About
A live band built for the whole evening.
Black Tie Weekend is a live band for weddings, corporate events and holiday parties in Calgary, Banff, Canmore and the wider Canadian Rockies. We play the parts of a night that recorded music cannot carry on its own: the ceremony processional, the cocktail hour your guests talk straight through, the first dance, the speeches, and the last hour when the floor is full and nobody wants it to end.
Our lineup is deliberately flexible. An acoustic duo can cover a ceremony and a garden cocktail hour; add percussion, bass and drums and the same group becomes a three-, four- or five-piece reception band. Whatever the configuration, sound, lighting and a DJ for the changeovers come with it, so your evening does not need three separate vendors and a hand-off between them.
Live music for weddings and corporate events in Banff, Canmore, Calgary and Lake Louise — and at many more Rocky Mountain venues besides. The band has played the Banff Springs, the Rimrock Resort, Banff Park Lodge and Banff Park Ranch in Banff, the Malcolm Hotel, Silver Tip Resort, Stewart Creek and Cornerstone Theatre in Canmore, and the Palliser and the Calgary Petroleum Club in Calgary — plus plenty more mountain and city rooms across Alberta.
Many of our couples are planning a destination wedding in Banff or Canmore rather than marrying at home, travelling in from the United States, from other Canadian provinces and from the UK. We work through travel, load-in and the ceremony-to-reception timeline with you long before the day, so a wedding in the mountains feels as considered as one in your own city.
Who it's for
Couples and companies who want a room that feels alive.
Most of our work is weddings of sixty to two hundred and fifty guests, including destination weddings at mountain venues where travel and load-in need planning. The rest is corporate: galas and award nights, company celebrations and Christmas parties, where the brief is usually a full floor and a room that stays mixed well enough for conversation.
Who builds it
A working collective, not a roster of strangers.
Black Tie Weekend is a collective of musicians who perform together regularly: vocalists, guitarists, a bassist, drums and percussion. The people you book are the people who play your date, and they have played the rooms you are booking. Sets, arrangements and instrumentation are built around your timeline rather than fitted to a fixed show.
Where we play
We have played many shows at the Banff Springs Hotel, the Rimrock Resort and Chateau Lake Louise in Banff, and at Cornerstone Theatre, Silvertip Resort and the Malcolm Hotel in Canmore. Package details and current pricing are on our pricing page, and venue notes live on each area page.