Michigan Entertainers and Performing Entertainment

You want to get entertainment for your party, festival, special event, venue, bar, or restaurant. But where do you find them? Madman Mike hooks you up with the most helpful information you will find anywhere. Full service entertainment companies to Lists of Individual Entertainers and more.

Bands, Musicians, DJs, Magic Shows, Comedy Acts, Music Tribute Artists, Celebrity Impersonators, Look Alikes, Models, Keynote Speakers, Murder Mystery Companies and more. Tip: several entertainment agencies offer an amazing amount of these diversified performers, others specialize in one type.

Entertainment Agencies and Talent Agencies in Michigan

Agencies usually have many entertainers that can be booked through them. And in general their national and local entertainers can only be found through them and booked by them. Some are full service offering all types of entertainment, others specialize in one type.

Lorio Ross Sterling Events & Entertainment
Serving Michigan since 1972 and offering the best entertainment in the business. We offer live bands, wedding planning, event production, dueling piano's and more. The elite in entertainment & event production. Count on us when great entertainment and exceptional service are required. visit website or phone 248-398-9711.

Rusch Entertainment – Full service entertainment based in East Michigan, provides entertainment throughout Michigan. DJs, Dueling Pianos, Karaoke, Variety Bands, Rock Bands, Top 40 Bands, Steel Drum Bands, Reggae Bands, Polka Bands, Country Bands, Jazz Bands, Dixieland Bands, Show Bands, 50s/60s Bands, Orchestras, Soft Duos, String Trios/Quartets, Dance Instructors, Recording Artists, Pianists / Organists, Harpists, Guitarists, Bagpipers, Violinists, Swing Bands. Also Magicians, Comics, Jugglers, Hypnotists, Mimes, Caricaturists, Clowns, Elvis Impersonators, Murder Mysteries, Belly Dancers, Hawaiian Dancers, Ventriloquists and more. phone 800-439-5319.

Bacchanal Promotions – a fully insured entertainment company specializing in stilt walking, fire performance, and other circus arts. Based in the Detroit area, Bacchanal Promotions delivers professional, reliable, and affordable entertainment throughout the United States and Canada. We strive to deliver only the highest quality of entertainment, and offer a wide variety of unique and elegant acts for any setting. Available performances include fire breathing, fire eating, stilt walking, jumping stilt acrobatics, acrobalance, contact juggling, and many other fire and cirque-style arts. Visit our website or call 248-881-3318 for more information.

Rose-Robert Agency – offices in West Michigan and East Michigan, one of the mid-west's premier musical entertainment booking agencies. Our bands tour internationally. Our production tours nationally. Complete, full color promotional packages and CDs are available upon request for ALL of our artists. phone 231-264-8186.

CE - Creative eLMNts Inc. – Talent Management Service for Southwestern Michigan and Northern Indiana, based in St. Joseph, MI. phone 269-861-0055.

Ambassador David's Productions – based in southwest Michigan, a full-service talent agency providing a complete selection of Caribbean entertainment and offers all styles of music. Reggae, Calypso, Soca, Steel Drums, World Beat, Latin, Mariachi, African, Blues, Classic Rock, Funk, Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Jazz, Irish. For your club, festival, wedding, corporate event, island theme party, private party, special event. phone 269-665-7483.

Action Entertainment – Based in West Michigan. Provides Bands and DJs, impersonators, magicians, clowns, jugglers, inflatables and more throughout Michigan. phone 616-975-6557.

Tangerine Moon Productions – based in Metro Detroit, strictly music. Creates and has available Las Vegas style quality tribute acts. Features bands for the 70's & 80's eras through to the 90's, including a corporate wedding band which specializes in all styles of music from the 60's through today. Their musicians are instructed to know the material as if they were in the original artist's backing band. They also have DJs, Solo Piano Players, Jazz Trios and a Brass Quartet. visit website or call 248-583-1700.

Entertainment Connection [Entertainment List] – based in Metro Detroit, Entertainment & Event Specialists. Been in the business of entertainment and event planning for over 20 years, small party to major convention. visit website or phone 248-559-3600.

Razor Entertainment – based in Northwest Michigan, a full service live-music booking company specializing in weddings, corporate events, private parties, concerts and music festivals. Has over 120 professional musicians with stage and recording credits. phone 231-631-8987.

Jager Entertainment – info on facebook – Booking Agency providing Live Entertainment in the Metro Detroit area. Bands, DJ's, comedian's, entertainers for bar, venue, movie production. 586-329-0922.

R.A.B. Entertainment – info on facebook – based in Novi, MI. "from GoGo Dancers to models, R.A.B. ENT enlightens your events. Girls available for promos, selling shots, fashion shows, and other gigs any night of the week! Many girls available!"

Wolverine Productions – "A full service fundraising company that produces special community events for Police, Fire, Civic, and Veterans groups each year. Specializing in 1950's & 60's (Oldies) Rock & Roll Concerts, Country Music, Celebrity Basketball Games, and other Family Events."

Panache Entertainment – based in Metro Detroit, strictly music. string quartets, ensembles, jazz combinations and live bands for weddings, corporate & private events. phone 248-246-6775.

Zoltan Entertainment – based in Metro Detroit, for Corporations, Venues, Special Events, Weddings. Everything from solo acoustic guitar performers to full cover bands, to keynote speakers. A one-stop-shop for your entire event. Artists, lights, audio, video.

Gordon Productions – musicians, 8-piece band, jazz quartet, orchestra and DJ Service for weddings, corporate events, parties, clubs. phone 248-854-4449.

For Actors: Productions Plus and The Talent Shop – the largest full service talent agency in Michigan. In addition to highly trained actors, they have product specialists, narrators, models, costume characters, hostesses, crowd gatherers, greeters, celebrity impersonators.

CBE Entertainment – "a Detroit based music entertainment agency that provides booking and band management. CBE Entertainment works with bands that have styles ranging from rock, hard rock, progressive, thrash, metal, grindcore, death metal, and more, for events ranging from private parties all the way up to larger venues. CBE Entertainment is a reliable booking and management agency that provides quality services to all of our clients, bands and venues.".

Richard De La Font Agency, Inc. – location unknown, deals exclusively with business-to-business professional and celebrity bookings available to entertainment talent buyers world-wide. Agency does handle bookings for some well-known Michigan based entertainers.

JENN Entertainment – "based in Rochester, Michigan, caters to local & regional musicians, bands, comedians & other talented artists as their form of representation in booking, promotions, development and management. The firm is looking forward to an expansion of its business in 2010 and beyond. 'JENN' offers top notch local & regional entertainment with its goal of becoming a group of talented national & international performing artists available for booking in entertainment venues and event functions."

Empire Entertainment
Tribute Shows. Lots of music tribute artists, celebrity impersonators, personalities. Tribute acts of The Blues Brothers, Elvis, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tom Jones, Cher, Lady GaGa, Madonna, Britney Spears, Al Green, Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Franki Valli, Marvin Gaye, many more.

DownriverBands.com – books bands in the Downriver area (Detroit). "We are attempting to bring more live music back to downriver and surrounding communities at reasonable prices."

Blues Bookings – booking agent in Metro Detroit, serving Southeastern Michigan representing acoustic to electric bands (mostly rock-based), booking them into bars, casinos, festivals and private parties.

McCabe Music Entertainment – based in Metro Detroit, serving Southeast Michigan. corporate events to small community festivals to private, home parties. phone 248-549-6417.

StarStudded Entertainment – provides entertainment and performers. "Our services include choreography, custom shows, as well as music editing, video editing, business card design, and event photography for dance studios, dancers, gymnastics centers, figure skating clubs, and any other business."

Lochmoor Entertainment – music entertainment booking company based in Mid MI. 517-917-6974.

TGIF Entertainment Group – "private independent entertainment company who builds dynamic relationships to create, book, promote, produce, and co-brand one of a kind live concerts, events, affairs, with the 'TGIF Experience'."

Janice & John Ciotti, ECC – Personal Cruise Specialists (ships, not cars) based in Allen Park. They also book entertainment for ship cruises and other events.

National Booking Agencies and Talent Agencies

Funny Business Agency – National entertainment Agency providing comedians for corporate events, colleges and comedy clubs as well as magicians, mentalists, game shows, murder mysteries and more. Funny Business also provides games, rides, inflatable and more for corporate and college events. 888-593-7387.

EnT Presents – a one stop source for booking some of the biggest names in music.

Lists of Individual Entertainers plus Entertainment Directories

Find individual bands musicians djs, entertainers and various types of performers in Michigan. This section helps you discover and search for individual entertainment or a specific entertainer. Most can be directly contacted and do their own bookings.

Why are linked listings so important? It's for the most practical reason of them all ...
Because you quickly get direct access to their current full information.

Check Out These Music Entertainment and Band Lists plus Entertainer Directories!

The Metro Times Sonic Metropolis Detroit area Entertainers Listings. Possibly metro Detroit's best overall comprehensive database of bands, singers, musicians, entertainers with their scheduled appearances, contact info and links to their official websites. Link that Mike has provided for you includes browse & search. Entertainers can get their own free updatable info web page.

Michigan Artists.com – excellent website. band/musician profiles with contact info/website links.

Michiganbands.com – "has basically become a press outlet for local bands and contains the occassional music review and give-away promotion. But over the years all that content has stacked up and it's all still here."

Blues Bands & Musicians – Michigan and Detroit Blues Artists on one page.

DetroitCountryMusic.com – click performers names to see their contact/profile pages.

Detroit Irish.org – has many links to Celtic/Irish entertainment.

Detroit Musicians Entertainment – bands & groups for hire. "We are the members of the Detroit Federation of Musicians."

GO and DO Michigan.com / Bands List – includes profiles/band bios and links to their websites.

Detroit.com / Detroit Local Bands – listings with links to their websites.

neonlounge.com / Bands – one good page of links to local Michigan bands.

LocalMichiganMusic.com – info, links to bands websites and music.

U.P. Bands (UPBands.com) – "the Upper Peninsula's music source". bands, DJs, karaoke, etc.

Northern Michigan Music – northwest area of the lower peninsula.

Artists/Bands from the Emmett/Cheboygan County Area – listed on NorthernMichiganFun.com.

Wedding Bands Musicians – dance bands to dinner and ceremony musicians listed on Michigan Wedding Slavin The Website. Most are also available for corporate events, festivals, private parties and special events.

Detroit Rock and Roll – current artists and legends. has links to fan pages and official sites.

Models of Michigan – modeling and acting directory.

Theatrical Companies & Theatres – Metro Detroit list. addresses, phone numbers, websites links.

NATIONAL Entertainment Directories and Information Websites
Featuring lists of various types of entertainers for MI, from local to worlwide.

PartyPOP.com – listings of many types of entertainers.

CeJMe – profiles with contact information of various types of local and national entertainers from actors to bands.

MySpace.com Music – band/artist search.

Local Band Network / Michigan-Detroit – band links web site.

Barstar – 100 bands in Detroit area. band links, rankings, voting.

WeDJ.com – the Largest list of DJs & DJ Services that serve MI. Unlike Mike's based in Michigan list, WeDJ includes many based out of state such as those located in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconson who service parts of MI.

Murder Mystery Companies and Murder Mystery Dinners

Murder Mystery Company
based in Grand Rapids, MI. The Nation's Leader in Interactive Murder Mystery Events. "We're the ultimate solution for your holiday party, corporate event, fundraiser, dinner party, team building exercise, wedding, birthday and more." Available for all of Michigan, visit website or call 888-643-CLUE (2583).

Random Acts Musical Murder Mystery Company
If you like musicals, contact this company to perform a Musical Murder Mystery at an event anywhere in Michigan. based in northern Ohio.

Recording Studios in Michigan – Mike's large growing linked list, all on one page.
Record Labels in Michigan – Mike's list on one page.

Rockin-Hillsdale – Yahoo! group dedicated to musicians in and around Hillsdale, MI.

detroitmusic.com – forum

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