Live music for corporate events, galas and product launches across the Netherlands.

How it works

Which band fits which corporate event

The match starts with four questions, not with genre: what kind of programme, how many guests, which room, and what the evening has to achieve. The full trade-off is set out in choosing music for a company party.

Every band brings its own sound system and basic lighting, so you do not buy production separately. For venues with their own technical rules we agree the details with the venue and your AV supplier in advance.

What a band for a corporate party costs

Hiring a band for a corporate party starts at EUR 3,000 for a four-piece with sound and light included, EUR 3,500 for a five-piece and EUR 4,000 for a six-piece, with each extra musician adding EUR 500. A reception or dinner jazz trio is from EUR 1,400, an acoustic duo from EUR 900, and a DJ for the late floor from EUR 850, or EUR 1,500 with full production.

Most corporate events combine two formats, a dinner trio and a party band, or a band and a closing DJ. We quote that as one package with each act itemised, so you see what every part costs and still pay one invoice. Travel within roughly 50km of Amsterdam is included and anything beyond that is a separate line rather than a hidden markup. BumaStemra and VAT are itemised too. For a full breakdown read our 2026 cost guide to live music at a corporate event.

What sets a corporate-ready band apart

Five skills separate a band that can carry a company night from one that only plays well.

• Reading an unknown room. At a private party a quarter of the room knows the bandleader, at a corporate event nobody knows anybody, and acts with international touring behind them handle that gap.
• Volume discipline during networking and dinner, which means no music over the speeches and no bass that stops the front tables from talking.
• Sponsor-aware announcements, with names and pronunciation rehearsed before the day.
• AV compatibility. We send the technical rider to your supplier weeks ahead so nobody argues about the main desk at load-in.
• The seated-to-dance-floor transition, the moment a company party is won or lost, directed on purpose rather than hoped for.

Why procurement and office managers sign off on us

Booking a company party is risk management for most organisers. This is what we put against that risk.

• Clients you can check. Since 2018 our acts have played corporate evenings for Heineken, Microsoft, Salesforce, IBM, Booking.com, Canon, ING, the City of Amsterdam and Tommy Hilfiger.
• A business invoice with VAT. One invoice for the whole evening even when three acts play, with BumaStemra and VAT itemised and your own purchase reference on it when you supply one.
• Cover is contracted. The contract names the musicians and a named understudy per role from the same network. Illness is what makes other bookings collapse on the day, and that is exactly what we contract against.
• Own sound, inside your venue limit. The acts bring their own PA and lighting and play within your room's decibel cap. Tell us the cap before the quote and we size the lineup to it.
• One contact person from first email to load-out, often Noam himself.

Typical corporate evening flow

• 17:00 networking or walking dinner, jazz trio at background volume
• 19:00 seated dinner with speeches and awards, the trio continues under conversation level
• 21:00 transition, the main band opens at mid-tempo to move guests from tables to the floor
• 22:30 peak, danceable set with horns for the moment people film
• 23:30 DJ takeover, late floor until 01:00 or 02:00

For a brand activation the shape is different: a 15 to 30 minute high-impact opening, networking with background music, and a short high-impact close. If you are weighing an all-round function band for a Dutch event against a dedicated corporate party band, both pages set out the line-ups and the price steps in detail. For an anniversary the choice shifts, see what fits an anniversary evening. ## Live band or DJ for a company party

A live band gives the evening a face. A six-piece with horns lifts 200 seated colleagues onto the floor in a way a playlist does not. A DJ then holds the late floor and runs past the point a band packs down. For most corporate parties the answer is both in sequence: reception trio, band at the peak, DJ to close. On a tighter budget or in a smaller room a corporate DJ alone, or a DJ with a live saxophonist, covers a lot of ground. For the wider format comparison see corporate party band Netherlands and live music for corporate events, or the full roster at our artist agency. For an awards night or a black-tie dinner see what a gala band evening looks like, and for a straight city booking without a corporate programme, a live band in Amsterdam.

Where we play and how travel works

We are an Amsterdam agency working nationwide. In Amsterdam we have performed at Westergasfabriek, the Gashouder, Kantine25, Thuishaven, the A'DAM Toren and the Rijksmuseum. Outside the city we book regularly into rooms like De Doelen in Rotterdam, TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, and the High Tech Campus and Strijp-S in Eindhoven. For the city view see corporate entertainment Amsterdam. Travel within roughly 50km of Amsterdam is included in the fee.

Common mistakes

• Choosing a band from a commercial demo without a recent live corporate reference
• Not briefing the act on speakers, sponsors and name pronunciation
• Delaying AV coordination until the night itself
• Starting the end-of-year booking in October, when November and December fill four to five months ahead
• Mentioning the venue decibel cap only after the quote
• Accepting a contract with no named understudy