A five-piece wedding and function band from Johannesburg — soul, Afro-pop and the songs everybody knows, from the ceremony to the last dance.
The band
We have played more than three hundred weddings, year-end functions and festivals since 2015. Every set is live, every song is learnt properly, and we watch the floor rather than the setlist: when the aunties get up, we keep them up.
How the night goes
15:30
The ceremony
Guitar and voice for the walk down the aisle, the signing and the walk back out.
16:30
Drinks on the lawn
Saxophone, keys and bass while the photographs are taken and the canapés go round.
19:00
Dinner
Background you can talk over — we turn down for the speeches and come back in on cue.
21:00
The first dance
Learnt from your favourite recording, arranged for the five of us, and rehearsed before the day.
21:15
The dance floor
Afro-pop, soul and the classics. You send a must-play list and a do-not-play list; we honour both.
They learnt our first dance from a voice note and played it better than the record. Nobody sat down after that.
Our year-end function had three hundred people and three generations. The band got all of them onto the floor.
On time, set up quietly, played the do-not-play list exactly as asked. We have booked them for our anniversary.