Re: [Callers] Caller's Fees

Seeing your chart finally spurred me on to add our info to the mix. Our Woodstock VT Third Friday Community Dance has a wonderfully successful family dance (80 + people) which includes a localvore soup/bread/cheese dinner, followed by a moderately successful contra dance (15-40-ish people). We charge $8 for dinner and dancing but we don't charge for anyone under 18 so our finances are a little dicey. We have a super-generous local business sponsor who covers the cost of the hall and a monthly advertising sign on our town green (the big way everyone in town knows what's going on) so he contributes $130 per month. We run Sept-May, not in the summer. Our money looks like: Band: We take $50 from the take at the door for the soup ingredients for next time, and split the rest among band members. We have a large house band of 8 folks, and they typically leave with about $20 each. Caller: I am the regular caller and I volunteer. When I need a sub, we pay them the same share that the band gets, or sometimes I donate money personally to bring it up to a more attractive fee Sound: Our band received a very generous anonymous grant a while ago to buy our own sound system, so we do that and there's no money involved. Thanks for organizing all this info!! On Jul 11, 2011, at 7:01 AM, Jeff Kaufman wrote: <>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<>:<> Delia Clark PO Box 45 Taftsville, VT 05073 802-457-2075 deliaclark8(a)gmail.com