Hoosiers in the house.
Fulton's on the River was the place to be on October 22nd. Jennifer Bergquist and Josh Niedner celebrated their wedding in high style. Sara Alair was there doing an awesome job with photography. Fultons looked stunning.
I was extremely excited to assist Tim that evening. We were the perfect DJ's for the night because Jenny and Josh met at Indiana University and both Tim and I went to IU, so the hoosiers were definitely in the house. I couldn't wait to play John Mellancamp, a Bloomington favorite.
The night went along seemlessly. Tim and I rocked the music for cocktails, he really had an understanding of what kind of music the bride and groom wanted to hear. Even the groom, who was worried about us playing sucky music, complimented Tim on his musical tastes. The bride also loved it and kept getting excited when Tim would play songs she LOVED but didn't put on her must play list.
Then came the dancing and it was wild. Everyone and their mother was on the floor for the very first song and it only got hotter from there. The energy in the room was sky high. Every song was a huge hit and Tim even managed to keep the gentlemen on the dance floor. I loved watching the bride dancing with all her friends when we played the hoosier favorite. Tim kept the party going crazy until the last minute. We left on a high note playing Vouge by Madonna. The night flew by and we felt like we had barely gotten started.
It was a great party.
Emily Hard
Fig Media
1 Comments:
Collin Canright of Canright & Paule sent me to your blog, and now I know why: Fig is a haven for an excessive number of Hoosiers in Chicago! I knew that Tobey Geise grew up in Indy, but I didn't know that she was part of a pack of Hoosiers at Fig. Anyway, any blog post titled "Hoosiers in the House" deserves a Hoosier in the comments.
Especially when John Mellancamp is involved. Indiana and Mellancamp have never let each other down. Small Town was a favorite of one of the idols in my life, the late Indiana Gov. Frank O'Bannon, who died suddenly in 2003 while serving in office. Frank was the epitomy of small-town-ness and the sensibility of the Democratic Party; it is hard to think of him without thinking of Corydon, the small town where he was raised. I worked on the O'Bannon for Governor campaigns of 1996 and 2000; especially in 2000, we used Small Town for just about every rally, the way Bill Clinton used Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow in his 1992 presidential campaign. As a p.r. guy on the 2000 O'Bannon campaign, I worried that Mellancamp was going to come down on us for using Small Town without permission and it would be a big mess in the news. But I was assured that Mellancamp had given the campaign the OK to use the song, so we used it and used it and used it -- without ever a peep from the artist.
Mellencamp also begat the career of Hoosier singer Carrie Newcomer. She sang three pieces to about 5,000 people gathered outside the Statehouse in Indy for Frank O'Bannon's official memorial service on a glorious autumn day in late September 2003. It's not exactly dancing music, but Newcomer's The Gathering of Spirits was the perfect pick for the occasion with its chorus: "Life's just a twinkling, that's for certain, but it's such a fine thing."
There's a kind of innate wisdom to Hoosiers who work with music. Is the gathering of Hoosiers at Fig one of the secret ingredients to Fig's success? It sure starts to look that way to a Hoosier on the outside!
-- Doug Davidoff
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