Best entertainers in Croydon
Most of these acts genuinely live out here, which is unusual for a Melbourne suburb page. A cover band, two singers and a drag performer give Croydon or Croydon North as home, then a puppet show at Bayswater North, two singers at Mooroolbark and a pianist and a singer at Ringwood, all inside five or six kilometres. The one act with a review on it is a wedding band coming from Glen Iris, and that is the long drive of the bunch.
So the usual outer-suburbs warning does not really apply here. What does apply is that these are quiet cards with no client feedback behind them, which means the enquiry does the work reviews would normally do. Send the same three questions to four of them and compare how the answers come back.
Top picks in Croydon
Top picks are the nearby performers with the most visible reviews, then rating, then the closest; further afield the closest come first, and premium listings break remaining ties. Distances are straight-line from Croydon. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
Questions people ask about entertainers in Croydon
Is this the Croydon in Melbourne or the one in Sydney?
This page is Croydon in Melbourne's outer east, near Ringwood and Mooroolbark, out along the Maroondah Highway. The New South Wales suburb of the same name is in Sydney's inner west and has nothing to do with the acts listed here. If your event is over there, search from the Sydney end instead.
Can I hire a singer for a small backyard party?
That is most of what the acts nearest Croydon actually do. A soloist with a compact PA suits a deck, a marquee or a lounge room, and they will play softly through the food and lift it afterwards if you ask. Tell them roughly how many people and whether it is inside or out, because that changes what gear they load.
None of these acts has reviews. How do I judge them?
Ask for video of a whole song from a real gig rather than a highlight reel, and ask what they played at their last three bookings. A performer who answers with specifics has been working; one who sends a press photo and a price has not. Two or three enquiries side by side sorts it out quickly.
Booking tips
Start with the solo singers
Half of the nearest ten is one person with a guitar or a keyboard, and for a sixtieth in a community hall or a Sunday afternoon in a back garden that is the right size act. They set up in twenty minutes and they do not need a stage.
Ask for a school or daytime rate
There is a puppet show and a face-painting sort of trade within easy reach, and a weekday fete or a kids' party is priced differently to a Saturday night by a lot of performers. Say what the event actually is rather than just asking for a price.
Hall bookings mean bringing everything
Community and sporting club rooms around the outer east give you a space, power points and a kitchen. Confirm the act includes sound and lights, because the cheapest quote is often the one that assumed a PA was already on the wall.