Ideas for music at a 30th birthday party should be a reflection of the last 30 years.  Plan on playing music from the last three decades that will bring back memories to the guest of honor.  It can be of one genre of music or a variety as most people change their music preferences a few times throughout their 3 decades of life.

If you have chosen to use one of our birthday ideas, either the “Old as Dirt” or the “Black-and-White” barbeque, you can play music throughout the entire event.

The Old as Dirt party should probably sway more towards country or western music from the last 30 years as rock-n-roll just wouldn’t fit in at a party like this.

You can go to your local library and check out lots of this music and have it on hand for the day of the party.  Just load up a 5 disc CD player and hit the shuffle button for hours of good country music.

Favorite hits from high school and college years can be played at the barbeque to bring out that peaceful, easy feeling of days gone by.

Music is meant to create different rhythms for different parts of the party.  Hired DJ’s know how to create this effect and is probably one of the best ideas you can do for a party of this kind.  They know what songs to play and when, just make sure they have a list of the must-play songs you want to hear.