DJs for hire in Calgary
Shaw Entertainment books professional DJs for weddings, corporate parties and private events in Calgary and across Canada. The music is chosen for your guests, from background at dinner to a full dance floor.
Keep the party moving with a professional DJ and music selected for your event.
From dinner and background music to a full dance-floor experience, Shaw Entertainment can provide music to match the mood.
What a DJ can do
- Dance-floor sets
- A DJ who reads the room and moves between decades and styles as the floor changes.
- Dinner and background music
- Music at conversation level through a reception or a meal, before the dancing starts.
- A DJ with a live player
- A saxophonist, a violinist or a percussionist playing over the set. It gives a dance floor something to watch.
- DJ and host in one
- A DJ who also handles the announcements and the microphone for speeches, if you want one person doing both.
- Lounge and late-night sets
- House, lounge and electronic music for launches, after-parties and rooms that want a later feel.
- Video and karaoke
- Ask us about a DJ who mixes video to the screens, or a karaoke set, if your venue can support it.
Occasions it suits
- WeddingsYour wedding deserves a soundtrack that's as memorable as the celebration itself.
- Corporate EventsMake your next corporate event something your guests will actually talk about.
- Private PartiesBirthday parties, anniversaries, celebrations, reunions, holiday parties, and milestone events deserve great entertainment.
- Holiday PartiesDecember fills up before anyone expects it to.
- Stampede EventsFor ten days in July, every patio in Calgary is a venue.
- Festivals & Special EventsBring your event to life with entertainment that gets people involved.
What to tell us
Four things let us match the act to the event. If you don't know one of them yet, say so and we will work with what you have. Booking more than one act? See how we plan the entertainment around your agenda.
- The room
- Where the DJ sets up, and whether the venue has its own sound system.
- Guest count
- And the age range. It shapes the music more than anything else.
- The mood
- Your must-plays and your do-not-plays. Both lists help.
- The programme
- Whether the DJ covers dinner as well as the dance, and when the venue needs the music off.
What affects the cost of hiring a DJ in Calgary?
The date and the season, how long the DJ plays, whether they cover dinner as well as the dance, any travel, and what the venue already provides for sound. We don't publish a price list. Tell us the night and we will come back with a quote for it.
Questions people ask
- Can we send a playlist or a do-not-play list?
- Yes, and we encourage it. Send both with your enquiry or closer to the date and they go to the DJ.
- Can a DJ and a live band share the night?
- Yes. A common plan is a live band for the main sets and a DJ between them and after. Choose both in Plan the night and we will work from that.
- Can the DJ make announcements and run the microphone?
- Many can. Tell us if you want the DJ to host as well, or whether someone else is doing the introductions, and we will match the booking to it.
- What does a DJ need from the venue?
- A place to set up, and the answer to two questions: whether the venue has its own sound system, and when the music has to be off. Tell us what the venue provides and we settle the rest with them before the day.
- Can the DJ cover dinner as well as the dance?
- Yes. Music at conversation level through a reception or a meal, then a dance-floor set once dinner is done. Tell us which parts of a wedding reception or a staff party you want covered.
- Can we see who we would be booking?
- Yes. We don't publish names on this site. Once we know your date, your room and the kind of night you want, we send you options to look at and listen to before you decide anything.
Tell us about your night
Choose the occasion and what you are looking for. It takes a few minutes and gives us a proper brief to work from.