Martha Edwards wrote: > > But I am curious - in your groups, are callers paid more, or less, > than musicians (on average)? How about the sound guys? >
We (bida) pay all of them the same, though we don't include the sound person in profit sharing. > > And on what do you base the amounts? What we can afford. As our dance has grown, we've raised our guarantees some. If we found we were building up too much in our bank account we would raise them more. > > the dancers. I just looked at our list of bands, and there's only > one person - okay, two - listed in our local contra dance bands that > regularly dance with us any more. Is that normal in your > communities? > The model in my head is a turnover based one. There's relatively high turnover for dancers. If I go to the scout house now, maybe 1/3 were dancing when I used to go there regularly in 2006. So lots of people come for a while, then stop. Some of the people who stay around are just people who really like dancing. Many others, though, are ones who have broadened into other community roles: calling, playing, organizing, running sound. Maybe some musicians lose interest in dancing, like other people who lose interest in dancing, but instead of disappearing they remain somewhat connected, playing for dances? Jeff
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