Hiring Musicians
Jazz Band Booking Guide – 2024 Prices, Advice and FAQs
Hiring a jazz band is a great way to add style to your event. This guide covers everything you need to know about booking a jazz band for your event.
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Advice, guides and stories on hiring musicians and planning live music for weddings and events.
Hiring Musicians
Hire An Orchestra Guide – 2024 Prices, Advice and FAQs
Booking an Orchestra for events can be a daunting prospect for both newbies and experienced event planners and music bookers. This booking guide will take you through everything you need to know to hire an orchestra for your event - including how much an orchestra should cost!
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Singing Guitarist Booking Guide – 2024 Prices, Advice and FAQs
If your experience of singing guitarists is limited to campfires & out-of-tune renditions of Wonderwall, then it’s high time we introduced you to the wonderful world of professional singing guitarists! These musicians have earned their stripes playing gigs all around the UK, ranging from weddings,…
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Saxophonist Booking Guide – 2024 Prices, Advice and FAQs
John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz, and—dare I say—the infamous Kenny G, all have one thing in common. That’s right: the saxophone. Ever the soul of the party, a saxophonist is a staple of the jazz, funk, blues, and soul genres. Bringing its unique flavour either as a solo instrument or as…
Musician Updates
Borrow Instruments You Need. Lend Those You Don’t.
We caught up with Tim, a percussionist and member of the Fat Llama team, to find out how their innovative new sharing platform is making it easier than ever for musicians to borrow and lend instruments and equipment. Encore members get £25 free credit to spend on their first rental! Click here to…
Musician Guides
3 Ways to Improve Your Communication with Clients
Last week we were lucky enough to welcome drummer and SNP Communications expert Will Vara to our offices in Moorgate, London to talk to our members about how to communicate with clients. You can find a full recording of his talk below. 0.00 Introduction Will introduces himself and the topic of the…
Musician Guides
3 Reasons Why You Need More External Reviews on your Encore Profile
I gave a talk at Encore Drinks recently where we had a great discussion around the importance of external reviews. As I’m sure you know, reviews are one of the most important aspects of your profile when trying to win business online. If you’re anything like me, product reviews on Amazon and other…
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How to hire Christmas Party Music on a Budget
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…and also the most expensive. Hiring live musicians for your Christmas party can be tricky when you’re working to a budget. The last thing you want to do is compromise by hiring cheap musicians, such as amateurs or students, so we’ve put together some handy…
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8 ‘Must Play’ Christmas Songs For Your Live Band
If you’ve booked a live band for your work Christmas party this year then there is certainly no shortage of amazing festive material for the musicians to perform. With so many great songs to choose from we decided to ask the bands on Encore for their recommendations on which songs are guaranteed to…
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9 Great Live Music Ideas for your New Year’s Eve Party
So often New Year’s Eve ends up as an anticlimax. You sit around watching Jools Holland, waiting for Big Ben to do its thing. Then when the countdown finally arrives you mumble your way through the lyrics to Auld Lang Syne before slipping away back to bed, mildly disconcerted by the fact that…
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5 mistakes to avoid when booking live music for your New Year’s Eve event
New Year’s Eve—for many, it’s the most important night of the year. It’s a time to look back fondly on the year that was, but also look forward with enthusiasm for the year to come. It only follows that booking live music for any kind of New Year’s Eve event comes with some pretty high […]
Hiring Musicians
Booking live music for your office Christmas party
The infamous office Christmas party—Debra from accounting was in charge of the music last year, and her playlist ending up being a confused mix of Abba’s greatest hits and Russian drinking songs. Given last year’s musical debacle, you’ve been appointed as the music supervisor for the party this…