Boston based band with a Westchester page naming Tappan Hill Mansion and Glen Island Harbour Club. No rates published.
Groove Authority keeps a Westchester landing page and plays Westchester rooms. It runs its business out of Boston. That gap is the first thing to price. The page names three county rooms the band has worked: Tappan Hill Mansion, Glen Island Harbour Club and Castle Hotel & Spa. It also commits to one event per day, which means the group on the demo is the group that loads in, rather than a second unit sent out while the first plays somewhere else. What the page does not carry is a figure. No package rate, no hourly number, no minimum. Reading the Westchester page on 11 September 2026 turned up nothing to quote. An awards strip on that page runs from 2012 through 2025, which says the company has been working for years without saying how long it has been working here.
With no public figure at all, every number you get will arrive in a proposal built around your date. Get the total in writing with travel, lodging and load in broken out as separate lines rather than folded into one band fee. The one event per day commitment and the musician count should be written down too. Work out what a fifth hour costs before you need it.
The Westchester page at grooveauthority.com, read on 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
The Westchester page is marketing from a Boston company that travels in, and no rates appear on it.
The company is headquartered in Massachusetts and markets into Westchester through a county specific page. Nothing about that is hidden. It does mean the travel, lodging and load in logistics for a Tarrytown or New Rochelle Saturday sit inside a quote you have not seen yet.
Ask how many musicians travel and whether hotel rooms are billed to you. The crew’s expected arrival time for a 6pm ceremony is the third question. Those answers move a band quote more than the song list does.
Westchester clubs and estates add their own rules. Glen Island Harbour Club and Castle Hotel & Spa both have load in windows and sound limits a touring group needs to know before it leaves Massachusetts. Check who from the band calls your venue, and when that call happens.
Plenty of larger entertainment companies run several units under one name, and the couple who booked after hearing a demo can end up with a different lineup. Groove Authority states on its Westchester page that it takes a single event per day.
Get that in the contract with the names of the musicians attached, along with a substitution clause that says what happens if someone is sick.
The Westchester page sells the sound and the room list and stops short of money. There is no starting figure, no tier band, no travel surcharge. The band also offers a string ensemble option for ceremony and cocktail hour, priced the same way, which is to say not in public.
Band quotes move on four things. The number of musicians and the number of hours are two of them. The day of the week and the season are the others. Get a written proposal that shows all four, so you can see what changes when you drop a couple of players or add half an hour at the end of the night.
Every band posts video. What the video cannot tell you is who plays your date. Nor does it say how long the breaks run or what music covers them. Get the set break policy in writing, including whether a DJ or a playlist fills the gap.
Ask for the names of the horn players and the lead vocalist on your contract. For a group traveling from out of state, also ask what happens if weather closes a road on a Friday in February.
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