Hello 2024!

I really have to get better at posting the new and exciting things coming from Bob Land, also known as The World of Bob the DJ. I guess Instabook and Facegram have pre-empted much of what I would blog about here on my own site. But I still like to keep my site somewhat intriguing for the curious. {If you like photos and videos from some of the fun I get to have then you should click here @bobthedjroig

So, how’ve you been? Me? Good, thanks. Oh, hey, I am now over $4.7 million in funds raised in my Auctioneer role. So yeah, very good!

Another busy year is already in swing with some new events and clients coming up. Notably the 25th anniversary gala for Resources for Community Living. Excited to see if my efforts can help make a difference there.

Looking forward to seeing you all out there at some of my shows!

In the meantime, live large!

Some Reasons Why I Love My Line of Work

#1 All the wonderful events I get to do. From raising money for a great cause, to entertaining at fun-filled outdoor shows, to bringing smiles to faces at dances, to celebrating weddings, anniversaries, and birthdays, to making videos and doing voice-overs.

#2 The great people I have come to know over the years and can call many of them friends. So many wonderful individuals who put these amazing events and shows together.

#3 The new people I get to meet every year in so many different areas of interest. With so many big hearts in the world, I’m happy to be fortunate to meet more of them every year.

#4 All the cool places where I get to perform. Performing at museums, on stages, in clubs, in halls and more, for all the reasons fun makes for great reward for all the effort that is required.

#5 Making a difference in peoples’ evenings, weekends, years or lives. Over the years I have discovered that I have become part of people’s lives, families, businesses, foundations, associations, schools, and neighborhoods.

#6 Watching clients grow over the years. From seeing children growing up, graduating, getting married, to adults celebrating monumental anniversaries, retirement, to reuniting with families who include me in another family member’s momentous occasion. Warms the heart.

#7 All the crazy/fun clothes and costumes I get to wear. Following the theme of any given event requiring a bit more pizazz or flash, to outrageous Halloween characters to keep the kids guessing, always makes me bring my A game.

#8 Raising money for all the philanthropic and grassroots-based events that is so important in helping others. To date, proud to report that I have raised $3,913,180 over the past ten years. I will break well over $4 million by end of 2023.

Something To Share That Makes Me Happy!

I love knowing I make people happy with what I do. Truly fulfilling. A wonderful wedding for a wonderful couple!

You received a new review on The Knot!

Five Star Rating posted 01/31/2022 Bob is simply the best. He DJ’d a wedding we had attended a few years ago and we loved his energy so much that we decided to work with him for our wedding years ahead of time. Bob was more organized than most wedding vendors, which was apparent every time we spoke with our wedding planner and she was amazed by how much information he had requested from us and how detailed the notes and lists he had sent over were. Bob actually accomplished some of the work our day-of coordinator would normally do well before she got to it. We had a meeting with Bob a few months prior to go over everything, from songs to the bridal party (and name pronunciations!) to special moments and their timing. He was truly a Master of Ceremonies and not just a DJ. He wanted to understand not just the music but the reception in its entirety to ensure he was ready to handle any issue and help out in any way. His wife attended as well and assisted him, accomplishing tasks that Bob couldn’t do from behind the DJ booth and acting as a coordinator of sorts as well. She worked just as hard as he did that day to make sure he could do his job effectively. Bob was on top of every task, including ones that I wouldn’t say are the responsibility of a DJ, and worked alongside our day-of coordinator to ensure that everything ran smoothly. He was an excellent MC and we will absolutely recommend him to everyone we know looking for a DJ or Host for an event. Thank you, Bob!

Thank you, Wil & Cami!

Woo, Busy, Busy, Busy

Well, summer just flew by! I have been keeping my schedule full in 2021. Everyone is making up for lost time, and making sure they don’t lose out in case we go through the nonsense again. So, if you missed me at Let It Be Us events, Hope’s In, any of the Wine Walks, the Fourth of July Parade, Memorial Day ceremony, Rotary’s Virtual Rendezvous, Cruise Nights, Art Fest, or any of the music shows over the summer, you can catch me still at Scarecrow Fest, Deer Park Town Center Fall Bash, Holiday Bash, Journey’s Road Home Gala, and Dancing with the Barrington Stars, all coming up! And, I am happy to be booked solid for numerous parties, weddings, and more, as well!

On the personal side, I am very much looking forward to experiencing musical bliss in the spring with Two Cellos in concert, and AXPONA at the Renaissance!

Normal Never Felt SO Good!

Summer is around the corner and boy are we ready. Events are back in full swing [well, almost] and they are making up for time lost last year. I couldn’t be happier. I’ll be able to spend time with all of you again!

Music on the street corners. Music at the fabulous events coming up, like:

Barrington Breakfast Rotary Night of Talent and Giving Virtual Live fund raiser & Auction 5/22

Memorial Day Ceremony and commemorating the closing of the VFW Post after 75 years of dedicated service. 5/31

The Art Fest 5/29, 5/30

Thursday Night Summer Music Shows, starting 6/3 – 8/19

Cruise Nights on 3rd Thursdays 6/17, 7/15, 8/19

4th of July Parade 7/3

School parties, private club events, and more, so check back in the summer to find out!

Looking forward to catching up. See you soon!

So Happy to be Honored!

Quintessential People – Honoring Bob Roig (quintessentialbarrington.com)

Enjoy the reading. This says it all!

Boy it has been awhile

2021 is decidedly here and with it, 2020 lies looming in our rearview mirror but still close enough to give us those shivers we get when stranded on the side of a highway and a semi truck whips by just a bit too close at about 75 mph!

That means it’s about time for me to post something on my blog. Why the long absence? Well, to point out the obvious, I didn’t manner events to post about in 2020! I lost about 80% of my business due to that scourge (whose name I refuse to utter). I feel bad for those companies, associations, foundations, brides & grooms, and more that had to go without.

However, I do have a little high-production ditty to share with you all for your viewing pleasure. This is one way to overcome the large, annoying obstacle that has been cast into our faces in 2020. Please take a look and hopefully enjoy while watching yours truly in action.

https://www.betterunite.com/Bacoa-dancingwiththebarringtonstars2021/MyEvent?pl=8f310cca-7326-49f4-b8b7-6975803bc4dd

Talk soon,

BTDJ

What it’s All About!

What a strange and yet somewhat wonderful 2020 it has been so far. What can possibly be wonderful, you wonder? A fair question with the Corona virus unleashing COVID-19 upon the entire planet. Yet, we, as people, have rediscovered the beauty of a more simple way of life again. One that revisits the past in some ways and makes us create a future in others. 

Who knew that normality would be so fantastic! Heck, we aren’t even there yet, but we are reveling in being able to get ice cream, visit a restaurant with a limited attendance allowed, or just see people smiling from a distance as we stroll the streets again.

I have the honour and pleasure to serenade the town of Barrington as a catalyst to promote shopping, dining and socializing responsibly every Thursday night this summer in place of what was to be our 18th year of Cruise Night. So, we’ll have the 18th year in the 19th year and enjoy it to the fullest! For now, watching the crowd enjoy sitting on benches, curbs and chairs listening to the show with their families and friends is quite a great reward for me.

Back on the fourth of July, parades were cancelled, fireworks were cancelled, picnics were limited and gatherings in public spaces were shut down. BUT, human spirit goes on! Triumphs! So this year Bob the DJ was able to bring the parade with music, announcements and fun to 22 neighborhoods over a 25.2 mile route in the course of 3 hours! The smiles and people coming out to watch, wave and cheer was incredible.

I talked to each and every person along that reception over the mic’d PA system fashioned carefully on the flatbed by the great guys at Public Works! Conner, my driver, did an excellent job of keeping us safe and secure all with an extraordinarily positive attitude. I learned a lot that day just from being in a simple parade, as the simple parade.

Times like this, we cherish life. So in a bizarre sense, I say, Thank you COVID-19, because I know it can’t beat us…it is only making us more amazing.

Have a great summer everyone!

Bob the DJ

Oh So Much Fun!

When people say, “Do what you love.”, it is always easier said than done…unless you are fortunate and blessed enough to be able to. This DJ is one of those latter folks. Only because of the people, places and events of whom and which I get to be a part!

This year has taken me to gigs 1,000 feet above the earth, in rooms 60,000 square feet in size, in buildings over 150 years old, along riverfronts, lakefronts and forests, in cemeteries and in silos, on rooftops and in basements, in the cold and in the heat, in shows and in parades, and from the wee hours before the sun comes up to the wee hours of way past when the sun went down,.. and I have loved every minute of it!

Each year I work with more people doing so many fantastic things that I take incredible new journeys and get to make those around me have a great time right along with me!

And the most amazing thing…Relationships. Some clients for two decades to the new ones just starting. I get to be there with families as they grow and celebrate their milestones in life! Example? How about, 1 family, 6 years, 4 weddings, 2 new sets of parents, and 3 new grandchildren?!

So thanks everybody, I couldn’t do it without you! Here’s to the rest of 2019!

Yours truly,

Bob the DJ

2019 is here!

I love an exciting way to start the year, and 2019 did just that! With return of the fabulous BACOA Dancing with the Barrington Stars for it’s second year, adding a sixth Star, a performing dance troop and doubling the audience size, to next week’s fun-filled Rotary Blues Brothers Bash, I had to bring serious game right out of the gate!!

 

Somebody’s got to run the show!

And I love it! So many new things this year for BTDJ. Always fresh, always fun. A few fashion shows, galas, fund raisers and more. Find me on Chicago rooftops to the Lake Forest Academy, Lake Michigan mornings to Barrington’s White House, parks and parades along main street.

Don’t be a stranger. If you hear my voice, come and say hi. You’re the reason I have so much fun doing what I do!

All the best,

Your DJ