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Past AppearancesThursday, December 17, 2009Workmen’s Circle Thursday, December 17, 2009 October 9 — 11, 2009 Columbus Day Weekend The 4th Annual HONK! Festival HONK! returned in grand style to Davis Square on Saturday, followed by a parade from Davis Sq. to Harvard Sq. on Sunday, and a big blow-out concert at Somerville Theater Sunday evening. Get more info: honkfest.org September 25, 2009 Bikes Not Bombs 25th Anniversary September 20, 2009 6th annual RiverSing September 16, 2009 Wednesday Night Spaghetti September 7, 2009
September 6, 2009 Brought to you by ZUMIX, this is a family friendly event, complete with: Apple Pie Baking Competition, Harvest competition, Farmer costume parade, Games for kids, Free corn on the cob, and lots of live music. August 15, 2009Area 4 4 Peace Parade and Community Family Pride DayA hot parade on a mighty hot day! July 18, 2009Sweet Soul SupperAnnual fundraiser for the Margaret Fuller House
June 13, 200930th Annual Cambridge River FestivalMonday June 8, 2009
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A Fabulous time was had when we helped our friends at the Milky Way celebrate their new digs at The Brewery on Amory St!
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"Celebrating half a decade of dipping into Boston’s frosty sea." To benefit the Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project.
Celebrating all things New Orleans. Also on the bill:
The Chicken Slacks Soul Revue
Confederacy of Dumpsters
Preacher Jack
Bread and Puppet: Puppet pageantry came alive at the Boston Center for the Arts with the return of Bread and Puppet Theatre to the Cyclorama. The legendary Peter Schumann returned to the BCA with his talented troupe of puppeteers, dancers, artists and musicians.
Inaugural "End of and Error" Bash, Press Room, Portsmouth, NH
Our friends in the Leftist Marching Band put together a wonderful show of music and laughs to celebrate the end of the Bush years. Other guests included Maine Squeeze (accordion band from Portland, ME). A rousing good time was had by all!
leftistmarchingband.org
pressroomnh.com
When I'm 64
Birthday fundraiser by Nick Thorkleson, Jim Green, and Reebee Garofalo
Dante Club (Craigie St, Somerville MA)
To benefit RESIST, the Welcome Project and the HONK! Festival
HONK! Festival
Davis Square, Somerville MA
www.honkfest.org
This year's third annual HONK! Festival was once again an exuberant street party, and a phenomenal success! Pictures, videos and more are available at www.honkfest.org
Farm Aid 2008
Comcast Center
Mansfield, MA
The annual benefit concert was great fun on a beautiful autumn afternoon! We had a blast playing, and it was great to play in support of a great cause. Read a terrific thank-you letter from the Farm Aid organizers!
This was our first time at this annual event, and we felt privileged to help commemorate the memory of John Ramey, who was participating in the strike as a 20-year-old street musician, and was killed by the militia. Read more about John Ramey and the so-called "Singing Strike" of 1912.
Redbones "Pig Pickin' Party" in Davis Square
Redbones' 7th annual fundraiser for the Somerville Homeless Coalition - one of our favorite events of the year - was a big success!
Nights on the Neck
Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester MA
Part of an ongoing Summer series, from June to October, celebrating Nights on the Neck on the first Thursday of every month from 5 to 9 pm. Many galleries host receptions with refreshments, and musicians, dancers, other entertainers, and art and maritime historians give performances and lectures.
12th Annual Bike Party and Benefit
We play this event every year, not just because it's a worthy cause, not just because they valet park our bikes, not just because Redbones is best friend in Davis Square, and not just because the food is so, so good. But those are reason enough, don't you think?
30th Annual Wake Up The Earth Parade
Despite the drizzle, everyone came out to our favorite JP parade. Emperor Norton was there too, and just about anyone else into making fun in the streets.
5th Annual Save Our Homes Walk
Once again, we'll be leading the way on the Somerville Homeless Coalition's annual walk in the 'hood to raise money for the cause. We begin the 5K walk from Somerville High School (81 Highland Ave.) at 2 pm (register anytime after 1:30). Fingers crossed it doesn't rain this year!
Silent Spring Fundraiser
At Spontaneous Celebrations in Jamaica Plain, we helped Alison Criscitiello reach her goal of raising $5K for her climb of Alaska's Denali Peak, the highest mountain in North America, to raise funds for Silent Spring Institute.
HONK! Festival Fundraiser
Members of the the HONK! Committee put on a great show for everyone Sunday night. Of course, we began the festivities outside, in front of the Dante Club, then watched the new film, "Honk You Very Much," by Olivier Asselin, heard the news from Jimmy Tingle's run for president, and finished the evening with a long-awaited set from our friends, Debo Band. Best of all, we helped raise more than $4000 for this year's festival. Take a look. If you couldn't be there, don't worry, it's never too late to donate,

Bread & Puppet Theater return to the Cyclorama
Another very successful run at the BCA for Bread & Puppet Theater, with the first Boston performances of The Divine Reality Comedy. featuring the venerable Schumann in fine form as a malevolent Santa Clause, and an impressive cast of company performers and local volunteers. And of course, the energetic and inspiring sounds of the Social Aid & Pleasure Society to get the show going. Read the review here.

BCA Holiday Tree Lighting
Cambridge City Sprouts at King School

Return of HONK!
Redbones "Pig Pickin' Party" in Davis Square
"Start The Music, Stop the War" in Arlington
"Night On The Neck" in Gloucester
20th Annual Bikes-Not-Bombs Bike-A-Thon in Jamaica Plain
Redbones' 11th Annual Bike Party & Benefit in Davis Square
29th Annual "Wake Up The Earth" Parade, Jamaica Plain, MA
Big
Moves' "The Big Easy
Central Square Theater Groundbreaking Ceremony

4th Annual "Save Our Homes" Walk, Somerville, MA
To chase away the rain, we played at the beginning of the 4th annual "Save Our Homes” walk-a-thon, hosted by the Somerville Community Corporation. It was a real hometown treat, and we were happy to oblige the long and enthusiastic parade of hearty Somerville second liners, walking to help some of our most vulnerable residents.
Musketaquid Earth Day Parade, Concord, MA
Mardi
Gras Party at the Kirkland Cafe
Our annual party with a Crescent
City line-up at the Kirklan, together with with Geezer, The
Chicken Slackers and The Confederacy of Dumpsters.
Great
Small Works' The Rapture Project
SLSAPS opened for the world premier
of Great Small Works' The Rapture Project, a serio-comic
epic spectacle about fundamentalism and American culture and politics.
The production was Inspired by rough-and-tumble Sicilian marionettes,
current events, popular End Times literature, and day-to-day anxiety,
with visual motifs from the Cockettes and 1920s Christian iconography.
After a short engagement in Boston, GSW took the project to its native
New York City at the HERE Arts Center.
Twisted
Roots Volume 2 at the Abbey Lounge
Paul
Zaloom's Beakman In Person
The SLSAPS opened for OBIE-winning puppeteer Paul
Zaloom's night-time show at the Boston Center for the Arts, a hotly
politicized burlesque queering of traditional Middle Eastern shadow
puppetry, as well as his children-of-all-ages show at the same venue,
part of The Theater Offensive’s 15th annual OUT
On The EDGE Festival of Queer Theater.
Cambridge
City Sprouts
1st
Annual HONK! Festival
We brought together more than a dozen activist street bands from all
over the country to come honk in
3rd
Annual Revels River Sing
Revels and the Charles River Conservancy presented the 3rd Annual River Sing, an outdoor sing-along celebrating the Autumnal Equinox and the beauty of the Charles River parklands. From atop the Weeks Footbridge spanning Allston and Cambridge in the glow of the late afternoon sun, Revels music director George Emlen, along with giant puppets Osun and Poseidon (created by Underground Railway Theater and the Puppet Collaborative) led everyone gathered on the banks of the river in song. Featured on the bridge were 5 well-known area choruses, accompanied by yours truly.
Redbones'
5th Annual Pig Pickin' Party
Once again, we'll be providing the Crescent City soundtrack to Redbones' annual fundraiser for the Somerville Homeless Coalition. They'll be firing up the portable smokers outside in front of the restaurant and slow roasting a whole hog, loins, butts and bellies. The $20 price also includes corn on the cob, chips, corn bread, watermelon, a cold drink, and more. For reservations, call 617-628-2200. The rain date for this event is Monday, August 14.
Plough
& Stars
Our first night at the re-opened Plough was such
a blast, we can’t wait to play here again.
Since 1969, this tiny, eclectic Irish pub has been one of the
very coolest places to hang. Located
midway between Harvard and Central Squares, 912
Think
PINK, Drink PINK, Shop PINK
Wearing a splash of pink along with our summer's best red and white, we will be parading around the Square between 5 and 7pm, part of Harvard Square's Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign.
The Harvard Square Business Association shuttled local concierges around to the finest restaurants in the Square in a London double-decker bus. Meantime, the band followed in our own 1940s London taxi, playing as the group arrived and departed each establishment. Best of all, we got to sample all the best food and drink. Bon Apetit!
Sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Council, this
festival takes place along a mile-long stretch of
Redbone's
10th Annual Bike Party & Benefit
Our first date at this newly re-opened Cambridge institution, it was our most successful club gig to date. We can't wait to do it all over again on July 28 (come early to get a seat and some great food).
What more is there to say?
Marching in the parade along with some large, glittery, red-and-white bird puppets.
Playing before and during several Bread and Puppet performances throughout the week. At the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, Cambridge.
Playing with the Puppet Showcase Theater, along with Bread and Puppet, at Larz Anderson Park, Brookline.
The doors to Dorchester's art community open to the public as the neighborhood celebrates the fourth annual Dorchester Open Studios. At the First Parish Church, Dorchester.
A public performance and informal recording session, at the Goodwill thrift store in Davis Square, Somerville.
Johnny D's - Benefit for victims of Hurricane
Katrina
Kicked off an evening of wild dance music in the New Orleans tradition.
At Johnny D's Uptown,
Davis Square, Somerville. Proceeds went to the New
Orleans Musicians' Clinic.
Anti-Iraq
War & Rally on Boston Common.
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