How to Spice Up Your Convention or Business Meeting with Music
A long business meeting or a week of meetings at a conference can get tiring no matter what the subject matter is. To keep your audience, clients or employees alert and interested you can employ many methods and devices.
One device that can really wake things up, feature your employees and reinforce your key point is music.
Hire event musicians!
Using music for conventions and business meetings in Orlando is easy because Orlando has unlimited resources due to the great amount of diverse and high quality entertainment needed for conventions, theme parks and parties.
Music is often used to spice up long days of meetings, classes, seminars, conventions and events. Hiring event musicians can break up the monotony of the day, and even inject a good amount of entertainment and humor sometimes not associated with business events.
Here are some examples of how music can be used.
A popular wake up call for morning meetings
Getting and holding the total attention of everyone in an early meeting can be difficult. If you wake everyone’s senses with something fun and exciting, obtaining their concentration is easier. One great “wake up call” is a surprise marching band, or dixieland band, marching through the room towards the beginning of the meeting. The band will march in and line up across the front of the room for a short performance. Songs can be tailored for your company or seminar theme.
- For a company from Indiana: “Back Home Again In Indiana,” Catholic meeting: “When The Saints Go Marching In”,
- Meeting/seminar about creativity: “Imagination” (From Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”),
- Conference on teamwork: “We are Family”
- Convention theme of overcoming obstacles with a positive attitude: “High Hopes (An Ant can Move that Rubber Tree Plant)
- For any corporation: your company theme song.
Does someone from your company sing?
How about someone from your company singing a song with a live band about the theme or key point of the meeting? See examples above.
Interactive Presentation
Event musicians can come in the form of a live band, orchestra or jazz group. These groups demonstrate skills that you would like your seminar attendees to learn and improve in a memorable interactive presentation. Key concepts are clearly demonstrated with music ensembles by examining the conductors role with the different parts of the music ensemble Your attendees will clearly see the correlation between the conductors role and musicians and a CEO and the different segments of a corporation Managers and workers are thoroughly entertained and learn valuable lessons to improve your companies productivity.
Demonstrated concepts and themes might include teamwork, leadership skills, micromanaging, how a company appears from a workers, middle management and executives perspectives, how management can help workers connect to the big picture, how management can help workers perform to their full potential, dealing with change and much more.
Parties and Meal Entertainment
For stress relief during a day or week of meetings a party or meal with live entertainment will recharge everyone’s batteries. Hiring event musicians can do the trick!
Welcome to Orlando
A music performance welcoming seminar or convention attendees can get everyone excited about the day or week. A band performing Disney and Universal Studios songs says “welcome to Orlando” in festive way.
There are so many ways to spice up business meetings and conventions in Orlando with Music. Use your imagination or contact your event music coordinator for more ideas and details.
Great Party and Wedding Themes
Parties and weddings with a theme can be so spectacular and memorable. A themed event can set a tone of fun, majesty, or opulence.
When using a party or wedding theme, music can play an important role. Thematic music can elevate your theme to another level and really make the event memorable. Since you are going to have music anyway, thematic music can also save money in decor, special food, etc., by setting the mood with music. (We can help!)
After selecting a party or wedding theme, think about all the different choices of music ensembles, costumes and songs that you can incorporate. Orlando has unlimited choices for party and wedding musicians. If you combine themed music with a beautiful room and food you can’t go wrong
There are many party and wedding themes that I have seen done successfully and memorably. Here is a list some of these themes and some possible music choices to elevate the themed decor and food to an event everyone will remember.
- Winter Wonderland Theme: Wedding reception band in white tuxedos and the singer in a while gown with crystals. You could add winter themed songs in as well. Have the band bring a snow machine for special effect.
- Christmas Theme: String Quartet, Carolers or Brass Quintet performing holiday favorites in Norman Rockwell style carolers outfits or simply in tuxes with red bow ties. Add Santa Claus hats for fun.
- Spring Theme: With a flower filled room have a little tongue in cheek fun with a flower power band playing music or the 70’s.
- Roaring 1920’s: A lush 1920’s society orchestra or band, decked out in costume, playing the lush beautiful sounds for dinner and then roaring it up with dixieland music for the party.
- Sock Hop: 1950’s band in costume poodle skirts, greased back hair and rolled up jeans.
- Mardi Gras: New Orleans Dixieland Band in traditional New Orleans Parade Costume or bright mardi gras outfits. Make sure they bring the beads! It’s great to have the band process in or parade your crowd from the ceremony to the reception or from cocktails to the dinner location.
- Beach Wedding Theme: Have musicians in Hawaiian shirts, dresses and leis. The reception band can incorporate Beach Boys and Jimmy Buffet, calypso and other tropical songs, Add steel drums for that Caribbean resort feel.
- Western: County Western band for the reception and a solo guitarist/singer for the ceremony.
- Medieval/Renaissance; Medieval/Renaissance music played on authentic instruments from the time period by musicians dressed in period costume.
- Cultural Weddings: There are musicians that perform traditional or modern music from every country available.
- Princess: Nothing sets a more royal tone than fanfares performed on long fanfare Trumpets.
- Las Vegas: Wow your guests with a real Las Vegas style show and if you are looking for something on the lighter or humorous side, how about a singing Elvis at the ceremony?
- Masquerade: A string orchestra playing waltzes and songs for ballroom dancing while wearing costumes and masks will set the stage for your guests.
- New York Club: A jazz combo or a full big band playing swing music and of course the song “New York, New York”.
Whatever theme you pick you can find the right party or wedding music in Orlando. Remember to pick your theme very early in your planning so it will be easier to include in invitations, decor, party favors and the menu. Good luck and have fun with it.
