Red Tail Sound and it’s proprietor Pete Welsch are based in Boulder, CO and provide DJ and event services throughout Colorado and the Front Range.
Whether for family-friendly events or those catering to adults 21 and over, Red Tail Sound strives to create welcoming, positive spaces for communities to come together, have fun, and dance.
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DJ Experience
Pete has been a working DJ for nearly 30 years. He has played the Boulder Creek Festival’s Creekside for Kids stage for the past 5 years, Tube to Work Day for the past 4 years, events at Heatherwood Elementary for the past 3 years, Horizons K-8 Charter School fundraisers for the past 2 years, the Ironman 70.3 Boulder awards ceremony at Avery Brewing for the past two years, a monthly all-ages happy hour at the Junkyard Social Club, and more. He’s a regular host of KGNU Community Radio’s morning and afternoon music programming and recently began working as a DJ and announcer at cycling events for Without Limits Productions.
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Instruction Experience
Prior to becoming a full time DJ, Pete was classroom instructor for a required 300-level technology course while pursuing his MLS / MIS at IU Bloomington (2005), where he taught computer and network basics including Unix and HTML. While working in the Obama White House (Deputy Director of Online Platform, White House Office of Digital Strategy 2011 – 2014), he hosted and MC’d the first two official White House hackathons. He holds a BA in history from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and studied medieval and Renaissance history at a program affiliated with Keble College in Oxford, England.
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Philosophy
When we plan a special event – when we throw a party – we’re doing something sacred. We’re creating a place where people come together to build the deep relationships that are the foundation of our families and communities.
From nightclubs to worship services, political rallies to yoga sessions, we use music to set the tone. To tell us where we are and what’s expected of us. When that’s done well, we feel welcome, safe, and ready to connect with ourselves and each other and become part of something bigger. It is, in some cases, quite literally where the magic happens.
Red Tail Sound is here to help you create that sacred place at your event.
We’re available to provide DJ, playlist curation, and event services for weddings, private parties, business events, sporting events, theatrical performances, fundraisers, political events, and more. I’m also active in the Colorado dance music scene, hosting and playing at parties around Boulder several times a month, and am available for bookings throughout Colorado and beyond.
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Pete’s DJ & Events Story
Pete started DJing in January, 1998 after spending a semester studying medieval history in Oxford, England. With London just an hour away, he spent most weekends clubbing with friends. Inspired by the likes of Coldcut, Mixmaster Morris, Mr. Scruff, Fabio, Grooverider, Daft Punk, and Dimitri from Paris he resolved to become a DJ.
Returning to the United States and inspired by Jean Renoir’s Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, Pete and several friends founded the DJ collective Otaku Soundsystem and began throwing monthly on-campus parties that attracted hundreds of attendees and, in one memorable instance, a police helicopter.
After college, Pete moved to Baltimore, MD and began to DJ around the Baltimore and Washington, DC area. He held two weekly residencies at Baltimore’s groundbreaking Sonar Lounge and played regularly at The Ottobar, the 13th Floor Lounge, and at parties, bars, and clubs around the DMV.
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Temchine, Michael. A New Spin. An interest in social activism and music led Pete Welsch, a DJ, to library school. 2007, Photograph, The New York Times.
After graduate school Pete moved to DC and joined a crew of 6 other DJs to throw a monthly sweatbox of a funk and soul party called Fatback. Fatback drew an enthusiastic and loving crowd, renowned for its friendly, welcoming vibe despite more than a thousand attendees and a line down the block on many nights. This notoriety brought Fatback to venues such as the House of Sweden, home of the Swedish Embassy among others, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and several shows at storied 9:30 Club.
As The Washington Post reported, “Fatback has morphed from a ridiculously fun funk-and-soul dance party to a full-on phenomenon.”
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During this same period, Pete had the honor of joining the staff of President Barack Obama’s White House in the first Office of Digital Strategy. While there one of his responsibilities was promoting and hosting the first two official White House Hackathons.
After leaving the White House, Pete joined an advocacy organization that, among other things, once tapped him to stage manage a rally in New York’s Battery Park featuring climate activist Greta Thunberg, performances by Jayden and Willow Smith, and many thousands of thousands of attendees on 72 hours notice.
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