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So where should we get married?

October 27, 2014

So where should we get married????????????
We’re often asked that question. As with every decision you make regarding the “big day,” becoming an educated consumer will help you make the best choice. Here are some of the things to consider when making that all important decision:

– Geographic Location: Are your guests from the Tri-State area? Do you have an Out-Of-Town contingent? Might your guests have to “sit” in highway beach traffic because there is no other way to get to the wedding? Is the Puerto Rican day parade scheduled to march right by the window in the room simultaneously being used for your Ceremony?

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Being a part of SOZO Live

August 14, 2014

So here is one of the many extremely gratifying things about being a part of SOZO Live. In addition to performing Contemporary, Classic Rock, Motown, Big Band and Funk dance music, we also get to expose wedding attendees to the most authentic and up-to-date Jewish and Israeli music repertoire. In other words, we get at least one dance segment devoted to real, earthy, foot-stomping current Jewish dance music. Now that may seem very ordinary when you read these words, but in reality it is completely electrifying. The rhythms of both Ashkenazic and Sephardic dance music present a whole “other” musical feel to the event. Naturally guests who are coming to have a good time anyway, get swept right up into the spirit of things. Luckily, there is no great knowledge of dance

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Let’s Dance!

March 12, 2014

The mock pseudo-styles presenting different kinds of ethnic music no longer work! For many, many years it was cool to have a wedding band that performed all the Classic Rock, Motown, Ballroom and Contemporary music requested. And when it came to the “traditional Mazel Tov Hora” the band did their best w/Hava Nagila, Simon Tov, and a few more token songs that weresung in Hebrew dialects never before heard in the past 3000 years. back links But today, as with Latin Music, African Music, Celtic Music and others, people now want authentic performances that sound right, that are sung correctly, that will really convey the innermost lifeblood of that music. It is most invigorating to watch people who have little or no affiliation with Jewish culture get completely caught up in the spirit and “ruach”

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