On Sunday, January 27, we participated in a unique wedding show called Weddings in Woodinville. It was our first time doing this show that debuted four years ago. The show takes place at seven wineries in Woodinville, WA. Each winery is assigned an event planner who is in charge of organizing and putting together vendors from each discipline that serves a function in a wedding. The vendors were all seasoned wedding professionals ranging from caterers, photographers, live entertainers, DJs, limo services, wedding planners, decor, cakes/desserts, floral, and more.
We were at The Woodhouse Wine Estates with Chesney Schmidt who was the planner for this small yet elegant venue with grande chandeliers suspended from the ceilings. The show started at 11am and ended at 5pm. The plan was to have brides, grooms, their family, and friends take a tour of the participating wineries while procuring the services of the vendors necessary for their wedding. Butler Seattle provided chauffeur-driven luxury transportation escort between each venue. This event was a great way to showcase the many different types of wedding vendors as well as expose people to each unique winery of the tour. It was a great day to gather information for future weddings and to taste stellar wines along each stop. A brilliant combination!
I brought my jazz trio to showcase ourselves and to provide the live entertainment for our venue at The Woodhouse Wine Estate Winery. I had a couple great veteran pros on hand: tenor saxophonist and flutist Tony Rondolone and jazz guitarist Ron Peters. These guys are seasoned players that come to the table with decades of musical experience and knowledge. It's a great pleasure to perform with musicians that know very many songs in the Great American Songbook. We just called tunes and played absent any written music charts.
Here is a video from the show of my jazz trio. This is a tuned called Out of Nowhere done as a Latin/Brazilian rhythm called a bossa nova. Interesting trivia: I just learned (from a buddy--so don't pin me to this) that the original Star Trek theme was derived from this old standard. Gene Roddenberry asked Alexander Courage to compose the theme around the melody of Out of Nowhere. Listen for the similarities. Check it out: "Space the final frontier...where no man has gone before"....."Out of Nowhere".....get it?!
Out of Nowhere.....where no man has gone before.....
Tony Rondolone on flute playing Swinging Shepard Blues
It was a great day at Weddings in Woodinville. We were happy and grateful that Smooth Groove Productions got to be a part of this fantastic show. We are proud to be associated with many of the best professionals in this business. It was fun to see familiar colleagues and industry peers. We met many nice people who will be hitched together sometime in the near future. We hope we get the privilege of being a part of these folk's very special day. We would love to be the live music soundtrack for their wedding.
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