VOTE BOLLOTTA ENTERTAINMENT AS ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR

According to the Official Event Solutions Website, "the eagerly awaited 2009 Event Solutions Spotlight Awards process is in full swing."

"Top event professionals from around the globe entered the 2009 Event Solutions Spotlight Awards. Colleagues nominated their valued strategic partners. The impressive list of nominees and entrants includes industry luminaries who provide for and create every element of a fabulous event or meeting."

"The Event Solutions Spotlight Awards are unique to the event world. These prestigious awards recognize and honor the top individuals and companies which lead our vibrant industry."

In order to vote for Bollotta Entertainment, in the Entertainment Company of the Year category, simply click to vote.

All that is required is to submit a valid email address before voting.

Entertainment Company of the Year is the 6th category down, and Bollotta Entertainment is the second choice on the list. Show your support for your FAVORITE entertainment company!





Visit the Event Solutions Website to learn more about the finalists.



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Victoria's Best Kept Secret: Bollotta Entertainment

Referred by Columbus based Mills James, Victoria Secret chose Bollotta Entertainment to select a dynamic female speaker to motivate their store managers for its San Diego conference. Amongst several candidates, Victoria's Secret chose corporate motivational speaker Jackie Freiberg to inspire action from her audience with a customized speech covering topics of leadership, management, and sales initiatives.

With high ratings and overwhelming success, Jackie continues to offer speeches throughout the nation, along with her husband and partner, Kevin Freiberg who are available through Bollotta Entertainment.

Event Solutions Magazine Spotlight Awards 2009

Bollota Entertainment is one of the seven finalists vying for Event Solutions Magazine's Spotlight Award in the Best Entertainment Company category for 2009 set to occur on February 25, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Spotlight Award is presented to the entertainment company that best creates and executes entertainment concepts in the meetings and events industry.

To be a finalist for a Spotlight Award a company must be nominated and is required to submit case studies demonstrating how their concepts helped their clients realize meeting or event goals. For its submission, Bollotta Entertainment submitted their 2007 and 2008 concepts for the Reed Smith Law Firm and Qualcomm, the wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego.

Bollotta Entertainment is credited for producing the entertainment for the 2007 Spotlight Awards ceremony that took place at the Gusman Theater in Miami, Florida.

Fleet Week's "A Salute To Our Heroes"

Bollotta Entertainment created and produced the USO Show entitled "A Salute To Our Heroes," for San Diego's Fleet Week Foundation. Written by Anthony Bollotta, the performance included America's favorite standards such as the "Chattanooga Choo-Choo", "I'll Be Seeing You", "Accentuate The Positive" and "Sentimental Journey". The show also featured Joe Raposo's "America Is," written to celebrate the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty and Betty Hutton's comedy song entitled "I'm Doin' It For Defense".

Comprised of 8 professional singers, including the hilarious Eileen Bowman and enchanting Susan De Leon, the show featured Bollotta's own Chris Thomas and Anthony Bollotta. Off-Broadway composer and lyricist Rayme Sciaroni provided the show's musical accompaniment.

"A Salute To Our Heroes" was performed in conjunction with Fleet Week 2008 for a military audience, San Diego politicians, and corporate friends. During the show, Fleet Week Foundation's Steve Cushman and Bill Hall presented the organization's Hall of Fame Awards as the cast performed incidental renditions of "America The Beautiful" and "God Bless America".

Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons Performs for FM Global

Bollotta Entertainment kicked off the San Diego summer with a performance by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Booked for FM Global, through New Jersey based meeting planning company, The Charles Group, Frankie's 90-minute show featured the singer's greatest hits, such as "Rag Doll", "Walk Like A Man", "Grease", and "My Eyes Adored You" along with selections from his newly released album, Romancing The 60's.

Personable and able to reach those outrageously high notes that made him a hit throughout the 1960s and 70s, Frankie and his Seasons whipped a historically sedate crowd of insurance professionals into a frenzy of dancing, celebrating concert goers.

Staged at San Diego's legendary Humphrey's By The Bay outdoor concert venue, Frankie's show was complete with full rhythm and five-piece horn sections, replicating those distinctly lush arrangements of yesteryear. His witty, yet endearingly humble banter with the audience showed off that star quality that typically separates the posers from the real McCoys.

Frankie is indeed the real McCoy. Playing off of the incredible success of Broadway's Jersey Boys, which continues to tour the U.S., his show is as relevant now as it was forty years ago. For an evening of classic hits and timeless charm, Valli is the word!

Original Voices of Rock N' Roll Perform For PETCO

The Original Voices of Rock N’ Roll are set to perform for PETCO’s Annual Leadership Summit on August 13th, 2008 in Washington D.C. Offering a smattering of their hits, the “lead singers” are supported by a single band in a cool 90-minute performance! These are THE voices that you heard on the radio, on the albums, and in concert! Collectively, Mickey Thomas from Starship, Bobby Kimball of Toto, Jim Jamison of Survivor, and Skip Martin of The Dazz Band enjoy 25 Gold Albums, 26 Platinum and Multi-Platinum Albums, 57 Top Forty singles, 25 Top Ten singles, and 10 Number One Hits!

BILLY CRYSTAL: NOW AVAILABLE FOR CORPORATE AND PRIVATE EVENTS

Billy Crystal is NOW AVAILABLE FOR CORPORATE AND PRIVATE DATES. Known to audiences world wide, the award-winning performer continues to stretch the boundaries of comedy. In addition to his Tony Award-winning one-man show "700 Sundays," which broke box office records and remains the highest grossing non-musical in Broadway history, he has served as a host of the Grammy Awards three times, and hosted the Academy Awards ceremony eight times.

Audiences also know Crystal from his early stand-up touring days, his acclaimed performances on "Soap" and "Saturday Night Live" and additionally his big screen performances in WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, CITY SLICKERS, ANALYZE THIS, and MONSTERS, INC.

In all his years as a performer, Billy Crystal never ceases to entertain and please his audiences in all forms of entertainment.

Now Available: Ashanti

Grammy Award winning R&B sensation ASHANTI has released her first single The Way That I Love You. The single is racing up the Billboard R&B charts at number 17 and is working its way up the HOT 100 chart. Her current album entitled : The Declaration is currently #14 on the Billboard Albums Sales Chart and #10 on ITUNES Top R&B Albums Chart. Her second single, Good, Good video debuted on BET's 106 and Park on Thursday July 17th. The talented singer was also featured on the program.

Ashanti is currently planning a tour and will perform, along with her current hits, her classic hits such as Foolish, Happy, Rock Wit U, Baby and more! Don't miss a chance to book Ashanti for your event or venue; her performances can be arranged with a full band or track. 

Bollotta Entertainment Proposes Music Stars For Barcelona

Bollotta Entertainment (BE) has proposed headline artists for an event in Barcelona, Spain hosted by a major San Diego based corporation. The event, scheduled early 2009, will have an unplugged, intimate feel in keeping with venue logistics. 

The top tier artists proposed for this are singer-song writer Colbie Caillat, American Idol star Chris Daughtry and his self titled band Daughtry, in addition to singer-song writer Natasha Bedingfield. Other options presented to the client are Fergie, Alicia Keys, and Kelly Clarkson and Seal.

To keep up with its client's demands for headliner and A-List performers, Bollotta Entertainment continues to make strides in this area of the entertainment industry. As recent as May, 2008 BE coordinated the performance of LIVE for Qualcomm, as well as a performance by Original Voices of Rock ‘n Roll, staring Starship with Mickey Thomas, Bobby Kimball, Mike Reno, John Cafferty and Jimi Jamison. In April, Bollotta staged a private performance by Frankie Valle at San Diego’s Humphrey’s By The Bay.

Artists: How To Join The Bollotta Entertainment Roster

Bollotta Entertainment has a roster of talented artists that possess an extensive professional and education history that shines at every performance. Our clients range from private party hosts to full scale corporate productions for large audiences who all demand high quality performers who deliver a stellar performance every time.

To provide our clients the best entertainers, Bollotta Entertaiment uses a stringent quarterly review process of potential artists. To be considered, Artists must include the following information with their submission:

Contact Information:
Contact Name and/or Booking Agent, Contact Number(s), Email Address(es)
Agent Friendly Website (website without contact information that clients our can view)
Other contact information

Biographical Information:
Performance history, educational background, credit list, and other interesting information regarding your performance history

Rates:
Performance rates per hour by piece
Travel fees

Rider Requirements & Artist Provisions:
Specific rider information or special items you might need to perform and/or feel comfortable at the venue. Additionally, any materials or additional services you may provide for or during your performance.

Promotional Items:
Head shots, images, docs, media in electronic format, DVDs and/or mpeg/.mov of performance material, Audio disks and/or mp3s

Email all submissions to Leslie@Bollotta.com

Bollotta Entertainment Summer 2008 Newsletter

Bollotta Entertainment released its Summer 2008 Newsletter full of interesting articles and news about summer and past events. Anthony Bollotta was decorated with another award for his dedication to the hospitality industry, Frankie Valli comes to San Diego for a Bollotta Production, the U.S.S. Midway Honors U.S. Medal of Honor recipients with Anthony's help, and more!

Click on the image to read a full size version of the Summer newsletter.

Check back to see the Fall 2008 newsletter full of news and updates about Bollotta events and more.

Needeman Brothers

The Needeman Brothers are Anthony Bollotta and Jorge Abreu in a hilarious comedic cabaret duo of “brothers” who, through song and interactive banter, explore the basis and beginnings of their friendship and their trials and tribulations from childhood to adulthood. Through auditions, musicals, and love affairs they take you for a ride on the emotional and powerful bond that two men and two friends can have. The Brothers have performed in venues and events such as The Special Event Search Cabaret, Schroeder’s Cabaret in San Diego, and Masquers In West Hollywood.

Meeting Planners International Finds Ways To Go Green

Sales and Marketing Director, Michael McGuire, contributed a featured article in Meeting Planners International (MPI) San Diego Chapter's Spring 2008 newsletter entitled "SDMP Learns to Go Green". The article directs attention to the event planning industry's growing desire for earth friendly destinations and services. He cites the Energy Center of Wisconsin's associate director Marge Anderson, CMP who, during an MPI educational program outlined ways meeting planners can personally and professionally reduce their carbon footprint. One method Anderson suggests to go green is for meeting planners to choose green-friendly hotels and transportation companies that could effectively incite a bottom-up change in the event planning and hospitality industries. Read The Full Article Here

Frankie Valli Performs In San Diego

Bollotta Entertainment kicked off the San Diego summer with a performance by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Booked for FM Global, through New Jersey based meeting planning company, The Charles Group, Frankie's 90-minute show featured the singer's greatest hits, such as "Rag Doll", "Walk Like A Man", "Grease", and "My Eyes Adored You" along with selections from his newly released album, Romancing The 60's.

Personable and still in possession of those outrageously high notes that made him a hit throughout the 1960s and 70s, Frankie and his Seasons whipped a historically sedate crowd of insurance professionals into a frenzy of dancing, celebrating concert goers. 

Staged at San Diego's legendary Humphrey's By The Bay outdoor concert venue, Frankie's show was complete with full rhythm and five-piece horn sections, replicating those distinctly lush arrangements of yesteryear. His witty, yet endearingly humble banter with the audience showed off that star quality that typically separates the posers from the real McCoys.

Frankie is indeed the real McCoy. Playing off of the incredible success of Broadway's Jersey Boys, which continues to tour the U.S., his show is as relevant now as it was forty years ago. For an evening of classic hits and timeless charm, Valli is the word!