We help people find the best event professionals for their next event to help make their event legendary! We are currently for Central & Western New York, however, there are plans to continue to expand through the USA & Canada!
Why Event Legends?
Here’s a few of the many reasons to let us help you plan your event.
- The referral system is free for our clients to receive quotes and free for our partners to receive leads.
- Because of this, we have access to the most event professionals in Central & Western New York.
- We have a state-of-the-art system that gets your information out instantly so you can begin to receive quotes right away.
- You don’t have to call around or waste time researching online. They reach out to you! And only those who are available & fit the bill respond so it saves you even more time!
- You can choose your level of price, expertise, experience, etc. for each professional. Small companies can force you into bundling services with one rate and may upcharge you for multiple services. Because choice is limited, bundling doesn’t always help you save. We give you multiple choices!
- All of our event legends are fully insured, if not themselves, then through us!
- Is there something hard for you to find? Let us know. If it is out there we will find it, if we don’t have it already!
- Yes, we love what we do. Thanks again for for choosing Event Legends. This is what legends are made of!
We help you find event professionals using our state-of-the-art technology.
- Fill out form – If you are hosting / planning an event, you fill out the form above.
- Event Professionals receive your info & respond – The event professionals that fit your categories will contact you directly with quotes based on your information.
- You choose your event professionals – If you are interested in having our event professionals for your event, you can respond to their quotes directly. If you choose event professionals from the quote, you book and confirm the directly with the ones you choose. Our event professionals then pay a small referral fee to us only when a transaction takes place. Because there are no upfront costs for our event professionals, we have a larger pool for you to choose from. This approach gives you access to over a 1000 event professionals!
Event Legends – Our event professionals.
Event Legends – Our Clients – People who are having events that work with us directly and / or utilize our event referral service by filling out our form.
Event Legends – Our Partners – Event professionals who partner with us that offer event services in your area.
Is it really free? YES!
It is free to use this site and work with us! It is free to fill out our form and receive quotes. Fill out the form as often as you wish! There is no obligation to use any of the event professionals and quotes you receive. You choose only those event professionals that you want.
We have a large variety of event professionals because there is no cost to partner with us with us. Our event professionals are charged a small fee ONLY if you choose them for your event.
So, you are never charged!
Most similar companies have a few people working for them and have one set price for their services. We have a large variety of pricing and packages so you get a big variety of event professionals for every size and budget.
The Event Legend Idea
Our founder, Kevin McCarthy has been involved with events for 37 years. He has been a full-time event professional himself for over 23 years.
In 2010, Kevin was booking a holiday vacation for his family when he realized how easy it is to book flights, hotels, rental cars, etc. online. He realized you can fill out one form and within a few clicks have a variety of choices based on your needs – competitive pricing, various options, etc. As a professional entertainer, booking agent, and event professional himself for over 20 years, he provides a variety of event services. At that time, he was also very busy with a variety of shows including weddings, holiday events, company events, and school shows working directly with a wide variety of clients.
As he was going through the steps of booking services for his vacation, he realized that there is nothing like this online for events or event professionals. If you search event professionals, each individually, you can book events and services online directly and there are agencies that book events and services. However, for events, the process is still very time-consuming and basically still done the old-fashioned way: search separately for what you want – and then decide to book individually what you want.
It was is mission to bring people planning events & event professionals together to help make all events legendary!
Event Legends – One Form – Multiple Quotes!
- This is what sets us apart!
- Fill out one form and receive multiple quotes from a variety of event professionals save you time and money!
- The event professionals will only respond if they are available for your date and have what you are looking for! – Saving you time and hassle.
- You choose only the event professionals you want – if any! There is never any cost obligation to fill out form and receive quotes. Fill out the form as often as you’d like!
- Most companies have a few people working for them and have one set price. We have over large selection of event professionals with a variety of pricing and packages so you get a big variety of event professionals for every size and budget.
- Many event professionals are not listed on any other site because there is a large fee associated with it and/or they charge a large referral fee. It’s free for you fill out the form and receive quotes and it’s free for our partnering event professionals to receive your information and send you quotes. This means you have a much bigger pool to choose from!
- We charge our event professionals a small referral fee ONLY if our event professionals are chosen for your event through this website. You will never be charged. In other words, our clients – those having events and filing out the form, will never be charged. Also, all of our event professionals are fully insured – with coverage for both the event professional and the venue!
We pride ourselves on our unique approach, experience, our large variety of Event Legends, and our outstanding and fast customer service.
- Our clients are never charged to use our service, receive quotes, and book event professionals.
- We’ll quickly match you with the best event professionals we can find to help make your event the best it can be saving you time and money.
- We use state-of-the-art technology to automatically get your event information to a variety event professionals so you can then get quotes from them ASAP! You first fill out the form and decide how you want to be contacted, and then you receive quotes from event professionals for your event. You then choose only the event professionals you are interested in. There is always no cost or obligation to receive quotes.
- We have such a large selection of event professionals, filling out one form to receive multiple quotes will save you time and money!
- We have the best and the most event professionals in the area because there is no charge to partner with us. Our event professionals pay a small referral fee only if someone hires them from this site. We don’t charge up front to partner with us which saves our partners upfront cost.
- We have a large variety of event professionals because our referral fee is up to less than 1/2 than similar businesses charge. The fee is only when a transaction takes place.
What really sets us apart is you can choose how to you want to work with us…
- One Form – Multiple Quotes – You can fill out this Request for Quotes Form and receive multiple quotes from a variety of event professionals fast.
- You can call or text us directly – (716) 472-7700 – or you can e-mail us – booking@eventlegends.com – and we’ll help you put together a great event!
For our founder, events became his passion & his career!
Kevin McCarthy has been involved in performing and booking events for over 37 years!
Since the late 1980s, he has been involved in the booking, promoting, and marketing of his shows and has been booking other professionals since the 1990s. He has performed for just about every type of event you can imagine. In 1985, he began performing for events as the lead singer of Outlet. While in college, he formed an original band with his brother and was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 2009 as a founding member. In the mid-1990s, Kevin began his solo career performing for all types of events – including weddings, company events, schools, private parties, etc. It became his full-time career in 1998.
In 1999, Event Legends started as McCarthy Entertainment which Kevin started to provide a variety of entertainment services throughout Western New York. This includes booking all of the entertainment at a busy downtown Western New York club for over 23 years (with over 70 bands in headlining rotation and 5 sound guys). He is also the event booking manager for a cultural and heritage center in South Buffalo, New York. In addition, he has booked a number of event professionals including bands, musicians, face painters, DJs etc. In 2010, Talented Event Professionals (TEP) was born! Kevin then decided to merge McCarthy Entertainment with TEP and then do a full rebrand to Event Legends. The concept has grown steadily throughout the years and is currently primed for critical mass. Big expansion plans are in the works for the upcoming years!
The prices of our event professionals and their services vary depending on several factors. Our services are unique because our vent professionals come to you. Once they receive your information they will contact you. They will only contact you if they are available and fit what you are looking for. You can then choose the best event professionals based on your needs.
YES! – All of our event professionals that are booked through this website will have insurance coverage!
- Our event professionals who have their own insurance – they will be covered under their insurance.
- Our our event professionals that do not have their own insurance – they will be covered under our insurance for your event!
Most venues want event professionals to have insurance and will insist on additional insured certificate
Our insurance also covers the venue as well and we will add a venue to our additional insured certificate by request.
To request an additional insured certificate:
For our event professionals – Please e-mail support@eventlegends.com with the following information…
- Your: name, company name, member number, email address
- Venue: name and address
Insurance Highlights
- Association benefit of master policy pricing, all quotes are annual premiums
- Individual general liability limits are $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 aggregate
- Higher limits may be available if needed
- Venues are automatically included as additional insureds
- Liability coverage is extended to include business offices and most home offices
- Insurance carrier is rated “A++” (Superior) and has a financial strength rating of XV ($2 Billion or greater) by A.M. Best Company and specializes in program business
Most venues now require insurance.
One of the many perks of partnering with event professionals is all our events we book cover our event professionals that do not have insurance. If you are an event professional and don’t have insurance yourself, you will now have insurance for any event booked through us! You do not have to be exclusive with event professionals to enjoy this benefit. If you decide be exclusive with event professionals, you can decide to have all your events booked through us, so you then will always be insured and can save $ on needing your own liability insurance!
Important notes about Insurance
- If you have more than 5 event professionals for one event, please contact me as we will have to increase our insurance policy for this event.
- The insurance provided is limited liability insurance and does NOT cover equipment.
- Please contact us with specific questions on insurance – support@eventlegends.com.
Payment FAQ for Event Legends
Our Clients and Our Partners – Our clients work with us when they are having events to help them find TEPs. Our TEPs offer their services for our clients for their events.
For our Clients
- Our clients are those people who use this site to receive multiple quotes from various event professionals.
- Free for our clients – If you are a client, using this site to find event professionals, there is no cost for you to fill out the form, use this site, and work with us!
- Why work with us? – Many our event professionals can’t justify or afford the high cost of using agents, agencies, to be listed on sites, advertising, etc. Our event professionals are not charged any fees to partner with us, so our clients benefit from the big variety of event professionals we can offer and our TEPs benefit from the additional prospects of new clients.
For our partnering Event Professionals
- No upfront cost! – Did you know there is no cost to join us? Others charge to partner with them, be on their website, and/or receive leads. We don’t.
- No charge to receive leads – There is no cost or risk to receive leads and partner with us.
- Only pay a referral fee if a transaction takes place. – You pay a small fee ONLY if you are chosen for an event from our leads, you are paid for the event, AND a transaction takes place! There are no hidden or additional fees.
- Low fees! – The fee is only 7% if you are exclusive with us or 10% if you are not exclusive – which is less than 1/2 of what others charge! Most charge 15% or more. Exclusive simply means you don’t work with any other booking agencies.
- Venues – Venues play a flat fee of $75-$200 based on number of people for the event.
- How to pay? – Simple – once you are paid, you pay the fee here. https://eventlegends.org/payment-page. It is due within 30 days of the event.
- Sample – If you get $500 for an event, the fee would be $35 if you are exclusive with Event Legends. $50 if you are not exclusive.
- Insurance – We’ve got you covered. When you book through us, if you don’t have liability insurance, you will be covered under our insurance. (Please contact us for details). If you do not have your own insurance, you will now have insurance with any event booked through Event Legends. If you’d like to book additional events through Event Legends to receive the insurance coverage please contact us for more details. Many venues want an “Additional Insured” rider. Yes, we can supply this as well with our insurance!
- Unique – We are different from other sites, so we want to make sure there is no confusion. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding our fee structure or partnership options – support@eventlegends.com
Our mission is to help people planning events make them legendary! We help event planners find a variety of event professionals and save them time, money, effort, and stress in the process. We also want to give our partnering event professionals the opportunity to offer their goods and services at a lower cost to our clients.
We are LEGENDS not vendors!
As an event professional himself, our founder understands many event professionals are often considered “vendors”. Any event professional who has sat at the “vendor table” in another room at a wedding, eating cold subs and chips, can relate to this. Kevin felt it was important to come up with a name that exemplifies event professionals and their talents. Event Legends captures exactly what he wanted this business to be about – the excitement and skill event professionals bring to events. No offense meant to street vendors who sell hot dogs, we just want all event professionals to regarded and respected for all of their hard work and talents! They help make events legendary!
- Our clients fill out one form and receive multiple quotes.
- Our partnering event professionals re those who are looking to offer their services to our clients.
- This service will always be free for our clients and free for our partnering event professionals.
- This service helps keep the cost down for our clients because there are no upfront fee requirements for our event professionals.
- For our partnering event professionals, partnering with us does NOT interfere with marketing because our event professionals will NOT be listed on our site (unless they want to).
- We partner with all types and kinds of event professionals and businesses of varies levels, experience, and pricing. For example, if you are searching for hotels, you can search 2-star to 5-star hotels – sometimes you may want the 5-star, 2-star, or other depending on many factors. You may choose to have 5-star “everything”! That is completely fine! However, some of our clients prefer choices depending on price, quality, etc.
We are always looking to expand. We consider all applicants. If you are a talented event professional, please click here and fill out the Join us form. We will respond to you asap!
We have asked our event professionals to respond to your quotes ASAP. Some hear back right a way. Most receive quotes by the next business day. If you don’t hear from any within 48 hours, please contact us directly and we will do all we can to help!
Please make sure you filled the form out correctly and submitted it properly by clicking the Submit button. If you have filled out form correctly, our event professionals should get back to you asap with quotes. If you don’t hear from anyone or only one quote within 48 hours, it is possible that none of our event professionals are available for your event. If this is the case, please click here to contact us directly and we will do all we can to help you.
NEVER – Your information is safe with us! We will share the information you provide only to the event professionals you are interested in.