In the ten years that I booked dances that happened. I later found out that there was a pretty bitter divorce going on between a caller and a musician. Whoever was booked last was re booked for another night.
If someone told me that they did not want to do it after it was booked, I would then offer that person another date, or tell them I would put them off for another year. I would not have had too much patience with much of it. The one place I had to pay attention to it was with some pretty hot southern callers who did not want to call with northern style bands (one of the hot southern callers I am thinking of lives in New England) I needed to oblige that. With the above exception I rarely tried to do matching. I thought if I did that I would be falling down a rabbit hole to a place I did not want to be. Merle On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Chrissy Fowler <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Booking-related: > > How do you manage the (sometimes) delicate task of matching callers and > bands? > > > > > > For example, what if you book a caller, but then find out the > already-booked band doesn't want to work with that person? > > Besides the strategy of first booking a caller (or band) then asking for > confidential suggestions on what bands (or callers) they'd like to work > with (or not), how does an organizer handle this sort of "I won't play in > the same sandbox as Susie" > syndrome? > > > > > > What special or particular circumstances would affect your response and/or > would guide you to a particular solution? > > - 2014 NEFFA session > ** Please RETAIN SUBJECT LINE in all replies! Especially IF YOU GET THE > DIGEST! *** > > > _______________________________________________ > Organizers mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.sharedweight.net/mailman/listinfo/organizers > -- *Merle McEldowney* *212-933-0290*
