Jason Sulkin Music

I was extremely happy with Jason performing at my wedding. I got married in Santa Barbara by the beach and I wanted a nice solo guitarist. Jason was very friendly and very easy to communicate with. He was has a huge variety of music to choose from and even learned how to play a new song for my special day. Jason arrived on time and dressed perfect for the part. He set an incredible romantic, classy, entertaining mood for my guests at the wedding and really made my dream come true. I would HIGHLY recommend Jason, he is a talented musician and a true professional!

Jason was an absolute pleasure to work with! He was incredibly responsive, patient and reliable. For me, it was hard to pick songs for the ceremony and he walked me through the entire process and was so helpful. He’s able to play hundreds of songs and sent me a long list of music from many different genres. He made a process that could have been stressful, really easy and enjoyable. He’s friendly and has a great attitude. He played in a trio at our wedding, and all the musicians showed up on time and were dressed really nicely. The music was a wonderful, elegant addition to our ceremony and I’m so happy we hired Jason! I highly recommend Jason Sulkin Music!

I was probably the most laid back bride ever. I just wanted to show up on 7÷11÷15 and get married, but I also wanted really soft guitar music for my guests to enjoy and not sit in silence. I saw on our venue’s (Santa Barbara Courthouse) Unilocal page that someone mentioned Jason’s company. I thought, well that’s perfect because he knows the space!
Working with Jason was beyond easy. He actually helped me pick my song that I walked down the aisle too (oddly enough I loved that song so much and wanted to have it somewhere in my wedding) and exit song too! He asked a lot of questions to really fully understand what type of wedding I was having, guest count and overall vibe I wanted to give off. He helped me understand how things usually ebb and flow and gave me more direction – which was fantastic.
The day of I was busy being a bride, so I really can’t tell you how the music inside was (my nerves were getting the best of me, but I do remember almost crying when I was walking down the aisle to the song!), however all the guests I asked said it was really nice, the songs blended well together and my twin sister said it was all perfect. Jason wasn’t present, but he had his musician playing the guitar for the ceremony and he was awesome (from what I heard from guests). Thanks Jason!

Jason is a magician. On relatively short notice, he arranged for two wonderful musicians to play the penny whistle (yes, the penny whistle!), sax, and trumpet over Paul Simon’s «You Can Call Me Al» for the grand entrance at our August 2015 wedding. The musicians were sweet, fun, and professional – and they even did the little dance from the music video. What a great team! Thanks, guys!

For our wedding on 07÷19÷15, we booked a trio (violin, cello, and guitar) for our ceremony and solo guitar for the cocktail hour through Jason Sulkin.
Jason was very professional and helpful from the start. He provided a detailed outline, song lists and suggestions, and responses to all of our questions. The month prior and again two days before our wedding, we had a conference call with Jason to outline and confirm the processional, bride’s processional, interlude, and recessional music.
We selected a unique song for the bride’s processional that required Jason and his accompanying musicians to learn in advance. We discussed the tempo and timing of when to start the bride’s processional based on length of the walk and desire to enter at the chorus. Jason was accommodating and offered great insight from his experience.
The bride’s processional turned out perfectly! Jason also played splendidly at the cocktail hour and the guests complimented his talent. We would use Jason Sulkin again and highly recommend him for your wedding!

Jason was wonderful! We give him our highest possible recommendation!
We had Jason perform as a solo guitarist at our small wedding ceremony at the Santa Barbara Courthouse. He was very helpful and encouraging with our music selection; he provided us a full repertoire of his contemporary/​classical/​traditional wedding music. He was very professional and incredibly talented. Everyone at the wedding complimented us on his seamless integration of outstanding music in a manner cohesive with our ceremony. If you are looking for an outstanding guitarist, search no further!

My husband and I had Jason play at our wedding this past April. He was so great! He worked with us before the big day on exactly what songs we wanted and the whole timing of everything. We didn’t have a wedding planner or anything, so we were relatively naïve about how things usually go. Jason gave us direction and was very helpful with the whole process. His pricing was very reasonable. He was responsive to any email or question I had before the wedding as well. His music made our ceremony complete. We definitely recommend Jason Sulkin!

Jason played for our pre-​ceremony, ceremony, and cocktail hour. He was the perfect addition and really set the tone for an elegant wedding. He was extremely professional, and executed our ceremony perfectly! We are so grateful he was a part of our day and would highly recommend him to anyone looking for a guitarist for their event!

Jason did such an amazing job. First off, he made the process of getting the music we wanted for our wedding very simple. After just two meetings over the phone, he knew our playlist and had the exact idea and style we wanted for our wedding. When there was a minor issue, he has a solution at hand as well, which made the process even easier. The entire band at the wedding did such a great job. They all looked very professional and set the mood perfectly.
Overall, we felt that he cared about our wedding and took the time to make sure everything went smoothly.

Jason was simply a joy to work with and helped make our wedding even that much more beautiful. I myself am a wedding planner by trade and could not be happier with the results from Jason. He really cares about his clients and is all of the above: responsive, professional, a great value and has so many great ideas. Not to mention his music is just lovely and perfect for a ceremony. We also had him play for our cocktail hour and the guests just loved him. As a wedding planner I would hire him for my own brides again and again! Thank you, Jason!

So NOT the type of musician any bride would want to work with on her wedding day. I found Jason through gigsalad and had thought his website was impressive, but that’s about as far as that goes.
let’s just say that about a month before my wedding, I was ready to hire a completely different service. I was not happy with Jason’s customer service. I asked him if we could change the instrumentation a little over four months away from our wedding, and he said he «would get back to me.» I continued to contact him for a month, and he continuously said he was trying to get in touch with his musicians. Sorry, but you shouldn’t offer a music service if you can’t reach your musicians in over a months time. After a month and a week, he said he would still need to charge me due to the fact that it’s so close to the wedding…
Then he said he wouldn’t charge me. Then he said he would. It was so unprofessional! I then asked for the repertoire list, and he didn’t get it to me up until TWO AND A HALF weeks before our wedding. So, this is unacceptable in my eyes. It was such an unpleasant hassle, and he was in no way apologetic or understanding that he fully complicated things for me. I asked him a few months in if he was just too busy, I thought that maybe he had overbooked himself. Which still could have been the case, but at the expense of his customer service. It turned out to be ok, but in the end, I don’t think the experience is worth it.

Jason Sulkin Music is more than just Jason by himself as a solo guitarist. Jason has put together a very impressive stable of talented musicians to beautifully accommodate weddings and other events. Through Jason, my wife and I booked Jason’s «Alternative Trio» for our wedding ceremony/​cocktail hour on 6÷21÷14. The Alt Trio is comprised of acoustic guitar, cello and violin.
Throughout the process of selecting music and deciding which songs would accompany the processional, ceremony, recessional, etc., Jason was wonderfully professional, friendly and helpful. And the most difficult part of the whole experience was picking which songs we wanted most from the extensive lists Jason sent us. We were able to select from pop and contemporary classics, standards, classical and more and in our consultation, Jason helpfully suggested a very nice mix of genres based on our input as to what kind of mood we wanted to set for our ceremony and cocktail hour.
Jason’s fees are very reasonable, especially considering the level of service, and it was also very nice knowing that if additional playing time might be needed from the musicians for any reason, that we could request it on the spot in 30 minute increments for a very agreeable price. His musicians arrived well ahead of time, dressed nicely for the occasion and provided a wonderful opening ambiance for our wedding.
As an added note, we needed the musicians to set up at one location for our ceremony and then move several yards to our cocktail hour area and they did so happily and seamlessly for a perfect event.
We HIGHLY recommend Jason Sulkin Music and would book them again without a second thought!

We used Jason’s trio for our Smog Shoppe wedding May 10 – 2014. They were amazing! Sounded beautiful! Very professional correspondence setting up event also. We highly recommend Jason. Adding live music to our wedding made the ceremony and reception so special! Also, it’s a wonderful way to transition to a DJ for the dinner and dancing!

Jason performed at our wedding and did such a great job. He is very professional and easy to talk to and to get ahold of. He was on time and everything worked perfect. The music was perfect it really added that extra touch to our ceremony. We are so happy that we went with Jason Sulkin

Jason Sulkin was an extremely professional, responsive guitarist for out recent wedding. He made us feel instantly comfortable by going over everything with us and being very clear on the business side of things. We hired him to play guitar for our ceremony and cocktail hour. He is a fantastic musician and his playing made the ambiance of our event just right. We would definitely use Jason again for any event!

From the moment we met Jason, we knew he was the guy and he did not disappoint! His prices are reasonable, he shows up on time, he plays what you ask him to play, and his timing was impeccable. My wife wanted to walk down the aisle to a song and Jason somehow managed to time it so perfectly as to hit the ‘chorus’ part of the song just as my bride reached the beginning of aisle (it was a decent walk from the hotel out onto the beach to the beginning of the aisle, so I consider this to be a pretty good sense of timing by Jason!).
Jason played while the guests were seated, he played at times during ceremony, and he played the cocktail hour as well. I had several of our guests say what a beautiful touch it was to have an acoustic guitarist, but I assure you that it depends on the guitarist and Jason was AWESOME!
I wish I could give him more than five stars!

If you are looking for a cocktail hour guitarist to just play what he knows Jason is perfect for you.
If you are getting married in a Catholic ceremony (or any religious ceremony with various hymns/​songs) he is NOT your man. He tells you that he’s played at many before, but he doesn’t know the basic songs played during any church ceremony and will charge you for any additional song he is supposed to learn and even AFTER you send him the music ahead of time he is unable to pick it up and play it off the sheet music. He also refused to play for 10 minutes while people were being seated in the church because we only agreed to 3 hours and it would be an extension of the time. Even though there was an HOUR in between our ceremony and the cocktail hour when he wasn’t playing at all. Not to mention since he couldn’t play the church music he only played a few songs during the ceremony hour anyway.

After going to a bridal expo in Pasadena and hearing Jason play, we knew we had to hire Jason Sulkin Music to do the music for our cocktail ceremony for our June 9^th wedding. From start to finish, Jason was very professional and easy to work with. We chose to go with the single guitar and went with a contemporary playlist.
On the day of our wedding, the guitarist, I believe his name was Mark, showed up on time and dressed perfectly for the occasion. While he was setting up, I was getting ready to make my walk down the aisle and was able to chat with him and thank him for coming. While we weren’t around for the cocktail hour, everyone has complimented us on it. The music was just the right fit for what we wanted. We didn’t want the party to get kicked off without us, so the low key music was perfect. It definitely wasn’t «elevator music» it was newer songs like Coldplay mixed with older songs like The Beatles (my husband’s favorite)
When all was said and done, we were very happy with the decision to have a guitarist at our cocktail hour. It was just a small little detail that really helped to set the stage for our wedding reception.
Thanks Jason!