Festival Stats 2017

October 27th, 2017
contra, gigstats, music
Another year, another set of gig stats. For more details, see what I wrote the first time I compiled these. Here's my raw data if you'd like to see what went into these numbers.

Corrections welcome! I'm especially interested in whether there are events I'm not tracking, since I have used this for various other posts.

times booked band
15 Great Bear
12 Rushfest
11 Mean Lids
11 Pete's Posse
10 Buddy System
8 Nova
8 Stringrays
7 Maivish
7 Toss the Possum
6 Free Raisins
6 Latter Day Lizards
6 Moving Violations
6 Wild Asparagus
5 Ripples
5 Riptide
5 Syncopaths
4 Barefoot
4 Notorious
4 Turnip the Beet
3 Contraforce
3 Genticorum
3 Sassafras Stomp
3 Steam
3 Gaslight Tinkers
3 Tempest
3 Wake Up Robin
2 Alchemy
2 Anadama
2 Bandage a Trois
2 Contrarians
2 Elixir
2 Fennig's All Star String Band
2 Hotpoint
2 Joyride
2 Party of Three
2 Playing with Fyre
2 Rare Privilege
2 Rhythm Raptors
2 Tidal Wave
2 Uncle Farmer
2 Wild Rumpus

And callers:

times booked caller
17 Will Mentor
14 Gaye Fifer
12 Lisa Greenleaf
12 Sarah Van Norstrand
10 Beth Molaro
10 Seth Tepfer
8 George Marshall
7 Bob Isaacs
7 Susan Kevra
6 Cis Hinkle
5 Adina Gordon
5 Lindsey Dono
5 Luke Donforth
5 Mary Wesley
5 Wendy Graham
4 Darlene Underwood
4 Diane Silver
4 Michael Hamilton
3 David Kaynor
3 David Millstone
3 Dugan Murphy
3 Emily Abel
3 Emily Rush
3 Maggie Jo Saylor
3 Steve Zakon-Anderson
3 Susan Michaels
3 Susan Petrick
2 Alex Deis-Lauby
2 Angela DeCarlis
2 Barbara Groh
2 Bev Bernbaum
2 Carol Ormand
2 Dave Eisenstadter
2 Ed Hall
2 Erik Hoffman
2 Erik Weberg
2 Frannie Marr
2 Janine Smith
2 Jesse Edgarton
2 Lauren Peckman
2 Rick Mohr
2 Tina Fields
2 Tony Parkes
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