If you’re serving dinner, we strongly suggest that the show begin after the plates have been cleared. It is very difficult for us to get people to sing/dance/clap while they are chewing food! If you are serving cocktails, it’s always helpful to let the guests loosen up a bit before starting in on the show. Share with us your event flow and we can discuss best practices.

Yup! Yours or ours. Let us know beforehand.

The excitement of the tipping battles only works with real money. If people don’t have “skin in the game” their fake tips won’t mean anything, either to them, or to the rest of the audience watching. Using fake money can also derail the show. Some of our more daring clients have put envelopes with real money inside at each place setting, for the guests to use for to start and stop song requests. While it adds to the expense of the event, no guest will ever forget that you gave them an envelope of cash!

Certainly! All of our interactive high energy entertainers are able to tone it down and play (and sing) lovely background music while your guests enjoy their conversations over cocktails and crab cakes. We do advise a significant break after the background music to “reset the room“ before beginning the headline act. We come back from this reset with an entirely different energy to let everyone know that a SHOW has begun and it’s time to party!

While it is true that tipping for song requests is an integral part of dueling piano bar shows, it is not expected or required for our private clients. We generally don’t put tip jars on the pianos unless you specifically request it. Some clients do! We have clients that believe that the song battles and tipping wars they have seen at bar shows are exciting and fun and ask for it to be part of the show.