Just make sure that if it is a wedding, you have some sort of clause that adds money for every half hour you are delayed by the hirers from performing! Too many weddings have asked us to start incredibly late with no additional payment. Martha

Great idea. Wish we’d known that from the start! Martha

When I first discovered traditional "eastern" squares" in New England, north of CT, into Mass and southern VT. all the dances were8:00PM till Midnight.  Typically 5 tips, consisting of three dances each, until the 10 o'clock 1/2 hr break, followed by three tips after. Organizers of ONSs frequently also assume folks - novice dancers at best - will want longer periods of time - fill up an evening.Not so!   A good first session, hour or less - break - followed by a shorter session for the diehards is what they want; even if they do not know it.  This I take care to explain.  I also suggest the publicity states a "begins at" time...but not a dance ending time - each floor has it's own life.  A contract might give the starting time, continuing for as long as feasible, not to exceed a shut down time.My experience haven't seen requests for extra time during events but a good return on call-backs. Once those traditional dancers of yore started aging out the dancing time dropped and someone would complain.  "We haven't done"so & so " yet."  Gotta get them all in.  When we schedule now it's 7-10. Two questions to ask on ONSs if you are going into unfamilier territory.  Are there happenings competing for the dancer's time? Alcohol involved? Bob LivingstonMiddletown, CT On Friday, February 23, 2018, 6:36:21 PM EST, Jim McKinney via Callers <callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: My contract specifies that I will perform from this time to that time. My “overtime” clause say that if the client requests me to perform after that time, they agree to pay me $100 per hour, in cash, in advance. I’ve never had to invoke the overtime clause, possibly because it’s spelled out clearly up front. Jim _______________________________________________ List Name:  Callers mailing list List Address:  Callers(a)lists.sharedweight.net Archives:  https://www.mail-archive.com/callers@lists.sharedweight.net/