Review
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 |
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 |