MLB Entertainment

Musical director Sam Ainslie put MLB Entertainment together as a pool of Melbourne players who can be configured to the room. That means an acoustic ensemble for a wedding ceremony at one end, and a full show band aimed squarely at a corporate gala dance floor at the other. Live playing sits over custom backing tracks, which is how a modest line-up ends up sounding much bigger than it is. The technical side runs with backup gear rather than a single point of failure, a small thing until the night it matters. Tell them the brief and the format follows from it.