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Cocktail Hour
Written by Doctor Simcha   
  • Decide on the mood of your cocktail hour. This is the beginning of your simcha and it will influence the whole affair.

  • Looking for Bat / Bar Mitzvah song ideas? Easy background music is the usual on cocktail hour. Classical music, cool jazz or popular favorites, from Frank Sinatra to Billy Joel, whatever you choose.

  • Here are some additional Bat / Bar Mitzvah ideas you may consider for the cocktail hour entertainment:

    • Live musicians - piano, harp, saxophone, drums, guitar, violin, flute players, mariachi, percussionist, classical or jazz ensembles, etc, even calypso. Live music is elegant!

    • For those looking for a faster pace - games, karaoke and dancers in the cocktail hour get the party going early!
    • Magic of the Klezmer. Great Klezmer music.

    • Wanna have some Jewish klezmer? Check with Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, from Boston. For a lower budget, think about Giora Feidman's Magic of the Klezmer CD. It is a wonderful option for background music, a true gem.

    • The Doc's recommendation is to have two rooms for the cocktail hour. At the first room kids will be entertained with the MC, while classy music serenades for the chit-chatting adults at the other room. The Doc will surely go straight to the kids room!

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written by Maya , December 17, 2007

Don't forget the Cocktail Hour's "Pigs in a Blanket"! I read a great blog post about this so popular cocktail hour food on BarMitzvahDisco.com. Here's a piece of it (By Florence Fabricant):

PIGS in blankets? “They’re back with a vengeance!” said Sean Driscoll, an owner of the silver-tray catering company Glorious Food in Manhattan. Though they never disappeared from the B-Mitsvah circuit (where they are often called franks in jackets, the way Katz’s Delicatessen, being kosher, labels them), they had been disparaged as a cliché for too many years.

Pigs in blankets, no longer a culinary cliché, are popular at parties in Manhattan once more.

But now you can forget caviar and sushi. Without pigs in blankets, it seems, no black tie cocktail hour is complete. They are more than acceptable; they are again being seen for what they are: perfect finger food, delicious and surrounded by the same aura of affection enjoyed by all comfort foods.

Mr. Driscoll’s company served them in June for a formal garden party at the Museum of Modern Art and for 4,000 people at the Robin Hood Foundation benefit. Waiters passed them in July at a party for the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y.

“They’re acceptable guilt food,” he said. “They’re not like buying a hot dog from a street vendor, and besides, the pastry is a good blotter for alcohol.”



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