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Songs from artists including:

The Eagles, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Cohn, Little River Band, Melissa Ethridge, Elton John, Delbert McClinton, Beatles, Buddy Miles, Billy Joel, The Buckinghams, Carol King, Rare Earth, Bob Seger, Bachman Turner Overdrive, Credence Clearwater Revival, Huey Lewis and The News, Sanford Townsend Band, Van Morrison, Chicago, Phil Biggs, Stevie Wonder, The Guess Who, The Cars, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Tubes, Steve Miller Band, The Doobie Brothers, Blues Traveler, Jimmy Buffett, David Bowie, Jackson Browne, Edgar Winter, Allman Brothers, Steeley Dan, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bad Company, Michael Stanley Band, Grass Roots, Bryan Adams, and many others!...

Chateau is one of the top live party bands in the Detroit Metropolitan area and Southeast Michigan. An extraordinary group of full time entertainers and musicians that is professional and versatile. This Michigan band has performed at hundreds of events including some of the most auspicious wedding receptions, corporate events, private parties and country club functions. You will guarantee your guests the best blend of “the finest in live entertainment” when you choose the Chateau Band for your special event. When a great party needs a great band Chateau offers... interactive planning with you, to coordinate all the details to fit your style and to ensure that your evening runs smooth and is remembered by all as a great party and a night of celebration. You get the party you want! Versatility, from cocktail music, dinner music, to kickin’ the dance floor with fun high energy dance music, our extensive song list is available for your viewing. We are unique when compared to other Detroit party bands, Detroit wedding bands and Michigan bands because we are known for our close to the original covers of most styles of music and great dance music including, Motown, R&B, Disco, Funk, Rock, Blues, Big Band, Swing, great Ballads, Standard and Smooth Jazz, Top 40 hits from the 60’s to now. Hits Songs from Sinatra, The Four Tops, Earth Wind & Fire, Maroon 5...to Etta James, The Supremes & Beyonce. Refined high energy with balance, elegant, yet we know how to crank up the fun and then bring it down to give your guests a breather. We offer the best talent, professional full time entertainers, outstanding vocalists and musicians, experienced in all types of events. Our most popular package includes keyboards, drums, and guitar, male and female vocalists. We can add sax/flute, and percussion etc. DJ (disc jockey) service also available for continuous music and dancing. Chateau has proven experience and has provided entertainment for the following types of events: corporate parties, private club, country club and yacht club functions: Detroit Metropolitan Area’s finest restaurants and nightclubs, private social gatherings, wedding receptions, banquets, fundraisers, anniversary parties, bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs and more. When a great party needs a great band choose Chateau.

Rare Blend is one of the most popular and requested bands in the Detroit Metropolitan area. This professional and versatile group of musicians has performed at over 2,000 wedding receptions, corporate events, and country club functions. By choosing Rare Blend as the band for your special event, you will be offering your guests the finest in musical entertainment.

Rare Blend is...

Talented, featuring strong, professional musicians. (Available packages include piano, bass, drums, guitar, sax/flute, trumpet, trombone, percussion, male and female vocalists).

Versatile, offering a broad repertoire of music.

Exciting and elegant, combining energy and class to provide an evening of pure enjoyment.

Your band, working with you to coordinate the timing of the evening, so your party goes just the way you planned.

Endless Summer Band is a six piece musical troupe that performs nationally and internationally. Their five lead vocalists allow them to perform popular hits from the 1940’s to the 1990’s in a wide array of musical styles. Their high energy show features choreography, colorful costumes, humor, and audience participation.

Steve and Samantha Walker, two entrepreneurs from the Indianapolis area, over the last nine years, have created a very unique musical empire in and around the name ESB. ESB. It was while Steve was performing with the regionally successful group, Light, ten years ago that he discovered a niche in the music business and thus conceived the idea of forming a group that would concentrate in the "Special Event" entertainment market.

Steve and Samantha , (husband and wife team) own and manage ESB. While no longer touring, after 10 years onstage with the band, they now concentrate 100% on the customers and clients that ESB serves annually.

Hugh is a veteran musician who has been playing professionally since high school. From his early rock gigs playing at high school dances and American Legion halls, to performances with top regional and national acts, Hugh learned the trade through experience first, and later through formal training.

I worked my way through college by playing in wedding/club bands and giving private music lessons.

Hugh studied at Michigan State and later at Wayne State where he earned a bachelors degree in Jazz and Contemporary Media. Later, he earned an education certificate.

I¹ve always been a teacher. I love showing others how they can express themselves through music.

Hugh has been a music teacher for over 17 years both in the public schools and privately. He has also been active in the West Michigan area presenting improvisation assemblies for middle schools and high schools. He does musical assemblies for elementary students, too.

Although Hugh plays many instruments, these days he focuses on the saxophone.

I¹m most expressive on my sax. I feel completely in the moment when I¹m onstage performing and improvising for an appreciative audience.

Steve is a woodwind virtuoso specializing in saxophone and flute and is fluent in a variety of styles of jazz and classical music. The Duo features the classics as well as jazz standards, and is particularly appropriate for wedding ceremonies, banquets, and other social affairs. The Trio and Quartet feature jazz, swing, and big band style music and are perfect for wedding receptions, parties, nightclubs, and concerts. The Swing Band features rhythm and blues, soul, and Motown music in addition to jazz and big band styles.

Steve has been performing for nearly thirty years and is widely regarded as one of the top jazz musicians in the midwest. He has performed at most of the major jazz clubs and festivals in Michigan and Ohio, has toured Europe twice, has recorded with a variety of leading jazz artists, and released two cd's of his own - "Unanswerable Questions" on Alembic Arts and "Deep Woods" on Corridor Records.

SONG LIST:

# CLASSICS

# pachelbel's canon - pachelbel

# bridal march - wagner

# four seasons - spring - vivaldi

# jesu joy of man's desiring - bach

# trumpet tune - purcell

# air from water music - handel

# ode to joy - beethoven

# trumpet voluntary - clarke

# wedding march - mendelssohn

# SHOW TUNES

# it had to be you

# ain't misbehavin'

# as time goes by

# days of wine and roses

# love is here to stay

# just in time

# BALLADS

# my funny valentine

# my romance

# when i fall in love

# smoke gets in your eyes

# stardust

# my one and only love

# BIG BAND

# in the mood

# satin doll

# take the a train

# shiny stockings

# april in paris

# jersey bounce

# night train

# LATIN

# girl from inpanema

# wave

# day in the life of a fool

# meditation

# quiet nights of quiet stars

# POP

# i left my heart in san francisco

# new york,new york

# misty

# when sunny gets blue

# lady is a tramp

# on a clear day

# rock around the clock

# dancin' in the street

# isn't she lovely

# you are the sunshine of my life

# SWING BAND

# fly me to the moon

# have i told you lately

# rock this house

Love what we do? You bet!!!

"a patriotic, almost spiritual band" -Alex Lundberg, News Herald-

the entertainment experience!!!

Oldies, Motown, Classic Rock, Big Band, Dance Hits, Jazz & much, much more.

Formal or Festive

History & Loyalty says it all

2000 venues, 1100 Clients & over a million listeners can’t be wrong

Trilogy has performed for hundreds of Weddings,

Concerts, Corporate Events, Casinos, Reunions,

Yacht Clubs & Festivals, even for a Presidential Candidate

With an event as important as yours, Who will you trust your audience with?

References available on request

Trilogy is the full package:

Our musicians play multiple instruments

Quality, customized play lists for your event

Five & six part vocal harmonies

Precision sound system available, never too loud

Built in horn section / multiple lead vocalists

Highly professional handling of your audience

Audience participation at every event

Line dancing, hula hoop & trivia contests

All ages entertainment, something for everyone

Trusted throughout Michigan and Northern Ohio

All encompassing wedding packages

The Blue Water Ramblers sing extraordinary folk music- the folk song of Michigan, America and YOUR life. We perform wherever people want to celebrate: Folk festivals and concerts, paddle wheelers and lake ships, in cities and out in the woods, on stages and around campfires, at church gatherings and traditional dances. For a really good time, contact the Blue Water Ramblers for your next event!

The Blue Water Ramblers' repertoire comes right out of our Michigan life experiences and the history of the Great Lakes region. It includes lake shanties, lumberman ballads, union rallying cries, farmers' paeans, Michigan humor, '60s civil rights and protest music, love songs, gospel music and children's ditties. Everyone agrees that these combine into a versatile repertoire to the delight and entertainment of their audiences. "I think my hero, Woody Guthrie, would approve," opined Banjo-Jim. "We're singing the people's songs about the people's lives and they can join right in and sing along."

Formed in 2001, the quartet is a collaboration of cellist Crispin Campbell, mandolinist Don Julin, guitarist Angelo Meli and bassist Glenn Wolff. The group plays original compositions as well as music by the likes of Django Reinhardt, Frank Zappa, and Hank Williams.

Cellist Crispin Campbell is on the faculty at Interlochen Arts Academy and the Madeline Island Music Camp and is founder and former artistic director of the Manitou Music Festival. A musician whose interests defy categories, he frequently appears as a soloist, chamber music and improvisational collaborator throughout North America. Campbell's repertoire ranges from the Bach Cello Suites to Delta blues, chamber music with violinist Vartan Manoogian, pianist David Schrader, and collaborations with jazz pianist Paul Sullivan and composer David Amran.

Mandolin player DonJulin has performed on over 20 CDs ranging in style from folk to gospel to jazz to avant-garde, while his original compositions have won awards at the Walnut Valley Music Festival in Winfield, Kansas. Touring Italy four times, Julin has given master classes at the conservatory in Padova at the invitation of fellow mandolinist Ugo Orlandi. He has also been a featured performer at the Classical Mandolin Society of America Conferences of 2001 and 2002. Highly regarded as a recording engineer, Julin has recorded and mixed CD projects for over twenty years in Traverse City, Michigan.

Guitarist Angelo Meli was born in Detroit and attended Michigan State University and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. His experience ranges from the folk club circuit in Detroit to rock and roll in Boston to Latin bands and studio work in Florida. In Michigan, he has performed with back-up bands to the Drifters, the Coasters, the Platters and the Marvelletes. Angelo is also active as a songwriter and performs frequently with a variety of groups including the blues band the Corvairs.

Bassist Glenn Wolff grew up in Traverse City, Michigan. As a teenager, he played in folk bands with his friend John Wunsch. While studying art at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, he played in garage bands with fellow student and singer/songwriter John Kruth. After moving to New York, Wolff played for 9 years at venues such as Figaro's, Folk City, the Speakeasy, CBGB's and Max's Kansas City, while pursuing a career as a free lance illustrator. He returned with his family to Northern Michigan in 1987 and continues to pursues a double career of visual artist and bass player.

Mandolinist Alan Epstein from Ann Arbor, Michigan often joins the quartet as a special guest for concerts. He made his debut performance with Neptune at Mandofest 2005 in Lawrence, Kansas. Alan, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has played mandolin on his travels in Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and now the state of Michigan. He is the founder and former director of the Pittsburgh Mandolin Orchestra. Along with performing, he has studied with some of the top mandolin players in the country and has enjoyed sharing that knowledge both as a teacher and as an occasional contributing writer for Mandolin Magazine. In 2004 he was a recipient of the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Apprenticeship in Traditional Arts, studying mandolin with world-renowned gypsy mandolinist Charley Rappaport.

LEGEND The Band performs live 50's,

60's & 70's music in their own exciting

style. The band specializes in Oldies

rock & roll music. Do-wop harmonies,

Motown, hard driving rock & roll &

soulful ballads is what the band is all

about!

While home base is near Detroit, this

Oldies cover band performs throughout

Michigan, have audiences dancing in

Indiana & Ohio and will travel wherever

their music takes them.

What better way to remember your first

kiss in the back seat of a Ford Fairlane?

Your cruising days in a '57 Chevy?

Your first date at a drive-in movie? Sock

hops & TV dance shows?

The rock & roll music of the era was

many a teenagers' anthem! Join us - fast

dance to a solid backbeat or slow dance

to terrific ballads while holding your

sweetheart close and remember when..