3 May
2014
3 May
'14
11:28 p.m.
In the ten years that I booked dances that happened. I later found out
that there was a pretty bitter divorce going on between a caller and a
musician. Whoever was booked last was re booked for another night.
If someone told me that they did not want to do it after it was booked, I
would then offer that person another date, or tell them I would put them
off for another year. I would not have had too much patience with much of
it.
The one place I had to pay attention to it was with some pretty hot
southern callers who did not want to call with northern style bands (one
of the hot southern callers I am thinking of lives in New England) I
needed to oblige that.
With the above exception I rarely tried to do matching. I thought if I
did that I would be falling down a rabbit hole to a place I did not want to
be.
Merle
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Chrissy Fowler <ktaadn_me(a)hotmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Booking-related:
How do you manage the (sometimes) delicate task of matching callers and
bands?
For example, what if you book a caller, but then find out the
already-booked band doesn't want to work with that person?
Besides the strategy of first booking a caller (or band) then asking for
confidential suggestions on what bands (or callers) they'd like to work
with (or not), how does an organizer handle this sort of "I won't play in
the same sandbox as Susie"
syndrome?
What special or particular circumstances would affect your response and/or
would guide you to a particular solution?
- 2014 NEFFA session
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