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Launched in 1996, BOOKING ENTERTAINMENT was the first booking agency online and the brainchild of the company's founder and CEO, Steve Einzig.

"I had worked for a big New York concert promoter producing shows at Madison Square Garden, Carnegie Hall and the Meadowlands, and then spent time as James Brown's agent for a few years. In 1995, I started to hear about the internet and figured it would be the perfect vehicle to generate leads from clients around the world who were looking to either buy talent, or to utilize a complete turn-key concert service for their parties and events."
The rest is history.

Over the last 20 years, BOOKING ENTERTAINMENT has grown to become the global leader for accessing big name entertainment for private parties, public concerts, corporate events and fundraisers around the world. "Our clients include Fortune 500 companies, wealthy individuals, promoters and institutions from New York to Moscow, Hong Kong to Brazil. With our unmatched customer service and consummate attention to detail, we are proud to say our customers include industry leaders such as Intel, FedEx, and Hilton Hotels to name a few. It's a simple concept; give everyone a brand name website where they can go to contract any big name entertainer, sports figure or public speaker for their events. If we don't contract an act for them, it doesn't cost them a thing. Now everyone has a contact in the entertainment industry."

The veteran agents at BOOKING ENTERTAINMENT can handle the entire process from booking the acts to coordinating the logistics and production. Once a potential customer completes the entertainment request form on the site, an agent follows up immediately via email or telephone. The agent provides pricing and availability for the act(s) in question until an offer is made and accepted. The client can also request that production is handled as well, which could include everything from the necessary flights, hotels, ground transportation, sound, lights, staging, backline equipment and the misc. rider requirements. In addition to handling all of the preproduction duties, a team is sent on-site for the event to coordinate everything from load in to load out, making sure the entertainment has everything they need and are ready to start exactly on time as per the client's scheduling needs.

Some of the acts that BOOKING ENTERTAINMENT has booked and produced for clients around the world include: Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks, Sheryl Crow, Jackson Browne, Bryan Adams, Meatloaf, EWF, Pat Benatar, Eminem, Hall & Oates, Kenny Chesney, Bill Cosby, Lionel Richie, The Doobie Brothers, Donna Summer, Chicago, Michael Buble, 50 Cent, Smokey Robinson, Snoop Dogg, The Beach Boys, James Brown, Chris Isaak, Frankie Valli, Huey Lewis & The News, Don Henley, Aretha Franklin, Bonnie Raitt, Penn & Teller, Gloria Estefan, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Diana Ross to name a few.

The professional agents at BOOKING ENTERTAINMENT handle the entire process from booking the acts to handling the logistics and production. Once a professional event planner or consumer completes the entertainment request form on-site, an agent follows up immediately via email or telephone. The agent provides pricing and availability for the act(s) in question until an offer is made to the appropriate act and accepted. The client can then request that production is handled as well, which would include everything from flights to hotels, limos, sound, lights, equipment and the 'misc. rider requirements'. The production team is then sent on-site for the event to coordinate the entertainment to start exactly on time as per the client's scheduling needs.

"Working with BOOKING ENTERTAINMENT was the best decision we ever could have made," says Nicky Reinhard of David Reinhard Events, an event planning company based in New York City. "When our client came to us wanting The Beach Boys for their event we simply contacted BOOKING ENTERTAINMENT and they took care of the rest. From negotiating the fees to the production and performance...they handled it all! While we were planning other elements of the event, it gave us peace of mind that they were taking care of all of the details involving the performance (staging, lighting, sound, riders, etc.) We wouldn't have changed a thing."

Steve Einzig can be reached directly at 212-645-0555 or
[email protected]