Cara-C Electric Pop Violinist

We recommend using wedding planners. In this case, best friend of the bride, chose to complain, rather than be grateful/proud of her accomplishment- she threw a good party.

Provided 1 hr of charted, most requested 'Romantic' songs. Provided extra 15 min. over time as bonus courtesy. Why doesn't one thank performers for OT?

Elle thanked us for providing beautiful live violin. On this platform, talent buyer did a 360 turnaround. We all know how to complain on line- starting with yelp platform.

Wedding shower Bride entrance music - a specific song- a specific time- was not specified on contract. THERE WAS NO 'on location verbal instruction' either, that bride entrance expected at such and such time. WE ARE NOT PSYCHIC. She expected us to be. Talent buyer didn't realize that live music that requires special entrance needs advance notice on their part. If she sent us picture of the bride & song time- her 'envisioned cue' would have happened. WE ARE NOT PSYCHIC.

'Soft music but latest'- the job description- was prepared. Hadn't they change their minds on site- asking for 'romantic love' songs- our set list would have been utilized. Good thing we have a large varied repertoire. Mother of the bride asked for a romantic piece. Provided John Legend's song- a charted/requested romantic song.

Talent buyer is griping about several sec spent on calling up different songs on our equipment. One can play CDs with 3 sec. silence pressed into the tracks. But talent buyer wanted live music.

Civilian talent buyers are watching TV & Film, expecting 'live music' to be the same quality as shot and edited media pieces. If she wanted a flawless seamless live show, which this job wasn't, this job was background music, she should have better communicated to us.

We recommend using a wedding planner-whose job is to work on entertainment details -things go smooth- worth while. We love working with professional planners.

We agree- we helped- bent over backwards- jumping as last minute fill in. Gave $400 discount. And how well our violinist plays. We provided 3 custom requests, and complementary extra 15 min postlude of Mexican songs.

We recommend using wedding planners. Love working with them. They do their job well. Things go smoothly like clockwork. They send their questions/instructions to us. In one case, we have had 50 correspondences. We can bill our normal rates. There is no finger pointing afterwards.

Civilians use this site from lack of budgets. From lack of their knowledge, civilians take pot shots at hired entertainers because the hired didn't meet the talent buyer's envisioned /imagined scenario of their minds. They expect top media quality show for a shoe string budget. They expect a sit down watch show from a background budget. And expect talent to be psychic.

Here, we saw countless performers being blamed. Civilians were- nit picking- being ignorant of real deliverable &cost- expecting more than affordable- not providing necessities at job sites- treating hires as second class- not giving proper hourly breaks- just because civilians now have direct booking access to performers, bypassing event planners, using sites like these.

Example; here, a civilian violin aficionado, envisioned/wanted to hire a violinist to perform 24 Paganini Caprices in their home- a house concert. Does one realize only Heifetz or Perlman could pull this off? The artist fee would be 100K? Bar mitzvah with a semi major starts at 50K.

We see 80% wedding jobs, 20% corporates & misc. We understand -a wedding has to take place, but we don't appreciate the blames with a couple hundred dollar budget.

The young bride, as stated, scrambling& desperate, tried to produce her low budget wedding. Obviously ignorant (didn't know to specify instrumental version) of live music production drills, we worked twice as hard to provide for her.

Talent buyer said on 4/18: "even though this is above budget - I am desperate - and she seems to be fabulous - I will book her". Buyers go above their budget and complain to the hired afterwards. Why didn't she use piped -in music? What one sees with our promo package costed us thousands to produce. If she wanted the exact same set up, our rate would have been in thousands. Not hundreds.

We provided CONTINUOUS 3 hrs. of background music WITHOUT taking a customary 15 min break every hour. Violinist played well.

We were booked to provide 3 hrs background music. We were NOT booked to put on a sit & watch performance with a stage, lights, PA & sound. A normal performance would be 20-90 min. Never 3 hrs. If so, our rate would be 3 times higher, as a solo performer. Our rate was for background music & 9 hrs travel

It was a freezing cold night with no heat lamp or hot water offered. Violinist put on a white sweater. We complied to their color scheme and wore glittery white skirt and red top. We were not instructed to wear their costumes. If she wanted a specific stage costume seen on our promos, she could have told us. That would have been easy to comply to. Some event planners provide costume, if it's crucial to them. Some provide PA, if it's crucial. to them.

Non industry folks have a vision/fantasy scenario in their heads, but don't know how much it costs to produce that IN REALITY. But good event planners know. Buyer envisioned "A dynamic attention getting performance". But she hired background music expecting it to be a 3 hr concert?

We provided FULL 2 hrs of background music from the start time WITHOUT taking customary 15 min break per hr, their requested song & use of our DJ at 40 % lower rate.

We didn’t complain about adverse work conditions: No electricity, bathroom, table, chair. ants, spiders & bees swarming,

WE DISAGREE WITH ALL GRIPES FROM BUYER. CAN’T PLEASE EVERYBODY.
There is always 1 person who is never 100% satisfied. Buyer was courteous, gave a generous tip - nice man.

Buyers envision a house concert but want to spend few hundred dollars, expecting background music to do this, then complain about not getting what they imagined. This is a common problem of talent buyers.- not knowing the difference of the cost of a sit & watch performance vs. background.

Behind 1 talent a buyer who tries to haggle & undercut rates, there are 100 musicians who feel the same hurt, insult & discrimination.

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The audience was so appreciative of having a pop violinist- something different- out of the ordinary. They loved hearing the sound of the violin, played well. Host & Hostess were so warm & courteous. DJ was super nice. Thank you.

Thank you. You are very welcome. You were also a gracious host. We felt your graciousness and reciprocated with lovely violin music.