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@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 > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list -- organizers@lists.sharedweight.net > To unsubscribe send an email to organizers-le...@lists.sharedweight.net >
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