Circa 2016 – Bakersfield Marriott – Where is everybody? 300 empty seats? I’ll tell you in a moment. Though the doors have opened at this moment when the picture had been taken, notice salads already being placed on the table. We get many events where there is a training or seminar that segues into some after party, cocktail combination. The seminar-training ran a few moments late. We assumed the attendees went back to their room to change. Also notice that there appears to be no dance floor or dance area. The client paid for us to travel from Los Angeles to Bakersfield with the intention of playing festive and upbeat music and said there will be no dancing. Basically they gave all the attendees a hotel room and flight followed by a seminar-training then a salad, dinner with background music and it lasted only 2.5 hours. It’s not a service we normally would do however, it was on a Wednesday in February so it did not conflict with our busy weekend. We have done many karaoke dj parties and the clients told us that “there will probably be no singing” and yet the alcohol and music changes the mood and behold, we are in overtime. So, I guess we thought that same thing would happen here. The truth is about 30% of the attendees decided to skip the dinner and fly back home. It turns out the group who left immediately were just trying to get back to business and implement what they learned at the seminar-training. #mrdjservices #karaokedj #eventdj #marriott