Larry LeBlanc’s Sound-Light-Karaoke store is filled with party fun all year long.
“We like having fun doing what we’re doing,” he said, including helping other people have fun.
From single microphones, strobes and black-lights to entire sound, lighting and video projection systems, he rents and sells equipment and provides setup services.
His clients include “Tremors,” the night club at Naval Station Everett; area casinos and clubs; bowling centers; churches; schools; businesses and even kids’ sports teams.
“We rent a lot of gear and set up music systems for DJs at weddings, and parties, we support clubs in the area and even do auctions. Recently, we set up a public address system for a PeeWee football team and gave the referee a wireless mic so people could hear him. Now, they can have sound at their games,” he said.
His business is busy most of the year but Halloween, Christmas and New Year’s Eve keep him extra busy renting and setting up colorful lights, sound equipment, sing-along systems and fog machines, including one featuring a spooky fog-puffing skull.
“We still haven’t found a market for sound and lighting equipment for Thanksgiving turkey celebrations,” LeBlanc joked, “but we sure keep busy with the other holidays.”
The Christmas season always means renting a lot of Karaoke machines and music discs for home use and his confetti launching machines are kept around especially for New Year’s Eve celebrations.
“We’re usually overbooked for those at year’s end. They’re great units that shoot confetti up to 30 feet. We can cover a good-sized room pretty easily. Those are the machines we fired off from rooftops during the USS Lincoln homecoming parade a few years ago in downtown Everett,” he said.
One of the unusual Christmas requests this year, he said, is figuring how to outfit lights and sound for a 47-foot yacht. The owner wants to sail it in Seattle’s annual Christmas lights boat parade.
An Everett resident, LeBlanc worked at the south Everett light-and-sound business for more than 20 years before buying it last January. Now, he’s expanding into adjacent space in the building at 6020 Evergreen Way.
“We’re setting up a much larger area to show off our black-lights, spots, sound systems and our other equipment in customer demonstrations,” he said.
LaBlanc said there are similar sound and lighting stores in Seattle, Bellevue and Portland but “in Snohomish County I’m it.”
For 20 years, the foundation for the business was renting and setting up Karaoke music systems. That’s still a major rental item for private homes as well as commercial clubs, he said, but lately he’s been growing the commercial side of his enterprise.
“The biggest part of that growth is letting people know we’re here,” he said.
For more information, call 425-514-5595 or visit www.ISingKaraoke.com.
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