, as guests will get up dancing to the great sound and energy of one man and his guitar. (Note- Just Martin performs lively dancing music also with backing tracks where required)
However, if the entertainment you have in mind for your wedding starts off with the laid back ambient mood but then moves towards rocking the house when you and your guests take to the dancefloor, there are other types of guitar singers that will perform their guitar/vocals and later introduce backing tracks which are pre-recorded drums, bass, lead and keyboards to take the party to the next level.
Matt Hutchison who started off as an Indie Music Pub Singer has perfected and crafted his art in both his solo original work alongside numerous wedding events and corporate functions to the point where he has tailor made his own backing tracks that complement his sound so well, the guests who are entertained on the night are left staggered that such as full unique sound is created by one man.
There are also some high profile names available to hire for your wedding entertainment that specialise in wedding entertainment. Michael Collings formerly a contestant in the grand final of Britains Got Talent is Bristol based but is available for hire for all types of weddings and corporate events as far North as Manchester, Cheshire and Lake District.
His professionalism and likeable personality as well as extreme talent is what brought him to the final with great plaudits from Simon Cowell, Amanda Holden and David Hasselhoff during his performance of Fast Car - Tracy Chapman.
Although Michael has reached such heady heights in the entertainment world, for any booking engagement he makes, he ensures plenty of direct contact with any clients he has to ensure all the arrangements are properly arranged and everyone is happy with the plans for the entertainment on the day so on the day there is the peace of mind you and your guests are in the hands of one of the best guitar vocalists in the country.
All three of these acts are available to hire Best One Entertainment Agency amongst a whole range of other similar great artistes not only for weddings and corporate events, but also birthday parties, christenings, engagements and anniversary events as well as hotel and holiday parks. You can find our quick and easy enquiry form here or on the acts profile where you can get in touch and check availability for your upcoming event.
Thursday 29 May 2014
Thursday 15 May 2014
Professional Singers Looking To Get A Contract As Cruise Ship Guest Performer In Caribbean and Southern Europe
If you are a full time musician or singer and have performed the pub and club circuit for many years you might consider a career diversion into cruise ship entertainment. This type of work is perfect for those of you who are still single and before you settle down with a family.
It is an amazing way to see the world and actually get paid for it in the meantime. To get access to one of these jobs takes two paths mainly, the first is by knowing someone who does it already and asking them to arrange it or by applying yourself.
The main route this way is to ring all the entertainment agencies you can find on a search engine or a phone book. If you already work for these agents be sure to express your interest as it isn’t something they’ll offer out of the blue. If you have no luck then you can locate the company email and addresses of all the cruise ship companies. If you write a letter to the Events Team asking how you would go about obtaining work and in the letter be sure to ask for the name and number of the director of music. This sounds like a formal title but the music director is usually just the drummer or the one who has been on cruise ships the longest.
With all of these leads try and set up an actual audition, you should pay for a rehearsal room yourself and invite anyone from the industry you can to watch you. Offer complimentary food and drink, even if its crisps and pop. It all makes you look more professional in their eyes and as you will be living onboard 24/7 these impressions count.
If you’re persistent and finally break through and go onboard you must know what skills you’ll need. If you’re there as one of the backing band for the large room where tribute acts and one off performances are you need to be highly skilled at reading sheet music and be proficient at playing a song first time without even knowing it sometimes purely from the sheet. So for the musically skilled of you this is a great job and most of the time you’ll be in black at the back of the stage which means you don’t need to worry about stage fright as the singer takes that pressure for you. Perfect.
Another job in cruise ship entertainer would be as a singer. You will more likely be in a bar area of the ship and will be singing to backing tracks. A nice touch here would be to play a guitar along with the tracks to give a sense of realism to the music and remove the karaoke singer stigma which sometimes comes with this job. You will normally do 3-4 30 minute shows six times a week so you’ll need at least two hundred songs in your repertoire. Then double that figure as two hundred is for a week and most people cruise for two weeks and if you repeat the same song over you will find some very unhappy holiday makers.
A key skill of this job is interpersonal skills. You will be the one that bring that personal touch to the evening on the ship so you should banter with them and ask how their day was etc. You will also get officer privileges so you can eat/drink and socialise amongst the passengers which most of the other crew members cannot do. With that perk comes the responsibility to be respectful, kind and above all always on professionally.
It can be a fairly draining job even though its only a couple of hours a day as you live, eat and breathe the ship but when you’re home you will have seen places in the world you may never have dreamt of going and most definitely will feel like a success.
It is an amazing way to see the world and actually get paid for it in the meantime. To get access to one of these jobs takes two paths mainly, the first is by knowing someone who does it already and asking them to arrange it or by applying yourself.
The main route this way is to ring all the entertainment agencies you can find on a search engine or a phone book. If you already work for these agents be sure to express your interest as it isn’t something they’ll offer out of the blue. If you have no luck then you can locate the company email and addresses of all the cruise ship companies. If you write a letter to the Events Team asking how you would go about obtaining work and in the letter be sure to ask for the name and number of the director of music. This sounds like a formal title but the music director is usually just the drummer or the one who has been on cruise ships the longest.
With all of these leads try and set up an actual audition, you should pay for a rehearsal room yourself and invite anyone from the industry you can to watch you. Offer complimentary food and drink, even if its crisps and pop. It all makes you look more professional in their eyes and as you will be living onboard 24/7 these impressions count.
If you’re persistent and finally break through and go onboard you must know what skills you’ll need. If you’re there as one of the backing band for the large room where tribute acts and one off performances are you need to be highly skilled at reading sheet music and be proficient at playing a song first time without even knowing it sometimes purely from the sheet. So for the musically skilled of you this is a great job and most of the time you’ll be in black at the back of the stage which means you don’t need to worry about stage fright as the singer takes that pressure for you. Perfect.
Another job in cruise ship entertainer would be as a singer. You will more likely be in a bar area of the ship and will be singing to backing tracks. A nice touch here would be to play a guitar along with the tracks to give a sense of realism to the music and remove the karaoke singer stigma which sometimes comes with this job. You will normally do 3-4 30 minute shows six times a week so you’ll need at least two hundred songs in your repertoire. Then double that figure as two hundred is for a week and most people cruise for two weeks and if you repeat the same song over you will find some very unhappy holiday makers.
A key skill of this job is interpersonal skills. You will be the one that bring that personal touch to the evening on the ship so you should banter with them and ask how their day was etc. You will also get officer privileges so you can eat/drink and socialise amongst the passengers which most of the other crew members cannot do. With that perk comes the responsibility to be respectful, kind and above all always on professionally.
It can be a fairly draining job even though its only a couple of hours a day as you live, eat and breathe the ship but when you’re home you will have seen places in the world you may never have dreamt of going and most definitely will feel like a success.
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