I have never once handed your night to a stranger.

I started DJing in Binghamton, New York. Eight years of nightclubs, corporate functions and college parties, which is the fastest education there is in reading a room. A club crowd tells you within about ninety seconds whether you have got it right, and they are not polite about it.

Alongside that I worked in public speaking and business marketing, and then in event marketing and event management, running events with media companies including MTV and GMR. That side of it taught me the part most DJs never learn: a night is a production with a running order, and someone has to own it.

I moved to Knoxville in 2016, and I founded Midas Entertainment here in 2022. It is my name on the business, my number on the page, and me you plan the night with.

Why that matters to you

Book a larger company and you are booking a company. The DJ who turns up on your wedding day may be somebody you have never spoken to, working from notes about a couple they have never met, assigned to your date two weeks out because he was the one who was free.

That does not happen here. I take the planning call, I write the run of show, and I am there on the night. When I am not the DJ, it is because you chose Coty knowing exactly who he is, and his name is on your contract before you sign it. Either way there is no stranger, and there is no handover.

What there is, is a team. Dan works every event I play, Coty takes the dates I cannot, and Willie runs sound when there is a band as well as a DJ. Four of us, and you will know which of us is coming to your wedding long before the day.

The unglamorous half of the job

I am fully insured, and I will send a certificate of insurance straight to your venue. Most venues here ask for one, and a surprising number of vendors cannot produce it on the week of the event.

I carry spare microphones and a second sound source, because equipment fails and a wedding does not stop to wait for it. I load in early enough to sound check before a single guest arrives. None of this is exciting. All of it is the difference between a night that runs and a night that does not.

Who else you will meet

My brother Dan. For years it has been the two of us at every single event, and couples write about it more than they write about the music: the Midas brothers, the brother duo, Rob and his brother. Two people who grew up in the same house reading the same room is not a staffing arrangement, it is the reason the night runs.

This year I brought in Coty Tate as my second DJ in command. He is incredible. He takes the dates I cannot, and the ones where my price is not the right answer for the couple. Willie Robb is our lead audio engineer and runs the band work.

You choose which of us plays your wedding. Both packages are on the pricing page, and whichever one you pick, the contract names the DJ and I am the person you plan the night with.

What I am actually good at

Reading a floor. Not playing a list. A playlist cannot tell that the room has gone quiet, or that the table by the door is about to leave, or that the song you planned for 9pm is the wrong song at 9pm. That judgment is the whole job, and it is the one part of it that cannot be bought in a box.