The Celebration DJ

The Healing Power of Music never ceases to amaze me! This is the story of my journey to become a volunteer musician at the Veterans Hospital, and how my first experience there was already so healing for me!

Every year I give myself the gift of an adventurous vacation to celebrate my life celebrating my couples’ lives! This year I went to Japan in search of the mythical JAPOW, Snow Monkeys and old friends. Spoiler alert, I found them all!

The magic sauce of weddings that keeps me coming back year after year, is that each wedding is unique. BUT, some weddings are SO unique that I find my jaw dropping and eyes bulging. This Belgian wedding was one of those mold-busting mind-blowers!

Even though I knew these aspects were coming, the experience of seeing them in person and facilitating them leaves me feeling so full!

What’s better than hearing great music at your wedding? Seeing it too!

I have always found visuals to be an amazing enhancement to concert, club and festival experiences. In fact, that’s a large chunk of what we pay for at events. I love it when wedding clients allow me to paint their venues as a canvas with beautiful and fascinating visuals. I find this to be a simple, effective and affordable way to make weddings stand out as memorable and to deeply engage your guests in the dance experience!

Ask me about the “Festie Lighting Package” and I’ll hook up the magic.

In the olden-days, harkening back before I was dubbed The Celebration DJ, I was known as CUTTaRUGG. A wedding guest (who was clearly privy to this lore) alerted me to the fact that we were actually dancing on Cut Rugs that evening! My license plate was elated.

I love how weddings continually open musical doors for me. Sometimes they rock, I mean like crazy. Like a blistering metal band that performs in their own traveling concert venue (bus), rebelling against the system by avoiding venue and record label fees… This experience came into my life because I said “YES” to the gift of music in exchange for my wedding work. This bride traded me tickets to this epic Nine Inch Nails show for part of our wedding package. That’s a good deal for me any day!

People ask me regularly: “Do you ever get sick of weddings? The same ceremony over and over? The same songs played?” My resounding response is always “ABSOLUTELY NOT!” I find every wedding, ceremony, vows, toasts, dance party and group of people to be entirely unique. Each couple brings together a unique concoction of loving traits that teach me about what’s humanely possible and what’s available to me, if I act with love. After 400+ weddings, I still tear-up, pretty much every week. And what blossoms in my life from this continual river of love that I choose to bathe in every week, it always grows good fruit in my life. This video is an example of how that tends to play out.

I have an insatiable musical appetite. I am ALWAYS seeking new musical experiences. Music is my drug of choice 😉 Weddings keep me learning and growing as the musical needs are different every week. Imagine how different a Mexican/Indian wedding set is than a Country/Rap wedding!?! See my example sets for a glimpse into these uniquely curated wedding sets.