S4E06 - Mixing Music and Marriage: Real Talk with Jill Cooper

In this week's episode of 'That's Rad', we chat with Jill Cooper (she/they), a talented musician and wedding DJ, about their journey in the music industry, the intricacies of wedding music planning, and the evolving trends in the wedding industry. 

Jill shares their experiences, challenges, and the importance of creating a memorable atmosphere for couples and their guests. We also discuss the impact of social media on wedding planning and a few insights for aspiring musicians and DJs looking to become apart of the wedding industry.

Listen to Jill's EP here or inquire here. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:12

Welcome to That's Rad, life, love, and wedding planning in the Pacific Northwest, where our goal is to educate and elevate. I am Radhika, planner and owner of Radications, and today I'm joined by Jill Cooper from Jill Cooper Music, one of the amazing multi-talented musicians and DJs here in Victoria. Welcome to the show, Jill. I'm so excited to have you on. Where are you joining us from today?

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Thanks so much for having me on. I'm joining from Victoria, BC. That's where I'm located. And yeah, I'm super excited to chat with you today, Rad.

SPEAKER_03 0:39

I'm so glad that we could find some time. I know it's the peak wedding season right now.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

It is, yeah. It's definitely a very busy time. So I appreciate you cutting out some time for me today. But yeah, it's been a busy one. I'm sure there's lots to talk about.

SPEAKER_03 0:54

Definitely. So I'm going to start off with what drew you to music? How did you find yourself here?

SPEAKER_00 1:00

That's a really good question. I would say I think I was kind of born drawn to music. My family is super musical and some of my earliest memories were musical in some sort of ways. Like I remember being, I think I was three and my family was on a road trip out to the Okanagan, which is a few hours away driving. And I remember writing this little jingle, really like kind of simple words to it because I was only three and singing it over and over and over again in the car ride to the Okanagan. I have two older siblings. Nobody said any discouraging words There was no like, can you stop singing? It was like my family was super supportive from day one. Yeah. And then from there, I just wanted to explore music in any way that I possibly could. So I started playing the violin. That was my first instrument when I was five. And then I started the guitar when I was 10. And then the drums when I was 13, I believe. And I also wanted to kind of explore the ins and outs of music theory. So I took a bunch of theory courses as a kid. I just really dove into all those instruments and the theory behind it. I then got lots of opportunities throughout the following years to join some bands. And I was in quite a few different bands. I auditioned actually for this internationally touring percussion band when I was 18. And to my surprise, I got in and I was super stoked. We got to tour parts of Europe, the US, all over Canada. So that was a really cool experience. And then from there, in my 20s I started really focusing in on weddings because weddings are naturally as a musician you get asked to do a couple a year like even if that's not your main focus and just from having done a few each year from people that saw me playing out at pubs and stuff like that I uh I loved it. I kind of fell in love with weddings. They're so fun. They're such a love-filled day. There's so many memories being made within this short time span. And I thought it could be a way that I could bring all of my musical experiences to life and kind of get creative with it. So

SPEAKER_03 3:10

have you played the violin since you were five?

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Yeah, I played the violin from five to about... 25 or so and took it pretty seriously. And I no longer play it often enough to be able to offer it at weddings. But that was my first and main instrument for quite a while, actually. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 3:27

You learned so much about you in like just a short amount of time.

SPEAKER_00 3:31

Yeah, there's a lot to my background. There's because I loved music and I just wanted to explore everything about it. And I think I still have that personality.

SPEAKER_03 3:40

So with all of these different instruments you played and the different experiences you have, how is your musical style developed and how would you describe that?

SPEAKER_00 3:49

Yeah, maybe I'll describe my DJ style and then my live music style because I do offer both as a DJ and primarily doing weddings. I'm really open format with my styles and that's just a term that we use in the DJ industry, meaning that you're mixing all sorts of different genres of music within a given set and you kind of have to be open. an open format DJ to do weddings because you get such a broad range of guests. And yeah, so I'll mix like a country song into a hip hop song. I'll mix like 70s disco into a top 40 pop song. So for DJing, it's like all about the couples that I'm working with and what they'd like to hear and what kind of music style they'd like from me. For live music, so at this point I offer guitar and singing and it's a bit tricky to describe my style. I'd say, because again, for weddings, you want to play all sorts of genres of music. So I'll play, I have a whole lot of pop songs that I know, folk, country, rock songs, but they're all kind of stripped down to be these acoustic guitar. I'd say maybe kind of gentler vocals that I have over top of that. Yeah, but I love all styles of music. Again, it's hard to just kind of narrow myself down to providing just one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 5:08

So you mentioned that when you were three, you were writing a song. Do you still write songs? Do you have like a creative process behind that? I

SPEAKER_00 5:16

do still write songs. Yeah, I actually have an EP out on Spotify. It's called A Piece of Me. So yeah, ever since three years old, I've continued to write songs. My creative process is interesting because you can sit down to write a song or to create a mix for a wedding set that you're going to do. Or, you know, you can sit down to like... practice for a wedding, prep for a wedding. And sometimes the creativity comes right in that moment and you're really kind of like practicing things and figuring things out as you're working through that prep time that you have. But also I'll get inspiration kind of anytime. So, you know, if I'm out on a run and I have my AirPods in and listening to music, I might get inspired by that music and kind of like the formula to a song that I'm listening to and kind of want to emulate that in an original song that I'm writing. Or I might be listening to a song in my airpods and i'm and those lyrics would sound super cool over the bass line of this other song so it's kind of like a dj idea that comes to mind for me in that moment so yeah the creativity kind of ebbs and flows and comes at different moments

SPEAKER_03 6:26

so being in the industry now for

SPEAKER_00 6:28

how many years i would say so it's a little tricky because i started playing weddings quite a long time ago i can't remember the year because i was playing a lot of public gigs and people would ask me to do weddings back then. But I would say I officially made weddings my main kind of gig in 2018.

SPEAKER_03 6:48

Okay. So I would say like eight years, nine years? Yeah, eight years. Yeah. Okay. So since you've been in the industry for eight or nine years, have you experienced any kind of misconceptions or anything that like people assumed maybe before they even worked with you or contacted you?

SPEAKER_00 7:07

That's a really good question. I do think that sometimes there's a misconception that when you're hiring a wedding DJ they're just they're just kind of there they just press play and maybe that's not a misconception anymore but you I have heard that over the years and we're doing a whole lot more than that so when when I meet with a couple I like to consult with them about their music in advance I have a music planning form that we work through together there's a lot of collaboration and what I tend to do is I get specific songs from them for specific moments throughout the day. So their ceremony songs, they'll pick out specifically those songs because they're so important. Their grand entrance, their first dance. So I'm getting some really specific information and then I'm also getting from that planning form some general vibes that they would love music-wise throughout just kind of their whole day in general. Cocktail hour, dinner, dancing, best arrival, all those moments. And so... What then goes into the process, which I think is something that is a misconception, is I then gather all of that information up. I've chatted with a couple of few times and then I get super creative with that form that I receive from them. So we get to, like what I get to do is figure out what would work perfectly with some of the cocktail hour ideas that they gave me and figure out for their dance portion of the night, what kind of tunes I can bring to the dance floor that this They will love, they will love to hear because it's totally their style of music and that also their guests and people of different generations will love to hear. So even just the time that goes into prepping for a wedding is huge and might be a misconception as well when you're hiring a DJ. For me personally, I spend a lot more time before your event than I do at your event. When I'm prepping a dance set, for example, if it's like a three-hour dance set, I might prep twice as much music or maybe even more than that ahead of time just because we don't know what exactly the crowd is going to react best to and I want to have a whole bunch of different kinds of ideas that can be thrown out and tested out with the crowd because people might be really loving hip-hop and then we want to have a bunch of hip-hop coming up or they might want to change from hip-hop to EDM or you know things like that and so I think those might be some misconceptions kind of what goes into the actual day before the day after the

SPEAKER_03 9:37

Yeah, I think that's like the misconception with like every industry profession, like a wedding and event that, you know, it's just the day that you're hiring them for. There's nothing happening beforehand. But there's so much that goes into being prepared, especially like two times the amount of music. That's a lot of music.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

Yeah. And I don't know if that's kind of across the board that all DJs are doing that. It's my process that really works well for me just because I want to be ready for whatever atmosphere, you know, happens when we get to the dance floor. It's like, we got to be prepared for these people to have the best night of their lives. And all of that prep work just helps me to feel really, really good about the choices that I'll make on the night of.

SPEAKER_03 10:24

Definitely. And I mean, I feel like Whenever I see a dance floor completely clear, I feel so bad for whoever the DJ is because it's like you got to recover from that. Yeah, yeah. So we've talked about the prep before and then on the day of. So I'm usually on the side of like making sure that you have like enough space and you have the outlets and everything. So what is your most challenging setup that you've ever had to figure out like where to be and where to go? And maybe you had to like have different setups to make it happen.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

Yeah, I actually have a a really good example. Last year, I had a wedding. It was July 2024. And it was a really big challenge. It was really cool, though. It was an incredible wedding. It was held at Bilston Creek Farm. And for those who are listening who haven't been there, that's a beautiful farm property out in Michozen. And this couple was coming from out of town. They had a whole bunch of guests from out of town, about 150 guests, I believe. And it was a whole day event. So they started at 10.30 in the morning and we went until 12.30 at night with music throughout the whole day. And I think it was six setups that I provided in different locations of the farm because it's such a beautiful farm and it's big and they wanted to have different parts of the day feature different parts of the property. And so that was really, really cool. So the guests arrived in a One thing that I really like to do is I don't like to have just one or two speakers in one corner with the volume all coming from that one corner. So people around the speakers can't really hear each other talking and then people far away can't really hear the music. So for each setup, I had like, I think six speakers around the perimeter of that area. So the guest arrival was in one area of the property and we had the six speakers around, we had music going and the music theme for each part of the day was also different. So for this part the day, I think it was 60s women in jazz music. So there was a really cool set list for that part of the day. And then guests moved over to the ceremony. And for the ceremony, again, there was a whole different sound system set up. We had lapel microphones for the couple and the officiant. And right before the ceremony, the theme of the music was movie soundtracks, which was really sweet and so fun, personalized for the couple. And then after the ceremony, they moved inside to the barn for lunch. So there was a whole different sound system in there with a wireless microphone for the MC and the music theme for that just because I find this was so cool all the different themes it was like acoustic male vocalist soft romantic songs and then after lunch those were the first three setups and then there was a short break where guests could go freshen up and get a change of clothes and come back for cocktail hour and this was the fourth setup so we had a sound system DJ controller I was mixing there was music from I think it was Chinese, African, French cultures were influencing the music just as a nod to the couple's heritages. Then we moved to dinner under a tent. So this was a totally different area of the property. Again, a whole unique sound system and the DJ controller and some a theme to the music. I think it was funky instrumentals. And then finally, there was dancing at the end of the night. And the interesting thing about dancing was that it was in it was in like the basement of the barn. We kind of turned it into like this whole club kind of feel with uplighting and dance floor lights and, you know, the DJ booth, the big dance sound system. But the bar was upstairs. And typically it's really nice to have the bar near the dance floor so that if people are going off to get a drink, they can come right back and dance. But it was upstairs. So what I did was I routed some cables to some speakers upstairs so that those are quietly playing the dance music. So people could be like, that song is playing. We'd better run back downstairs because, you know, they... they love the song or something like that. So that was a huge wedding. It actually, it recently won best wedding in Canada at the Canadian event awards, which was super, super cool. Um, clearly there was a lot of different like details that went into the day because the couple really wanted to have a lot of special moments and it was, it was incredible.

SPEAKER_03 14:51

Yeah, that takes a lot of mapping out and so smart to have the music pipe into the bar area too.

SPEAKER_00 14:57

Yeah, it was a really good call because then people didn't miss out on, you know, their favorite song because they could hear if that song started playing. Like I got like two minutes to go down and dance to my favorite song right now. And with all the outdoor elements to the wedding, I had a bunch of battery powered equipment as well, which was another hurdle just to make sure that everything would be super charged up and ready to go for that many hours.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

Yeah. Actually, we're doing a wedding this weekend and we don't have much access to power and I was they don't have a DJ. So I'm kind of helping with that. And I need we need battery powered everything. We're not looking for outlets.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

Yeah. And that's the thing, too. If a couple doesn't have a DJ, I think a lot of that role kind of lands on the planner, right?

SPEAKER_03 15:41

Yeah. And I'm always so thankful when there is a DJ because, you know, it's like something that I do off to the side of my desk that I don't really know what to do if something goes wrong. It's just like me turning it off and turning it back on again. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Yeah. It's nice to know everything that could go wrong with the equipment and how to how to quickly fix it. And yeah,

SPEAKER_03 16:00

definitely. Maybe I should just take you with me to Quadra Island. Sure. I mean, So speaking of, do you think there's something that people often overlook when they're picking music for their day aside from like, you know, considering outlets?

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Yeah, I would say because I meet with my couples and I really like chat through things beforehand, not much really goes overlooked in the end. But I do think that something that can be overlooked sometimes is that when you're picking out your music for your day, we want to make sure it really fits with your vibe as the couple. And I don't think that's overlooked. Like that's And that's amazing. We want your day to be your day. It's usually a once in a lifetime. But what can sometimes be overlooked is inserting a few music choices in that are suitable for the guests that are coming to your wedding. Family members, maybe older generations, people from different countries. Are there ways that we can insert that into your day kind of naturally without it changing the vibe of your day to be not you anymore? And I think there's so many ways to incorporate them because they're there's times when the couple is not even there. Like if when guests are arriving pre-ceremony, maybe we could throw in a track that your grandparents really love if they're there. On the dance floor, maybe we can throw in some stuff that your family really loves to sing along to because maybe there's a moment where you're off taking photos in the sunset. So that can be something. I would say another thing that can be overlooked is the moment of the first dance. And I talk this through with all of the couples that I work with I think it's such a special moment. A lot of people do it. If you don't want to do it, that's totally fine. But if you do do it, shorten the song. Nobody really wants to be in front of all of these people with the spotlight on them for a full three and a half, four minutes. So I typically recommend shortening the song. And if you do shorten the song... I would recommend not just ending it with a fade out. Two minutes into the song, if you're fading out and the lyrics are still kind of going, it's all right. It's an okay way to end the song. But what I offer is I can actually clip out a portion of the song that's like the middle portion of the song. And so in advance of your wedding day, I can send you a version of the song where you have the beginning, it jumps to a later chorus instead of the chorus that it's about to start, and it has the end. And I just I just think with like the actual ending not being a fade out, it creates this really amazing opportunity to end with like a dip and to end with or some sort of move and to have this kind of natural, great ending to the song. And I think it's just like this tiny little detail. But to me, it's just it can be it can make that moment a little bit more special.

SPEAKER_03 18:46

Definitely. And I know I also tell people that they don't need to dance to the whole song for their dances with their parents, even if they're doing those. Yeah. Because and it's great to have somebody like you there that can also help clip that together and make the song really beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

Yeah. Yeah. So I'll do it for the first dance and for parent dances. And I'll just send those to couples in advance of their wedding day so they can practice. They can let me know if I clipped out their favorite lyric and then I'll just switch things around. But yeah, you don't necessarily want to be up there dancing with your parents either forever. that long.

SPEAKER_03 19:24

Yes, that's true. Especially if you don't like the spotlight on you.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

Totally. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:29

Yeah. So with social media, it's getting more and more prevalent. There's TikTok, Instagram, everything. Do you feel like that's impacted your job for better or for worse?

SPEAKER_00 19:39

Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely impacted my job as it probably does yours as well. It's such a bigger component of my business than it used to be. And I would say for better, it really, it does take time. So you have to put aside that time to put together this content. But I've been posting mixes, DJ mixes from the actual events and weddings that I'm doing onto my Instagram. I have TikTok as well. I was a little late to the game with that one, but I've been posting content from those events and I have a 360 cam so it can capture the audience dancing and then it can capture me mixing. And I think it's just an amazing way to show the couples that are considering booking me exactly what they're going to get. You actually look like does my dj actually mix does my dj actually have lights what's the energy of my dj i also post live music clips so people can hear what i sound like live so it's it's been a really big part of the business in the in the last couple years i actually have a cute little story about that. It was somebody, and I heard this later than when it happened. So there was somebody who lived in Alberta and apparently one of my reels, one of my DJ mix reels came across her For You page on Instagram and she really liked it, maybe hit like. And then another reel a couple of days later of mine came up on her For You page and, you know, she liked it. She followed me. And then fast forward a couple months, she got invited to her friend's wedding and they were getting married in Victoria and she was from Alberta. She didn't know where I was from at this point, but she told me later, she said, she thought to herself in that moment, I've got to get my friends to hire that DJ. I don't know where they're from. I'm just going to, I'm going to go, you know, search them up. And she looked me up, saw that I was from Victoria, called up her friends, was like, oh my gosh, this DJ that I've been following on Instagram is from Victoria. She does weddings. You got to hire her. And it was just so cool to hear the story that just from like a couple of reels on social media this person from Alberta got me hired for a wedding in Victoria. It kind of blew my mind a little bit because it shows you that power that social media can have if you're putting out content.

SPEAKER_03 22:00

That's amazing. I love that story.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

Yeah, it was heartwarming. It was really cool. Okay, so I know I'm not on TikTok. How are you finding TikTok? I was linked to the game. It felt like I couldn't keep up with all these changes to new social media platform. At this point, I just post what I post on Instagram, on TikTok as well. And so I'm kind of just experimenting with it at this point to see. And it's interesting because some styles of videos or styles of mixes will do better on TikTok than Instagram and then vice versa. So I'm in an experimental phase with TikTok, I would say. Yeah, I don't keep up with all of the TikTok trends or kind of those cool little things that you can do. But one day, hopefully I'll get there. I

SPEAKER_03 22:46

mean, it's another job in and of itself.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

Totally. Yeah, it really is. Just social media in general. I feel that all wedding and event industry folks are having to be content creators as well.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

I know. Not something that I thought would be part of the job description. Totally. Do you have any advice for anyone who wants to get into the world of weddings as a DJ or a musician or even both?

SPEAKER_00 23:11

Yeah. Yeah. If you really want to do it, it's awesome. It's a really detail-oriented job. It's like a high-pressure job as a musician or DJ, which I really thrive in that kind of environment, I think it's an amazing opportunity to be able to do weddings. I would say make connections, network with people, meet people who are in the industry, maybe shadow people who have that job just to see what it's really like or be like an assistant in some sort of way. But I think if you have a dream just in general as a musician, whether it's to work weddings or to be an original artist or to play in as many different venues and restaurants around town as you possibly can. Dream it up and then just kind of like, like I'm a big believer in dreaming and then just once you've dreamt it up, dial it back and just think like, what's one thing I can do today? What's one small step that I can take towards that dream? And so maybe that small step is going to a networking event in the Or, you know, seeing if there's a friend or family member that might get you to play for an hour at their wedding. So, yeah, just dream it up and then start to do those little to-do list items that you could do in the next day or two. I

SPEAKER_03 24:26

feel like that's how most of the people that I know in the wedding industry started. Just it was a dream and a hope and slowly they got to where they are now.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

Yeah, they put in the work towards that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

So if there is, I'm going to just ask you one thing, though, on the other side, would you change anything about the wedding? or an event in event industry? I think...

SPEAKER_00 24:47

And this is, I think this is already a part of a lot of wedding vendors' mentality in the Victoria wedding industry. But I think just in general, encouraging couples to just do what they want to do. I actually think that's something that you say a lot. I think actually, you know, you do you. If you feel like there's any expectations to do things a certain way, you don't have to follow those expectations. You don't have to have a first dance at your wedding. You don't have to have your ceremony happen in any sort of certain way, except for those legal components that do need to happen in a certain way. You can have your wedding be totally about like the dance party and make a really long dance section to the night. Or you can have a really short timeline. So all of those kinds of expectations that are on couples, and I think there's a whole lot more these days with social media being a part of the equation. I think if all wedding vendors are kind of trying to take those expectations off of their couple's plates, then that would be a really cool way of being as a wedding industry as a whole. But like I said, I think a lot of people in the Victoria wedding industry are all about that already.

SPEAKER_03 25:55

Yeah. And it's interesting because I know that the cookie cutter style wedding is something that a lot of us did without asking any questions. I first got into the industry and then slowly around the pandemic, it seemed to be a catalyst for like, wait, why are we doing everything the same every single time? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Yeah. Question it all because you don't have to do it a certain way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

Yeah. Okay. Well, speaking of questions, I have a game for you. Okay, cool. Okay. So it's going to just be quick fire. You can answer as quickly or as slowly as you want. And it's just going to be like whatever comes to your head. All right. Okay. So favorite meal you've eaten at a wedding. Oh,

SPEAKER_00 26:35

I'm not so quick. Okay. I got to say there was mashed potatoes at the inn at Laurel Point at a buffet that were just amazing. And they were very creamy and delicious. So that element of that meal.

SPEAKER_03 26:47

I mean, everyone likes a good mashed potato. Wedding trend that you think should stay. Wedding trend that I

SPEAKER_00 26:53

think should stay. I like little like props for the dance floor, like those little glow tubes or, you know, like those cardboard cutout of your cat's face. Like I think anything kind of like that is really fun.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Is there a wedding trend that you think that should go? Honestly,

SPEAKER_00 27:11

if you really want to do it, do it. But what are some wedding trends right now?

SPEAKER_03 27:15

I feel like none of us keep up with wedding trends. Like I have them on the peripheral and every time I ask a question, everyone's like, wait, what's their wedding trend right now?

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

I think I saw that people are doing like a late, late, late party until like two in the morning or like three in the morning. Yeah,

SPEAKER_00 27:35

I'm

SPEAKER_03 27:36

into

SPEAKER_00 27:38

that. I'm into, you know, if you want to change your outfit partway through the day, that's cool. That's fun.

UNKNOWN 27:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

Yeah, do whatever trends you like. And I don't know all the trends. I feel like

SPEAKER_03 27:50

this goes back to the you do you thing. We're like, we don't know anything about the trends.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

Yeah, we don't know anything about the trends, partly, I think, because, you know, we just want couples to do what they do.

SPEAKER_03 28:01

Is there a song that you will never get

SPEAKER_00 28:02

tired of?

SPEAKER_03 28:03

I

SPEAKER_00 28:04

fully wholeheartedly believe I won't get tired of Pink Pony Club. It's still pretty recent, so we'll see. But I think it's an awesome banger. I'm going to ask you next year.

SPEAKER_03 28:16

Is there a song you never want to hear again? I'm

SPEAKER_00 28:19

not a huge fan of kind of those like chicken dance, easier kind of... The cliches. Yeah, yeah. If you want it, you want it, but I wouldn't play it just out of the blue.

SPEAKER_03 28:35

Your most unexpected moment? At a wedding?

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Mm-hmm. Honestly, I think it's... It's when people that you don't expect to dance to a particular song, dance to that song. And it's happened a few times. I've gotten some requests later in the night that are pretty explicit songs. And then you have people that are, you know, older generations getting up and just like getting low. And I would say that's pretty unexpected. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:04

Definitely. Okay. I'm going to ask you to pick some songs off the top of your head. And then we're going to wrap this up. Grand Entrance.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

Levels by Avicii.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

Oh, that's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:14

First Dance?

SPEAKER_00 29:15

I would say I really like that new song Ordinary by Alex Warren. Oh, I haven't heard that one. I'll have to look that up. I think it's going to be a trending wedding song coming up.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

All right. I'll check it out. Opening the Dance Floor.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

Okay. So like Dancing Queen or September by Earth, Wind & Fire. Those get everybody up. So those are great choices. Oh my

SPEAKER_03 29:36

gosh. So I did a wedding in September and that song didn't get played.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

Really? Was it September? Was it September 21st? I think so. Because that was a Saturday last year. Yeah. I think. So that was, yeah, Saturday, September 21st, 2024. And yeah, I started the dance floor with that. Made a little announcement because it refers to September 21st in the song.

SPEAKER_03 30:02

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was September 21st. I was like so excited. I was like, this song is definitely going to get played. Never got played.

SPEAKER_00 30:10

Okay, closing the dance floor. A really good sing-along. So I've Had the Time of My Life or Closing Time is always a great one. Or Bohemian Rhapsody. Amy and Rhapsody. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

Okay. That's all of my quick fire questions for you. Before we wrap up, can you tell us more about what you have coming up, where people can find you, where they can listen to your songs? Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 30:35

Coming up, I just have a whole bunch of awesome weddings this year. I've met the couples. They're amazing. So I'm super excited for the 2025 wedding season. And then I'm booking into 2026 right now. So that's shaping up to be a jillcoopermusic and so that's instagram tiktok jillcoopermusic on facebook and then jillcoopermusic.com is my website where you can inquire if anybody's wanting to inquire and yeah if you you know like what you see like check out those pages there's a lot of dj mixes and and things out there that you can kind of watch for entertainment or to see what you get if you book me so check

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it

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out

SPEAKER_03 31:16

Great. Thank you so much, Jill. I will let you go out and enjoy the sun now because it's starting to peak out.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

Yeah, you too. Thanks so much for having me on. Your podcast is amazing. You do such a good job. And I just want to say I love the intro outro song that you have for this season. It's super cool.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

Thank you. That is actually Jeff Insell and Elliot Loran, Jelly Records. You did their faux wedding for the style shoot. Yeah,

SPEAKER_00 31:44

yeah. They're awesome. They're kind of weddings. Yeah. That's great. cool that they created it. So yeah, I

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wanted something fun. So I'm like, I can pass it to you. And maybe you can play it at your next wedding.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Totally. I'd love that. Thanks.

SPEAKER_03 31:56

Thanks, Jill. A huge thank you to Jill for being on the podcast in the middle of the busy wedding season. Join us next week for another great conversation. And in the meantime, stay rad.