Reviews and News From South Dakota, WA

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!

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!

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.

What a week of entertainment with Fun Pianos! This week we continued our tradition of several shows for colleges: dueling pianos presented by Fun Pianos and our special interactive-based show means that families stay for the whole show as they did for “family weekend” events recently in Nebraska, New York, Texas, South Dakota just in the past couple weeks.

We also were fortunate to share our Fun Pianos dueling pianos in Iowa, Kansas City and Grand Forks all on a Wednesday night! Thursday we were in Auburn IN and Davenport IA as well.

Somehow we didn’t hit the mountain time zone last week, but we will be bringing the show to Colorado Springs next week. Like much of the country, Dueling pianos in Colorado is now the domain of Fun Pianos!

Have a FUN day!

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!

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!

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