They do eight of those things? Anyway, I care very little about balls and banquets, so I don’t really care who plays or who goes, or what who wears, or who didn’t go, or who asked whom out, or who has a crush on whom, or who wins homecoming queen.
This may seem kind of square but Josh Groban and Harry Connick, Jr big dance bands (or a Connick jazz band). Lets face it, all those politicians are going to want to dance and nobody wants to see them flailing away in tuxedos and ball gowns.