I don't know if you'd want to distinguish between festivals that are
primarily contra, various dance, or just the dance area of a general
folk festival.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Brian Hamshar <bhamshar(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Hmmmm. Luke's "arbitrary" definition of
6 hrs or more includes a lot of events around the Mid-Atlantic that nobody really thinks
of as festivals.
If you exclude intro lessons etc it takes you into twice the length of
a typical dance, long enough that there'd generally be more than one
band and caller. Maybe add that to the criteria.