Festival Stats 2024

November 11th, 2024
contra, gigstats
Each year (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023) I put out a list of how many dance weekends, festivals, camps, and long dances contra bands and callers are doing. I don't really know why I do this, but it's about an hours work on top of that I'm already collecting for trycontra.com/events so I might as well keep doing it!

In 2023 I saw that the total number of events (107) was down 20% from 2019 (132), where a lot didn't come back from the pandemic. This year we're back up to pre-pandemic levels, with 131, which is great to see!

Bands

River Road 9
Countercurrent 8
Playing with Fyre 8
Drive Train 7
Hot Coffee Breakdown 7
The Engine Room 7
Stomp Rocket 6
Toss the Possum 6
Wild Asparagus 6
The Dam Beavers 6
Eloise &co 5
Elixir 4
Kingfisher 3
Nova 3
Open Band 3
Stove Dragon 3
The Mean Lids 3
The Moving Violations 3
The Stringrays 3
The Syncopaths 3
3 Wheel Drive 2
Audacious 2
Contra Sutra 2
Contraforce 2
Contrasaurus 2
Good Company 2
Joyride 2
Lake Effect 2
Lighthouse 2
Meadowhawk 2
Notorious 2
Pimento Mori 2
Raise the Roof 2
Riptide 2
Rushfest 2
Supertrad 2
The Faux Paws 2
The Ice Cream Truckers 2
The Latter Day Lizards 2
Thunderwing 2

Callers

Will Mentor 19
Gaye Fifer 15
Alex Deis-Lauby 13
Lisa Greenleaf 12
Bob Isaacs 10
Seth Tepfer 9
George Marshall 8
Susan Petrick 7
Terry Doyle 7
Cis Hinkle 5
Janine Smith 5
Lindsey Dono 5
Mary Wesley 5
Nils Fredland 5
Adina Gordon 4
Maia McCormick 4
Steve Zakon-Anderson 4
Wendy Graham Settle 4
Ben Sachs-Hamilton 3
Charlie Turner 3
Darlene Underwood 3
Devin Pohly 3
Emily Rush 3
Isaac Banner 3
Jacqui Grennan 3
Koren Wake 3
Michael Karcher 3
River Rainbowface Abel 3
Scott Higgs 3
Chris Page 2
Claire Takemori 2
Dereck Kalish 2
Donna Hunt 2
Frannie Marr 2
Jeremy Korr 2
Katie Zanders 2
Liz Nelson 2
Louise Siddons 2
Open Calling 2
Open calling 2
Rick Mohr 2
Sarah Kaiser 2
Susan Kevra 2
Susan Michaels 2
Warren Doyle 2
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