The Velvelettes

The show archive · 2019 to now

Gallery

Nine frames from more than 200 nights on the road: walk-ons, first dances, horn features and the sequin finale, photographed the way the rooms actually looked. Every caption names the venue and the moment, because a show archive should read like one.

Frames 01 – 06

From the walk-on to the gala stage

The Velvelettes Motown revue walk-on in claret gowns at a ballroom stage

01 · The walk-on · Whitmore Hall

Spring season. House lights at half, the MC counting the room in, gold fringe first through the curtain.

A couple's first dance with The Velvelettes live wedding band and horn section behind them

02 · The first dance · The Marigold Ballroom

At Last, arranged for horns two weeks earlier. The couple heard their chart for the first time right here.

The Velvelettes horn section, trumpet and saxophones, mid-stab at a live soul show

03 · The horn feature · The Foundry District

Theo's section, mid-stab. This is the set piece that separates a revue from other bands for hire.

A packed wedding dancefloor during a Northern Soul set by The Velvelettes

04 · The dancefloor set · The Lakeshore Athletic Club

Set two, Northern Soul back to back. Nobody at the bar, which is the entire point of set two.

The Velvelettes trio singing three-part harmony at vintage microphones

05 · Three voices, vintage mics · Harbor & Vine Estates

A garden evening, the slow feature. Cecelia center, Dot and Ruby answering, the room fully quiet.

Wide view of a corporate gala stage with The Velvelettes full revue performing

06 · The annual gala, full stage · The Foundry District

Winter season, Grand Revue format. One contract covered the whole stage; that story lives on our corporate event entertainment page.

From a planner's notes

“I stopped writing a plan B into my timelines the second season I booked them.

Priya Nandal · lead planner, Gilded Oak Events

Frames 07 – 09

Finales, festivals and the last chorus

The Velvelettes sequin finale under stage lights at a New Year's Eve show

07 · The sequin finale · The Marigold Ballroom

New Year's Eve. The costume change lands during the horn break; the room never sees it happen.

The Velvelettes soul revue performing on an open-air festival main stage in summer

08 · Open-air main stage · summer routing

The two-act show under open sky, our own PA and crew, one of 48 states and counting.

The Velvelettes MC leading a call-and-response with a crowd at a wedding reception

09 · The MC and the crowd · Whitmore Hall

The call before the encore. The same crowd work every couple gets from us as their live wedding band.

Frame ten is yours

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