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The Best Chicago Wedding Band for a Night to Remember
Making Every Moment Memorable with Funktastic Productions One of the most magical aspects of weddings is the ability to personalize every...
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Holiday Parties
Ballroom Galas
Birthday Celebrations
Midweek Mixers
Fundraisers
Anniversary Parties
Holiday Music
Roaring 20s music
Great Gatsby
Motown Tribute Band
Motown to Present Tribute Band
A wide range of music that the client or us picks out!
Proctor & Gamble, Docusign
Twilio, US Foods, Storck
Parker Restaurant Group
Atomic Hospitality
Our Chicago music group tailors your needs for a completely customized event.
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What is the "All-out" Funktastic Chicago Wedding Band Experience?A popular bundled package curated for our couples includes: - Ceremony Production. This includes a 2nd PA system, Wireless Mics, Engineer Violin and Piano for Ceremony + up to 30 minutes as guests arrive for your Chicago ceremony music! - Chicago Jazz Trio for Cocktails - MC Services/Master of Ceremonies - Premium Sound & Stage Lighting - 3 Hours for Dancing after dinner -OR- 4 Hours with dancing in between courses (New York style weddings) - 6 to 15 Musicians Not only do we provide our Music Director to help plan the music, we also offer our dedicated logistics specialist who coordinates the entire entertainment experience of the night. Wireless Room Uplights, Photo Booths, Dance Floor Lighting, Light-up Wristbands your guests wear that sync with the music we play, and more! Our Logistics specialist works right alongside you, your planner, and our band to give you the ultimate concert experience.
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What Music Do You Do Best?We play dance music from all genres! What defines FUNKTASTIC is the band’s ability to play an eclectic repertoire with stylistic accuracy. Spanning from weddings to our residency Chicago venues at The Bassment and Untitled Supper Club, on any given night you may hear Anderson Paak, Earth Wind & Fire, Kanye West, Outkast, and Queen all in one set and make it sound FIRE! We take great pride in being a musical vibe, and not a genre. Your Chicago wedding music can be chosen by picking songs from our Song List, which spans over 10 genres of music. We don't require a "DO NOT PLAY" list, because we only play what you tell us to play!
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Why Hire Funktastic?Our live band brings a level of sophistication, elegance and entertainment value that is not compromised. We have years and years to experience playing together, which makes our energy and sets incomparable with our chemistry. In fact, there's so much chemistry that there's no sheet music on stage. Funktastic has personality and keeps the dance floor packed. Our band members are enjoyable to watch, treat guests with respect and play at just the right volume. For those who feel they just need to hear certain songs performed by the original artist, we can also offer a band/DJ combo at minimal additional cost. This may also be of interest for those with venue that allows for a “club” themed after party. We can also offer enhanced lighting packages.
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What Size Band Will Be Best for My Special Event?Our 6 piece wedding band is best if you have a smaller wedding reception, but still want the full band feeling at your reception. All of our packages are customizable for your event experience. Our 13 piece band is the most popular because we have brass / horns with our full band including an MC to help dinner and cocktails. MULTIPLE BAND MEMBERS SING BACKGROUND HARMONIES INCLUDING SINGING HORN LINES which creates a very full sound even in our smaller packages. Our Chicago wedding band will assist with all logistics planning to ensure we have the appropriate spacing.
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Are There Any Other Hidden or Additional Costs?No! Contrary to some large office practice, the price you are quoted is the price you pay. Unless otherwise specified, all insurance, production costs, crew and standard lighting are included. Please keep this in mind when comparison shopping.
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What Can I Do To Assist The Band In Living Up To My Expectations?Don’t be afraid to ask questions and speak your mind! This is your event and we’re sure that you have a good picture in your mind of how you would like things to go. With your ideas and our talent and experience, you can be sure that yours will be an event to remember! Upon booking us, we'll provide you with a password-protected portal where you can view all email conversations between us, documents, and music planning resources. This is great for your fiance, family, and planner to ensure that no important details get lost EVER!
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Are You Willing To Learn Special Songs I Want Played? I Have Certain Songs That I Don't Want To Be Played... Is That Ok?If by chance we don’t know a wedding song, we have no problem adding it to our repertoire if we are given adequate notice. We learn up to 7 customized songs for you if they aren't in our song repertoire. Many clients use our song list to highlight favorites and more importantly point out songs they do not want to hear. Usually, a few of the special requests are dedicated to first dances, and other special requests we'll sprinkle in throughout our dance band sets!
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Do you all have insurance?We carry FULL LIABILITY INSURANCE with a $5,000,000 Policy. We'll reach out to your venue contact & planner ahead of time to provide a Certificate of Insurance if needed. If it's a venue we are familiar with, most likely they will already have our Certificate of Insurance on file!
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Do you provide a sound engineer?Yes, our ON SITE SOUND ENGINEER will be there for the entire duration of your event. We typically load into the venue anywhere from 4 hours for chicago dance band and 1-2 for DJ. All packages we offer include Premium sound and stage lighting! Our dance band chicago is often seen on vendor preferred lists at warehouse-converted spaces, museums with high ceilings, spaces with large glass windows, and large ballrooms because venues trust our experience in perfecting the acoustics in all types of complex spaces.
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Who is Funktastic?Hi, my name is Mike Zabrin, and I'm the owner of Funktastic Productions! Funktastic is more than just a genre, it's really a vibe of every style. Whether you've seen us at The Bassment playing hip-hop, Untitled Supper Club playing Motown, a wedding...we as a band are excited you're here, and even more excited to learn about you! We started years ago as an original act and one thing that has always stayed the same would be the artistry, the creativity, and the enthusiasm that we bring to every performance.. If you want your wedding to be memorable, it starts with not being "cookie-cutter", and that's what we're all about! Whether you're looking for our Corporate Event band, our Chicago wedding bands or Chicago dance bands, we're looking forward to hearing from you!
Live Music for Corporate Events - Small to large ensembles.
The name Funktastic is more than a genre of music - it’s a tight-knit family of stellar talent with a finely and meticulously curated repertoire spanning every style of music.
Our music for corporate events includes Premium Sound & Stage Lighting and MC to keep the event flowing seamlessly. Our expert musicians can provide live background music to support conversation, and are also interactive entertainers for events that call for an epic dance party.
We want you to hire us with one goal - to turn your corporate event into the party of the year for all of your guests. We take the songs that you pick out from our expansive Song List and turn it into a true concert experience. The recipe for us includes seamless song transitions, engaging with the crowd until your guests are all singing along with us, and 7 song requests outside of our list that we learn just for your event! We so much time perfecting your custom songs that clients often reference them in our reviews about how we've played some better then the originals.
We go above and beyond to make the music planning process enjoyable and collaborative for you. Introducing our exclusive app that integrates seamlessly with your Spotify account. Say goodbye to spreadsheets and hello to a streamlined and effortless music planning experience.
With our app, you have full control. You can preview songs before adding them to your playlist or do not play list, ensuring that we have the right versions of your favorite songs for special moments like your ceremony and bridal party entrances. We believe that music planning should be fun and stress-free, and our app is designed to make that vision a reality.
Our Corporate Event Bands
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Premium Sound & Stage Lighting
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Communication is a breeze with fast replies & attention to detail
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All musicians are in place & sound checked prior to event start time
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Dressed in theme for event
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Non-for-profit & fundraising events discounts
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Solo Instruments, Trios, Quartets, 6-15 Piece Bands and Live DJs for every occasion
We loved Alysha and the Funktastic band so much!!! They took our holiday party from one level to the next! They were so easy to work with in the planning phase and on the night it mattered most really kept the party entertained!! We will most certainly be using them again for any future company events :)
Thanks again Mike and the Funktastic Crew!
US Foods
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