On Sun, Sep 29, 2013, Colin Hume wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:39:24 -0700, Aahz Maruch wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013, Colin Hume wrote: >>> >>> Groups in England book bands and callers much further ahead. I >>> have 12 bookings for 2014 (it would often be more by this time >>> of the year) and 3 for 2015. >> >> How do y'all bring in new talent? > > The grass-roots organisations are the Dance Clubs, which usually meet > once a week. Often they will encourage budding callers to call an > evening, or part of an evening. Once you get known you hope that > other clubs in your area will book you for their club nights. Then if > things go well you start getting booked for Saturday night dances with > a live band, which will spread your name further afield. The final > step is to be booked at festivals, usually a weekend or a whole week.
My question was poorly phrased. What I meant was, given the long lead time for scheduling callers, how do you keep from discouraging new callers? I sure would be discouraged if I knew that I could only start getting gigs more than a year away. -- Hugs and backrubs -- I break Rule 6 http://rule6.info/ <*> <*> <*> Help a hearing-impaired person: http://rule6.info/hearing.html
