Best Wedding Band in NJ!
New Jersey's The Essence Band is the perfect choice for your next New Jersey wedding reception, party, or event! For a NJ wedding band that will keep your guests happy and entertained with all styles of music to choose from. Our song list is extensive, and we add new songs regularly. Let us prove to you that we're the hottest wedding reception or party band playing anywhere in New Jersey or the surrounding areas. Your wedding reception in nj should be the best night of your life. We can help by giving you the absolute best music and event entertainment!
Music for Wedding Receptions NJ
This fabulous Wedding Band and Events Orchestra is available for a variety of shows, parties and celebrations, including corporate parties, business events, fundraisers, social and business banquets of all kinds, with performances customized to YOUR specific musical needs! We play a mix of original material to a mix of classic rock, rock and roll, pop, rhythm and blues, dance hits and more! We also play all the 40's standards, big band, swing, be-bop, lindy hop, blue-grass, top-40 dance music from all eras, current hits.
We look forward to performing at your event and literally raising the roof off the house! Or if you prefer something more relaxed, we can do that too. We are flexible and play a HUGE variety of styles, check out our repertoire list and see for yourself!
We play great music for weddings, receptions, parties and at events all over New Jersey in any kind of wedding reception hall, banquet hall, party or event venue, even private homes!
Receptions | Banquets | Galas | Fundraisers | Bar Mitzvahs | Holiday Parties | Anniversaries |
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The Essence Wedding Band and Orchestra have performed wedding music in NJ at some of the most exclusive banquet halls and reception halls in New Jersey. Great Reception locations like: The Villa Barone and the Stonehouse, to Liberty State Park Maritime Parc Events, The Palisadium, Waterside Restaurant and Catering and more. The Essence band has played at the Westminster Hotel, the Grand Hyatt in Jersey City, The Hilton, The Sheraton, The Meadowlands. We cater to the needs of your New Jersey wedding reception to give you the best music any band or orchestra could play at your NJ party or event. |
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Booking our band has more advantages that booking with other New Jersey wedding bands for several reasons. Our seasoned wedding reception band is available in several formats, like The Essence Band Trio for jazz or classical music during your wedding ceremony or cocktail hour, Rock Band - for bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs as well as some wedding receptions, and Orchestra configurations. This lets us stay versatile when it comes to your wedding reception hall or party venue. We can accommodate any style or size location - So no matter where your event is being held, The Essence Wedding Band and Events Orchestra can provide the perfect style of music and musical entertainment. |
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This award winning wedding and events orchestra & band has played music for the best events all over the United States, played for big stars, played on National TV, and Jill (lead vocalist for this terrific wedding reception combo) has performed live on all the major television networks. This exceptional wedding reception, events, and party band has performed countless weddings, receptions for business and social purposes, bar mitzvahs / bat mitzvahs, business parties, office parties, holiday parties, and corporate parties and events at several hundred New Jersey, North Jersey and South Jersey all the way to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in catering facilities, in hotels, country clubs, banquet halls and on private estates.
New Jersey Wedding Band Music
We have played at Il Tulipano in Cedar Grove New Jersey, we have performed at the Crystla Plaza in Livingston New Jersey, We have performed at One Atlantic Ocean in Atlantic City New Jersey and we have played many times at the Shadowbrook in Shewsbury NJ as well.
We have performed at the Park Savo, in Florham Park New Jersey along side the Brooklake Country Club as well. Also included in our New Jersey Journeys are The English Manor in Ocean New Jersey, The Old Mill Inn in Basking Ridge NJ, Meadow Wood Manor in Randolph NJ, Birchwood Manor in Whippany NJ, The Addison Park in Keyport New Jersey, The Madison Hotel in Morristown New Jersey and The Royal Manor in Garfield New Jersey. We totally believe that we are the very best band that ever performed at the Manor in West Orange NJ, or at the Highlawn Pavilion as well.

We especially enjoyed performing at the Clarks Landing in Point Pleasant and at The Bethwood in Totowa. We also enjoyed the Falkirk Estate and The Bernards Inn in Bernardville.
We also really enjoyed the Frungillo Estates, having performed at the Villa, the Mezzanine in Newark, and the Inn at Milrace Pond. As you can see, we have played all over New Jersey, from big palatial estates to small intimate and ultra special weddings and events. We play all sorts of corporate events from fundraisers, political gatherings, social galas, weddings, company holiday parties, company picnics, sales meetings, rallies and bar and bat mitzvahs too. We also play for anniversaries, birthdays of all ages and product launches and we are by far, the best corporate events entertainers that can be found.
Wedding Packages NJ
We have really awesome wedding packages and special off-peak prices for Friday nights and for parties that fall in the winter months from January, February and March and sometimes we cut a few deals in November as well. We can play as a trio for small jazz dinners or cocktail parties and go up to a 12 piece band for huge and fancy galas. Usually we are a seven piece band, featuring the two vocalists, Jill and Eddie up front and then guitar, bass, drums, keys, sax and PA Sound Man. We always travel with a professional sound company and have an engineer monitoring our sound from the second that we start till the last note sounds. We come early and we stay till the last applause. We will rock your world, that is a promise!

So if you want to have the very best band on the planet play really fabulous dance and rock music from every era at your special celebration and or party or wedding or company event or corporate meeting or fundraiser, please do not hesitate even one second before lifting your hands to call The ESSENCE Band for your affair!