I've never asked for a booking fee, or played a tour organized by someone
who wanted one, but it definitely is a lot of work and if someone wanted to
organize a tour for me I wouldn't mind them taking some money!
On Feb 13, 2017 6:17 PM, "Woody Lane via Callers" <
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I basically agree with Neal. I would not want to replace gents and
ladies with other arbitrary terms. For many of the same reasons.
Woody
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Hi Donna,
I've booked quite a few tours with a number of bands, and I've never
charged a booking fee for the extra work. Like Jack said, as a caller I
am getting some things I really enjoy -- working with the same band
every night, getting to the venues I prefer, having some meaningful
contro
I do not want to replace gent and lady as terms, based on my own experience.
Some context: I've been dancing for between 29 and 37 years, depending on
how you count--my parents met at a square dance and I grew up dancing. I
started calling about 18 years ago, and dance/call ECD, Scottish, squares
I have also booked quite a few tours, and have also generally not taken a
"booking fee" outside of what I was getting paid to call the dances. In a
couple of cases, I was booking the tours with a particular $ figure in mind
for us to average out per night. The most satisfactory arrangements have
Hi Donna,
I have now booked 4 tours. Three of them have been completed and one is
scheduled for next June/July. It is an enormous amount of work...but then
so is learning to play an instrument well enough to be going on tour, ;-)
In my case, I was traveling with my wife, who was also one of the
Hi
Just wondering aloud since this is not something I've ever seen discussed here.
Do you (or a musician you're traveling with) take a "booker fee" for planning
a tour, or even a single community dance when there is a lot of planning with
the event host and time spent booking musicians? How mu
I’ve yet to personally encounter a request for terminology usage with which I
can’t comfortably work. If an organizer(s) wants me to use “jets” and
“rubies”, I’ll do it.
Absent such a request, I usually state that my own use of the terms “gent” and
“lady” has to do with choreography, not bio
I occasionally teach but don’t call, so I don’t have cards—there are GF ECD
callers on the list who may have more to add.
First, a lot of ECDs are written without any reference to gender anyway—the
dances often just work like that.
An example of a conversion: Fried de Metz Herman’s The Archbish
> On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:30 AM, Aahz via Callers
> wrote:
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> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017, Read Weaver via Callers wrote:
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>> As far as I know, all of the ongoing gender-free English country
>> dances use a different system, "global terminology." It's based on
>> current position rather than role,
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017, Read Weaver via Callers wrote:
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> As far as I know, all of the ongoing gender-free English country
> dances use a different system, "global terminology." It's based on
> current position rather than role, and so doesn't have to use a
> substitute for gents/ladies. There are a
I danced email ECD to Jets/Rubies once, I belive at YDW 2014.
On Feb 13, 2017 1:38 AM, "Read Weaver via Callers" <
callers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
> As far as I know, all of the ongoing gender-free English country dances
> use a different system, “global terminology.” It’s based on current
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