Reviews and News From North Dakota, FA

North Dakota has become a real home to us. Holiday party season and warm weather season have us bringing so much FUN to North Dakota, we have set up shop in the area. Here are some highlights from a few of our shows there over the past year or so. Included in the cities that love the Fun Pianos Dueling Pianos show: Bismarck, Valley City, Kulm, Larimore, Minot, Devils Lake, Lisbon, Fargo, Mountain, and more.

North Dakota gets it!

 Two shows have already booked for NEXT December in North Dakota. It’s no B.S. when we say some dates fill up FAST and far out. The Fun Pianos dueling pianos show in Fargo has shown that we are just a couple of guys yelling out songs and hoping the audience will sing. Dueling pianos in Bismarck, Fargo and throughout North Dakota and the whole country with Fun Pianos is an interactive FUN show with laughter, and entertainment beyond just (hopeful) singalong.

If it isn’t FUN PIANOS, it isn’t FUN! Big holiday dates for NEXT year ARE filling up NOW!

What a month we had in December this year. If you can keep up, here’s where we entertained with Fun Pianos dueling pianos:

Kansas (Wichita [twice], Manhattan, Ottawa, Overland Park, Hutchinson)

Texas (San Antonio, Austin and San Angelo)

North Dakota (Two times each in Fargo and Bismarck)

West Virginia (Wheeling)

Nebraska (Kearney, Omaha [three times], Lincoln, Norfolk, York, Schuyler)

Illinois (Decatur)

South Dakota (Sioux Falls, Mitchell)

Minnesota (Jackson)

Iowa (Centerville, Cedar Rapids)

Colorado (Denver)

Dueling Pianos by Fun Pianos…if it isn’t Fun Pianos…it’s just a bunch of songs!

Our second show in South Sioux City in 10 days is on the docket for Friday night, one of our many repeat clients. We’ll also be elsewhere in Nebraska and in Wichita. Dueling pianos performed by Fun Pianos is the sure-fire way to get audiences of many demographics to ALL have a great time SIMULTANEOUSLY, as proven by our thousands of reviews at www.funpianos.com/reviews

Next week, here is where we will take the Fun Pianos dueling pianos show: Wausau WI, Fargo, Illinois. After that, it’s Texas, Wisconsin Dells, Quincy IL, Omaha, North Dakota and Columbus OH. Dueling pianos isn’t enough to describe why we get the reviews and repeats that we do: it’s FUN Pianos, delivered by performers who have 10+ years experience not just playing songs … Anyone can get up and play songs and hope people singalong … we are experts at creating fun and bringing the fun out of people.

Different areas of the country have different trends, something we’ve noticed in 14+ years of serving the Fun Pianos! by 176 Keys Dueling Pianos show throughout the entire country.

One things that is consistent everywhere, from Phoenix to Nebraska to Illinois, Florida and everywhere else is that summers are slower than the rest of the year. This is not to say we have nothing to do: weddings, county fairs, and other community events happen every week. But while folks in Phoenix want to get out of the sweltering heat, People in Iowa and Minnesota want to hit the water, North Dakota friends want to get together while they have a few weeks of sun…the events we play in the summer are generally the community and family minded events of weddings and festivals.

With fall comes the return of college events (including Texas and South Dakota in a couple weeks), corporate engagements and more of the full list of events we’ve been playing for well over 10 years.

This weekend, we’re spreading our roster to Tucson, Chadron Nebraska, Beatrice Nebraska, Sedalia Missouri, and Reinbeck Iowa. After more shows in Canton Illinois and Rough Kentucky next week, we have a very busy week, with shows every day but Wednesday in Cincinnati, Rapid City, Kearney, Bloomington Indiana, Okoboji Iowa, west Texas, Madison Wisconsin and Woodland Hills (north of Los Angeles and Hollywood). With a small break when we have just one holiday weekend show (a wedding party in Plymouth Nebraska, outside of Lincoln), we’re back at it the next week, hitting Colorado, Kansas, Williston North Dakota and Omaha.

Summer is coming to close, and the “real new year” is about to begin: School, Fall, Football…and Fun Pianos!

Fun Pianos is proud to say that all of the eighteen dueling pianos shows from last weekend (Dec. 11 and 12) went very well. The Nebraska crowds were delighted with the six shows in Nebraska: Broken Bow, Grand Island, Omaha, Scotts Bluff, Humphrey and Lincoln. There were four shows Deep in the heart of Texas: The Woodlands, San Angelo, Houston and Monahans. To the North in the Dakotas there were shows in Sioux Falls, Jamestown, Fargo and Cedar Rapids. One show was in Rosholt Wisconsin, one was in Oskaloosa Iowa, and there were two in sunny Scottsdale Arizona.

Assigning players isn’t done randomly. In fact, when you book a show, most of the time the player closest to you is the one assigned to your event…. but that isn’t ALWAYS the case. Here at Fun Pianos, we are often asked how we decide which dueling piano players will be assigned to do each show. Although we have offices in Omaha Nebraska, Phoenix Arizona and Tampa, Florida, we have players from all over the United States who will go anywhere to do shows. It is well known that Sam is from Detroit but has been living in Seward Nebraska for some time now. Jefrey currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona, Steven lives in Los Angeles, California, and some players from Michigan as well as other states. Although Tyler is originally from the Tulsa, Oklahoma area, he lives in Tampa, Florida now along with Chris and their piano playing neighbor Keith has a place in Orlando. Katy is a Chicago girl, Steve lives in Houston, Texas and Gary just moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. With all of these players all over the place, it would seem that it would be difficult to do a show in a place like Manhattan, Kansas or Fargo, North Dakota – but Fun Pianos will go anywhere! We have been known to do shows in places as small as Grafton, NE (pop. 122) and as far away as Portland, Maine San Diego, California, Miami, Florida and Seattle, Washington. So the players who get assigned to do these shows are often chosen by their proximity to another event. If we were to do a show in Denver, Colorado – we might have a team of players come from Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Iowa, or even North Dakota or South Dakota (if that is where a previous show was). For instance, if a team were to find themselves in Des Moines, Iowa on one night, they could easily do a show in Ottumwa, Iowa the next night and then bring dueling pianos to Minneapolis, St. Paul or Milwaukee on the following night. So Fun Pianos takes a lot into consideration when choosing which piano players are going to do which shows. If you are considering having Dueling Pianos at your next event feel free to contact us at any time.

Tailgate parties are perfect events for Fun Pianos! to entertain you.

Fun Pianos! has enjoyed spreading Husker Spirit throughout the country at many official Husker Huddle events around the country for 3 years (sponsored by the Alumni Association). These events are tailgate parties at Husker road games. With the help of the NU Spirit Squad and the Husker marching band, everyone has a great time and gets pumped up for the Husker game ahead. This year, we will be at the Miami Hurricanes game on 9/19, and at the Minnesota Gophers game on 10/17. Check out our Upcoming Events page on Face Book and get your tickets to the next Husker Huddle!

We don’t just do tailgate parties for Nebraska though… our teams are from all over the country and can get YOUR crowd of fans laughing and cheering all the way up to the game. We are happy to celebrate with you and support your team… whether you are in Iowa, South or North Dakota, or anywhere else across the United States. Give us a call or shoot us an email and let’s get the tailgate party started!

www.funpianos.com
FunPianos@gmail.com
1-888-539-7176

After a successful showing last year setting up on home plate (yes…ON home plate), Fun Pianos! by 176 Keys dueling pianos show returns for another fundraiser on September 20.

It is the first of two September Sioux Falls shows, where the popularity of our dueling pianos continues to grow, including 7 December holiday parties, plus several more South Dakota & North Dakota events through March.

More information can be found on this Facebook page.

Our most recent booking takes us back to Fargo, North Dakota where we have the honor of playing for the Chamber of Commerce and their members on September 25, 2014. Which way will that team of ours head from there?
It’s tough to say…two days later we have shows in Kearney, NE, Abeline TX, Blue Springs MO, and Grand Island NE.
(Ok…we’re not driving from Fargo to Abeline!)

Marc, Jefrey, Sam & Greg entertained two FUNdraisers in vastly different parts of the country Saturday night: Jamestown, ND & Scottsdale, AZ. Both shows raised a lot of money for kids (a hockey fundraiser in North Dakota & a school fundraiser in Arizona). Trust the facts: self-imposed adjectives don’t mean an act is great, facts like clients insisting that they pay us for overtime does! The mega-interactive dueling pianos show in North Dakota was another EARNED hour of overtime! (Arizona had a hard deadline on the venue).

It’s not just dueling pianos, it’s request-driven mega-interactive dueling pianos!