Kevin Colangelo

We used Kevin for our daughters Bat Mitzvah, and could not be happier with the our choice.  From the first conversation, Kevin was actively involved, open with advice, and committed to making the day beyond comparison.  The on-line tools allowed us to preselect songs.  The form allowed us to choreograph and script various parts of the celebration.  The lights, games, bubbles, and prizes made it a wholly enjoyable day for adults and children.  From a parents perspective, having someone to lead the planning of events was invaluable!  It allowed me to focus on everything else during the days before, and the day of the event.  From the perspective of my daughter (the only one that really matters), it was PHENOMENAL.  Of all the Bar and Bat Mitzvah’s she has attended, she felt this was the best DJ experience by far.  She walked away from a special day feeling like the experience was greatly enhanced by Kevin and his team, and feeling like there was nothing that could have been done to make it more special.  Above and beyond simply recommending him to others, I am already decided on using him for my sons Bar Mitzvah in a few years.
Thank you!
Craig Abrahamson

The purpose of this blog is to post information that otherwise would not be on the website at kevincolangelo.com, and have a open window to new clients so they can see updates, reviews and pictures of the events as we do them week by week:

I think its utterly important to be factual and honest with clients by posting all information here on the blog which allows potential clients to see reviews from events we have done right after they are received:

Some people may view it as ‘bragging’ or as one person recently said ( a competitor DJ Service locally) posting ego driven reviews – well if anyone wants to read it as that then they can read anything anyone posts and make it into something its not….the reviews here are not posted because of my ego or for any other reason that allowing potential clients to see what clients say about our service – after all most clients request references from us when inquiring about our service anyway!

Allowing you to read where we have been, when and how gives you the potential client an idea of where we go to how we do it – again no other purpose other than being informative to you the client.

However one thing that I will not allow is posting cliche canned sayings and quotes like – “simply the best DJ service” or “your wedding your way” (how many DJs use that term…about 4 locally I have seen on their website’s) – or things like “the quality you can trust” – saying those things make me think of vacuum cleaner commercials or commercials on radio stations for car sales..lol

If a client says our service was spectacular or amazing we post it but never put those words into ones mouth so to speak – it is only amazing or spectacular if the client says so;

Many people have asked why we think we are different from other DJ services – the answer is simple – because we are….and if you want to compare us to others then go ahead and meet with us and see the real difference yourself as to many clients when meeting with us – our fresh new idea’s on old theme’s and out of the box approach are truly there for you to see and unfortunately or fortunately too often we see other services copying what we do in every way….we do not need to mention those here or try to justify what we do or who does it first…as long as we know that is all that matters.

Innovation and truly new idea’s are what we are:

Why do something that another DJ service does or do something that has been done for years and never changed?

Many of our clients do not want the typical cliche elements in their event – weddings especially – I hear so many people say – we do not want those hokey songs like the chicken dance and electric slide or tacky hats and party favors, DJ joke telling or hokey pokey canned sayings or introductions of a bridal party with star wars theme (how innovative is that!)..or do they want their wedding turned into some kind of circus with a DJ taking over or reading the life story for 20 minutes about how the bride and groom met each other – that is for the best man and his speech.

You know what really bugs me?…DJ’s with clip boards – I am sorry but I have to say it here but I hate that!..A MC/DJ walking round a room at your wedding with a clipboard turning the pages as he announces the bridal party standing right in the doorway getting in the way of pictures and looking like he is calling out roll call at school or bingo!…lol..I am sorry I just hate that ‘look’ – we never use clipboards or walk around clutching masses of paper flipping through them as we go.

Now that we have purchased a photo booth and actually got one ‘in house’ we offer this at a discounted rate when booking our services for your wedding rather than you having to go elsewhere and pay full price with photo booth vendors or pay a DJ service to subcontract a photo booth for you when they have not got one themselves.

Our lighting is like no other service and we have been asked many times to just supply lighting for an event with a band and also lighting for tents inside and outside even in parking lots and area’s outside where guests wander at night;

Our up lighting is owned by us and not rented or borrowed from anyone else and is truly not low end or cheap LED fixtures – we use elation up lights we recently purchased from VT at around $1,500 per fixture in comparison to lower end units which cost around $200 each – no they do not do the same job.We use different types of up lighting and different fixtures – depending on budget and situation.Our up lighting inventory now spans about 30 units and we can light up walls, pillars and ceilings – see our website here for more detailed information:

http://www.kevincolangelo.com/uplighting.html

We also offer montages made by us and video and screen projection with high end projection at affordable pricing:

I hope this information has been useful to you and I will skip the more detailed parts so you can browse the website and see more yourself

Kevin Colangelo

Where do I start!

I am lucky to be able to write this having no spare time for the past 7 days with all the events we have been doing but here at 4am Sunday night early Monday morning I thought I would post this here..and then go to bed!

Last weekend I planned and organized a Indian wedding ceremony and reception over 2 days for a wonderful family in Manlius – the Katur family, and having been responsible for not only supplying the DJ and entertainment services for both days but also responsible for staffing the entire event with valets, bar staff, waiter staff, personal assistants together with getting portable bathrooms, over 2200 drinking receptacles, olives, lemons, straws, stirrers, cherry’s and organizing the tent rentals, together with a host of other duties prior to the wedding, I also supplied the outside lighting using generators and 5000 watts of halogen floods!

I set up the outside lighting Thursday night in the pouring rain ready for Friday and Saturday as I was off to south of Buffalo to MC a wedding at a huge banquet facility starting at 10pm so I had to leave Syracuse around 9am Friday morning!

We uplighted the entire room using new fixtures we purchased recently now adding another 14 LED fixtures to our arsenal of lighting – now totaling 24 LED par cans, 14 Mega Bars, 8 elation bars and 14 Par 56 cans !

Not to mention our new tivoli feature!

Then after being thanked over and over by the bride on Friday night well after midnight we left Buffalo and arrived back around 6am Saturday morning to sleep a little then off to our favorite place – The Turning stone Casino club Shenandoah for Ross’s Bar Mitzvah – arriving there around 3pm Saturday afternoon with a 4 hour set up, and also using our photo booth that we recently purchased and have many bookings for between now and 2010!

Thanks again to the Turning Stone for recommending our services to so many couples!!!

Thanks Steve, Jeff, Alan Dan, Joanna and all the staff at TS !

Wade Live also provided entertainment and we also provided up lighting and special effects:

A selection of photos from all events are below;

The Indian wedding went very well and I was asked to possibly be involved in planning the Katur’s daughter’s wedding too in the future!

Maybe I will become a full time wedding planner as this is the 3rd wedding I have done as a planner!..lol

Now this weekend its as busy with a wedding at Belhurst Castle Friday and then onto another one on Saturday……more later!

Kevin Colangelo