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Ashley Hensel Music is a wedding entertainer based in Worcester, Massachusetts. This musician provides evocative and energizing performances for all sizes and styles of special events. Ashley Hensel strives to help couples create the ideal soundtracks for their special days.
Services Offered
Passionate about music since she was young, Ashley has performed on a wide variety of stages. This artist delights sharing her talent with those celebrating life's most memorable moments. Nearlyweds are invited to consult with Ashley Hensel Music to curate their ideal setlist. Ashley has a broad repertoire, ranging from hits from the 1960s to the modern day, and is also open to learning new songs for each event. Whether couples are fans of pop, R&B, rock, country, or soul, she's got everything covered. Ashley Hensel Music can provide music for the ceremony, cocktail hour, and the reception.
- Woman-owned
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Reviews of Ashley Hensel Music
Review summary
Guests repeatedly praised Ashley’s stunning voice, professionalism, and warmth, saying she made ceremonies and cocktail hours truly memorable. She learned custom songs, tailored sets to requested styles (eg. 1940s/50s jazz), and coordinated smoothly with venues and music directors. Highly recommended and often rebooked.
Review summary
Guests repeatedly praised Ashley’s stunning voice, professionalism, and warmth, saying she made ceremonies and cocktail hours truly memorable. She learned custom songs, tailored sets to requested styles (eg. 1940s/50s jazz), and coordinated smoothly with venues and music directors. Highly recommended and often rebooked.
A Beautiful Vibe!!
Ceremony and Cocktail Hour
A Beautiful Performance
So happy we hired Ashley!!!!!
Made our day extra special
Exceptional voice! Definitely booking for future events as well
Wow just wow (in the best way)
We can’t speak her praises enough
Perfect in every way
Would definitely use again!
She was a pleasure to work with and most importantly she has a beautiful voice!
Unprofessional, unreliable, and overpriced.
Ashley performed at our wedding in August and we had a bad gut feeling since the beginning. She upsold us on services like DJing that she was not qualified to handle, and missed every possible cue during our ceremony. Many of our guests reached out during and after the wedding to point out the numerous flaws and flubs Ashley caused throughout the day.
We paid Ashley’s exuberant fee of $4,000 to perform at our wedding because we thought she was very talented based on her demos and we were really excited to have her there.
At the end of the day, Ashley performed live music for a total of 45 minutes, and after the ceremony, played music off her Spotify playlist for several hours.
The following day when confronting her about this, she told us she “forgot” she was contracted to perform live music during the reception, and that, in her view, playing a Spotify playlist qualified as the “provided music coverage” for the reception. She sent $300 as a refund, which my wife and I both found deeply insulting, as she did not render the agreed upon services. When I suggested this was not a fair resolution for us (we paid $4,000 for her to play from a Spotify playlist), she continued to send incoherent ChatGPT-generated texts with strawman arguments trying to justify that her $300 was suitable, including that she had to drive 2 hours, had a long day, and that it was apparently our responsibility to let her know she was supposed to be playing live music at that time. Anyone that has ever gotten married before knows you are being whisked around so much that you are barely available until the end of the night, and my wife and I did not know we were responsible for telling our musician to do her own job.
Ashley is totally incompetent, unreliable, and frankly should not be running her own business as a musician as she is not able to plan or engage in any reasonable dialogue to sort out issues like this. Throughout our correspondence she often sent long, blatantly AI-generated text messages instead of taking the time to write to us.
At the end of the day, after working with Ashley and seeing her social media profiles, it’s clear she is in the business to maximize her profits at all costs and cares very little about her clients. This was evident throughout the engagement, including her aggressively attempting to upsell us on various services like videography and DJing—two services she is not qualified to handle, especially when she can’t even get her main gig right.
Strongly recommend avoiding Ashley at all costs.
Overpriced, incompetent, unreliable, careless, and ended up being a big wrinkle on an otherwise perfect day.
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