Maroochydore is the middle of the Sunshine Coast in every sense: the commercial centre, the airport town, and the place most of the coast's acts mean when they write Sunshine Coast as their base. Which produces an odd result on this page. Three acts give Maroochydore itself, a Polynesian dance show, a cover band and a soloist, and then every act after them is the same short distance away, so the order they appear in below tells you nothing: it's a tie, and the ten you see first are simply the first ten names.
So scroll. The full Maroochydore list runs to singers and wedding singers first, then soloists, duos, cover bands, wedding bands and guitarists, and the act that suits your night might be the fortieth card, no further away than the fourth. Corporate work is the other thing this town has that Noosa and Caloundra don't, conferences and end-of-year dinners for the coast's businesses, which is why a magician is never far down the list.
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 Maroochydore. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
Hardly any DJ here quotes by the hour, so the honest answer is to ask for the whole night. A four-hour party and a wedding with ceremony sound, speeches and a late finish are two different prices, and the second isn't the first multiplied. Look at the from-prices on the Maroochydore DJ listings above for where the local DJs start, then tell them the hours and let them price it.
Because the coast's acts cluster around Maroochydore, and a lot of them give the region rather than a suburb as home, which lands them on the same point of the map. The page sorts by distance, and a tie is a tie. Treat the first page as a sample and use the trade you need to cut the full list down.
There's one on this list, based a few minutes from Maroochydore, and close-up magic between courses is a common corporate booking on the coast because it needs no stage and no sound. Ask whether they do a stage spot as well as table work, and how many tables they can cover in an hour. Conference season through winter is when they get asked most, so a June date is worth raising early.
Distance won't sort this list for you, so go to the full Maroochydore page and choose the trade first. A cover band and a wedding singer are both a few minutes from the river, and only the trade tells them apart.
If the job is a conference dinner, ask the singer or the band whether they'll run the formalities too. Plenty of the coast's soloists do, and it saves booking a separate MC for one night.
The acts already know the venues here, but a coast address can mean anything from Caloundra to Coolum. Give the suburb and the room in the enquiry, and the quote comes back without a guessed travel line.