Bar A, Lake Como — the former residency
Lake Como, New Jersey — eight years as head resident DJ. (Former room, forever credential.)
The room that built the DJ
For eight years, Barry was the head resident DJ at Bar A in Lake Como — one of the Jersey Shore's legendary rooms. Eight summers of peak-season, high-pressure, no-excuses DJing: the kind of room where a weak DJ gets found out by the second song. That residency is the foundation under everything Proud Entertainment does today — the reading, the pressure-handling, the never-empty floor. Bar A is a former room; the standard it set is current.
The room
Bar A, Lake Como, NJ — legendary Jersey Shore room; Barry's former 8-year head residency.
Why I fit this room
You can't buy what an 8-year residency teaches: how a room breathes, when to push, when to pull back, how to win a crowd that's seen everything. Brides book the wedding DJ; they get the DJ Bar A made.
From Barry's camera roll — on the job
All photography: Barry Proud, on the job. No stock, ever.
Book the DJ the big rooms made.
Tell Barry your date — you'll get a personal response from him, right away.