Festival Stats 2024
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