Best entertainers in San Remo
No act gives San Remo as home, but two of the ten are near enough to count. A singer over the bridge on Phillip Island is a quarter of an hour away, and a duo at Wonthaggi is twenty minutes along the Bass Highway. After those two the map plays its trick: a singer at Bittern, a DJ at Hastings, a country band at Blind Bight, a singer-songwriter and a jazz guitarist on the Mornington Peninsula, another singer-songwriter at Red Hill, a duo at Safety Beach and a fire performer at Mount Martha all sit at what looks like an easy distance and are, by road, an hour and more around the top of Western Port. Two locals and eight long drives is the honest shape of it.
San Remo is the fishing town at the mainland end of the bridge, and the work is the island's overflow plus its own: a wedding on the foreshore with the reception up the hill, a fiftieth in a holiday house, a Christmas do for the boats, a family weekend that wants a singer on the deck. The pool behind the page is the Mornington Peninsula's, singers and duos ahead of singer-songwriters and cover bands, but the acts a San Remo booker should really think of as local are the Bass Coast ones, Wonthaggi and the island, and they scroll in further down because the circle is drawn on the map, not the road.
Top picks in San Remo
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 San Remo. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
Questions people ask about entertainers in San Remo
How much to hire a band for a wedding in San Remo?
Whatever the band costs at home, add the road to San Remo, because the nearest full band on this page is a country outfit at Blind Bight and the cover and wedding bands behind it are peninsula or Melbourne acts a long drive off. A Saturday in the holiday season goes at the top of their range and often with a room for the night. The from-prices beside the band cards are the starting figures; ask for travel and accommodation as their own lines.
Is the Phillip Island singer really the closest act to San Remo?
Yes, and it isn't a trick of the map this time: Sunset Strip is on the island's north coast and the bridge makes it a short drive to the foreshore. That makes the singer the first enquiry for a ceremony, a deck party or a dinner where one voice and a guitar is enough. For dancing, the Wonthaggi duo with tracks is the next call before anything from across the bay.
Do Mornington Peninsula acts play San Remo?
They do, and the summer keeps them busy on both sides of Western Port, but the route from Red Hill or Safety Beach is Frankston, Cranbourne, Koo Wee Rup and the Bass Highway, not the straight line the card shows. Expect that in the quote and expect a question about the finish time. If the act looks close on the page and the price looks high, the drive is the answer.
Booking tips
The Blind Bight band comes by highway
The country band at Blind Bight is the one Western Port act that doesn't need to round the bay to get here: it's the South Gippsland Highway to Bass and down, about an hour. For a country-leaning crowd it's the nearest band on the page.
Ask whether the quote is for the bridge or the bay
An act from Hastings or Mornington will price the drive around through Koo Wee Rup, and it's a real cost. An act from the island or Wonthaggi has none. When two quotes are far apart, that's usually why.
The foreshore takes the wind
San Remo's jetty side faces the channel and the afternoon wind comes straight up it. A singer with a small rig wants a spot behind a building or under the trees, and a fire act wants to see the forecast before they commit.