[Callers] Re: Dances Crafted for a Tune

If the band plays swing tunes, I can recommend this dance I wrote: Bei Mir Bist du Schoen! By Jerome Grisanti Duple Improper Contra (Identify left file and right file) Composed October 2015 A1 Circle Left once round (8), Neighbor Swing (8). A2 Down hall four in line, left file turn alone while

[Callers] Re: Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

We have NW Folklife, to some extent, since it’s all volunteered and everyone usually gets a 1hr slot who applies, typically. When you only have an hour alongside ~16 other callers, though, you can fail stand out or get missed altogether if an organizer steps away for lunch, etc. It’s tough to make

[Callers] Re: Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

My understanding of the world was "that's what Sugar Hill is for"--a regional 'magnet weekend' where aspiring bands and aspiring callers get a slot awarded by lottery. Weekend organizers are there to dance, and either organizers can introduce themselves to callers, or callers can introduce themselv

[Callers] Re: Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

I think part of what makes this tricky is that while with the music organizers (and dancers) put a lot of value on upside (new, interesting, exciting, variety) with calling they mostly value avoiding downside (reliable, solid, good judgement, few mistakes, great recovery). So it looks to me like t

[Callers] Re: Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

As someone who works full-time and has repeatedly reached out to weekend organizers in the past and gotten the standard "Oh, are you calling any weekends soon?" and "It would be good if you could tour through [X/Y/Z multi-city sprawling metro area] so dancers could get familiar with you." ... I

[Callers] Re: Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

Hi, Julian -- I'll await other answers with interest, since I similarly don't have a caller website and it's a Project I could theoretically do but am rather overwhelmed by. (Pre-pandemic I was getting all the gigs I could realistically handle with a full-time job, more outside of contra than

[Callers] Re: Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

Yeah, so, I literally wrote the paragraph stating the few we have, and then was like "Yannow, this email's wordy enough. I'm sure folks will understand there's exceptions to general high-level statements" And then... I reminded now how many of us are unabashed nerds. :D On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 1:

[Callers] Re: Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

Flurry, NEFFA, Falcon Ridge? Pinewoods weeks? Peterborough Snowball isn't a weekend, but has as much dancing as one. But, Julian is right that many dances in New England don't have their own weekend. Many of the larger dances elsewhere have one or even more weekend-long events a year, which dra

[Callers] Re: Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:51 AM Julian Blechner via Contra Callers < contracallers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote: > we don't have big dance weekends like pretty much everywhere else in the > country. > Beantown Stomp ? Jeff ___

[Callers] Asking For Website Help and Self-Promotion Question

Hi callers, Website help request: As I've been ramping up my accepting gigs again post-shutdown, I'm realizing that I've put off my "get an actual website" too long. Any suggestions for website designers for caller pages or contra performer pages? I can provide photographs myself, for what that'