Feb 27th Tyshawn, Tiarra, and Michael's Sweet 16

This party was a ton of fun. The party was held at the community center in Twin Rivers NJ, practically in my backyard. The load in was easy and I was set up with time to spare. I got some beats on and played it by ear as the teen guest arrived fashionably late. The party was scheduled from 7 to 12 but the majority of the guest arrived about 8:30. I started off the night with some older hip hop, and reggae jams to fill in some time, but once the grand entrance of our birthday troupe was announced it was go in time!! The group mostly wanted Brick City House ie: Ride That Wave, Swing Dat, Beat Dat, Hit it to the beat etc.. I like the Brick City stuff , but after about 15 minutes I'm over it. This group really stretched my Brick City Crate as I rolled out about 2 hrs of tracks throughout the night. Between the Brick City Club I rolled out some new joints by Nicki Minaj, Young Money, Usher, and Ludacris. We jammed and Jammed hard to all the best hip hop joints you can think of. Once it was time to cut the cake I blasted off Happy Birthday by Stevie Wonder and then we got back into the groove. The kids were freak dancing all night, the type that makes any parent blush. I was surprised at how far the freaking was going but teens are teens. I had to caution a few table dancers as the table and chairs they were using were just a bit to close to the expensive speaker system. Overall it was a very fun and exciting evening. I had a blast and from the looks of the dance floor all night I'd say the guests did as well. Happy birthday to Tyshawn, Tiarra and Michael and thanks to Relatainment for booking me out on this one!

Spinzy

Feb 20th Tyler's 1st Birthday Party

I really don't do many kids parties these days, focusing more on weddings, sweet 16, graduations etc.. but every now and then it's nice to stretch yourself and get out of you're comfort zone a bit. Tyler is the son of a co worker of mine (Tom). Tom asked me to do the gig and I accepted graciously. due to the nature of kids parties I knew I had to have some fun games, prizes, and kid friendly song choices. The gig was held at the Griggstown firehouse and had a rather awful upstairs load in. Once loaded in I quickly got set up and fired up some tunes. the kids were kicking around some blow up balls that the parents had brought in. the afternoon played out like I thought it would, kids mostly on the dance floor with sporadic parent involvement. The kids really enjoyed a seemingly never ending game of musical chairs, and a game of mummy wrap we played later. In between the games we jammed to black eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Mylie Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Justin Beiber and other tween favs. The afternoon was pleasant and Tyler got a ton of nice gifts from all the friends and family that came. Overall the party was a success and I had a nice time. I'd like to thank the Harkness family for trusting me with Tyler's B'day, and I am happy that all had a great time!!

Spinzy