Events
Portland Bar Mitzvah DJ Steve Brings The Fun
Portland Bar Mitzvah DJ Steve Marker was chosen to perform at Manny’s Bar Mitzvah celebration on Saturday, January 19, 2013 at Southwest Community Center in Portland, Oregon.
The family reserved half the gym for games with the kids and eventually dancing for everyone. The parents gathered for cocktails and dinner in the entry lobby before joining the fun on the dance floor.
As has become customary, Portland Bar Mitzvah DJ Steve opened the dance floor with ‘The Hora’ and chair raising. The crowd was fired up as expected, but with a little twist here… Manny decided he wanted to follow that up with a Snowball slow dance 🙂
From there, it was a mix of today’s hit music along with some favorites from the past, including requests for Black Eyed Peas ‘I Gotta Feeling’, ABBA ‘Dancing Queen’ and Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean.’
Mazel Tov Manny and thank you mom Wendy for choosing PRO DJs.
Post Event Satisfaction Survey:
“Nothing deterred from the great night we had or the quality of Steve’s work. He was super friendly and accommodating and really helped to make Manny’s night super special. He loved him!!” -Wendy Castineira
- Event Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013
- Event Type: Bar Mitzvah
- Event Location: SW Portland Rec Center
- Event Staff: Steve Marker
- Quality of Customer Service via Telephone: Excellent
- Quality of Customer Service via Internet: Excellent
- Quality of Customer Service at Event: Excellent
- Friendliness of your Entertainer: Excellent
- Promptness of your Entertainer: Excellent
- Professionalism of your Entertainer: Excellent
- Entertainer’s Performance: Excellent
- Entertainer’s Appearance: Excellent
- System Appearance: Excellent
- Sound Quality: Excellent
- Overall Volume Levels: Good
- Music Selection: Excellent
- Incorporation of Your Requests: Excellent
- Lighting Effects: Good
- Equipment Appearance: Excellent
- Overall Customer Service: Excellent
- Planning Assistance: Excellent
- Entertainer’s Cooperation with Other Vendors: Excellent
- Overall Performance Rating: Excellent
- Would you recommend this service to others? Yes
Bat Mitzvah DJ Steve At Tualatin Country Club
January is a popular month for bar and bat mitzvahs in the Portland area. Equally as popular for these events is PRO DJs Steve Marker, who performed his first event of 2013 on Saturday, January 12th at Eliana’s Bat Mitzvah held at Tualatin Country Club in Tualatin, Oregon.
As the adults engaged in conversation during the cocktail hour, Steve kept the kids occupied with many games, including Eliana’s favorite, the Scavenger Hunt. Games and contests are always a hit with the next generation and a ton of prize giveaways made it extra fun.
After a welcome toast by Eliana’s parents, Jason & Allison and a buffet dinner, Bat Mitzvah DJ Steve opened the dance floor with ‘The Hora’ and chair raising that never fails to get a party to lively start. GUests enjoyed dancing the night away to the latest hit music, along with a few party classics.
Apocalyptic Mt Hood Wedding A Real Blast
The final PRO DJs Portland wedding of 2012 took place on what was suppose to be the last day of civilization. We have been hearing about it for years, the Mayan calendar predicted the world would end on December 21, 2012. For Deanna and Cory, this seemed like the perfect day to tie the knot and to take it one step further, why not get married halfway up the Oregon mountain most likely to erupt 🙂
For this Mt Hood wedding, they chose to rent out four cabins at the Cooper Spur Mountain Resort and the ceremony took place outside just after twilight with a light snow falling. With about 40 guests in attendance, friends and family formed a circle around the bride and groom and an Indian medicine woman who performed the ceremony, as the music of the Native Flute Ensemble ‘Deer Spirits Welcome the Dawn’ played in the background.
After they were official, Cory had requested Billy Idol’s ‘White Wedding’ followed by ‘It’s the End of the World As We Know It’ from R.E.M. and the Dave Matthews Band’s ‘End of the World’ and the celebration was officially under way.
Next, everyone took a short walk to the main lodge for a champagne toast before returning to the cabins for the reception. Each cabin hosted a different part of the reception, with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in one cabin, dinner in another, dessert in a third cabin and finally karaoke and dancing with me in the main cabin. This worked out perfectly and everyone had a great time going door-to-door for each event.
The karaoke portion of the evening got off to a rockin’ start with Deanna and several friends singing Pat Benatar’s ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’ followed by Cory with Matchbox 20’s ‘3 AM’. After that, the list of singers was long and diverse, they covered everthing from C.C.R. to Taylor Swift and about 15 women singing and dancing to Flo Rida’s ‘Low’ really brought the house down in Cabin #4.
After several hours of rockin’ the mic, the outdoor hot tubs beckoned and on a beautiful night, this Mt Hood wedding came to a perfect end. Best wishes Deanna and Cory. Your guests won’t soon forget this one.
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PRO DJs Weddings: 2012 Year In Review
PRO DJs Weddings normally make up the majority of our events and this year was no exception.
As 2012 comes to a close, we have put together video slideshows of the many events we have performed over the past year.
This video covers PRO DJs weddings from January through June and features photos taken by PRO DJs along some local area photographers at the following celebrations:
- Jason & Lora (2/4/12 at Abernethy Center & Gardens in Oregon City, Oregon)
- Rachel & Chris (5/5/12 at Red Lion Hotel at the Quay in Vancouver, Washington)
- Katie & Blaine (6/9/12 at the Aerie at Eagle Landing in Happy Valley, Oregon)
- Shawnna & Robert (6/10/12 at McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, Oregon)
- Kathleen & Ondra (6/23/12 at the Crowne Plaza Portland in Portland, Oregon)
- Katie & Jim (6/30/12 at Mt. Hood Bed & Breakfast in Parkdale, Oregon).
Portland Karaoke DJ Plays OMSI After-hours
Last year was so much fun for a group of employees from Intel, they decided to do it again… karaoke and dancing for their holiday party on Saturday, December 15, 2012. The venue this time was ALL of Turbine Hall inside the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) in SE Portland.
Employees and guests were seated for dinner around the exhibits and many I could not see from my central location, but the unusual arrangements were a pleasant change. For background music, they requested a variety of hits, with some holiday tunes blended in to mark the season.
Of course, the main reason they were here was karaoke and after a short speech by the boss and raffling off some prizes, they were ready to go. We experienced a little deja vu as the first singer this year was the same person who started us off last year. T.J. came up to me as soon as she arrived to check my new karaoke songs. She also informed me she had married the boyfriend she came to the party with last year 🙂
Next was Brad singing the Foo Fighter’s ‘Everlong’, followed by Jimmy doing KISS’ ‘I Was Made For Lovin’ You’ and Amy singing ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ made famous by Bonnie Tyler. Much of the entire group got together for Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ to close another fun night away from the office.
Thank you Jocelyn for allowing this Portland Karaoke DJ the opportunity to perform again at your event. Happy Holidays. -Rich
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