{"items": [{"author": "Michael", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942", "anchor": "fb-926941868942", "service": "fb", "text": "The spreadsheet with the raw data can't be viewed without authorization--just checking if this was intentional? (I'm curious who the outlier is who was booked more than twice as often as any other musician.)", "timestamp": "1518504573"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942&reply_comment_id=926969383802", "anchor": "fb-926941868942_926969383802", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Sorry! I've made it public now.
The musician we've booked the most is the amazing Julie", "timestamp": "1518529881"}, {"author": "Julie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942&reply_comment_id=926991539402", "anchor": "fb-926941868942_926991539402", "service": "fb", "text": "→ On average, I book each musician from one to two times a year. Sometimes three. For my numbers, I bet half of it is Spark in the Dark , if you counted that, Jeff. Techno contra and gender is a whole other subtopic. There are not very many techno contra DJs or bands, so the data might look there are a lot of females, but there are only a couple of us, and electronic music in general is very male-dominated.", "timestamp": "1518538048"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942&reply_comment_id=926994518432", "anchor": "fb-926941868942_926994518432", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Julie: Looking over the history, 15 of your 45 bookings here were Spark in the Darks; the other 30 were regular dances.", "timestamp": "1518538879"}, {"author": "Julie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942&reply_comment_id=926994633202", "anchor": "fb-926941868942_926994633202", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Jeff Kaufman oh that's interesting! surprising. thanks!", "timestamp": "1518538908"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942&reply_comment_id=926996394672", "anchor": "fb-926941868942_926996394672", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Julie: \"I book each musician from one to two times a year\"
Lots of musicians have been booked much less than that. For example, many musicians (who don't appear in this data set at all) are booked zero times, and 46% of people have only played once for BIDA (~1/8th of a time per year).
(This is very reasonable, though! Clarifying, not suggesting you should be doing anything different in booking.)", "timestamp": "1518539248"}, {"author": "Julie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942&reply_comment_id=926999518412", "anchor": "fb-926941868942_926999518412", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Hahaha well yes there are uncounted musicians who have been booked zero times at all. Very interesting that 46% of people have only played once for BIDA? That's surprising to me. (some of them are probably out of town folks on tour, or mentor musicians from farther afield. I wonder how many of them are \"up-and-comers\" who don't play again.) And there are people who have been booked once but then not the next year. There are a variety of factors in play with that.", "timestamp": "1518540485"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942&reply_comment_id=926999688072", "anchor": "fb-926941868942_926999688072", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Here's the list of people I see who've been booked once:
Amy Cann
Andrae Raffield
Andrew Hlynsky
Annika Socolofsky
Autumn Rose Lester
Barb Levine
Ben Knorr
Ben Ryan
Bennett Konesni
Bill Quern
Brendan Taaffe
Bruce Randall
Caroline O'Shea
Catherine Miller
Chloe Maher
Chris Miller
Chris Overholster
Chris Snyder
Christine Hedden
Clara Stickney
Dan Faiella
Daniel Ley
Daron Douglas
Dave Cory
Doug Healy
Elias Alexander
Elly Marshall
Emilie Rose
Emily Touchet
Eric Schedler
Everest Witman
Garrett Sawyer
Gordon Peery
Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin
Henry Yoshimura
Jenna Moynihan
Jim Guinness
Joe DiPaulo
Joel Wennerstrom
John Cote
Jon Warner
Jonathan Whitall
Josey Toney
Josh Van Vliet
Julia Plumb
Julian Loida
Karen Axelrod
Karin McQuade
Kirsten Lamb
Laura Feddersen
Lily Holigberg
Liz Faiella
Lydia Ievins
Mark Roberts
Matthew
Meg Dedolph
Mia Friedman
Mike Ryan
Nadine Dyskant-Miller
Neil Pearlman
Nicola Beazley
Pan Chan
Rick Kaufman
Ryan McKasson
Sara Mann
Simon Chrisman
Stephen Thomforde
Stuart Kenney
Sunniva Brynnel
Tanner Porter
Tim Ball
Tom Krumm
Tony Parkes
Victor Troll
Walter Lenk
Yaron Shragai
Zack Davis
Zoe Madonna", "timestamp": "1518540622"}, {"author": "Julie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926941868942&reply_comment_id=927000062322", "anchor": "fb-926941868942_927000062322", "service": "fb", "text": "→ OK, this list mostly makes sense to me. Some are from out of town. Some don't play contras that often or don't play much any more. Some are local folks, though, who I'd love to have in the rotation more often. (Our system is harder for people who *only* play in bands, because we don't generally book existing bands.) And some of the people on that list are actually booked for upcoming dances, and so don't appear yet as repeat musicians in your data.", "timestamp": "1518540791"}, {"author": "Dave", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152", "anchor": "fb-926981684152", "service": "fb", "text": "This seemed better than the ratios around here, so I checked Glen Echo's Friday bookings from 3/17 to 2/18, not including open band. Men were booked 101 times, women 38.", "timestamp": "1518534929"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926982307902", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926982307902", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Wow. That is quite the disparity.", "timestamp": "1518535281"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926983335842", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926983335842", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Are these just bands or do these numbers include callers?", "timestamp": "1518535519"}, {"author": "Dave", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926989633222", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926989633222", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Just bands.", "timestamp": "1518537602"}, {"author": "Dave", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926991170142", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926991170142", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Callers tend to be more or less even, 28.5 to 23.5 during that time (counting people who split dances as half).", "timestamp": "1518537914"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926997023412", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926997023412", "service": "fb", "text": "→ I also saw callers being more balanced, with more women than men at the dance weekend level: https://www.jefftk.com/p/contra-caller-gender-ii", "timestamp": "1518539364"}, {"author": "Sophia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926997312832", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926997312832", "service": "fb", "text": "→ My hypothesis would be that organizers have a desire to gender-balance their performers, but it's easier to do with callers than bands because callers are a single person while bands come as a pre-made unit.", "timestamp": "1518539436"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926998759932", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926998759932", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Sophia: dance weekends are definitely gender balancing with callers (two male callers happens much less than chance). Sometimes they book multiple bands, so we could look at how often they book two all-male bands? If weekends are gender balancing bands you'd expect to see fewer of those than you would by chance.", "timestamp": "1518539893"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926998909632", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926998909632", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Looking at the bands that Dave was referring to, many of the bands seem to have at least one female member in them. There are a fair number of all-male bands, and at best maybe two all-female bands have been hired in that time period. 38 total women seemed low, but looking back the vast majority of musicians were men.
I just don't think that there ARE that many all-female bands (that I'm aware of - though I am aware of a few). Most bands are mixed, but when you hire mixed and all-male bands, you wind up with that disparity.", "timestamp": "1518540018"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=926999243962", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_926999243962", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Perry: if that were right then BIDA wouldn't see https://www.jefftk.com/bida-band-composition-by-gender...", "timestamp": "1518540310"}, {"author": "Perry", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=927000296852", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_927000296852", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Your dance is in a different region than ours.", "timestamp": "1518540998"}, {"author": "Sophia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=927001135172", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_927001135172", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Idea: an app for organizers where they could enter bands booked to date and it would calculate the gender balance and recommend bands to correct it, if it's unbalanced. (Does the Dance Gypsy performer database have an API?)
Note that I am not personally capable of programming such an app.", "timestamp": "1518541310"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=927005177072", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_927005177072", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Sophia: I think making a list of \"bands you might want to consider booking\" would accomplish mostly the same thing?", "timestamp": "1518543641"}, {"author": "Sophia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=927008026362", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_927008026362", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Jeff Kaufman less cool than an app", "timestamp": "1518544758"}, {"author": "Sophia", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=927008201012", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_927008201012", "service": "fb", "text": "→ (I'm joking, I think such a list would be a really good idea.)", "timestamp": "1518544897"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=929027798722", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_929027798722", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Sophia if you wanted to make a list, the data from https://docs.google.com/.../1fQq7pTtNVMYVRgOPbjNz.../edit... could be a good place to start
It looks like about 3/4 of band bookings are for groups that have at least one female member, so what are the main bands with more than that? Here are the bands from that list, plus a couple others I know that weren't booked often enough to make that cut. Sorting by fraction female, and including number of weekend/festival bookings 2014-2017 as a guide to national popularity:
100%:
* Rushfest: Emily Rush calls and DJs (27)
* Anadama: Amelia A. Mason, Emily Troll, Bethany Waickman (5)
* Ladies at Play: Shanda Willis McDonald, Miranda Arana, Kathy Dagg (5)
67%:
* The Free Raisins: Audrey Knuth, Jeff Kaufman, Amy Englesberg (27)
50%:
* Buddy System: Julie, Noah VanNorstrand (23)
* Wild Asparagus: Ann Percival, David Cantieni, Becky Tracy, George Marshall (22)
* The Syncopaths: Ryan McKasson, Ashley Broder, Jeffrey Spero, Christa Burch (19)
* Notorious: Eden Macadam-somer, Larry Unger (18)
* Toss the Possum: Rob Zisette, Laura Zisette (16)
* Turnip the Beet: Kelsey Wells, Jeremy Lekich (15)
* The Ripples: Christopher Wood, Gabrielle Lanza, Kristen Planeaux, Andrew Taylor (14)
* Steam: Dave Firestine , Alice Boyle, Robert Rosenberg, Claire Zucker (7)
* The Groovemongers: C. W. Abbott, Jane Knoeck, Rebecca McCallum, Mark Hellenberg (6)
40%:
* Hotpoint Stringband: Mark Hellenberg, Hilarie Burhans, Mark Burhans, Marlene Shostak, Nick Weiland (15)
Past this you start getting enormous numbers of bands.", "timestamp": "1519594002"}, {"author": "Julie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=929029365582", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_929029365582", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Don't forget Eloise and Co with Rachel Bell and Becky Tracy", "timestamp": "1519594713"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=929030208892", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_929030208892", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Julie: Thanks! Are they new? I can't find a website for them.", "timestamp": "1519594984"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=929030353602", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_929030353602", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Looking at my list of bookings it looks like they played Summer Soiree in 2017, though that was as a trio with Owen Morrison.", "timestamp": "1519595070"}, {"author": "Julie", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926981684152&reply_comment_id=929033118062", "anchor": "fb-926981684152_929033118062", "service": "fb", "text": "→ They round out their duo with a few different guitarists, sometimes male, sometimes female. They just played Flurry and have a lot of dance weekend bookings. Look out for them! Rachel can tell you more of course. :)", "timestamp": "1519595453"}, {"author": "Gus", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926994528412", "anchor": "fb-926994528412", "service": "fb", "text": "I wonder if that playing music is a role more visible in the larger culture than a caller if it is more susceptible to patriarchal pressures. If you to expand the dataset outside of dances, would this trend continue?", "timestamp": "1518538886"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926994528412&reply_comment_id=927020241882", "anchor": "fb-926994528412_927020241882", "service": "fb", "text": "→ \"outside of dances\" do you mean musicians in general?", "timestamp": "1518549383"}, {"author": "Gus", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=926994528412&reply_comment_id=927022886582", "anchor": "fb-926994528412_927022886582", "service": "fb", "text": "→ Within instrumental folk music. So in bands, sessions and camps. There might be other places.", "timestamp": "1518550634"}, {"author": "Phillip", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=930838435192", "anchor": "fb-930838435192", "service": "fb", "text": "A serving suggestion, because they are a hot band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKkGvaEyD0g", "timestamp": "1520534069"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/926936599502?comment_id=930838435192&reply_comment_id=930840396262", "anchor": "fb-930838435192_930840396262", "service": "fb", "text": "→ \"The Women\u2019s Guild is a special treat that happens at most once a year when Gabrielle Lanza and Kristen Planeaux from Cincinnati, Ohio visit and join forces with Liz Faiella from New Hampshire.\"", "timestamp": "1520534542"}]}