A milestone birthday or anniversary in Calgary, such as a 50th, a 60th or a 40th wedding anniversary, is a party built around one person or one couple. A band can play the music from their years and get several generations dancing. Plan the songs, the crowd and the toasts, then send us your date, venue and guest count, and you can compare options with prices for bands who are available that day.<\/p>\n
Tell the band who the party is for and the decades their music comes from. Send a list of songs that matter to them, and ask whether the band already plays those songs, and whether they can learn any they don’t.<\/p>\n
Grandchildren, old friends and colleagues may all be there. Ask how the band will mix songs everyone knows with the guest of honour’s favourites, and how they read the room.<\/p>\n
If there’s a special song, such as the song from their wedding, tell the band when you’d like it. Tell them when the speeches and the toast happen, so they can stop and hand over the microphone.<\/p>\n
A party room, a restaurant or a home may be smaller than a hall. Tell the band the size of the room, and ask which lineup they’d suggest and how they keep the volume right. Check with the venue whether there’s a sound limit, or a time the music has to stop.<\/p>\n
A band plays in sets, usually with breaks. Ask how long they’d like to play, in one stretch or with a break, and what plays during the breaks.<\/p>\n
The price depends on how many hours they play, whether it’s a Saturday or in the holiday season, a bigger band, sound and lighting if the venue has none, and travel outside Calgary.<\/p>\n
AGNT is a booking company. You send us your date, venue and guest count, and we check which bands in Calgary are available that day. We send you options with prices. You pick one, and it’s booked once the deposit is paid. If your first pick isn’t available, we’ll tell you and suggest bands with a similar style who are.<\/p>\n
Some of the Calgary bands you can book through AGNT are Kenny and the Cowtippers<\/a> and Dangerous Goods<\/a>. You can see more on bands for hire in Calgary<\/a>.<\/p>\n We wrote this from what people ask when they book a band for a private party: the music, the crowd, the toasts and the room. It doesn’t list prices, because they depend on your date, your hours and the band you choose. You’ll see prices with the options we send.<\/p>\n Tell us your date, venue and guest count, and we’ll send you Calgary bands who are available that day, with prices: book a band in Calgary<\/a><\/p>\n Featured photo by Ivan Lom<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A milestone birthday or anniversary in Calgary, such as a 50th, a 60th or a 40th wedding anniversary,…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[136],"class_list":["post-12652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guides","cs-entry"],"authors":[{"term_id":136,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mikey","display_name":"Mikey Wong","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mikey_wong_circle.png","url2x":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/mikey_wong_circle.png"},"first_name":"Mikey","last_name":"Wong","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12662,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12652\/revisions\/12662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12652"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How we put this together<\/h2>\n
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