Edmonton Wedding DJ Soundsations Plays in Rocky Mountain House

Its been a long time since I posted anything to my blog. I've been busy with DJ work but managed to get some photos and video at this last wedding. Here is a video from the wedding I did last Saturday in Rocky Mountain House Alberta. It was a blast!

Trying to keep dry in Fort Saskatchewan

Last Friday took your Edmonton wedding DJ Soundsations to Fort Saskatchewan and I was back at the Royal Mayfair club for Saturday.

The Fort Saskatchewan wedding was in a tent in the couples back yard. The weather was awful (rain) but everyone had a blast under the tent (see the video above). Saturday of course was great too, but I forgot the camera so no video this time.

This weekend takes me to the hanger in Fort Edmonton park again. Stay tuned.

More and more weddings

Well, your Edmonton DJ Soundsations has added another hand full of weddings to his resume since the last posting. Lets see... where have I been? The River Cree Marriott again, The Edmonton Golf and Country Club, and The Killam Community hall in Killam Alberta.

All the weddings were allot of fun of course. One highlight occurred during one of the ceremonies I was providing audio services for. During the middle of the vows one of the groomsmen just fainted to the ground without warning. He took out a whole whack of decorations along with him and managed to give himself a nasty cut on his eyebrow on the way down. This drew quite a gasp from the audience, needless to say. He was alright after some first aid attention and everything carried on as normal 10 minutes later. I guess he had been feeling sick all day. Anyways, the evenings dance was a big success. Sorry, no video of the fainting.

Here are a few video compilations from the action at a few of the latest wedding dances.

I have two more weddings to DJ this upcoming weekend.

Edmonton Wedding DJ Soundsations at the Royal Mayfair and the Palace

Here is a video from one of the weddings your Edmonton wedding DJ Soundsations performed at last weekend. On Friday I was at the Royal Mayfair golf club and Saturday I was at the Palace banquet facility.

My camera flash was low on batteries on Friday and I forgot the extra batteries so no photos from that night. Both parties were a great success though. There was probably more dancing at the Friday wedding, but Saturday went pretty well too.

One difficulty at the Palace was that they had me set up right in front of the big drop down projection screen. They did have a slide show presentation, so I had to try to set equipment up so that it didn't block everyone's view of the screen. That's actually impossible to do, so that is something to keep in mind when planning things. I think the banquet facility should know better but it's kind of out of my control.

Two more weddings coming up this Friday and Saturday so stay tuned.

Edmonton Wedding DJ Soundsations Wedding season heats up

I have a couple of videos here from recent Edmonton wedding DJ Soundsations recent events.

I have been busy every weekend with weddings. Most recently I have been to the Edmonton South Radisson hotel, the UofA Faculty club, The Derek Golf club, Caernarvon Community hall and the Calder Community hall.

Here is a view of some of the dancing action at a few of these weddings.

I'm getting many inquiries for 2011 weddings, so hopefully this means I'm

doing a good job and people are liking what they see. I hope you enjoy the videos.

Another great time at the River Cree Marriott

July 3rd brought your Edmonton wedding DJ Soundsations back to the River Cree Marriott. It was a classy affair with a great time had by all. As usual the food and service was fabulous and once the dance started the dance floor was kept busy all night. I really liked the balloon bride and groom that welcomed the guests at the entrance (theres a photo of them in the video below). That's a touch I've never seen before. Check out the video.

Edmonton Wedding DJ Soundsations June 26, 2010 St. Albert Inn

This past weekend brought your Edmonton wedding DJ Soundsations to the St. Albert Inn for yet another wedding dance.

This one was the party of the year so far without a doubt. Everyone was having such a good time that we went into overtime dancing until 2:00 am. I'll take some of the credit, but this was a great crowd that didn't need much prompting to get the party started. Everyone was very polite and friendly and most guests came to dance. There were lots of great requests made ranging from country 2 steps to old school rap and hip hop to polkas and I was happy to oblige.

As usual, I caught some of the action on camera and have made a short video compilation.

Edmonton DJ Wedding Season is heating up

Hello again.

It's that time of year again when your Edmonton wedding DJ Soundsations music starts getting out to a wedding just about every weekend. This past Saturday took us out to Hazeldean Community Hall. This party was a blast and really easy to DJ. not too much encouragement was required to keep the dance floor full all night.

Everyone was super friendly and lots of compliments on the music were received throughout the evening. Here is a short video compilation of some of the dancing action.

2009 Soundsations Edmonton DJ video

Well there is only a couple of events left to DJ this year. Here is a video showing some of the action from the 2009 season. Soundsations provided DJ services at many events in the Edmonton area this year including lots of weddings, school dances, and Christmas parties. This video will give you some idea of what the set-up looks like and some of the fun you can expect to have at an event with DJ services by Soundsations.

Soundsations in Viking Alberta

Last Saturdays wedding wiped me out. It took me a day and a half to recover from the late night of DJ work in Viking. I only played music until 1:00 AM, but with pack up time and an hour and twenty minute drive back to Edmonton, it was 3:30 AM by the time I got home. Then the equipment had to be unloaded from the vehicle as it's not too secure if left in the van overnight.

I guess I'm getting older because I was dead tired on Sunday. Anyways the wedding dance was another successful Soundsations production. The biggest challenge from the DJ's point of view was that the groom and some of his friends were really into heavier classic rock (think Rush, Ozzy Osbourne etc.) that isn't so great for filling a dance floor. Of course I made sure I played a bit of their music every now and then. It got funny looks from some other factions of the crowd, so I made sure I announced that this was a special request from the groom. Nobody really danced during these selections, but sometimes that's alright and it keeps the rock fans happy. Luckily the groom was very nice and understood that I needed to DJ to the entire crowd to make the dance a success. I even ended up getting a tip from him at the end of the night which is always appreciated.

I'm taking a break this coming long weekend and I'm off to Washington DC. Hopefully I will have a photo or two of the U.S. capital to post on my next blog.

A new DJ lighting effect

Last week I purchased a new lighting effect to take with me to my DJ gigs. It is a simple LED device from American DJ that pretty much simulates the mirror ball effect. I tried it out last weekend at a wedding dance (through my DJ company Soundsations). It works very nicely and saves me some set-up and tear-down time. When you DJ every single weekend (sometimes twice on a weekend) saving a few minutes is very welcome.

It puts out 34 spots of LED light and spins them around the room and can be run all night. Its much smaller than a mirror ball and less fragile. The bonus to me is I only have to set it up on its own whereas the mirror ball required setting up the ball and the pin spot at some distance from the ball (I actually usually used two pin spots) meaning lots of extension cords and duct tape.

Ill try to get some photos of it in action at this upcoming weekend's wedding to post.

Another great dance with a few challenges.

Last night I played DJ again through my mobile DJ company Soundsations at the River Cree hotel in Edmonton. It turned out to be a fantastic dance with lots of action on the dance floor until 1:30am.

The bride and groom had hired a wedding coordinator who did a great job of having everything organized and kept things running pretty smoothly and on time. The only snag was that the couple had rented a screen and projector from me for a slide show and there was absolutely no space left in the room to set it up.

I had to have the banquet staff rearrange tables to make room which is not that easy for them once they have everything set up already. This led to another challenge in that where the projector ended up in the room was quite far away from my DJ console. This made running an audio cable to the presenters laptop difficult.

Of course everything got worked out in the end and all went well. This does reinforce for myself the need to let customers know that they need to make sure their venue knows the set-up requirements for their event. Also customers need to know audio to be patched through the DJ sound board should not be 100 ft. away from the board. I always mention these points, but sometime to no avail.

Soundsations Music Setup

I'm trying out this Picasa Blogging feature to upload some of my DJ photos from a few different weddings I've done recently . Hopefully it works well and I can post a link to here from my Soundsations website so that anyone interested can get an idea what my DJ set up looks like.