Here are the terms and conditions for the Friday Night dance at Glen Echo. -- Regards - Michael Barraclough www.michaelbarraclough.com LOCATION Glen Echo Park is at 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, Maryland. Directions and maps may be found on our website (http://www.fridaynightdance.org. The dance is usually held in the Spanish Ballroom. However, on some occasions, the dance will be in the adjacent Bumper Car Pavilion; there may not be time to inform you that the Bumper Car Pavilion will be used. It is possible to drive vehicles to an adjacent entrance to the Spanish Ballroom and Bumper Car Pavilion. If you do so, you are required to remove your car from the Park and to park in either of the adjacent parking lots after unloading. ARRIVAL AND SETUP Access is available from 7:00 PM and you should arrive no later than 7:45 PM and be ready for a final sound check at 8:15 PM. Please arrive earlier if you have special needs or require additional set-up time. It is not possible to sound check between 7.30pm and 8.15pm as the pre-dance lesson takes place then. TIMING The dance starts at 8:30 PM and ends at 11:30 PM with a 15 minute break about 10:00 PM. It is customary, but not required, that the second half of the dance begins with a couples' dance (hambo, schottische, tango, etc.). It is also customary that both halves end with a waltz. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Early Manager will introduce you at the beginning of the evening and make a few remarks regarding fire exits, water fountains and the need to look after the dance floor by not "stomping" and by keeping away from the "center line". The main announcement time precedes the last called dance before the break when the Early Manager will introduce the performers more fully, thank all those involved with the dance and, if applicable, advertise any goods you have for sale. If you have CDs for sale it is likely that FND will purchase one of these for giving to a random dancer at this point. The Early Manager is followed by any other brief local contra-related announcements. SALES You are permitted to sell CDs and tapes (but not T-shirts or other clothing) during the dance. The Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture (GEPPAC) charges a fee of 20% on all product sales. Currently, FND pays this charge for the band. The number of CDs and any other approved sales merchandise must be recorded by the GEPPAC Hall Manager with a pre-inventory count and a post-inventory count. These numbers must be verified by the Hall Manager; the GEPPAC Hall Manager must sign off on the inventory before sales start and after sales stop. RECORDING Please bring blank cassette tapes if you want the sound engineer to record the performance through the sound system. No one is permitted to record the performance without explicit consent from both the band and the caller. FEES AND PAYMENT Since Feb 2009, we pay bands 35 percent and callers 10 percent of our admission gate. Bands are guaranteed a minimum of $100 per musician for bands with 4 or fewer musicians. For bands with 5 or more members, the band as a whole is guaranteed a minimum of $400. Callers are guaranteed a minimum of $100. Unless stated otherwise on your contract, we charge $9 per admission, and lately our dances have been averaging about 250-300 dancers. Payment will be made by the Late Manager in cash at the end of the dance. At this time we will ask for each person's full name and social security number, which we need in order to comply with an IRS requirement to file a Form 1099 for everyone who is paid $600 or more in a calendar year, as well as an acknowledgement of receipt of payment. FND may withhold from any amounts payable under this agreement such federal, state, local and other taxes as may be required to be withheld under any applicable law or regulation. (Under current law, withholding may be required in the case of non-resident aliens under certain circumstances.) CANCELLATION FND will make a good faith attempt to see that a scheduled dance takes place. Likewise, we expect scheduled performers to make their best efforts to perform. If the dance is canceled because the National Park Service closes the Park due to weather or for some other reason within 1 day of the scheduled dance, we will offer the band and caller their choice of either the guaranteed minimum payment or first priority for any available dance date. If the dance is canceled 2 to 30 days prior to the scheduled dance, we will offer the band and caller 50% of the guaranteed minimum payment or first priority for any available dance date. We also reserve the right to cancel a scheduled dance, due to unforeseen circumstances, more than 30 days prior to the event without compensation (this has never happened!). Glen Echo Park may close in the event of severe weather, especially in the winter months. If the Park is closed, the dance is canceled. In the event of severe weather, please call the Glen Echo Park events hot-line at 301-320-2330 to determine whether the Park is closed. EMERGENCIES The Glen Echo Park office (GEPPAC) is open 10-6 at 301-320-7757. If you have a last minute emergency and must contact someone after that on the night of your performance, please call * Michael Barraclough (bands) 703 992-0752 (h) or 202-957-1142 (c - do NOT leave a message or text me) * Vicki North (callers) 202-332-5092 (h) or 202-905-9027 (c) * Harley Frazis (FND president) at 301.652.1370 (h) or 202.691.7394(w) PERSONNEL CHANGES Should one or more members of the band be unable to perform due to illness or otherwise, you must notify the FND Booking Committee (fndgigs(a)petml.com) as soon as possible and provide suggestions for an appropriate substitute. FND reserves the right to decide if the substitute(s) is (are) acceptable and, if not, whether this agreement shall remain in effect. ACCOMMODATION Should you need housing, please notify us at least a month in advance, and list any special needs. We will try to arrange for you to stay with local dancers. We do not pay for hotel stays. AMPLIFICATION FND will provide the band with sound reinforcement at the performance. We do not generally allow bands and callers to use their own equipment (except for wireless microphones). Please fill out the tech sheet on the following page for our records.

The Friday Night Dancers (we are a different organization to that running the Sunday night contra) pay the sound person 7% of the door with a minimum of $100 and a maximum of $200. So Caller 10% (minimum $100) Band 35% (minimum $100/person, 4 max) Sound 7% (minimum $100, maximum $200) Hall 40% (minimum $700 mid-Mar to Nov, else $350) Lesson $30 Admission $9 (free to 17 and under on 2nd Fridays) Michael Barraclough www.michaelbarraclough.com On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 17:39 -0400, Jeff Kaufman wrote: