About us
The people behind the evening
We plan events and we play them. Doing both is unusual, and it is the reason nothing on the night is anybody else's problem.
Who we are
We started as the band and learned the rest
Encore began in 2014 as nine players who kept being asked to do more than play. The bride's aunt wanted the running order fixed. The company wanted the room dressed. Somebody always wanted the lights lower, and there was never anybody to ask.
So we learned it. We hired a producer, then a designer, then a crew, and bought the sound rather than renting it. Eleven years later we plan the evening and we play it, and the two halves talk to each other in rehearsal rather than in the car park at seven o'clock.
We are eighteen people now, based off the Ring Road East in Osu, and we still take a hundred and twenty nights a year rather than three hundred — because the reason people book us is that we are the ones who turn up.
What we hold to
Four promises, and no small print
They are on the quote as well as on this page, which is the only way a promise means anything.
One team, one number
The person who quotes you is on the floor on the night. There is no handover, and nobody has to be told twice what you asked for in March.
The quote is the invoice
Every line is priced before you sign, transport and overtime included. If we get an estimate wrong, that is ours to carry rather than yours to discover.
Our own sound and light
We own the rig and the crew who load it. Nothing on your evening is hired that morning from somebody we have not worked with.
We rehearse your songs
Two of them, in your key, with a recording sent four weeks out. A first dance is not a request slip handed to a stranger.
The studio
Eight weeks of quiet before one loud night
Everything that makes an evening feel effortless happens in a room in Osu with a whiteboard on the wall. The floor plan, the light plot, the set list, the order of the speeches, who walks in with whom and at what minute — all of it drawn, argued about and agreed before a single chair is hired.
You get one page of it. We keep the other fourteen.
Experience
Our experience, your evening
Nights played
Since the first one, in a school hall in Osu, in 2014.
On the roster
Nine in the house band, and nine more we call when a room wants horns.
From, per evening
A full band, our own sound and lighting, and a producer on the floor — four hours, anywhere inside Greater Accra.
Testimonials
Real nights, real rooms
Nine of the two hundred and twelve reviews left for us since 2019.
“We had four hundred people in a garden and not one of them noticed anything being carried. The band started at nine and we could not get anybody to sit down again.”
Afia Boateng
Wedding · Aburi
“They quoted in writing, they held the price, and the invoice at the end was the quote. After eleven years of company parties I did not know that was possible.”
Kwesi Ampofo
Head of People, Nkabom Bank
“The horns learned my mother's favourite hymn in her key and played it while she came in. She has watched that video every week since.”
Naa Dedei Lamptey
Anniversary · East Legon
“Our AGM ran to the minute for the first time in six years. The producer had a radio and a printed running order and simply made it happen.”
Seth Nyarko
Company secretary, Volta Foods
“I asked for something warmer than the mood board and they redrew the lighting plot the same evening. It looked like the drawing on the night, which never happens.”
Esi Ofori-Atta
Wedding · Labadi
“Two thousand tickets, their own PA, their own crew, and the doors opened on time. They promote their own nights, so nothing about ours surprised them.”
Yaw Antwi
Promoter, Chalé Sessions
“The traditional drummers walked my father in and the band picked the rhythm up without a break. It is the moment everybody still talks about.”
Ama Serwaa
Engagement · Kumasi
“They turned a warehouse in Tema into somewhere you would happily get married. I still do not entirely understand how.”
Daniel Mensah
Launch night, Korle Works
“Our guests were from nine countries and the set list somehow spoke to all of them. Highlife at midnight had the Germans on the floor.”
Mabel Quartey
Conference dinner · Airport City
The next one
Let's give them a night to talk about.
Tell us the date and roughly how many people. You will have a written quote, a running order and a band you can come and hear inside the week.
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