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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Becca
Becca Sent on 08/24/2026
5 out of 5 rating

A Beautiful Vibe!!

I'm so excited to book Ashley for my vow renewal next year, after following her for Many Years. From personal experience, it is all around amazing..at Weddings, State fair performances, restaurant/club venues and fundraisers, her kindness and professionalism knows no bounds and she always gets asked to return, she does have quite a following. So, not sure why there's 1 low review, 2 sides to everything I suppose, but after all my husband and I have experienced, other reviews and seeing her followers...there is no one else I would recommend. We can't wait, we both highly recommend her, her voice is perfect for this!
Lyndsey
Lyndsey Sent on 10/16/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Ceremony and Cocktail Hour

My husband and I hired Ashley to play both our ceremony and our cocktail hour at our wedding in Boston in October 2025. Ashley played the guitar and sang at our ceremony, and played the piano and sang at our cocktail hour. If I could give Ashley 1000 stars I would!!! We had a formal black tie wedding, and it was important to us to offer our guests a black tie experience. Ashley was one of the first vendors we hired, our wedding planner found her, and from the start, Ashley was willing to work with us on our creative ideas, learning new songs that we held dear to our hearts, even customizing a song for me to walk down the aisle to… she had everyone in happy tears hearing her beautiful voice walk me down the aisle. Both my wedding planner and I said on multiple occasions how amazing Ashley was to work with. If you’re thinking of hiring her, do not hesitate, do it. Thank you Ashley for EVERYTHING.
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Viv Sent on 09/07/2025
5 out of 5 rating

A Beautiful Performance

We had the absolute pleasure of having Ashley perform at our wedding ceremony and cocktail hour, and we truly couldn’t have asked for a better musician. From the very start, Ashley was kind, professional, and incredibly easy to work with. In addition to offering an extensive song repertoire for us to choose from, she was willing to learn a song that was special to us for our ceremony, which made the moment feel incredibly personal and meaningful. What stood out to us was how thoughtfully she tailored her cocktail hour set to match our vision. We had requested a 1940s/1950s jazz vibe, and she nailed it, creating the perfect atmosphere that was both classy and relaxed. So many of our guests commented on how fantastic the music was, and even the venue staff took the time to compliment her performance. She worked with our venue to provide her own setup, making the process easier for us. We wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone looking for a talented and dedicated musician to elevate their special event.
Jocelyn
Jocelyn Sent on 09/07/2025
5 out of 5 rating

So happy we hired Ashley!!!!!

Ashley was absolutely incredible! We hired her to perform during cocktail hour and we had soooooo many guests come up to us and tell us how talented she is! She was so easy to work with & she made our special day that much better. Would hire her again and again!!!
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Camryn Sent on 08/09/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Made our day extra special

We had the absolute pleasure of having Ashley perform at our wedding, and she was incredible! Not only was her voice beautiful and moving, but she was also professional, kind, and a joy to work with from start to finish. Our guests could not stop talking about how much they loved her singing—it truly made the day feel even more special. She was also so helpful during the planning process, always willing to share recommendations and work with us to make sure everything was perfect. We can’t recommend her enough!
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Frances Sent on 10/20/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Exceptional voice! Definitely booking for future events as well

Where do I even begin? Ashley has the voice and spirit of an angel! I still get chills thinking about our wedding ceremony music. We had a Catholic wedding ceremony and ashley did an incredible job working with our church music director to make sure our mass was exactly what we wanted. She learned new music just days before our wedding and I am still in awe of that. Ashley did a special version of Halelujia for us and we am STILL receiving compliments on how beautiful that was . I plan to book ashley for other events in the future, she was so professional and personable and really such an incredible talent !! Thank you, Ashley for making our day one to remember !!
Katerina
Katerina Sent on 10/20/2024
5 out of 5 rating

Wow just wow (in the best way)

Ashley went absolutely above and beyond for my wedding, from learning extra music without being asked, keeping the crowd dancing and moving through the ceremony hall and the reception hall with ease. Not only does she have a beautiful voice but she’s also a beautiful human inside and out who truly cares about making your wedding the best it can possibly be!

We can’t speak her praises enough
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William Sent on 05/08/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Perfect in every way

Ashley is a tremenous singer and musician and such a pleasure to work with. We asked Ashley if she could put together a 60+ minute set for the Coronation of King Charles III. She gave us a huge list of choices and suggestions and played the set flawlessly (piano and guitar). She arrived exactly on time, communicated well and was a huge hit with our guests. Thanks Ashley!
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Kate Sent on 01/24/2023
5 out of 5 rating

Would definitely use again!

Ashley played at our company’s s 75th anniversary party. She is so versatile and played genres for the whole crowd, everyone enjoyed themselves!
She was a pleasure to work with and most importantly she has a beautiful voice!
Cody
Cody Sent on 08/24/2026
1 out of 5 rating

Unprofessional, unreliable, and overpriced.

Ashley is an amateur musician masquerading as a professional.

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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