26 Apr
2023
26 Apr
'23
1:36 p.m.
The numbers I gave for myself and for Beantown Stomp were for bands playing
the whole weekend, usually trading off with one other band. This most
commonly looks like 2hr Friday night, 1.5hr Saturday morning or a workshop,
1.5hr Saturday afternoon, 2hr Saturday night, 1.5hr Sunday morning, 1.5hr
Sunday afternoon, or ~9hr total. (more
<https://www.jefftk.com/p/dance-weekends-how-much-do-you-play>)
Jeff
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 9:12 AM Claire Baffaut <cbaffaut(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Seth and others,
I would assume it depends in part on what you are asking of them during
the weekend. So please add that to your descriptions for increased
usefulness. Thanks
Claire Baffaut (in Missouri)
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 21:08 Jeff Kaufman via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
My since-resuming weekend bookings have been $600
$650 $800 $800 $900
$900 (+ travel, meals, housing). None of these were local. Lower numbers
are generally smaller weekends where we were willing to play for less than
our usual rates to help them out. Older data:
https://www.jefftk.com/p/how-much-do-dance-weekends-pay
Beantown Stomp (pretty sure, but this was my first year not as a main
organizer so I might be wrong) guaranteed $550 + profit sharing, which
turned out to be $866. Everyone was within driving distance.
Jeff
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 9:24 PM Tepfer, Seth via Organizers <
organizers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Hello organizers
I've been having conversations with other organizers and talent about
pay at dance weekends. Our conversation started with talking about our
local contra dance weekend, and moved to a discussion about the local ECD
weekend. Then the discussion expanded to several musicians who make their
living as musicians, often at contra or ECD weekends.
We learned that our contra weekend was paying at the low end and that
several musicians were not interested in coming to play for our weekend
because we were not paying enough.
We are curious about what different weekends pay? Do you pay different
amounts for the headlining band versus a second band? What if one of the
bands is a local band? Is there interest in creating a document to share
this information? I know that some places don't like sharing money
information.
I'll start.
In 2019, the Atlanta contra dance weekend was paying $700 / musician or
caller, all meals, travel expenses, and housing (generally stay with a
local dancer who has many bedrooms). When we found out we were on the low
end, we raised our rates to $800/per.
Seth
Seth Tepfer, MBA, CSM, PMP (he, him, his)
Senior IT Manager, Emory Primate Center
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