Grüv vs. The Chocolate Fountain
"We melt 40 pounds of chocolate for this thing" she told us, and with that, the battle of willpower and self restraint was fully on. For 3 long hours it taunted us from across the dance floor, as we struggled to maintain our focus on the current task at hand of entertaining the wedding guests. At one point our DJ, Vince, had to be physically restrained from diving right into the fountain. "There is a strict no chocolate bathing policy in effect here" we pleaded with him, but sadly he was too far gone to listen to reason. It was a horrific situation that no man, woman, or child should ever be subjected to. Then, at approximately 2AM on Monday morning, this intense battle of mind over chocolate thankfully came to a close and we were at last in strawberry dipping heaven. Mmmmm, chocolate...
This was a Sunday wedding, and it was held at George Restaurant which is a really great venue near Queen and Jarvis. They have an intimate outdoor courtyard where the ceremony took place, and then the rest of the evening was split between the dining area and the dance / party room.
We took in our full 6 piece party band for this one, and because we had a variety of styles to cover (jazz / latin / party) the lineup we used was Aaron Peixoto on keyboards, Jon Van Geest on guitar, Josh Horvath on bass and background vox, Kevin Birch on drums and background vox, and Jennifer Petrilli and Andrew Austin sharing duties on lead vox. Aaron and Jon provided some fantastic background jazz for the arriving guests from 4:30 - 5:30, and then Jennifer and Kevin joined them to provide latin (bossa) music for a post-ceremony cocktail hour from 6:00 - 7:00. These smaller music combos were set up out in the outside courtyard where the ceremony took place, and they were a really nice musical addition to an already impressive event.
We were scheduled to rock the kasbah at 9:30 (literally, as "Rock the Kasbah" was the chosen first dance tune), but, as these things go the dinner and speeches went long and we didn't get rolling until about 11:30. We killed time as best we could in the party room until the guests had finished their 49-course meals, although tempers started to flare when the clubbers in our band started teasing the jazzers about not being able to keep their eyes open at such an incredibly late hour ;-) All in good fun of course...
Once the party got rolling it was non-stop dancing and the crowd was totally into it, dancing the whole time. We did a few tunes as people were starting to collect in the dance / party room, and then we punked it up and did our best Clash imitation as was requested. The guests were under strict instructions that the bride and groom were NOT going to do this first dance alone, so everyone was up and shaking it for pretty much the rest of the night. A lot of lot of lot of fun.
Despite how well everything did go, we would like to apologize to Lionel Richie for butchering one of his most well known classics, All Night Long. It was just one of those brain toot moments for poor Andrew, who remembered maybe one lyric line in the whole song ("All Night Long") and made up pretty much the rest on the fly. You had to be there, it was hilarious - best way to describe how it came out... Bob Dylan does Lionel Richie. Ah well, it won't happen again and it still turned out to be one of the most popular tunes of the evening.
More repertoire additions have been made - specially requested music that we were happy to accommodate for this event. And, our set lists from the party are posted below (shortened to 2 sets due to the later start).
Stay Grüvy!
Set 1
Vultures :: John Mayer
Brick House :: The Commodores
Waiting on the World To Change :: John Mayer
Sunday Morning :: Maroon 5
Holiday :: Madonna
Makes Me Wonder :: Maroon 5
Rock the Kasbah :: The Clash
Celebration :: Kool & The Gang
Cosmic Girl :: Jamiroquai
Play That Funky Music :: Wild Cherry
If I Ain't Got You :: Alicia Keys
1, 2, 3 :: Gloria Estefan
Boogie Oogie Oogie :: A Taste of Honey
Set 2
1999 :: Prince
Make It Happen :: Mariah Carey
Dancing Queen :: ABBA
Vogue :: Madonna
Crazy in Love :: Beyonce
Rock Your Body :: Justin Timberlake
Billie Jean :: Michael Jackson
Superstition / Karma :: Stevie Wonder / Alicia Keys
All Night Long :: Lionel Richie
I'm Coming Out :: Diana Ross
Think :: Aretha Franklin
Mr. Brightside :: The Killers
This was a Sunday wedding, and it was held at George Restaurant which is a really great venue near Queen and Jarvis. They have an intimate outdoor courtyard where the ceremony took place, and then the rest of the evening was split between the dining area and the dance / party room.
We took in our full 6 piece party band for this one, and because we had a variety of styles to cover (jazz / latin / party) the lineup we used was Aaron Peixoto on keyboards, Jon Van Geest on guitar, Josh Horvath on bass and background vox, Kevin Birch on drums and background vox, and Jennifer Petrilli and Andrew Austin sharing duties on lead vox. Aaron and Jon provided some fantastic background jazz for the arriving guests from 4:30 - 5:30, and then Jennifer and Kevin joined them to provide latin (bossa) music for a post-ceremony cocktail hour from 6:00 - 7:00. These smaller music combos were set up out in the outside courtyard where the ceremony took place, and they were a really nice musical addition to an already impressive event.
We were scheduled to rock the kasbah at 9:30 (literally, as "Rock the Kasbah" was the chosen first dance tune), but, as these things go the dinner and speeches went long and we didn't get rolling until about 11:30. We killed time as best we could in the party room until the guests had finished their 49-course meals, although tempers started to flare when the clubbers in our band started teasing the jazzers about not being able to keep their eyes open at such an incredibly late hour ;-) All in good fun of course...
Once the party got rolling it was non-stop dancing and the crowd was totally into it, dancing the whole time. We did a few tunes as people were starting to collect in the dance / party room, and then we punked it up and did our best Clash imitation as was requested. The guests were under strict instructions that the bride and groom were NOT going to do this first dance alone, so everyone was up and shaking it for pretty much the rest of the night. A lot of lot of lot of fun.
Despite how well everything did go, we would like to apologize to Lionel Richie for butchering one of his most well known classics, All Night Long. It was just one of those brain toot moments for poor Andrew, who remembered maybe one lyric line in the whole song ("All Night Long") and made up pretty much the rest on the fly. You had to be there, it was hilarious - best way to describe how it came out... Bob Dylan does Lionel Richie. Ah well, it won't happen again and it still turned out to be one of the most popular tunes of the evening.
More repertoire additions have been made - specially requested music that we were happy to accommodate for this event. And, our set lists from the party are posted below (shortened to 2 sets due to the later start).
Stay Grüvy!
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Set 1
Vultures :: John Mayer
Brick House :: The Commodores
Waiting on the World To Change :: John Mayer
Sunday Morning :: Maroon 5
Holiday :: Madonna
Makes Me Wonder :: Maroon 5
Rock the Kasbah :: The Clash
Celebration :: Kool & The Gang
Cosmic Girl :: Jamiroquai
Play That Funky Music :: Wild Cherry
If I Ain't Got You :: Alicia Keys
1, 2, 3 :: Gloria Estefan
Boogie Oogie Oogie :: A Taste of Honey
Set 2
1999 :: Prince
Make It Happen :: Mariah Carey
Dancing Queen :: ABBA
Vogue :: Madonna
Crazy in Love :: Beyonce
Rock Your Body :: Justin Timberlake
Billie Jean :: Michael Jackson
Superstition / Karma :: Stevie Wonder / Alicia Keys
All Night Long :: Lionel Richie
I'm Coming Out :: Diana Ross
Think :: Aretha Franklin
Mr. Brightside :: The Killers
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