# Festival Stats 2024

Each year ( [2014](https://www.jefftk.com/p/dance-weekend-and-festival-survey), [2015](https://www.jefftk.com/p/festival-stats-2015), [2016](https://www.jefftk.com/p/festival-stats-2016), [2017](https://www.jefftk.com/p/festival-stats-2017), [2018](https://www.jefftk.com/p/festival-stats-2018), [2019](https://www.jefftk.com/p/festival-stats-2019), [2023](https://www.jefftk.com/p/festival-stats-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](https://www.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   |

**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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