One Magical Weekend Featured DJs | RipTide at Typhoon Lagoon | RetroT at Epcot®
Featured DJ's
RIPTIDE ORLANDO - Friday Night - 8pm to 2am - June 1, 2012
From mega-events of thousands to intimate house parties, DJ/Producer Randy Bettis is among the most sought-after mixmasters in the dance-music industry.
Bettis broke through the clutter in 2005 with back-to-back acclaimed performances at 3 of the largest dance parties in the world: Saint-at-Large New Years Day Event, The Black Party and the Heritage of Pride Pier Dance in New York City. In October 2005, Randy’s artistic prominence was validated when he was named by Billboard to the nationwide panel of club DJs who create Billboard’s weekly Hot Dance Club Play chart.
In 2006, Bettis took it to the next level, embarking on his first-ever national tour and unleashing the power of digital-age partnerships. Randy’s GayDays® Tour 2006 brought the spirit of the legendary celebration to 26 cities nationwide and was voted Best Circuit Tour of 2006 (and again in 2007 & 2008) by the members of JustCircuit.com. He launched new portals for fans with a weekly mixshow on G.I.R.L. (GayInternetRadioLive.com) and with satellite broadcasts on SIRIUS Radio’s OutQ “Saturday Night Out.”
Since then Randy has celebrated the release of his Party Groove: GayDays® Volumes 4-8 with volume 9 (Centaur Music) set to be released in May of 2011 with the annual nationwide GayDays® Tour soon to follow. In the fall of 2009, Randy was chosen to mix the official CD for the 25th Anniversary Miami White Party (Party Groove: White Party 10), the legendary fundraising event and in 2010 he was tapped to be the mix master on Party Groove: Cherry 4 the official CD for the 2010 Cherry Fund Weekend. Randy also became a member of The Recording Academy (the organization responsible for the Grammy Awards). In addition to having been a featured DJ at GayDays® Disney since 2006 Randy was honored to have been chosen in 2011 to play the Riptide @ Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon Waterpark event, produced by Let’s Go Play and supporting Broward House and Hope & Help, which brought in 7,000+ participants. Randy will return to help create the magic for the 2012 Riptide @ Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon event.
Randy Bettis and composer/arranger David Boyd form the artistic force behind BetBoyz, creating Billboard chart-topping remixes for exciting artists such as Taylor Dayne, Alicia Keys, Levi Kreis, Inaya Day, Marty Thomas, Reichen Lehmkuhl, Matt Zarley, Jenn Cuneta, Ari Gold, Brian Kent, Jason Dottley, Jason Antone, Andrea McCardle, Felicia Finley, Amber Dirks, Karen Jacobsen, Jason Walker, Natalie Toro and many others.Having played in some of NYC’s most legendary clubs (Limelight, Sound Factory, Stereo, Splashbar) and guest residencies at clubs around the US (Town Danceboutique in Washington DC, Voyeur in Philadelphia PA Pavilion on Fire Island NY and aboard the RSVP Vacations Cruises), Randy can be heard frequently at major circuit events nationwide.
RETRO T AT EPCOT - Sunday Afternoon - 5pm to 9:30pm - June 3, 2012
A new addition to this years Drink around the world and Retro T-Dance at Disney’s EPCOT will be one of the most famous Retro Music DJ’s in existence, DJ Robbie Leslie. 
Widely recognized as one of the top disc jockeys in the nation, Robbie Leslie has been performing on the international circuit for 35 years.
Leslie started his career on Fire Island at the legendary Sandpiper (now the Pavilion) in the Pines. From there he moved on to New York City, where the list of clubs at which he regularly performed reads like a "Who's Who' of Big Apple nightspots: The Saint (and subsequently the Saint-At-Large), Studio 54, Underground, Private Eyes, Palladium, the Red Parrot, 12 West and the Ice Palace.
He also made numerous guest appearances at Trocadero Transfer and Dreamland in San Francisco; Axis, Probe and Studio 1 in Los Angeles; Numbers and Heaven in Houston; Club St. John in San José; the Pavilion, Botel, Ice Palace, and Island Club on Fire Island; Roxy and Octagon in New York; Heaven in London, and clubs in Moscow, Sydney, Copenhagen, Toronto, and San Juan.
For 17 years he has been the Resident DJ for RSVP Vacations & Cruises.
Leslie is perhaps most renowned for spinning his magic at special Circuit Parties - Extravagant theme parties and benefits created for one night in anything from abandoned warehouses to famous museums.
Events of note include the Saint-at-Large White parties, the White Party at Vizcaya in Miami, The Red Party in Columbus, A.P.L.A. Garden Parties in Griffith Park and at Universal Studios Backlot, Spring to Life at the Post Office Pavilion in Washington D.C., All That Glitters in San Diego, the Hotlanta River Expo in Atlanta, Pride at The Pier in Ft. Lauderdale, Fantasy Fest in Key West, Pride Pier Dance in New York, Winter Party in Miami, Saturday Night Fever in New Orleans, Remember the Party in San Francisco, "Souvenirs" in New York, and a wide variety of major events in venues such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles and the Civic Center and Galleria in San Francisco. He has also appeared at events in Long Beach, Maui, Boston, Houston, Aspen, Tampa, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Portland, Rehoboth Beach, Hartford and Charleston. In 1988 he had the honor of playing the final set at The Saint's forty hour closing party.
As the disc jockey for New York City's Pier Dance 2004, Leslie played to a record breaking crowd of over 12,000! He topped that number in 1997 while playing the post-parade celebration at San Francisco's Embarkadero-- 20.000!
Recently he was honored by the industry and his peers with the National Hi-Energy D.J. of the Year award, sponsored by Dance Music report. He received the Dixie Award for D.J. of the Year in 1993. In October 1999 Leslie was presented with the third annual DJ Music Award for his lifetime contribution to the world of dance music.
He is a nine-year veteran of the original Copa Ft. Lauderdale and was the Friday DJ at Twist, South Beach for three years. Featured in the book Looking For The Perfect Beat -- the art and culture of the DJ, by Kurt B. Reighley (ISBN 0-671-03869-9), and Love Saves the Day: A History of Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979, by Tim Lawrence (ISBN 0-8223-3198-5), and “Turn the Beat Around” by Peter Shapiro (ISBN 0-571-21194-1).
He regularly performs in clubs around the country and is a featured artist at Sirius/XM Radio on the Studio 54 Channel.
"Never Underestimate the Power of Music"
DJ ROBBIE LESLIE
