Daytime bookings
Live music and sound baths in Denver during the day.
You know how a quiet weekday afternoon feels different as soon as someone sits down and plays the old standards live. We book a lot of live music during the day, from senior living communities to Sunday brunches, and it tends to be smaller than what you’d hire for an evening. If you’re the one planning it, you probably have a program to fill and a budget to work with, and you may want to book the music more than once.
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Occasions
What kind of daytime event are you planning?
We like to start with who’s listening and why.
- Senior living and memory care
- Activity directors book us for assisted living, memory care and independent living. It’s usually a weekday afternoon and often a standing date. A jazz duo on upright bass and guitar can play the standards, or a singer with a guitar can play songs from the decades your residents grew up with.
- Funerals, memorial services and celebrations of life
- A guitarist can play as people arrive and for one song during the service. Where the chapel has a piano, a pianist can play instead, and a jazz duo can play through the reception or the celebration of life afterward. The family chooses the songs, and we plan the music with the officiant or the funeral director.
- The daytime sound bath
- Firstwater brings a seventy-five-minute sound bath to you. It suits a yoga studio’s Sunday morning, a conference lunch hour, a senior center or the morning that opens a retreat, and the facilitator brings everything people need to lie down and rest.
- Sunday brunch
- We can bring upright bass and guitar, a solo guitarist or a pianist to your Sunday brunch. We can book a standing Sunday at a restaurant, a hotel or a club, or a single date, and the same music suits a private brunch like the morning after a wedding, a bridal brunch or a birthday.
- Farmers markets, libraries and rec centers
- We play public programs, from a Saturday market to a library lawn concert. A singer with a guitar is a great fit for a market, a duo for a library program and the Americana band for a rec center’s community evening, and we’re used to working with coordinators and purchase orders.
Our jazz duo, solo guitarist, singer and guitarist and Spanish guitarist play most of these events, and Firstwater leads the sound bath.
Questions
Booking daytime live music
Planning the setup? Learn more on our technical page.
Do you book live music during the day, on weekdays?
Yes. We often play weekday mornings and afternoons, from memorial services to visits at senior living communities. Send the date and the venue and we'll come back with a recommendation and a price. Signet Artists books daytime music across Denver and the Front Range.
What size of act works for a daytime event?
Usually a solo musician or a duo, so that’s one musician with a guitar or a piano, or upright bass and guitar. They can play from a corner with no stage, at a volume where people can talk easily. In a small space, a guitarist can play with no sound system at all. A trio can work well for a brunch or a community evening in a bigger space, and a sound bath is led by one facilitator.
What does a daytime venue need?
In many cases, a solo musician can set up in about 6 by 4 feet and a duo in 8 by 6, on the floor, and we’ll go over any electrical concerns with you. If there’s no power outdoors, a guitarist can play on a battery-powered sound system. Setup may take about 45 minutes for a solo musician and an hour for a duo before the program starts, and packing up takes 30 to 45 minutes. A sound bath needs enough floor for everyone to lie down, and the facilitator sets up about ninety minutes before people arrive. The musicians usually play 45 to 60 minutes at a time, with music through the breaks.
Can we book the same act every month?
Yes. We can set up a standing date, monthly or every other week, on one contract, with a single point of contact for the whole run. If you book the jazz duo, you’ll have upright bass and guitar playing the standards on every visit, and a Featured Artist like Tejas Singh or Firstwater is the same act every time.
Do you provide the vendor paperwork a facility or a city needs?
Yes, we can, and we can name your venue as additional insured. Just let us know what the business office needs.
Do you play outdoors, at a market or in a park?
Yes. We’ll want a covered, level and dry place to play, with power or a battery-powered sound system, and we’ll work out a rain plan with your coordinator ahead of time, because Colorado weather changes fast.
How much does daytime live music cost?
It depends on the size, the length and the date. We quote each date one-by-one, and what's published on our pricing page is a general market-view of what live music costs in Denver, Colorado.
Tell us the date, the space and who will be listening, and we'll recommend the act for it.
We book everything from a solo musician to a full band, so just let us know what you have in mind.
Want photos or video of the event? We can add them to your booking, too.