Dance break! Lexington DJ joins Chamber of Commerce
Published 12:55 pm Wednesday, July 12, 2023
- Disc jockey Bobby Stinnett, Proprietor of Make Em’ Dance Leisure, will get ready to reduce the ribbon at a ceremony welcoming his business to the Winchester-Clark County Chamber of Commerce. (Photograph by Matt Cizek)
Bobby Stinnett is common with modest company functions as the co-operator of SoundSkin Ink, a custom made tattoo and body piercing shop in Mt. Sterling.
For new factors, he has a lot of prospects to experience welcome in Winchester.
On Thursday, Make Em Dance Amusement from Lexington – owned and operated by Stinnett – joined the Winchester-Clark County Chamber of Commerce pursuing a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
“I joined the Chamber in Winchester listed here for the reason that I’m intrigued in networking and meeting much more people today in the local community,” he reported. “I do company in the neighborhood in this article as significantly as weddings, and matters like that.”
With more than 20-five years of knowledge as the two a club disc jockey and a disc jockey at private gatherings, Stinnett’s knowledge has introduced him a prosperity of information.
Initial recognized as “DJ Make Em’ Dance,” he received his one of a kind nickname from a resource acquainted to numerous Kentucky natives: the College of Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball staff.
It arrived whilst working at Gambino’s in Lexington, which has due to the fact closed.
“I’ve generally saved it for that explanation,” Stinnett stated. “A basketball player really owned that so which is how I satisfied all [those] fellas.”
Make Em’ Dance Entertainment provides companies for company events, non-revenue occasions, weddings, significant school dances, functions, celebrations, and extra.
They can offer dance flooring, a photo booth, dance lighting, uplighting, chilly sparklers, red carpet, custom made backdrops, large televisions and even gobo projection in a festive ambiance.
A gobo, which stands for “goes in advance of optics,” empowers developing a light projection of an graphic or textual content.
As this kind of, it usually gets used at company occasions and weddings where it can be made use of to challenge a symbol or other image on to a wall.
Whilst tastes in music have changed by means of the several years, Stinnett notes that there is usually a recurring topic.
“No make a difference what, the songs is predominantly mid-2000s or late 90ss”, he reported. “That’s what they want to listen to at Tates Creek [High School’s] promenade most of our requests ended up for the early 2000s.”
As a really regarded small business, Make Em’ Dance Enjoyment was a WeddingWire five-star Partners Alternative Awards winner in 2022 and 2023.
For all they can present, the strategy of them coming to Winchester has energized a lot of.
“It’s a wonderful chance as we get extra and far more entrepreneurial enterprise entrepreneurs who arrive in and open up up to be capable to give that assistance,” explained Nancy Turner, the govt director of Winchester Tourism Commission. “We’re grateful that he’s joined the Chamber and look ahead to encouraging him develop his small business.”
Requested what he appeared ahead to, Stinnett took tiny time to reply.
“Creating an atmosphere for folks to have fun,” he stated. “You satisfy new people every single 7 days, and you see their faces on the dance floor mild up. That’s what it’s about making recollections.”
