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Here is what people from Vail, CO and neighboring cities are saying about us
Sam,
The event was AWESOME and our group had a blast! I think it was the most fun night we had out of the whole week. The players were super engaging, fun, and got the whole audience on their feet singing and dancing. They did a fantastic job!
It was a wonderful event. Everyone is talking about it. Brandon and Matt were a pleasure to work with. They are true professionals. There are not enough words to say what a great company and how professional you all are.
Once again you did not disappoint! This was a great show and everyone enjoyed themselves. -Jeri Hernandez
I just want to say a big “Thank you” to whoever was responsible for putting last night’s fun evening together. The food was great and Fun Pianos was awesome! -Natasha Morris
Last night was so much fun. I think we all needed a good laugh!- Anna Bockhorn
Everything went well and the people really enjoyed Mark & Matt. I suspect further invitations will come out of this event. Many people commented on the success of the show. Thank you!
Amy, we have had Fun Pianos perform at our conference two years in a row. It could not have gone better both times. We had a great time once again! I highly recommend Fun Pianos to anyone looking for good music with fun and engaging performers.
It was GREAT! Thank you so much for all of your help and coordination. Everyone had a great time and the players were awesome to work with! We really enjoyed it. J
Again, everyone really seemed to enjoy the show and the players did an amazing job keeping people on their feet and involved. I saw a lot of smiles and laughter, which is what we were going for J
Thank you for a fantastic show!! The increased audience participation was wonderful and everyone seemed to have a really great time (as always!). We look forward to having you back with us again next fall!
It was, as always, a fantastic show! The place was full and I got good reports from my staff who stayed all the way to the end. We had 23 ten top tables and several cabaret tables around the room, and the ten tops were full within about 10 minutes and remained full for the duration of the show. I have only heard good things from everyone and we will definitely look forward to seeing you all again next year. Thanks for everything!
The show went GREAT! We had a phenomenal turnout (way more than the past two years) and everyone had a fantastic time. The guys were wonderful to work with (as they were last year) and everything went really smoothly. We look forward to working with you all again in 2010!
We had a great time with you guys! We had a pretty full house this year (more than last year from the start of the night) and they stayed right until the end. It was a great show and everybody had a lot of fun.
Thanks for everything and we’ll look forward to working with you again next year!
“176 Keys Dueling Pianos was an absolute joy to work with. We had a fantastic experience before, during and after the event. Everyone had a blast at the event and they really work with you to make the event special and fit your needs. I would work with them again any day!”
Latest News from Vail, CO
Posted on 03/10/2023
Partners in Exceptional Care to host Fun Pianos at their 2023 Platinum Ball – Bedford IA 3/18/23
Clarinda Regional Health Center’s foundation, Partners in Exceptional Care, is excited to host the 11th Annual Platinum Ball in support of CRHC’s mission, vision and goals.
The Platinum Ball will be held in-person on Saturday, March 18 at Deer Ridge at Lexington located at 2242 Lake Rd, Bedford, IA. The semi-casual to semi-formal event will consist of drinks and hors d’oeuvres starting at 6 pm with an elegant dinner and dessert served at 7 pm. A live auction will follow along with the online silent auction ending at 10:30 pm. Dueling pianos by Fun Pianos! will provide a fun and entertaining evening for everyone until 11:30 pm.
Proceeds raised from this year’s event will be used to revamp the garden area outside of our inpatient wing at Clarinda Regional Health Center. The new and improved area will include a sidewalk and sitting area for patients and their families. In addition, the garden area will be beautifully landscaped for the entire community to enjoy.
The silent auction items will be available for bidding online starting two weeks prior to the event for those wishing to support the hospital but unable to attend as well as on display at the event. Other ways to support include donating an item for our silent and live auctions or making a monetary donation towards the med/surge garden. Please go to pec.auctions.networkforgood.com/auctions/platinum-ball-2023 to view silent auction items and other giving options. Donations can also be mailed to Partners in Exceptional Care at 220 Essie Davison Dr., Clarinda, IA 516
Posted on 03/10/2023
Child Network bringing back Fun Pianos dueling pianos fundraiser to Bradley IL on 3/11/23
Child Network bringing back dueling pianos fundraiser
Daily Journal staff report
Child Network employees and volunteers pose for a photo during the inaugural dueling pianos fundraiser in 2022. The event will return on March 11 to the Quality Inn & Suites in Bradley.Child Network
For the second year running, Child Network — along with Ascension Saint Mary Hospital — will be bringing back The FUN Pianos for a dueling pianos fundraiser. The show will return March 11 to the Quality Inn & Suites in Bradley.
The event begins at 6 p.m. with a silent auction, a 50/50 split-the-pot raffle, appetizers and cash bar. At 7 p.m., the show kicks off and “guests can plan on tapping their fingers and toes, singing and dancing with laugh-out-loud kind of fun,” organizers said in a news release.
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Tickets are $35 each or reserved tables of eight are available for $300. Tickets can be purchased at childnetwork.org/events.
Proceeds will directly benefit Child Network, a non-profit agency working in Kankakee and Iroquois counties to improve the response to child abuse and to advocate for the best interest of abused and neglected children in the court system.
Posted on 10/24/2016
Limited availability: No kidding!
During this summer which was moderately busy, we ran some proposals to sell the open dates in our schedule. At the same time, we cautioned that the winter was going to be the opposite, and to get your winter dates before they were sold out.
I can understand how people thought that was just sales-speak (I might have thought the same thing), but many winter dates are sold out. If you would like to have us with you, check our availability NOW! This goes for next summer, too: we are giving some players time off next summer, so while demand is lower, so is our “stock” of players, making Summer 2017 quite like our winter schedule in terms of limited availability.
Here are some great dates in certain areas that are still available:
Saturday November 12: in and around Illinois & Wisconsin
Friday November 18: Texas & Kentucky
Saturday November 19: Florida
Saturday December 17: Colorado
Friday January 13: Colorado
Saturday January 21: Western Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Colorado
Dueling Pianos provided by Fun Pianos: If it isn’t Fun Pianos, it isn’t FUN!
Posted on 09/29/2015
Contact Us Test
176 Keys is the top traveling dueling pianos show in the country, having done more traveling shows (including more corporate parties and weddings) than any other. We only use top-received players, and players that are suited for the shows we contract. Sometimes our prices are better than others, sometimes they are not. We care to provide a highly-received show to each and every client or we don’t accept a contract. Because of this, we only employ a handful of players we’ve known for years and trust to do a great job for us and for you.
If you would prefer to email us, please contact us using the form below for any gig inquiries or questions regarding our shows. You may also give us a call any time; if we are unavailable please leave a message and we will return your call.
Posted on 10/07/2014
Happy Holidays, Texas!
For years we have taken great pride in being able to fill just about any date on just about any notice, and always with a high-quality show without using players from the “freelance pool”.
So it is with both pride and sorrow I announce that for the big first two weekends (Friday and Saturday) of December, we are simply fully booked. We can’t book any more. If we could recommend anyone, they’d be on our staff. By that logic, there is no longer a dueling pianos show of any quality available December 5, 6, 12 or 13 anywhere in the country.
Well…EXCEPT TEXAS! (And maybe some of Oklahoma).
TEXAS, we have an opening on Saturday December 6 AND Friday December 12. If you’re near Dallas, we’ll give you a GREAT deal!
Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio…you’re the only ones in the country that can still get a great dueling pianos show during the coveted first two weekends of December.
So contact Fun Pianos at www.funpianos.com or funpianos@gmail.com and get one of these two dates…before the next person that reads this gets it!
Posted on 07/10/2014
Who is Eldora’s queen?
Eldora, you ask? It’s a city in Hardin County. In the middle of Iowa. Their county fair is happening RIGHT NOW, and last night was the coronation ceremony for the 2014 Hardin County Fair Queen.
Congratulations! (There is the 2013 winner. We’ll update with the 2014 winner as soon as information is available online.)
How did Hardin continue the celebration? With a performance from 176 Keys, of course.
The client was happy. We’d say aw, shucks..but that would be a corny joke. (You see what we did there? “Corn(y)”? “Shuck(s)”?) Just giving a little humorous tassel. Erm, hassle. Really, it sweet. SUPER SWEET.
😉
Posted on 08/22/2011
How We Are Different
US (176 Keys Fun Pianos)
Dueling pianos IS a great idea IF (and only if) you get the right act. Each dueling pianos company is different. EVERY 176 Keys show is performed by audience interactive experts whose career focus is audience interaction and entertainment.
Our show isn’t just a couple of guys on pianos singing songs…it’s REQUEST-DRIVEN MEGA-INTERACTIVE Dueling Pianos! The 176 Keys Fun Pianos show has more audience interaction success than any other even dares to attempt. Really!
Sam Ferguson owns 176 Keys, goes on 75% of the shows himself, and hires only a handful of guys who love our audience & client-first format. We do an excellent job of this on AND off stage. We are just trying to spread around a good time, and make a living at it while we do it. (Oh…and yes we are fully licensed, insured, accredited, and all that good stuff).
176 Keys gives you the real show. Every time. We won’t accept your contract or money unless we have a great show available to you on your date.
THE OTHER GUYS
We know many of our clients shop around before deciding on their entertainment. In fact, we encourage you to do so! If you can find another show who has dueling pianos reviews of our quality, and quantity…and can be verified by contacting them directly…at a better price…then, we encourage you to book that act, knowing that overall it keeps our industry strong.
Sometimes people are unaware that all dueling pianos shows are different. Just as there are bands with a wide range of cost, experience and skill, the same is true of dueling pianos shows. Hiring a $500 local band may be the right choice for some people, but not for others who want to know they are going to get a professional, experienced, and highly-rated act.
Be careful of these problems many people face upon hiring other dueling pianos shows:
Dueling pianos acts are sprouting up every year, and the term ‘dueling pianos’ is becoming a blurry definition. (Every dueling pianos show IS different!)
Some dueling pianos shows now avoid singalong tunes.
Some dueling pianos shows know lots of songs but don’t have entertainment skills.
Some dueling pianos shows are no more than doing a few prerequisite tunes and forcing a few canned jokes.
Some dueling pianos shows are run by agents, who charge a lot, hire low-priced talent, and care about their bottom line more than they care about the client.
Some dueling pianos shows are extremely low-priced and inexperienced. This usually shows on stage. (Every dueling pianos show IS different!
Clarinda Regional Health Center’s foundation, Partners in Exceptional Care, is excited to host the 11th Annual Platinum Ball in support of CRHC’s mission, vision and goals.