Services
Four things, done by the same people
Planning, design, live music and production. Booked together they cost less and argue less than four suppliers who met in your car park.
Every booking
What comes as standard
Whatever else you add, every Encore booking arrives with the same floor underneath it. These are not options and they are not lines on the invoice.
A producer on the floor from load-in until the last case is out
A site visit and a drawn floor plan before you are asked to sign
Our own PA, monitors, desks and lighting rig
Public liability cover and a venue-ready method statement
Two songs learned and rehearsed in your key
A written quote that does not move once you accept it
In detail
How each of the four actually works
The same four rows as the home page, because they are the whole business and there is nothing behind them.
Planning
Rooms that run themselves
We take the venue, the vendors, the running order and the timings off your hands eight weeks out, and hand you back a schedule you can read in one page. On the night there is a producer on the floor with a radio, so nobody has to find you to ask a question.
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Dressing that flatters the light
Tables, florals, drapes and every lamp in the room, drawn to scale before anything is hired. We build to the light we will actually have at eight o'clock rather than the light in the photograph — which is why our rooms look like the drawing after dark instead of before it.
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Live music
A band, not a playlist
Nine resident players — horns, keys, guitar, drums and two vocalists — with a repertoire running from highlife and gospel through soul and Afrobeats. They learn your first dance properly, in your key, and they read a room better than any algorithm.
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Sound and light that behave
Our own line array, our own desks and our own lighting rig, loaded in by a crew that has done the venue before. Nothing on your night is hired on the morning, and nothing is being operated by somebody who met the room at four o'clock.
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Also available
The smaller things that carry an evening
Priced individually, and quoted with everything else rather than added afterwards.
DJ between sets
Our resident holds the floor while the band changes over, on the same PA, mixed by the same engineer. No gap and no second sound system arguing with the first.
An MC who reads the room
Bilingual, briefed on every name and title, and disciplined about the microphone. The single fastest way to lose an evening is an MC who enjoys it more than the guests do.
Traditional ensemble
Kete and fontomfrom drummers for a durbar, an engagement or a procession — and a band that knows how to pick the rhythm up when they finish rather than start a new evening.
Lighting design
Warm wash, pin-spots on the tables and a plot drawn to the room, not to a catalogue. Photographs taken at nine o'clock are made or ruined here.
Staging and drapes
Decking, risers, backdrops and everything that hides a hotel's carpet. We build it in the morning and it is gone before the venue's breakfast service.
Multitrack recording
A board mix and a multitrack of the whole night, mixed the following week. Couples ask for this more than anything else on the list, and nobody thinks of it in advance.
Production
The rig is ours, and so is the crew
Most companies in this market subcontract the sound, which is why the answer to 'what PA will we have?' is usually a shrug. Ours is a twelve-box line array with our own monitors, two digital desks and a crew of four who have loaded most rooms in Accra more than once.
A site visit before the quote, not before the load-in
Silenced generator and UPS on every booking over 150 guests
Spare desk, spare radio mics and a spare of everything that fails
Sound limits agreed with the venue in writing, so nobody is switched off at eleven
Corporate
Company nights, run to the minute
Awards, launches, AGMs and the December party. The same team, a tighter running order and a producer whose whole job on the night is that the Managing Director is standing in the right place when the lights come up.
A printed running order, timed to the minute, in every crew member's pocket
Rehearsed award sequences — nobody hunting for a trophy on stage
Branded staging and a screen feed we drive ourselves
An invoice that matches the purchase order, with a VAT receipt
Recent nights
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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