Weddings for the weekend of August 7th

Thanks to all the musicians that performed this weekend. We had a busy Saturday with three weddings occurring. Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day, but it could have been a little cooler! Also, for the first time ever, we played a wedding on a Monday. Monday's wedding took place at historic Old Salem. Usually when we're at Old Salem we play at Home Moravian church. Interestingly, this wedding and our next at Old Salem both happen at sites where we've never performed. Monday was in a beautiful little field just to the left of Salem Tavern. You can't ask for a location steeped in more history than the well preserved town of Old Salem. If you've never come for a visit you should.

These pictures were taken by Franklin Photography who provided the photography for the wedding.

SamePage has launched!!

Well, after several weeks and many sleepless nights...including tonight...SamePage has launched. What is SamePage...good question. Venture over to the link on the left that tells all about SamePage. In short, this is a planning tool to help keep everyone organized. After several years of managing close to 100 events a year by a manual process, I decided to take the steps to come up with a web service that allows the client, Elegant Ensembles and musicians to collaborate. The result is the SamePage management system which is now the only gig management system of its kind. Now all of the details of Elegant Ensembles clients can be entered via the web and musicians are invited to play the job that has been recorded. This should cut down on the numerous emails it takes to properly plan and organize music as well as the number of times it often takes to retype or cut and paste wedding details from previous emails. My favorite so far? ... Walking around with my iPad and simply organizing a wedding with a few points of the finger. Still a few minor details to work out, but it's running better than expected.