2 Jan
2012
2 Jan
'12
4:14 p.m.
NYC has a real clear cancellation. It is easier for us.
If the subway is running we have the dance. If we cancel, we pay band and
caller for the gig. If the band can not make the dance we do not.
I think this is the way it is done in more "professional" venues. A
musician told me a story about wanting to leave the house before the call
came in to cancel the dance so he would still get paid. This was before
cell phones.
Having a clear policy has helped us out in a few instances.
Merle
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Jeff Kaufman <jeff(a)alum.swarthmore.edu>wrote;wrote:
Chrissy Fowler wrote:
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*Merle McEldowney*
*212-933-0290*
1. Do any of you have specific cancellation policies?
BIDA (Cambridge MA) doesn't.
2. Under what circumstances would you cancel a dance? How do you
go about deciding whether or not to cancel?
We've not talked about this. Thanks for prompting me to think about
this: I'm going to email the board.
Without any discussion ahead of time, I think we would make a lot of
phone calls in a short time and try to contact as many of the board
members as we could to see what they thought. We would probably
cancel if we thought it was unsafe for people to come, the hall would
be closed, or the T wasn't running. If we had performers coming in
from out of town but things were not bad locally we might have board
members sub.
3. What happens if you cancel a dance? (Do you still pay the
band/caller/sound provider the guarantee, if you have one?)
We would offer to pay our guarantees to performers. We've not talked
about sound.
4. How do you get out the word to dancers?
We would email our mailing list and post on facebook. These would
encourage dancers to let their friends know the dance was off. We
can't currently put emergency notices on our website reliably, which
is unfortunate.
Jeff
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