{"id":590635,"date":"2026-08-12T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590635\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T04:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:30:09","slug":"snl-music-booker-brian-siedlecki-departs-show-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590635\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Music Booker Brian Siedlecki Departs Show after 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLongtime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live_1\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> music booker Brian Siedlecki is departing from the show, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter, as the program elected not to renew his contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSiedlecki, a well-respected producer and talent booker, has been with SNL for nearly 30 years, starting as an intern back in 1996. He\u2019s helped maintain the show\u2019s status as one of the most-coveted music bookings in entertainment, a must-stop for artists plugging their new records and a major milestone in establishing burgeoning acts as superstars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAcross his tenure, Siedlecki has helped book countless superstars for the show; as Billboard reported last year, his very first booking was Nelly Furtado in 2001, when \u201cI\u2019m Like a Bird\u201d first hit. SNL\u2019s musical guests during Siedlecki\u2019s time with the show have included a wide range of stars from legacy icons like Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen to more contemporary pop stars like Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSiedlecki didn\u2019t respond to request for comment on the matter. SNL still has two longtime bookers, Keri Powers and Rebecca Schwartz. Powers has been with the show since 2014, while Schwartz has been with SNL since 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhen asked for comment, NBC said that the network \u201cdoesn\u2019t comment on staffing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe news on Siedlecki comes just over a month before SNL is scheduled to return for its 52nd season on September 26. The show had a more front-facing departure heading into its latest season as well, with Chloe Fineman announcing in July that she was leaving the show after seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cSeven years is kind of like the classic way [at\u00a0SNL], and then like right as my contract was up, this amazing David E. Kelley opportunity came in like completely out of the blue,\u201d Fineman told THR on the red carpet at The Dink premiere in July. \u201cI did a little chemistry read and it was off to the races; it just felt like a perfect time. I\u2019m really proud of everything, but it\u2019s hard. I\u2019m genuinely really good friends with everybody, and I genuinely couldn\u2019t love that job more. So it\u2019s really bittersweet, but I\u2019m gonna be in New York. I\u2019m down the street. Maybe you\u2019ll see me.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime Saturday Night Live music booker Brian Siedlecki is departing from the show, multiple sources tell The Hollywood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,5195,282],"class_list":["post-590635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}