Dinardo Brothers Entertainment

New Jersey – 1/25/11 - WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, is thrilled to announce DiNardo Brothers Entertainment has been selected to receive the prestigious annual WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 for Disc Jockey!

Recognition for the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011 is determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 750,000 WeddingWire newlyweds. Our past clients are among those that shared their experiences on WeddingWire, the largest wedding review site in the nation.

DiNardo Brothers Entertainment stands among the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire community, representing quality and service excellence within the wedding industry. Awards were given to the top wedding professionals across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, and were based on the overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is honored to celebrate the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire community,” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “With the annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program, WeddingWire has the unique opportunity to recognize the best wedding professionals across the US and Canada. We applaud DiNardo Brothers Entertainment for their professionalism and dedication to enhancing the wedding planning experience last year.”

We are happy to announce that DiNardo Brothers Entertainment is among the very best Disc Jockey within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings, Project Wedding and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for nominating us to receive the Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2011.

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DiNardo Brothers Entertainment NAMED Best Disc Jockey IN THE KNOT BEST OF WEDDINGS 2011

New Jersey, January 21, 2011 -- DiNardo Brothers Entertainment is pleased to announce they have been selected as a 2011 winner in The Knot Best of Weddings, a special section in The Knot South Jersey magazine and on The Knot (NASDAQ: KNOT; www.theknot.com), the number-one wedding resource that’s most trusted by brides. This is the 5th year DiNardo Brothers Entertainment been voted the Best of Disc Jockey for The Knot Best of Weddings.

The Knot Best of Weddings 2011 provides a “by brides, for brides” guide to the top wedding professionals across the country, and is a must-have when it comes to selecting the best-of-the-best wedding resources. From New York florists and Seattle bridal salons to DC makeup artists, engaged couples will find detailed feedback on local wedding businesses reviewed by thousands of newlyweds who had great things to say.

“DiNardo Brothers Entertainment would like to thank all of our past clients and their guests for all the positive feedback and thank you letters, emails and cards we have received over the past years. For the second year in a row DiNardo Brothers Entertainment has made the “Best of Disc Jockey” list in “The Knot” magazine. We are thrilled to receive this accolade and will continue to serve the Delaware Valley with the highest level of entertainment.”

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The Knot conducted its second annual survey of over 20,000 recent brides to capture detailed feedback on every business that couples hired for their wedding celebration.

South Jersey newlyweds contributed their raves and reviews on the area’s wedding professionals. The newlyweds were asked to rate their vendors on multiple criteria, from creativity to professionalism, and to comment on their experiences. The resulting ratings—and detailed feedback—were aggregated by the editors of The Knot to create this one-of-a-kind publication highlighting the best wedding resources in each region according to local brides. The survey was administered by Harris Interactive.

At the head of their class

Here's a bunch of guys who by day are teachers, but at night morph into DJs at bars and events.

By Rusty Pray

Inquirer Staff Writer

DAVID M WARREN / Inquirer Staff Photographer

By night, you'll find Ron Strauss spinning the tunes at Adelphia in Deptford. By day, he's a vice principal of Highland Regional High School.

One is a vice principal in charge of discipline. Three teach special education. One is a guidance counselor, another a physical education teacher.

These six educators have something more in common than their profession. They all also happen to be DJs.

There's Ron Strauss, a vice principal at Highland Regional High School. Jonathan Strout is a guidance counselor at Cherry Hill East. Joe Smith teaches special education at Toms River South after spending 12 years at Delsea Regional High School. George Passante teaches special education at Kingsway Regional High School, where he also is the boys' basketball coach and junior varsity baseball coach. His brother, Anthony, is a teacher with Gloucester County Special Services. And John DiNardo, who teaches physical education to first and second graders in Harrison Township.

They even have a couple more in training. Rowan University students Frank Galeota and Christian Thomas work as DJs, and are preparing to begin student teaching in physical education.

They all spin discs - well, play CDs - for DiNardo Bros. Entertainment, which was started five years ago by DiNardo and his brother, Michael, who is not a teacher. The company, based in Washington Township, supplies DJs for social events such as weddings, anniversary parties and bar mitzvahs, as well as area bars and nightclubs.

John DiNardo is the one responsible for gathering this collection of music-minded teachers, bringing in colleagues he knew either through teaching or DJ-ing.

"I'm the common denominator," said DiNardo, who has been teaching for 13 years and DJ-ing for 22.

Except for Strauss and DiNardo, they all were teachers before getting into DJ-ing. Strauss started as a high school student and simply continued when he started teaching. DiNardo actually got into teaching through DJ-ing.

"I was performing at school dances, and the administration told me I should seek employment as a physical education teacher because the things I was doing at the dances were similar to what a phys-ed teacher would do," he said. "It is my philosophy that teachers are natural-born entertainers."

At first blush, that would seem not to be so. What could the two possibly have in common?

"When you're a teacher, you're basically entertaining kids all day," said Strauss, a regular DJ at Adelphia in Deptford. "Teachers aren't afraid to get up in front of a group of people."

Anthony Passante said he liked to "entertain. Get out in front of a couple hundred people on Friday and Saturday night and entertain them."

Getting out in front of people led directly to Anthony Passante's getting into DJ-ing, his brother recalled.

"My parents were holding a benefit beef-and-beer," George Passante said. "John was DJ-ing it. He was doing a dance and went into what you might call a jump split. My brother and I saw this. Anthony knew he could do a flip, so he went out there and did it. John laughed and told him he was hired. The next day, John brought Anthony a tuxedo, and he worked that night."

DJ-ing not only can be physically demanding, it makes demands on your time.

"Our Fridays start at 6 a.m. and might not end until midnight, 2 a.m.," DiNardo said.

They do it not only because, as DiNardo said, "it's a nice supplement to your teaching income."

They do it because they love it.

"It's our passion," he said.