Joel Nelson Productions: Bay Area Event Planning, DJs and Live Music

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Robert Gastelum

First learning the piano, then the clarinet, and finally the trumpet, Robert eventually attended the famed Berklee College of Music in Boston MA. Finally, in 2006, he began his journey as a professional musician...

Roger Eddy

Roger is fantastic as a wedding soloist, or playing in any combination with other instrumentation including guitar, strings, horns, keyboard, or drums is insipired.

John Lee Sanders

John Lee Sanders can sit in front of a piano and transport you from a smoky New Orleans Cajun bar to a blues club in Chicago to an uptown Jazz club in Manhattan...

Joseph Magdalena

Joseph Magdalena is an accomplished pianist, trumpeter, violinist, and vocalist. Joseph is a phenomenal talent and is a wonderful personality for your wedding.

Josh Friedman

Josh is a virutosic performer as a soloist, and he has been a refreshing new sound at Bay Area weddings for the last 10 years...

Juli Alexander

Juli fell in love with the glamour and beauty of the harp when she was 8. She started playing immediately and hasn't stopped since...

Katherine Honey

San Francisco's Fairmont, Hilton and St. Francis Hotels and Los Angeles' Disneyland Hotel, Sheraton Universal and Beverly Wilshire have been routine audiences for Katherine's wide variety of genres of music, from the classical to the contemporary...

Kent Cohea

Being educated at Berklee School of Music in Boston, and learning from Joe Henderson in San Fransico, where he presently lives, has given Cohea a wide range of musical expression within the standard jazz genre...

Krista Strader

Krista has been the featured harpist with the Mark Thallander Foundation, working with guest conductor John Rutter, and has enjoyed roles as Principal Harpist and concerto soloist with the William Lock Singers and Orchestra, major works including Handel's B-flat Concerto and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro...

Kristal Schwartz

Although Kristal enjoys using her musical skills in many venues, she is particularly drawn to small, intimate occasions. These circumstances allow her to see the effect that her music has on her listeners as it transforms stress into tranquility – hurriedness into serenity...