{"id":2244,"date":"2015-02-12T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T00:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2018-04-14T15:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T21:55:27","slug":"chicago-wedding-band-performed-michele-adam-bash-jw-marriott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/chicago-wedding-band-performed-michele-adam-bash-jw-marriott\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Michele &#038; Adam&#8217;s Bash at JW Marriott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 25, 2014<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/chijw-jw-marriott-chicago\/\">JW Marriott<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7931.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7931.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7931\" width=\"1038\" height=\"577\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7931.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7931-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7931-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When a professional DJ chooses your band to play for his wedding, it&#8217;s an honor. What can we say about Michele &#038; Adam&#8230;.planning was a riot, and we miss you guys already! <\/p>\n<p>We love learning new songs for our clients. How&#8217;s this for an awesome mother\/son dance? The Curly Shuffle came out when Adam was a toddler, and it was played on the radio a lot. Whenever the song came on, Adam and his mom would dance around together, stoogeisms and all. Love it!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/113994223\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This crowd was here to dance, and they sure did. Tim says it best: &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad we got this gig!&#8221; Check out some footage here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117773310\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When Michele&#8217;s dad asked us to play some Santana, we said &#8220;sure thing.&#8221; Our percussionist Joe brought a surprise guest who sat in with us for a couple of tunes. The surprise guest was Raul Rekow, conguero for Carlos Santana&#8217;s band from 1976-2013. Yes, you read that correctly. PHENOMENAL. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117769746\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117771188\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Michele&#8217;s dad is a huge music fan and, along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarlasmusic.com\/artistrings\/\">Artistrings String Quartet + Trumpet<\/a>, played for their ceremony, but we also got him up to sing a little something towards the end of the night. Fortunately, he&#8217;s not shy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117773846\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A couple more requests&#8230;.Barry sounds amazing on Chicago&#8217;s 25 or 6 to 4 and Vehicle. And, this is the only time we&#8217;ll ever say &#8220;more cowbell&#8221; and it&#8217;s not a joke.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117773779\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The party was still going strong, so they asked us to stay and play a little longer, with the request that Raul join us for an encore of Oye Como Va. Check out the horn section (Mark, Brian, and Henry) taking solos here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/117770697\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Adam &#038; Michele!!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. What do you think of our new look?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7941.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7941\" width=\"1038\" height=\"577\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7941.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7941-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_7941-1024x569.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 25, 2014 JW Marriott When a professional DJ chooses your band to play for his wedding, it&#8217;s an honor. What can we say about Michele &#038; Adam&#8230;.planning was a riot, and we miss you guys already! We love learning new songs for our clients. How&#8217;s this for an awesome mother\/son dance? The Curly Shuffle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/chicago-wedding-band-performed-michele-adam-bash-jw-marriott\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chicago Wedding Band Performed for Michele &#038; Adam&#8217;s Bash at JW Marriott<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9,5,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artistrings","category-chicago-string-quartet","category-chicago-wedding-band","category-chicago-wedding-ceremony","category-chris-sarlas-orchestra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarlasmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}