Festival Stats 2015

October 24th, 2015
contra, gigstats, music
I just finished updating my list of dance weekends and bands for 2015. Which means I can now compile updated numbers on how many weekends and festivals people are playing:

times booked band
16 Great Bear Trio
12 The Mean Lids
10 The Stringrays
8 The Free Raisins
7 Wild Asparagus
6 Buddy System
6 Coffee Zombies
6 Nor'Easter
6 Turnip the Beet
6 Perpetual e-Motion
5 Elixir
5 Maivish
5 The Rhythm Raptors
5 The Syncopaths
4 Frost and Fire
4 Hotpoint Stringband
4 Pete's Posse
4 Riptide
3 Gallimaufry
3 Groovemongers
3 KGB
3 Lift Ticket
3 Morrison Brothers Band
3 Notorious
3 The Latter Day Lizards
3 Toss the Possum
3 Uncle Farmer
2 Agnostic Fiddle Insurgency
2 Andrew and Noah
2 Bandage a Trois
2 Contra Sutra
2 Contraforce
2 Contrarians
2 Crowfoot
2 Euphor
2 Joyride
2 Ladies at Play
2 Nova
2 Raise the Roof
2 Sassafras Stomp
2 Swallowtail
2 The Clayfoot Strutters
2 The Moving Violations
2 The Ripples
2 Tidal Wave

For details, see the post from the first time I figured these stats.

Weirdly, the fraction of weekends played by the busiest bands has stayed very similar: last year it was 16/12/9/8, this year it was 16/12/10/8.

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