Festival Stats 2016

 November 5th, 2016
contra, gigstats, music
Another year, another set of gig stats:

times booked band
15 Rushfest
14 Great Bear
13 Maivish
10 Mean Lids
9 Nor'Easter
9 Pete's Posse
9 Stringrays
7 Buddy System
7 Notorious
6 Barefoot
6 Free Raisins
6 Syncopaths
6 Toss the Possum
5 Coffee Zombies
5 Elixir
5 Latter Day Lizards
5 Nova
5 Ripples
5 Turnip the Beet
5 Wild Asparagus
4 Playing with Fyre
4 Sassafras Stomp
3 Gaslight Tinkers
3 Hotpoint Stringband
3 JEMS
2 Alchemy
2 Avant Gardeners
2 Changeling
2 Clayfoot Strutters
2 Contra Sutra
2 Contrarians
2 Contratopia
2 Contrazz
2 Countercurrent
2 Figments
2 Frost and Fire
2 Genticorum
2 Joyride
2 Lift Ticket
2 Moving Violations
2 Party of Three
2 Riptide
2 Steam
2 Triple A

And, new for this year, callers:

times booked caller
16 Will Mentor
13 Cis Hinkle
10 Beth Molaro
10 George Marshall
9 Frannie Marr
9 Lisa Greenleaf
9 Sarah Van Norstrand
8 Adina Gordon
8 Mary Wesley
7 Gaye Fifer
6 Susan Kevra
5 Bev Bernbaum
5 Bob Isaacs
5 Charlotte Crittenden
5 Susan Michaels
5 Susan Petrick
4 Emily Abel
4 Nils Fredland
3 Dave Eisenstadter
3 Diane Silver
3 Dugan Murphy
3 Luke Donforth
3 Michael Hamilton
3 Michael Karcher
3 Steve Zakon-Anderson
2 Bill Olson
2 Bradley Smith
2 Carol Ormond
2 Dana Parkinson
2 Erik Weberg
2 Frank Buschelmann
2 Janet Shepard
2 Jeremy Korr
2 Jesse Edgerton
2 Linda Leslie
2 Lindsey Dono
2 Maggie Jo Saylor
2 Rick Mohr
2 Ron Buchanan
2 Terry Doyle
2 Tom Hinds

Details:

  • This is from dance websites, and I can't always tell which bands are playing contra as opposed to, say, ECD.
  • I also can't tell how long a band is playing in a weekend. Rushfest and Buddy System typically play shorter amounts than most other bands on this list, but it's variable.
  • I'm trying to count all events with at least 9hr of contra dancing. Let me know if I missed anything.
  • Here's the raw table: list of dance weekends, festivals, and long dances (see the "2016" tab).
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