Hi, As many of you know, we are contradancing at the Burning Man festival in NV at the end of the month for the second year with a great 3 band lineup - Lift Ticket, Noreaster and Double Apex http://burningmancontradance.com. Our main caller is Dave Eisenstadter with Doug McLean, Jeff Spero (who is also one of the musicians) and Tracy Feldman (who is a beginning caller but has the advantage that she can firedance while she calls). Our last caller was going to be Tara Bolker but she has had to reluctantly drop out for family reasons. Which leads me to ask - do any of you know of anyone with calling talent who is going, has gone in the past or could perhaps be persuaded to go to Burning Man this year (I have some extra tickets, but no more money to subsidize). Finally if you go to our web page, follow the 'if you want to camp with us..." link and skim through to the end you will find my discussion about how I hope to keep the camp going in the future without my heavy subsidies. Starting next year we will have a Kickstarter campaign (check wikipedia page if unfamiliar) and have ~$300 camp dues to cover food water and bringing in the talent (separate from the Burning Man gate fee). There are no guarantees we will get enough response to cover the costs but I am hopeful. But you could say that a selling point for anyone considering coming is that this is the last year that it is guaranteed to happen. Finally I would humbly suggest looking at my somewhat unusual take on an intro- to- contra page linked from the main page. Thanks and best wishes, Mark 352 373 3202