The Young Guns of Cutting Edge
When DJ Foltzy asked me why the younger DJ staff weren’t represented on the Cutting Edge blog or website I didn’t have an answer, so I just decided to correct the oversight. Meet the next generation of Cutting Edge Entertainment. When the decision was made to do a new photo shoot, I thought it might... Read More
Matt and Faye and a DJ and a Photographer
When the folks at Culinary Concepts took over at The Independence Seaport Museum, they created Events at I.S.M., which is part of their new niche division called Event Venue Management. The aim of the new venture is to assist venues with their marketing and branding, while making the process of finding and choosing venues more... Read More
Fresh 2010 at The Elkins Estate
The Philadelphia chapter of the International Special Events Society (I.S.E.S) held its annual “Fresh” gala this year at The Elkins Estate, in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. If you aren’t in the event biz, that sentence says very little, so allow me to illuminate. Perhaps I’m biased, but I honestly believe that the folks involved in Philadelphia’s... Read More
The Philadelphia Wedding DJ Machine
Cutting Edge Entertainment has been providing DJ services for weddings since 1992. Where weddings once represented 30% of our overall business, the past few years have shown a significant increase in wedding bookings, where now weddings represent almost 60% of our business… quite an increase. Initially, we figured that we may have decreased in other... Read More
It’s Not the DJ’s Problem… Or Is It?
The appetizer won’t be out for another ten minutes, the kids won’t sit still to take a group picture, the videographer can’t get a good shot of the bride and groom’s first dance. As a DJ, I shouldn’t have to worry about those things, or should I? It is a common misconception that the disc... Read More
The Bride & Groom’s First Wedding Dance
Guest Post by Kalyn Johnson: Let the music Play Who says that your first dance has to be a traditional ballroom type dance? Are you and your intended traditional ballroom-dance kind of people? If so, read no further. If not, have you begun to think about how to incorporate your style as a couple into... Read More
Bar & Bat Mitzvah in Cherry Hill
Our first experience with Cutting Edge was at our Nephew’s Bar Mitzvah, who is now twenty three! When it came to picking a DJ for our own son’s affair… there was no question who we would use. We called Craig three years in advance and signed up Cutting Edge for our son’s Bar Mitzvah party!... Read More
The Hip-Hop Art of Rick Cortes
My friend Rick Cortes is an accomplished illustrator whose work has appeared in both movies and on television. He is so accomplished that he even has his own I.M.D.B. page (Internet Movie Data Base). As impressive as all that might be (and it is), the work that I find most captivating are the illustrations he’s... Read More
Good Morning Songs
Upon being greeted a “Good Morning!” by Bilbo Baggins the Hobbit, the wizard Gandalf asked, “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I like it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?” Wizards always... Read More