The Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina is one of the biggest event hotels in downtown San Diego, with an incredible location right on the waterfront and next to the San Diego Convention Center and the Rady Shell!
With ballrooms, terraces, waterfront spaces, meeting rooms, and the marina just outside, this is a venue that can host just about anything. Weddings, conferences, corporate receptions, galas, awards dinners, holiday parties, and convention events all find a home here.
And we'd love to provide the music!
Live Music at the Marriott Marquis
Left Coast Quintet provides professional live music throughout San Diego for weddings, conferences, corporate events, nonprofit gatherings, receptions, and other special events.
Our wind quintet features flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, and bassoon, giving you a completely different sound from the string quartets and other ensembles guests may be accustomed to seeing.
We're completely acoustic and don't need a large footprint or complicated setup, which gives us a lot of flexibility in a property like the Marriott Marquis. We can welcome guests as they arrive, perform during a cocktail or networking reception, provide music for a wedding ceremony, or become a featured part of an event program. We also offer a smaller wind trio when that makes more sense for the space or event.
The best part of hosting events at the Marriott Marquis? Almost anything can be held outdoors, the weather is great here. Add some music and it's an exceptional event!
Conferences & Corporate Events
Being right next to the San Diego Convention Center makes the Marriott Marquis a natural home for conferences and convention-related events.
Live music can be a great addition to a welcome reception, networking event, cocktail hour, awards dinner, company celebration, or closing event. It's especially useful when you want to give guests something memorable without making conversation difficult. Our repertoire gives us a lot to work with here.
We perform everything from classical music and jazz to Broadway, pop, Disney, movie and television themes, and video game music. We can keep things sophisticated and in the background, fill a set with recognizable favorites, work around the theme of your conference, or do a little of everything.
And yes, we're always happy when someone at a corporate event suddenly realizes the bassoon is playing a song they recognize.
Weddings at the Marriott Marquis
For weddings, the Marriott Marquis has a huge variety of indoor and outdoor spaces, including waterfront terraces overlooking the marina and San Diego Bay.
We can provide music while guests arrive, processionals for family and the wedding party, your entrance, special music during the ceremony, the recessional, and cocktail hour afterward.
Your music can be completely traditional, completely unexpected, or somewhere in between.
Our library includes hundreds of arrangements, so a ceremony might include Bach or Handel alongside John Williams, Disney, Broadway, jazz, pop music, or a favorite movie soundtrack. We love helping couples choose music that actually means something to them rather than simply picking songs because they're supposed to be "wedding music."
Guests enjoy cocktail hour with live music at the Marriott Marquis overlooking the San Diego Bay.
Outdoor Music on the San Diego Waterfront
One of the best features of the Marriott Marquis is its outdoor event space along the marina.
Wind instruments are particularly well suited for outdoor events. Flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, and bassoon create a full acoustic sound that carries well without needing amplification for most ceremonies and smaller receptions. Of course, every event and space is different. For larger events, we're happy to talk through the setup with you or your planner and determine what will work best.
Planning an Event at the Marriott Marquis?
If you're planning a wedding, conference, corporate reception, gala, or other special event at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, we'd love to hear what you're putting together.
Left Coast Quintet has been performing throughout San Diego since 2014, and we work with couples, companies, nonprofits, event planners, museums, venues, and community organizations to create live music that fits the event. Tell us what you're planning, where music fits into the schedule, and what kind of atmosphere you're hoping to create. We'll take it from there.
Live music right in the middle of the party! Left Coast Quintet performing for a packed corporate event at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina.