Joel Nelson Productions: Bay Area Event Planning, DJs and Live Music

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Broken English Band

Your musical experience with Broken English will include ports of call in Puerto Rico for Salsa, the Dominican Republic for Merengue, Jamaica for Reggae, Trinidad & Tobago for Soca, Belize for Punta and Cuba for Rumba, Mambo, Guajira, and Son...

Big City Revue

Big City Revue grabs their audiences, young and old with a positive energy that builds an intoxicating, dance driven atmosphere on any dance floor...

Busta Groove

Our song list ranges from from disco hits such as Brick House and I Will Survive to Motown classics such as Respect and Chain of Fools. We also perform 80's Pop such as Holiday, Jessie's Girl and Love Shack. From Justin Timberlake to Nelly, Busta-Groove plays hits from today's chart toppers...

California Beach Boys

California Beach Boys is a Beach Boys Tribute Band...

Bill Hopkins Rock'n Orchestra

From customized and themed shows, to performing 3 hours non-stop, the Bill Hopkins Rock'n Orchestra guarantees Big Fun! Our band was designed based on the feedback of some of the best meeting planners in the world...

Candela

Candela's varied repertoire explores a wide array of Latin rhythms including Son, Bolero, Mambo, Cha-cha-chá, Merengue, Cumbia and the more contemporary Cuban Timba, combined with a touch of Jazz, which makes the band enjoyable for dancers as well as listeners...

Blue Moon

BLUE MOON captures the Motown, Rock n' Roll, Rhythm and Blues, and 70's Disco spirits, performing the music of such notable artists as Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, The Supremes, Peter Gabriel, Van Morrison, Tower of Power, Huey Lewis & the News, and the Commodores...

Fast Times

Where were you in the 80s? Playing Pac-Man? Watching General Hospital? Enjoying the spoils of Reaganomics? Whatever your memories, Fast Times will bring them all flooding back with a smile--and a backbeat you won't be able to resist...

Cocktail Monkeys

Covering the best of decades from the 60’s through current favorites, their songs range from rock, pop, funk and disco. Audience participation is not overlooked when you never know who will be selected to come up and join in on cowbell...

JT Horns

We can be heard playing the music of Tower of Power, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, and many others. Our repertoire currently consists of over 200 songs, with a set list that is easily tailored to a client’s requests, and we can also incorporate new songs if they happen to not be on the list...