Our history
How a band became an events house
We did not plan to plan events. We kept being asked, and eventually we got good at it.
Milestones
Eleven years, six that mattered
Everything else in between was a Saturday.
2014
Nine of us and a borrowed PA
The first booking was a fiftieth birthday in a school hall in Osu, for four hundred cedis and a plate of jollof each. The PA belonged to the church next door and we carried it back at two in the morning.
2016
The wedding that taught us the rest
A hundred and eighty guests in Aburi, and a planner who did not turn up. We ran the running order off the back of a set list and discovered that the band already knew the evening better than anybody in the room.
2018
We stopped renting the sound
Twelve boxes, two desks and a van, financed over three years. It was the most frightening decision the company has made and the one that ended every argument about who was responsible for a bad room.
2020
The two quiet years
Sixty-one nights cancelled in eleven days. We spent the time recording, teaching, and rebuilding the repertoire for a smaller line-up — which is why the five-piece works as well as it does now.
2022
Chalé Sessions begins
A monthly night of our own in Osu, promoted, ticketed and run by us. It pays for itself, it keeps the band sharp, and it is where most couples now hear us before they book.
2026
Eighteen people, a hundred and twenty nights
We turn down more than we take. It is the only way the person who quotes you is still the person on the floor at midnight, and that is the whole company in one sentence.
Where it comes from
The drums came before the desks
Three of the nine came up through a cultural troupe in Nima, learning kete and fontomfrom before any of them touched a kit. It is why a traditional procession and a soul set can sit in the same evening here without either of them sounding like a novelty.
Whatever else Encore does now — the lighting plots, the running orders, the invoices — that is still the room it came out of.
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.
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.
Book today
