Digging through the archives, I found that an event that has crossed over to legend actually did happen...Yes, the band Tad really did play at Duffy's.
FWIW we should absolutely administratively do what we think is necessary to get an edge and it appears that we're ponying up in this instance to do so.
This doesn't seem to be consistent with our former 'coaches are discouraged from using outside consultants / our coaches should be good enough to do things on their own' mantra of 2019-20.