Mike Ewing Productions

Mike Ewing was our DJ and I could not be anymore pleased with his service. After our first meeting and going through a very personal experience I knew he was the DJ for us. He was very laid back, great with follow-​up, got along with the other vendors and really listened/​followed my direction as to my music. (I was very precise with what songs to be played and when). At no point in time did he push-​back or stray from what I wanted. However, he did offer his input in a non-​pushy kind of way which was very much appreciated. I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a DJ for ANY kind of an event. I was so close with all my vendors that we will follow each other on social media. Thank you Mike for making my dream come true!

Mike is a wonderful DJ! He DJ’d at our wedding and did a phenomenal job.
Mike is very professional and perfect with timing. He kept things going at the right pace so that we never ran out of time, nor were guests waiting too long for the next thing to happen. He understood the flow of our wedding and was able to emcee it very smoothly.
He had a large selection of music and played anything we requested. He was also very talented with reading the crowd. He played everything from current popular hits to classics like Michael Jackson. He kept the dance floor packed the entire duration of our wedding!
Mike is very organized and calm, which is exactly what you want on your wedding day. I never had to think twice about the music and just trusted him.
I couldn’t have found a better DJ for our wedding. I would recommend him to everyone. He is as good as it gets! Thank you, Mike!

Mike Ewing is more than a wedding DJ. He has brilliantly shepherded our ballroom dance club through years of Friday night dinner dances. He is understanding, personable and creative. Many of our club members have been dancing for decades, and they have their own prejudices about what a DJ should play. Mike rolls with the punches, somehow accommodating everyone. My husband and I love to dance, and — yes — we know that an evening of dancing with Mike Ewing will be beyond satisfying. I would hire Mike Ewing for any sort of musical venue.

Mike was our wedding DJ and we are very happy with the music he provided for our wedding. He is very easy to work with and always professional. Mike was prompt to respond to any question we had. He did a great job MC’ing our reception just as we requested — in a subtle and not too over-​the-​top way. It was perfect!
We received numerous compliments from guests about how great the music was. Mike created different playlists for our cocktail hour, dinner, and reception. Mike has great music knowledge about what folks like to dance to. He changed it up as needed and even took requests from our guests. We provided him a ‘no play’ list which was helpful to know he had. Mike also did a wonderful job remixing our special dance songs to shorten them and highlight the best parts. We would highly recommend Mike for any event.

We hired Mike as the DJ for our wedding because he was the preferred vendor of Saratoga Country Club. We are super glad that we did because he was awesome!
I was initially planning our wedding from abroad and Mike was great to work with through email. He is super organized and responsive and would send us an email confirmation whenever he received our documents and deposits. He also sent us a packet of forms for us to fill out regarding the music and logistics of our wedding. I promptly tossed it aside until I received Mike’s reminder email a month prior to the wedding!
We had an in-​person consultation with him a few weeks before our wedding. He provided his expertise on what music would be suitable for specific activities, had us spell out the names of our bridal party phonetically, and reviewed the logistics of our big day. He even came to our rehearsal to play our ceremony music so that we could practice walking with the music!
On the day of the wedding, Mike was great! Everything went according to schedule because he kept everything right on track. Unfortunately we didn’t have many people on the dance floor, but I know our guests still enjoyed the music!

We were referred by Hotel de Anza to Mike for DJ service. What a phenomenal referral.
We were lucky to meet Mike early on at a cake tasting that the Hotel de Anza was providing. He also met with us a few weeks before the wedding to go over all of our materials and answer our questions. I am really appreciative because he came to our rehearsal to «practice» with us and even sent me the first dance song via email. (I don’t know how he found it because I had to special order it on Amazon… but he found it!)
Mike provided awesome materials to help get us on track for the ceremony and the reception. I gave him pretty general ideas for dinner music and it was SPOT ON. He handled our guests really well with our no requests challenge.
Throughout the wedding I heard «that’s so Maggie» when a song came on… but in reality, I only requested a handful of songs and the rest were up to Mike. I think that goes to show that he knew us really well and what a phenomenal DJ he really is!
He was a great MC I am sincerely appreciative that he was our DJ at our wedding! And I’ve already referred him to others!

When my wife and I started our planning process of our wedding, I assumed a DJ was one of the least important pieces of a wedding. I figured anyone can play some music, and anyone can buy speakers and equipment. However, Mike Ewing is so much more than a DJ. He is a «wedding whisperer»… let me explain:
Mike Ewing made our day a success… almost single handed. When we met with Mike, our personalities jived perfectly and both my wife and I knew he was perfect for our event. Little did I know, but Mr. Ewing organized our entire reception minute for minute with a detailed spreadsheet that outlined what is happening when, and what song is going to be played at that moment. We were able to see our reception 12 months before we got married!
This was extremely helpful because our venue (The Ranch Golf Club) has a rotating door of wedding coordinators (4 coordinators in 4 months prior to our wedding), so it was never easy getting information from them. Yet through all the unnecessary stress our venue was putting on us, Mike was there as a reliable source of information, and the knowledge that Mike is on the job made both my wife and I breath a little easier.
He is quick to respond to e-​mails, which is amazing because everyone isn’t (check my review for the Ranch later) and is completely open to your ideas and input for music selection and event flow. His music library is massive, and if there is a song he doesn’t have, he will get it for you. Overall, his service is top notch.
Lastly, it’s Mike’s personality that is really the piece that puts this DJ over the top. He is a very nice guy that is always willing to help and go the extra mile. There is nothing he won’t do to ensure your wedding/​event is flawless, and ours was an excellent example. He works well with your other vendors, and in our case it was Ken Kato (photographer) and we modified our event flow during the reception, and because of the communication between Mike and Mr. Kato our guest wouldn’t even know that we changed things up.
Mike also is kind of the «enforcer». During my father-in-law’s speech there was a little group of people near the bar area that were speaking loudly, and Mike and I made eye contact and he knew exactly what needed to be done. He asked them quietly, but forcefully, to be silent and because of that all guests heard every word. He was brilliant before that moment, but after that he was flawless.
I would recommend Mike to anyone planning a wedding, because he is that guy you look at in hindsight and say «thank god we hired him!»

Mike was amazing for my wedding on Labor Day weekend. I completely recommend him to any couples who want a chill, experienced, savvy DJ who will gauge your crowd, be flexible when needed, and ultimately support you on your wedding day.
Preparation: Mike has decades of experience, so he gives you a packet full of preparation documents to help keep you organized.
Personality: DJs always strike me as in-​your-​face and cheesy, but Mike is very easygoing. Our guests loved him, and we didn’t have 1 cheesy moment.
Music choice: Completely up to you. If you want him to have control, that’s fine. If you want to have complete creative control, that’s cool, too. We were more of the latter, and Mike was very supportive of it. We even had the FFVIII victory song play as we were announced husband and wife.
Flexibility: We were generally very good about being on schedule, but Mike was great about changing up the schedule when needed. There was also a situation toward the end of the night that he got a request for a song on my «NO PLAY» list, but he approached me, and seeing that lots of people were dancing, I agreed to have him play it. Perfectly professional.
Thank you, Mike! You’ll be in our memories forever :)

We had Mike DJ our wedding reception at the end of May and he did a fantastic job. We selected him because he was a preferred vendor at the Saratoga Country Club where our reception was held. He has been a preferred vendor with them for years and the strength of their relationship showed in the service quality.
After we booked, he sent us a packet of paperwork and a flash drive with sample songs for each wedding «event» (cake cutting, Grand Entrance etc.) that we could copy onto our hard drive. You are free to use a suggested song, or pick any other song you want. You can let him use his discretion for music, take requests, or select each individual song yourself for him to play (the option we took). Basically, you can be as specific or as general as you want and he will work with you.
Unlike other DJ’s I have seen at previous weddings, he asked for an in-​person meeting a couple months prior to the wedding date. We had sent in our music selections beforehand and he complimented us on our selections and went over every detail of our paperwork including our itinerary, which he had confirmed with the country club before the meeting. We had worked out our itinerary with the country club and they contacted him to confirm it THAT NIGHT. So when we met with him the next day, he already had all of the information we had given them in addition to our paperwork. Both vendors were absolutely on the ball. He even made suggestions for higher quality recordings of our songs that we didn’t even know about and edited down dance songs that were too long.
On the wedding day, he was waiting at the venue to greet us and hype us up before the Grand Entrance. He met the wedding party, went into the dining room to announce us, and then the wedding just got better and better.
He (thankfully) said that his philosophy is to refrain from bullying people to dance. He did not self promote or monopolize our guest’s attention in any way. He was enthusiastic, warm, and kind. He kept an eye on the schedule, worked with the venue staff to help move the reception along, and stuck to our songs selections exactly. We received several compliments from guests on his work. The reception was over right on time! We were one of 3 weddings he was DJ-​ing that weekend, but he made us feel like we were his only one.
Email communication was automatic. Answers to all of our questions, detailed payment confirmations, and music files of songs we wanted but could not find ourselves were emailed to us extremely quickly. We even received CD’s of all of our dinner music selections to keep as gifts! We will enjoy playing them for our anniversary.
BTW, for shy families, we highly suggest the «Good Luck Dance» where he announces that each person on the dance floor will mean 1 year of good luck for the happy couple. You are invited to come to the dance floor, but are not required to dance. Our dance floor was packed! My new husband whispered to me that we now have enough good luck to last us the rest of our lives!
Mike definitely went above and beyond anything we ever expected. Not just from a professional, but from a human being. He has a good heart and we would enthusiastically recommend him to anyone.

Mike is truly a great DJ! I met Mike in 2009 when my client decided to hire him for her annual Holiday Party. We were both very impressed with his skill. Mike knew exactly how to read the crowd to determine the right music choice and timing. He made such a good impression that my client hired him again this year! Mike is not only professional and knowledgeable, but he is also extremely personable and friendly. I would recommend Mike to anyone looking for a DJ for their next event.

We hired Mike for my daughters wedding in September and he did an excellent job. Mike helped keep the event on time and did a great job with the music and keeping people dancing. I think this was a tough one for Mike as we negotiated a 9 hour reception and I don’t think Mike ever thought it would actually go that long but it did and he was a trooper! I would recommend Mike for all events.
Dave

Mike was so helpful before, and during our wedding. He answered so many of our questions that didn’t even pertain to just being a DJ, simply because he has so much experience with weddings. Mike met with us before our wedding to discuss song choices and gave us CDs to borrow for planning some of the play-​lists. He kept everything organized and many people were telling afterwards how much they enjoyed the music. He really knew the crowd and what works for keeping the majority entertained and dancing. Everyone danced at our wedding.

As a professional in the event industry for over 24 years as a videographer, I have worked with hundreds of DJs. They can either make or break the spirit of an event.
I recently worked with Mike at a wedding and reception where he not only worked as a true team player with all the vendors, but made sure the client had the best experience possible. Much attention to small details, such as a well organized timeline, communicating well with the client and vendors, a personalized music CD for the couple as a surprise, and making sure they received the most amount of time to enjoy their day, by keeping the schedule on track. When one event took a little longer than expected, Mike intuitively was able to get everything back on track seemlessly. This, in my opinion, is what separates the pros from the average.
Everyone had an absolutely fantastic time, and that will long be remembered in their memories, and enjoyed over and over again when they watch their video.
I hope I get the chance to work with Mike more often in the future.
Mark Shepherd

Jim and I were married on August 12 at Roaring Camp Railroads and Mike was our D.J. Music is one of the MOST important aspects of a wedding and Mike was fantastic! Mike met with us before the event and we worked on what kind of music we wanted for the cocktail hour, dinner and the reception. Mike was able to coax even the most reluctant of our guests onto the dance floor. He was a natural at sensing what song to play next to keep the party moving. We only stopped dancing to cut the cake and refill our drinks! Mike’s the BEST!

DJ Mike was phenomenal! He was so organized and thorough, and he answered every question in detail. He even came up to the site before we booked him to ensure that everything would work. We had a few meetings with him and spoke constantly on the phone during the planning period. His communication was great and everything was perfect. The entire wedding was timed perfectly and it ran so smoothly, nothing was offbeat. DJ Mike made me feel so calm and assured that everything would be great, and it was! He comes highly recommended… best DJ ever!

Mike is a great event DJ. He is recommended by our wedding venue. Prior to the event, all his communications are clear and timely. His experience helped us select the music and plan our event. During the wedding ceremony and reception, he helped manage the flow of the event and accommodated a few last minute changes and still make the event run smoothly. Highly recommended.

OMG — what a surprise! Mike is absolutely one of the most gifted DJ’s I’ve witnessed.
There are specific things that I want from the entertainment professional… and some things I don’t want. For instance: I want a professional who can survey the crowd, get a good read on them — their likes and dislikes. I wanted someone who was unobtrusive and had the capacity to blend into the flow of the event. I did not want someone who felts the need to tell jokes or sell his services to the crowd. I wanted an entertainer — not an infomercial! AFterall, the DJ is NOT suppose to be the focal point — the hosts/​hostesses are the main attraction.
Mike lived up to my expectations and more. He was the third DJ we interviewed and I am so pleased that we kept the search going until we were satisfied that he was the DJ of choice. Very professional and very gifted. Don’t be surprised by his maturity. He mixed it up with the octogenarians and the twenties crowd, too. Very flexible and able to keep things moving. The most common response we had from our guests was how wonderful the music was… they could dance to it, and it wasn’t blaring and knocking you out of your chair. What a gift! Try him out… you will not be disappointed.

Mike is a fantastic wedding DJ and I would definitely recommend him to others. I wanted a wedding DJ who knew how to survey a crowd and pick appropriate music, and I found that in Mike. I didn’t have to pick out every song; he found music appropriate for the old and the young. I also liked Mike because when I hired him, I spoke to him, and not a company salesman. He answered every phone call/​email promptly, came prepared to every meeting, and had a huge repertoire of music and could get more.
What impressed me most about Mike was his ability to come up with a plan B after the groom’s father and best man had to leave for an emergency. He was able to figure out how to assess the toasting situation and re-​organize the order of dances so things made sense. I’ll admit I was a little nervous about hiring a DJ who lacked some of the «flash» attached to some of the bigger companies, but he did a great job.