Moondance Productions

Excellent company to work with. Quick to respond, flexible, energetic and professional. Suzanne had our guests dancing from the moment they stepped foot in the ballroom till the end of the night. So much fun!!

We meet Pauline at my best friends wedding, we were very impressed. As we started to plan for our own wedding we definitly wanted to give Moondance Productions a call and request for Pauline. After shopping around just to compare prices of other DJ's, Moondance was by far the best price, very affordable. We met up with Pauline one Saturday morning to go over our ceremony, she gave us tips and some good ideas that we haven't thought of. Pauline was very prompt on returning any emails that we sent her. The night of our reception she was fantastic, did everything to a T that we asked for and more. Even gave us a bunch of cds with all our special songs, dinner songs, and dance songs from our reception. Pauline was was very instrumental in making our wedding reception a night we will never forget.Thank you so much Eric and Liz Richard

Sue was so terrific! She played everything we asked and nothing we didn't, she was charming to our guests and yet VERY unobtrusive, she was super flexible with timing, and she is a lovely person, as well. She even drove us home at the end of the night!! All our guests raved about her and we couldn't have been happier with her services.

Our DJ was Pauline. She was fantastic! She really played our list, as well as kept the crowd happy in how she was transitioning, etc.

As soon as we met with Alan, we both knew he would be a great DJ for us! Alan was our favorite vendor! He is very personable and really knows his stuff! We had guests from all over, who liked many different genres of music from Country to Rock. Alan was comfortable with it all and was able to blend all the different types of music we wanted together so that it worked! Alan DJ'ed our ceremony and reception music. He was great with suggestions for the ceremony music and even gave us a CD of classical music to choose from while we were planning because we were lost when it comes to classical music! I was very nervous about the ceremony, but Alan's calm demeanor really put me at ease. He has DJ'ed many wedding ceremonies and you can tell he has the experience to make it run smoothly. I put myself into his hands and he was perfect with the cueing and switching of the music. It was beautiful!We didn't really have a playlist for cocktail hour or dinner, but told Alan the type of mood we wanted...lively, but not too much! He totally understood and played a mix of music that was great.He was great when it came to being the MC. His voice and presence on the microphone were superb. The announcements were flawless...we had some difficult names and he pronounced them perfectly. He announced all the special dedications I had requested as well as cake cutting, parent dances, etc.. Alan checked with us once during dinner to make sure we were happy and to see if we had any last minute requests. I found this to be very considerate and knew his mind was on us and making sure we had everything we needed. The reception dancing was great, with a lot more people dancing than I ever expected since it was a daytime wedding and my family does not really dance! I was on the dance floor from cake cutting till the last dance. He even let one of our guests use his microphone to sing a special song for us (after getting our permission, of course). It was very touching and one of the highlights of the day. Moondance was very reasonably priced compared to many other DJ's we looked into. Alan was a great resource when we needed recommendations for other vendors, and would not have found the great vendors that we did without his help. Definitely book Alan from Moondance if you want a great wedding!

We were thrilled to work with Moondance for our wedding. Pauline was wonderful. She answered all of our questions and was very knowledgable. She had a great enthusiasm and made our wedding amazing. She also was flexible and able to set up in two different tents, plus our after party venue, all in one evening. We were very impressed with this service.

We really enjoyed working with Sue. She played exactly what we wanted and really kept my guest dancing. Very reasonably priced too!

I don’t even know where to begin. This is going to be long so if you’re not the patient type and don’t feel like reading…in a nutshell Moondance Productions is great and definitely the way to go!Now for the long story! Suzanne was beyond AMAZING and I thank God we found her. Out of all of my vendors picking a DJ was the most stressful for me. I’d set up appointments with a few and most of them were flakes or were overcharging for what they offered. Literally less than 4 months away from my wedding we didn’t have anyone booked. I looked at the list of DJ’s that were recommended by our venue and I thought I would check out the Moondance Productions website. I contacted them and was promptly e-mailed by Suzanne. She wanted to mail us some information and set up a meeting with my fiancé and I to go over what we wanted and to tell us a little more about her offerings. My now husband and I have very demanding schedules and 2 kids and were just a few months away from our wedding day so we needed to do it but flexibility was going to be key. Suzanne agreed to meet us on a SUNDAY morning, which was literally the only time we had available together. She was very straight forward from the beginning. She offered a flat rate for service…no tricks…no gimmicks…no nothing. Just straight out pay this and you get this! Love that. She also has a huge library of music and thorough knowledge of each genre. It’s one thing to be able to stock an iTunes library and touch play but it’s quite another to be able to gage flow of songs and read an audience. If you have something special you’d like she can easily get it for you if she doesn’t already have it. Suzanne is much more than a DJ…she is a fantastic MC and overall event planner. She gave us some really great suggestions on how to make our evening flow better, which was key since our venue did not have a coordinator. Our ceremony was on the deck and she was perfect at cueing us to walk out. She was extremely detailed…and she honestly cared more about my ceremony and reception more than I did! She took time to really get to know us and get to know the type of guests we would have at the event. She has a great deal of experience and it shows. Our ceremony and reception turned out like a dream. She kept everything moving on schedule…was very attentive to our needs and the needs of our guests. Communicated with our other vendors to help make sure everything was perfect. All night everyone was asking where did we get the DJ?! She even made sure to have speakers outside on the deck for the ceremony and in case people wanted to dance out there. She also provided up-lights, which we ordered for inside, but then she brought extra for outside and didn’t charge us for the extra! The evening was better than we could have ever imagined. We had a perfect ceremony, wonderful mellow cocktail hour…fun introductions…emotional speeches and music…relaxing dinner…then we partied down the rest of the night!! It was AWESOME!! Most of all beyond being an amazing professional, Suzanne is just a genuinely really nice and very cool person. It was so cool to have a female DJ! None of my friends and family had ever been to a wedding with a female DJ. It was so natural and easy to work with her! She was also very patient with my daughter (who is only 3 and can be a handful.) It was such a pleasure to work with her and we will definitely be hiring her again for special events. She has already been hired by a friend at my wedding, for her up-coming wedding! If you want a perfect reception/party or any event…with a DJ who cares…then Suzanne from Moondance Productions should be your choice for sure!

When I told my sister, the bride to be, that I would pay for her DJ I knew my first choice was Moondance productions! I had used Sue for my wedding 10 years ago and I thought she was amazing! Sue is very willing to work with you and during the event you know that you don't have to worry about anything! She's always calm and collected and that's someone you want to work with when your to rapped up in just enjoying your special day!

One of the biggest selling points of Moondance was the price...I thought it was the perfect price for a DJ. Along with a great price was an awesome DJ...Pauline!!!!We were able to meet before the wedding and plan out how the night should flow and I was able to give her a list of songs my finance and I had picked. She was able to build a playlist from that. She was wonderful the night of the wedding...she kept the flow of the night, played the songs on the playlist along with ones that fit in perrfect, and had the best speaking voice (I knew I didn't want some obnoxious guy in a tux!). Everyone was on the dance floor all night....and so many of the guests complimented on how great the music was!!! I recommended her for my friends wedding which was a week after mine and she was great there too!!! Overall a great experience with Moondance!!!

We rented a sound system and mics from this company, so we could play our own music from an mp3 player. They were very accommodating and flexible. They set up, broke down, and even sent along a staff person named Aimee to watch over the equipment and help out a bit. She was not a wedding dj, but I knew her as a local club dj. Thank goodness Aimee was there to help us with the mics! She stepped in when we needed help with the equipment. She even helped our friends set up the decorations! Definitely a good value to rent if you already have the music.

Suzanne was great. Sometimes hard to get a hold of via email, she was great on the phone. Easy to work with. Did our ceremony and reception music. Great sound quality (outdoors), got all the versions of the songs we requested, and was accommodating to our massive song list.

Alan was a fantastic DJ. He provided us with lighting & DJ services. I didn't hire an event planner and he was very helpful in organizing the schedule of events before & acting as master of ceremonies on the day. I hate to think how hectic things would have been without his help. Beforehand he met with me to go over details & help me make decisions I was unsure about. The lighting in the room also looked great. It really set the atmosphere in the reception room and has made the pictures look awesome. I didn't think we could afford lighting, but Alan provided us with a DJ/lighting package that was very reasonable. Everyone I have spoken to said it was the best dancing they've ever been to because the DJ was so amazing. We had a few songs we wanted played and a few we didn't, but for the most part left it to the DJ. (He didn't play any of the songs we didn't want played & all of the ones we did want played.) Alan did a great job of reading the audience and playing songs that kept everyone dancing all night. I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a professional DJ who really provides an all around music and lighting package.

Alan was a very good DJ...lots of dancing and all of the guests had a blast!

We hired Moondance to be the DJ/sound technician for our ceremony and pre-ceremony. We had a very unique situation... We had an i-pod and my husband’s band playing for our reception, but realized that we were going to need someone to provide mics for our ceremony, to play our music cues for the ceremony and to DJ pre-ceremony at Beavertail in Jamestown where there was no power available!!A close friend recommended Moondance for this job and we couldn't have been more pleased. We contacted Alan, who was already booked, but he recommended renting the sound equipment and battery power through him and he would send along an intern/club DJ who was not an actual “Wedding DJ” but could set up the equipment and work through the music cues. Aimee was WONDERFUL! She met with us out at Beavertail, to find out exactly where we would have the ceremony and where she would set up. Throughout the time leading up to the wedding, she was great with communication, open to our suggestions and as nice as she could be. I was a little nervous since Aimee had never DJ’ed a ceremony, but throughout the time leading up to the wedding, she was great with communication (she even gave me her personal cell number), open to our suggestions and knowledgeable about the equipment. At the wedding, she was flawless. Everything was mic'ed perfectly, the cues in the ceremony were timed just right and the sound levels were great. My guests commented on how she was so helpful when they arrived and did not know where to go…they thought she was the wedding coordinator, not just a DJ! She even played music AFTER the ceremony until we all left, something I had not even thought of. And the choice of music (which supplemented our list) fit exactly. She was extremely gracious as well, making sure to thank US for having her before we left. We got amazing valuefor our money by renting from Moondance and to have Aimee work the equipment for us!

*we are compelled to update our review, as MOONDANCE retorted our review with a litany of LIES. Whether or not, you can still see the gray box reply, we are saddened at the efforts to defame a fair and accurate review. CUT and PASTED below is a REAL E-MAIL from MOONDANCE PRODUCTIONS... READ IT, THEN READ THE SAD GRAY BOX below my review. IfTHEY are willing to LIE about this, what else are they willing to LIE about????AIMEE, our DJ was a MOONDANCE PRODUCTIONS employee. I was going to spare personal embarrassment & withhold the name.==>Interesting how the gray box reply says that we didn't have a DJ--- if that were the case, it may have worked out better for us!!!!!! FURTHERMORE, our wedding had 98 guests. From:This sender is DomainKeys verified"Moondance Productions" Add sender to ContactsTo:Caren & Patrick,We appreciate your time in writing to us regarding the dj at your wedding. We were very surprised, as we have never heard anything but rave reviews of Aimee. We have spoken with her regarding your complaints. If you would like, we will discuss with you when you return from your honeymoon. You can call us at 401-782-4981 at your convenience.Alan & SuzanneMoondance Productionswww.moondancedj.com --- On Mon, 10/11/10, Caren wrote: From: Subject: Regatta Place 10-9-10 To: skiff2001@yahoo.com Date: Monday, October 11, 2010, 11:54 PM Alan, I regret to relay that we were unbelievably disappointed by our DJ's performance at our wedding at Regatta Place on 10-9-10. Amateur is the only word that may describe what occurred. I should be packing and subsequently going to sleep before my early flight... but I really feel that I need to make you aware of the occurrences. You came highly recommended, so I feel that perhaps this may be an aberration...though it is not forgivable as it negatively impacted the biggest day of my life to date... There were technical difficulties with the microphone during the best man's speech. Instead of listening to his important words, I looked to see if there was any tweaking of the equipment. Our DJ just looked on, as if a guest. Our slide show- which we had paid a decent amount of money to produce-- was to be a poignant moment. Instead, our DJ played it 8 times without music. By the time it was "revealed" and announced...and faint music was played (only half of the room could hear) it was nothing... There were awkward pauses and actual moments of silence at times....and the music was a disaster. We had made selections and highlighted genres that we were interested in. When music that we selected was played, things were good. Somehow 2 songs were repeated- as pointed out to me by guests... and the few times that a group finally got on the dance floor, our DJ killed the mood with an odd follow-up song. My bouquet-toss song was awkwardly played at a high speed for regular dancing-- and then she selected-on her own- another song to play for my bouquet toss.... I can hardly highlight a positive attribute about our DJ's performance and regrettably, one of our attendants tipped her... I can only say that my wedding was not ruined due to all other elements and the location. It is an awful thing to go through and hear your guests making terrible comments both that night-=and now continuously since the wedding. This is not the service I expected to pay for and receive. I really feel terrible to say all of these things & you don't know me well enough to understand how sad this e-mail is to me. I wrote very happy and positive reviews to each of my other vendors! I feel even more sad that I was victimized by what may be a bad night for Moondance. Sincerely, XXXXXXXXXX luvyankeez@XXXXXXX***********************************************************REVIEW:You get what you pay for...It would be better to plug in your iPodI should have been concerned when weeks before the wedding, a bait-and-switch occurred. We were promised an LCD tv on which to play a slide show of photos. All of a sudden, there was no tv! We were told that perhaps a projection screen could be obtained. After this phone conversation, we received another call from another individual, within the company, who seemed completely confused by our contracted price and was trying to tell us that we would have to pay more than our signed contract reflected. My husband dismissed this idea. We were not confident that this was the last of the conversation, and suspected that the up-lighting would not be brought to our reception...which thankfully, we had no reason to worry. I still feel that this was handled in a completely unprofessional manner.As for our reception, I have never seen a more amateur display!!!Our dj seemed completely unconcerned and watched as our best man's microphone cut out during his speech. She appeared to look on as a guest.Our photo slideshow was played no less than 3 times before it was supposed to be shown---completely undermining the purpose of it! It was a series of pictures set to a song. It was to be played one time for the guests in a compelling fashion- not previewed multiple times and then announced. This slideshow cost money to produce and the dj ruined it!My husband and I had explicit instructions of music to play. The cocktail hour and the sit-down portion of the reception went well- our instructions were followed. However, the portion of the reception where dancing should occur--never did. The dj's music selection was suspect at best. We had specific songs selected that should have taken the duration to play. When approached by the Groom (should this happen at a wedding?) the dj said that she was playing requests. There was not one person dancing, so I find this hard to believe. When she began to play the music off of our list, and guests began to dance, she would switch off to a song that would clear off the floor. I had requested a bouquet-toss song....it was played as a "dancing" song- but at hyper-speed and sounded like a chipmunk! (obviously a completely different song, that I did not request, was played as a toss song)It is clear to me that this particular DJ is inept and an amateur. We were completely displeased by the telephone games that occurred in the weeks leading up to the wedding. I was particularly disappointed that this dj group was recommended to me, but it is obvious that we were left with the last dj that does not book (and for great reason)It is unforgivable to perform so poorly on what amounts to be the most important day in one's life. Moondance should know that my guests continue to rave about my venue, food, service at the reception....and at how terrible my dj was!*********************************************************formerly the "gray box"Moondance Productions responded with the following comments:This is an interesting review considering we only rented the sound system, up-lights and video equipment for this wedding. Our only contact was the groom, who negotiated a much cheaper price by renting instead of having an actual DJ, because he only wanted background music for 40 guests. It seems the bride was unaware of this arrangement.here is the cached page, in original form...http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_pKeSDbWVEAJ:www.weddingwire.com/reviews/moondance-productions-narragansett/3422e7aa71c2b22e.html+wedding+wire+review+moondance+dj+luvyankeez+40+guests&hl=en&gl=us&strip=0

We had Mike as our Deejay and he was wonderful! From helping us pick out songs and answering any questions that we had he could not have been more helpful during the planning and partying process!

I'd highly recommend DJ Pauline Pinto. Admittedly, we were a little nervous about deejays because we'd heard about our friends' general experiences with the dj not listening to them; this was not our experience at all! Honestly, we really couldn't have asked for anyone better or more professional than Pauline from Moondance. Pauline is in tune with people's needs and up-to-date on music. Before the wedding, she was on top of things, making sure she had all of the files prompting me for things if she hadn't gotten them and helping me think through various aspects of the wedding. She was also super organized and very responsive. Plus, we kept adding services we needed (e.g., cocktail hour music, ceremony speakers for our musicians / officiant, etc.) and she was accommodating throughout the process, even days before the wedding... I'm not sure how she does it! On the day of, Pauline was very professional, following detailed instructions carefully (including setting off our streamers for a storybook ending and setting up the uplighting that people commented on as being beautiful and posted on the FB pages!!), and really kept the crowd on the dancefloor throughout the night. And there were no overplayed songs, cheesy music, etc. -- people of all ages were on the dance floor. It was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience for us! Over a month after the wedding, my mother still tells us how much she and her friends thought our DJ was good; many of our friends also thought our wedding was one of the best they'd been to. Admittedly, we were a bit last minute with getting our dj at 6 months to go. But Moondance Productions was THE most affordable deejay I found after doing a lot of price checking and they were just as good as anyone else, so I feel lucky. My tips generally speaking -- ask your friends what songs they like. We generated a comprehensive list and everyone loved the songs! The only cons -- at the beginning, I felt that the general owner was slow to respond after my inquiry (but it is irrelevant to overall services). Also, decide your last songs (e.g., do you want slow songs at all) -- I hadn't thought about it much. Check about wireless mics if you need them set up. And go with your gut -- your friends know what music they like!This was a very positive experience and went off without a hitch! Pauline is a great communicator and pretty cool, so you can't go wrong.

They have a few DJ's, but we had Suzanne for our day. She did a great job with our requests for songs and also for our first dance. We planned to trick everyone with our first dance, that it was a normal sleepy one and then she would stop the music when we looked at her and then put on a Salsa song. Well she played it off awesome and everyone was surprised :)

Susanne was lovely. She didn’t play one thing on my do not play list, was reasonably priced, and extremely nice. Everyone was dancing on the deck of the north beach clubhouse and she helped make the wedding a lot of fun. I’d definitely recommend her.