Echo Play Live was founded by Evan Ranallo in 2023 out of a simple need. The projects he and his friends were already running deserved a real home. The bands had real audiences, the shows had real production demands, and managing it all required dedicated organization. What started as managing a band among friends grew into a full management company representing four of the most active live acts in the DFW Metroplex.
Though everyone on the roster comes from a different musical place, the company runs on one shared belief. The live show is sacred. Every band under the Echo Play Live umbrella shows up ready. Every player on the roster knows their job in the room. Nobody phones it in.
Talk to anyone in the bands and one word keeps coming up. Community. Brotherly love. Camaraderie. Family. Echo Play Live is not a vendor and the audience is not a customer. It is a room of people, on and off the stage, who care about the same thing for the same reason. The bands look after each other. The audiences come back. And the goal of every show is to give people a night that feels nostalgic, energetic, sincere, and worth remembering.
"Though our backgrounds vary greatly, we are unified in our vision of quality, hustle, and love for the show."
What Echo Play Live
Means to the Roster
"It is not just transactional. It is community-building. We feed each other with our interactions."
"A wondrous enjoyment of brotherly love. Communion with like-minded souls and adventurers in this sea of unknown that is life."
"More than friendship. Camaraderie. The accumulation of really great friends vibing together."
"It is like a family. Everybody looks out for each other. Like a fraternity, in a way."