Uptown Drive

Uptown Drive is a live band from Austin, Texas, playing corporate events, galas, holiday parties and weddings across Texas, Colorado and nationwide. The musicians in our videos are the same musicians who play your event. At awards nights, we work directly with your show caller. We play walk-up music as each honoree takes the stage and hit the stingers on cue. Bandleader Greg Williams can emcee awards, raffles and announcements. When it’s time to dance, lead vocalists Courtney Gayle and Quiesean Wilson join your guests on the floor for Motown, soul, funk, disco, pop and hip hop. Uptown Drive Interactive gives your guests a turn on lead vocals with the full band behind them. They can scan a QR code to pick a song and follow the lyrics on screen. The interactive show has played SXSW, CMA Fest and F1 FanFest. For weddings, Greg plans the reception timeline with you and your planner, from grand entrances through the last dance. We learn your first dance and parent dance songs. Greg can also play live sax over the DJ during cocktail hour or your grand entrance. Our standard band is six pieces. Add trumpet for seven, or trumpet and trombone for eight. Every booking includes cocktail hour and dinner music, DJ music between sets, professional sound, stage lighting and our own audio engineer. Travel is built into one quote. Clients include Apple, Google, Shell, Dell and Visa. Uptown Drive has earned 270+ 5-star reviews.