Band Booking Cadence - Blog Post

[BIDA musician announcements]

Hi All,

I've written up a blog post outlining a new, more structured approach to booking bands for BIDA:

https://blog.bidadance.org/2025/05/bida-band-booking-timing.html

Hopefully this transparency will give musicians a better sense of what to expect from BIDA band bookers, and the clear policy will help us handle booking in a fair, predictable way.*

Thanks for being a part of this vibrant community of folk music and dance that we all share and build together.

Emma Azelborn
On behalf of the BIDA Band Bookers (Emma Azelborn & Bret Casey) and the BIDA board

*This doesn't mean you need to change the way you reach out to us. We'll try to go back through the booking emails with each round of dances to catch emails we might have missed or bands that we couldn't find a date for previously. We're hoping by setting some baseline expectations that it alleviates some of the uncertainty that musicians have expressed when reaching out to us.