The Love Revival Orchestra exceeded every expectation we had for our wedding on July 31, 2021 in upstate New York. Music was the central focus for our wedding. We wanted to throw a party for our loved ones and have guests on the dance floor all night long. The band was extraordinary. Each member is a talented musician and brought tremendous energy and good vibes. Every song they sang sounded equal to if not better than the original. Their standard was excellence and they never once missed their mark. You could feel their energy from the audience. They love playing with each other and they love music and it's contagious.
About a month before the wedding, David Mendelsohn sent us a detailed email questionnaire inquiring about the venue, event timing, logistics, and our musical preferences. He is an absolute professional with years of experience, and considered details that we would not have known to think about.
The band has a repertoire of over 600 songs with tremendous range. One might expect quality would suffer with so much range but each and every song was just fantastic. David made himself very available over email to discuss and understand our musical preferences including must plays, favorite genres/bands/songs, do not plays, etc.
We went with a guitar and violin duo for our ceremony, a jazz trio for our cocktail hour, the New Orleans style parade into the reception, and the 10-piece band for the reception including two female vocals and David (and an awesome fiddle(!) and brass section). The ceremony and cocktail hour sounded beautiful. The reception was three sets that included tracks from the Blues Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire, "Jump Jive An Wail", Gipsy Kings "Volare", Bill Withers "Lovely Day", "Despacito", "Ants Marching", "Semi-Charmed Life", Lady Gaga "Shallow", Lizzo "Truth Hurts", Cardi B "I Like It", Inner Circle "Sweat", Bruce Springsteen "Thunder Road", "Wagon Wheel", Killers " Mr. Brightside", "Shout" and several longer "mashups" of other great dance songs from different genres (Funk, Hip-Hop, 70s, etc.).
We gave the band one request for a unique version of "Sweet Child O' Mine" for the father/daughter dance and the female singer sounded even better than the version we sent her to replicate. Both female singers were just spectacular and David himself is just a total student of the game. His range is outrageous. He loves Bruce and sang "Thunder Road" so well that my 70 year old father with two recent knee replacements got up to dance.
I would pay to go to another wedding just to hear this band play again. Book them. Support them. Enjoy them. This is one part of your event that you do not have to think about. They are absolutely wonderful.