What's your average, or usual, attendance? M E
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:50 PM, William Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sue, > > At the Eugene, Oregon dances, pay is as follows: > Caller: $75 guarantee, travel guarantee based on distance, 20% of > profit (if any - RARE!) > Musician: $75 guarantee if fewer than 4 in band, else split $300 > guarantee, travel and profit share similar to caller. > Sound person: a flat $150, to load his own gear, drive an hour, set > up, work all evening, strike, lock up, drive an hour home, and unload. > Our rent has been $114/night, but will go up to $138 in the fall. > > Attendance varies, based on weather and conflicting events. We hold > dances on 2nd & 4th Saturdays, September to early June. Losses are > too high to dance in the summer, and we lose the use of our regular > facility, as the school system does not rent it out if school is not > in session. We charge $8 for non-members to attend, $6 for members, > with reciprocal discounts for members of other nearby dance/folklore > societies that provide dance discounts. > > Only two or three dances a year make profits and generate any profit > share for the talent. > > Wild Asparagus comes out annually in November and negotiates a > different deal. They run their own sound, and ask for 90% of the net > door receipts, after fixed expenses (rent, insurance, etc.) are paid. > EFS charges a higher admission price for this dance. > > > The Corvallis, Oregon dances work slightly differently: > The caller gets a guarantee of $50. Each musician (up to 4) gets a > guarantee of $50; more than four share $200. The sound man gets $100 > (he's local). The hall costs $80. Insurance is covered by the parent > organization. Any profits above the guarantees and fixed costs gets > split between the performers and organization. Profits happen much > more regularly in Corvallis than in Eugene, due to the lower fixed > costs and lower guarantees. Wild Asparagus negotiates an agreement > essentially identical to the one used in Eugene when they come out. > > > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Sue Robishaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I know that "it varies" and probably quite widely, but I'm trying to > get > > an idea of what is typically charged for one-time or semi-regular dance > > calling (not the high end festivals and balls and camps) or how receipts > are > > divided between caller, band, and house. My interest is as caller, band, > and > > dance organizer so all input would be appreciated. You can reply off-list > to > > [email protected]. > > Thanks, > > Sue Robishaw, Upper Peninsula of Michigan > -- > [email protected] > This is my bulk mail / mailing list address. > use "williamcallscontras" at the same host in order to reach me more > directly. > William J. Watson > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/callers > -- For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
