Gravitas

Event - Ridge Culver Fire Association Christmas Party

Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Rochester NY.

This was a really fun event. The night started off pretty mellow with a nice buffet style dinner. I played a classic rock/modern rock set for the dinner hour. It went over pretty well. A lot of guests would throw me the occasional thumbs up when a song came on that they enjoyed.

Just as dinner was ending, I had met up with Peter, the gentlemen that booked us for the event to begin coordinating the raffles and door prize giveaways, when all of a sudden...FIRE ALARM!! The irony was really quite funny in that we were doing a Christmas party for a fire department and had a fire alarm go off. Apparently someone was smoking in another room and set off the alarm. We all had to vacate the building. Downtime was about 15 minutes.

Back in from the fire alarm, we continued with the raffles and giveaways where guests won some really nice center pieces, a JVC Digital Camcorder and a 4gb Ipod.

Once open dance started, it was a full out party right through until the end. Starting off with a couple of the "golden oldies" and then moving right into some old school hip hop and r&b, mixed in and out of the old school and into the new school, and really just kept it hoppin' all night. Dance floor was packed all night! It was a great party.

 Ridge Culver Fire Ass. - Thank you for allowing Fingerlakes Entertainment to be part of your Party! It was an absolute blast!!

Posted by Jason Brewer at 08:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I guess I should explain the name of the blog.  As a history buff and political junky the word 'gravitas' has always been a favorite since the 2000 Presidential Election.  After George Bush selected Dick Cheney as his running mate the national media somehow pulled the word gravitas out of nowhere, and all of a sudden it was everywhere!  The first 50 times I heard it I had a rough idea of its definition by the context in which they were using it but I decided to turn to Webster's to make sure. 

The definition provided: [Latin gravitās, heaviness, seriousness; see gravity.]

Gravitas is an amazing word and describes what we do here at Fingerlakes Entertainment.  We are an entertainment company and gravitas as a definition may have you scratching your head as to why I would associate our company with such a heavy, serious word.  I believe that what we do is very important and further I believe the 'gravitas' that we posess separates us from our peers.  We are in the business of fun but we take it very seriously.  Whether its a clients wedding day, a corporation trying to impress a client or someone wanting to throw a party to entertain, or dazzle their family or friends... we take it seriously.  Its not enough for an event to be "OK", it has to be amazing.  Approaching each event with gravitas helps us deliver the event that our clients expect.

While driving my 4 year old son home from school last week I was searching for Christmas Carols to listen to on the radio.  I came across a parody of the José Feliciano classic, this one titled Feliz Gravitas.  It was very funny and satired the above political happening.  Ever since, my son runs around the house singing Feliz Gravitas.  It's quite funny and very cute.   Of course he also sings give a give a garmin, give a give a  give a garmen to the tune of Carol of the Bells made famous this year by the GPS manufacturer.    So Feliz Gravitas everybody!

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Welcome!

I wanted to provide a way for our current, future, and past clients to keep up with the ever changing and improving Fingerlakes Entertainment.  I also wanted to provide a way to share some great ideas that couples and customers help us think of and provide for their unique events.

 I will try to update the blog as frequently as possible and I aim to keep it fresh and interesting by asking other members of the FLE team to submit entries and to provide video and pictures of whats going on with FLE.

 With that...I want to thank you for visiting and hope you find our site and service interesting and visit often!

regards,

Nathan

Owner-FLE 

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