Perfect Wedding at Salt Lake Country Club!

Wow! This one was a stunner! The evening was perfect. A beautiful fall night and as the sun went down, the dancing started up. We had played a set of jazz and mellow music for the social hour, featuring Mindy on vocals. Then the party all jumped in for a night of dancing under beautiful lights on the patio.

Thanks so much for the invitation to join you on your perfect day!

Salamanders at the Salt Palace Convention Center

We welcomed some business visitors from Canada when we played for their reception at the SPCC. We were treated very kindly by the group, and got an invitation to fly up to Canada to play. Hope that comes through! We've already been to Canada once this year. We were in Toronto in May!

Thanks to Mary with Beautifully Done Events for the invitation to perform! You can visit Mary at www.beautifullydoneevents.com.

Wedding of the Year!

We were honored to be invited by the winners of the $50,000 wedding giveaway sponsored by BrideAccess.com and Alysse's Bridal to be the music entertainment for the evening. The bride was beautiful, the groom couldn't have been more fun, and everything was perfect for this event. Be sure and watch the planning show on Oct 12th and the wedding show on Oct 19th, Sundays at 9:30 AM channel 4 and the TV show "BrideAccess". A special thanks from the Salamanders to Ryan Winterton and Heather Beers from BrideAccess and also to Jennifer and David Young from Alysse's Bridal for their sponsoring the event! What a blast to work with such great people! Thanks to Dan Hixon for the beautiful photographs which will be posted here soon. Visit him at www.danhixsonphotography.com.

The Big 50!

We had a wonderful time playing for a husband and wife in Sandy, UT who were looking at the big 50 birthday this year. So to celebrate they invited all of their friends and the Salamanders to help them party! We played on a tennis court in the back yard, food was great, and everyone had a wonderful time!

Salamanders at the USANA World Convention in SLC!

We were fortunate enough to be invited to perform at a couple of functions with USANA at their convention held in SLC, Aug 27-29. Many members of the band joined in the opening ceremonies that featured music performances by some of USANAs big wigs. We really had a great time. We were joined on stage by Collin Raye, country superstar! We performed 4 of Collin's songs.

We then finished the night by having pre-invited conventioneers come up on stage to perform the song of their choice...kind of a "USANA Idol". What a great time and a fantastic crowd!

Later in the week, we performed as part of the main convention meeting with nearly 10,000 in attendance in the Delta Center. Thanks for having us USANA!

Wonderful Wedding at Silver Lake Lodge, Deer Valley

We always love going up to Deer Valley to have a world class environment to play at, and Silver Lake Lodge is one of our favorites. The bride and groom were lovely and the bridal party stayed all night, dancing the night away. We were also contracted to provide an hour's worth of jazz, which is a treat for the players in the band. We get out a different set of music than we normally play and we really enjoy the change. It's a nice blend of traditional jazz, smooth jazz, some pop standards that work well as instrumentals. The players get a chance to stretch out a bit. Beautiful wedding! Thanks for having us!

Salamanders at Mellaleuca Convention!

We had the opportunity to play for the thousands that come to SLC every year for the Mellaleuca Convention held at the Salt Palace Convention Center. It's always a great time, and we have played for this event several years now. I was told that there are 8,000 people in attendance! Pretty incredible. We were lucky enough to have Tommy Hopkins and Todd Mitchell perform with us. What a great time with great players and killer music!