A highly professional, musically diverse, multi-talented live band built to lend sophistication and generate excitement for your wedding — from Charlottesville to Richmond, D.C., and beyond.
A highly professional, musically diverse, multi-talented live band built to lend sophistication and generate excitement for your wedding — from Charlottesville to Richmond, D.C., and beyond.
Big Ray and the Kool Kats is a Charlottesville wedding band dedicated to delivering a highly professional, musically diverse, and multi-talented live music experience. Based in Charlottesville, VA, the band regularly travels to serve couples in Richmond, Texas, Maryland, Tennessee, Washington D.C. — and has even played overseas.
Imagine the first notes of your perfectly chosen song filling the air as you take the floor for the first time as newlyweds. As the evening unfolds — heartfelt toasts, blessings, and then the party begins — Big Ray and the Kool Kats know how to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime performance, live.
From your personally chosen ceremony music, to early evening cocktail and dinner sets at exactly the right volume, to the best in cross-generational dance music once the party switches gears — BRKK has the greatest songs from every era, on call.
Versatile music to match your vision
Top-performing musicians
Award-winning performances
Decades of experience filling a dance floor
Full event coverage — ceremony to last call
100% live music, no prerecorded tracks
Imagine the first notes of your perfectly chosen song filling the air as you take the floor for the first time as newlyweds. As the evening unfolds — heartfelt toasts, blessings, and then the party begins — Big Ray and the Kool Kats know how to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime performance, live.
“Welcoming, professional, and exceptional. As a same-sex couple we deeply appreciated how welcoming Ray was — when I mentioned wanting a cello for our first dance, he made it happen without hesitation. Hands down the best wedding band we’ve ever heard.”
Groom
“A total gem — best wedding band ever. Ray knew more about our venue, Castle Hill Cider, than we did. He learned my husband’s alma mater fight song and organized an incredible Second Line for the groom’s New Orleans roots. The dance floor was packed all night.”
Groom
“A total gem — best wedding band ever. Ray knew more about our venue, Castle Hill Cider, than we did. He learned my husband’s alma mater fight song and organized an incredible Second Line for the groom’s New Orleans roots. The dance floor was packed all night.”
Groom
