Wedding music
Cary, NC
Wedding musician in Cary, NC · live solo violin for ceremonies and events at Cary's clubs, estates, and ballrooms. Travel included. Check your date.
As featured in Brides & Style Me Pretty
Updated July 2026
Performances
A few moments from real performances.
Golden Hour (JVKE) · Processional Violin Cover
Golden Hour by JVKE, the build-up as the bride walks in.
Pink Pony Club (Chappell Roan) · Cocktail Hour Violin
Cocktail hour, live, Pink Pony Club.
Theme from Jurassic Park · Bride's Processional Request
The bride's special request, Theme from Jurassic Park.
About
I'm the wedding musician that couples in Cary bring in when they want live music without a band's footprint: solo violin carried by a professionally produced backing track, so one musician fills a room the way a small ensemble would. No stage plot, simple clean / minimalist setup.. Cary sits about fifteen to twenty minutes west of Raleigh on I-40, well inside the first thirty-five miles of travel I include from Pittsboro. Whether it's a ceremony, a cocktail hour, or a corporate reception, the music is shaped around your run of show rather than a fixed clock.
Downtown Cary has quietly become one of the Triangle's best wedding pockets, and The Matthews House is a big part of why, a 1915 Greek Revival home on West Chatham Street with brick-walled gardens and a ballroom, the kind of venue where a ceremony happens under trees and the reception is thirty steps away. Layouts like that are where a solo setup earns its keep: I can play your garden ceremony, then be repositioned for cocktail hour before your guests have found the bar, with no equipment caravan crossing the lawn in between. The same applies at Cary's club venues and hotel ballrooms, one musician, one footprint, no stage plot for your coordinator to manage. A typical Cary booking covers the ceremony arc (prelude music while guests are seated, your chosen processionals cued live, and a recessional that actually lands) plus cocktail hour, where the violin plays under the conversation rather than over it. Seated, stationary moments at the reception can be added when there's a song that deserves to be live: a first dance, a parent dance, an entrance. Everything is planned in advance and played to the room in front of me, which is the difference between live music and a playlist. The repertoire conversation is open-ended by design. Classical processionals, film and TV themes, current pop arranged for violin, and if the piece that matters to you isn't in my book yet, name it early and I'll arrange it for your date. Every arrangement is performed over a professionally produced instrumental track mixed to sit under live violin, which is how one musician delivers what reads as an ensemble. Practical notes for Cary couples: peak-season Saturdays (April (June, September) November) book six to twelve months out, and I hold one event per day, so a confirmed date is exclusively yours. My travel is simple here, Cary is a 15-25 minute drive from Raleigh, Durham, or Chapel Hill and well inside my included radius from Pittsboro, so there's no travel line on your quote. With 33 five-star reviews across Google and WeddingWire, most couples tell me afterward that music was the one vendor decision they never had to think about twice. That's the goal: one conversation, one contract, and a ceremony that sounds like you planned it for years. The planning process is deliberately light. One conversation walks the whole day (prelude selections, processionals, the recessional, cocktail-hour direction) and produces a written music timeline your coordinator can run from without me in the room. Changes after that are an email, not a meeting. On the day I arrive at least an hour ahead, sound-check before the first guest parks, and hold position through the timeline so your planner never has to find me. Cary's calendar also brings me steady corporate work (Weston-area client dinners, team celebrations, holiday parties) and the same format carries it: one musician, ceremony-grade preparation, invoicing under NC Violinist LLC, and a certificate of insurance available on request. For private milestones (anniversaries, proposals in a garden, intimate vow renewals) the small footprint is often the whole reason it works: live music that fits inside a moment built for two people, not a stage built for a crowd. A word on how the arrangements themselves come together, because it's the part couples ask about most. Each backing track is a professionally produced instrumental, real instrumentation, mixed and mastered to sit underneath a live lead violin rather than compete with it. Before your date, processionals are set to walking tempo and trimmed to your aisle: the music is fitted to the walk, not the other way around. That preparation is invisible on the day, which is exactly the point, what your guests experience is a full, live sound that starts on your moment and ends clean. The simplest next step is a date check; from there, most couples go from first message to signed contract inside a week.
About
Cary sits right in the middle of my service area, and it shows in how easy the logistics get: my studio is in Pittsboro, Cary is well inside my included travel radius, and I can be at most venues in town in under half an hour. What you're booking is a solo violinist performing over professionally produced backing tracks, a full, arranged sound carried by one musician with one small, self-contained setup. Ceremonies, cocktail hours, featured moments; professional amplification included and scaled to the room, whether that room is a country-club ballroom or a garden with no power outlet in sight. Cary weddings tend to split between two worlds (polished club and ballroom spaces on one side, and historic and garden venues on the other) and the format works in both without changing anything but the volume. One planning conversation locks your music choices and timeline; on the day, I arrive early, sound-check quietly, and coordinate the processional cues with whoever is running your ceremony so the walk and the music start together. It's the difference between hiring live music and managing it, you do the first, I make sure nobody has to do the second. Every arrangement in my book started the same way: a couple asked for a song that mattered to them, and it earned a permanent place. And if your date is close, ask anyway, short timelines are often workable outside peak season, and the answer costs nothing.
Venues
Cary sits an easy run from my base in Pittsboro, and its venue landscape is one I know first-hand, I've performed at The Matthews House downtown, a restored historic home that seats roughly 160 with a terrace for cocktail hour, and at the club ballrooms of MacGregor Downs and Prestonwood, rooms built for larger guest counts and corporate functions alike. My setup is self-contained and ready in about twenty minutes in any of them.
Planning
If your ceremony is in a downtown Cary garden, plan the violin near the seating rather than the house, brick walls carry sound well and guests hear detail. Club ballrooms need no special accommodation; my footprint is smaller than a cocktail table.
Answers
Client reviews
Great music and so kind and supportive!
Christine
via WeddingWire
Andreea was such pleasure to work with. She provided a list of songs she covered, but I wanted a Spanish song for our first dance. This song is so special to my husband and I. I provided the name of the song and Andreea learned the song and made it absolutely perfect.
Andreia
via WeddingWire
She was absolutely amazing. We had to find a musician last minute and she was very flexible and helped choose songs and was very professional and helpful. 100% would recommend. When I came down the corridor to our wedding and heard her playing the violin with our hand picked songs for the aisle, I broke into tears. Never had a chance against the beauty that was her music! Great price as well, she was on time and cordial and bid us farewell before she left.
Shelby
via WeddingWire
Andreea was amazing to work with and really professional. She made our ceremony extra special and all of our guests raved about the music. She is so talented and fun to work with. She even played Queen - Another one bites the dust for the guys to walk out to. Hiring Andreea for our ceremony music was one of the best decisions we made! Thank you!!!!
Glenna
via WeddingWire
Andreea was great to work with. She communicated with us regularly and was very flexible in our planning. Her playing and arrangements were a beautiful addition to our wedding ceremony. Would absolutely hire her again.
Jordan
via WeddingWire
I had a great experience with the NC Violinist at my wedding. Her music was beautiful and all the guests enjoyed having her as an addition to the wedding.
Jennifer
via WeddingWire
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