Past Appearances

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Workmen’s Circle
First Annual Radical Hanukkah Show
7:30pm – midnight
All Asia Café - 334 Mass. Ave, Cambridge

Thursday, December 17, 2009
SQUAWK Coffeehouse
Harvard/Epworth Church, 1555 Mass Ave Cambridge

October 9 — 11, 2009   Columbus Day Weekend
Davis Square and Harvard Square

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.
All these events featured raucous street bands from around the world, helping to "Take Back the Streets"!

Get more info: honkfest.org

September 25, 2009
Spontaneous Celebrations,
45 Danforth St, Jamaica Plain

Bikes Not Bombs 25th Anniversary

September 20, 2009
Charles River, Cambridge

6th annual RiverSing

September 16, 2009
sprout
339R Summer St, Somerville

Wednesday Night Spaghetti
7:30pm

September 7, 2009
Health Care for America NOW! Rally
Boston, MA

SLSAPS were pleased to join with members of Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, and others, to lead this wonderful and important march from Boston Common to Copley Square.

September 6, 2009
East Boston Harvest Festival

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, 2009

A hot parade on a mighty hot day!

July 18, 2009

Annual fundraiser for the Margaret Fuller House

June 13, 2009

Monday June 8, 2009
Davis Sq. Somerville, MA

Redbones 13th Annual Bike Party & Benefit

Once again we enjoyed a fantastic event - great food, great people, great weather - what's not to like?

Saturday May 2 , 2009
Jamaica Plain, MA

The 31st Annual Wake Up The Earth Festival and Parade

The Parade, complete with live music, Puppets, Masks, and Stiltwalkers, was met by enthusiastic crowds and fantastic Springtime weather, and ended up at the Festival at Stonybrook, where connected up and played with our good friends, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band.

April 10-12 , 2009
Seattle, WA

HONK! Fest West

The SLSAPS travelled to Seattle to take part in the Second Annual Honk! Fest West. To quote from the event organizers, "We are celebrating our music, our comraderie, and our determination to help bring joy, music & dancing to the streets of our cities."

honkfestwest.com

March 22 , 2009

A Fabulous time was had when we helped our friends at the Milky Way celebrate their new digs at The Brewery on Amory St!

February 22, 2009

"Celebrating half a decade of dipping into Boston’s frosty sea." To benefit the Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project.

February 20, 2009

Celebrating all things New Orleans. Also on the bill:
The Chicken Slacks Soul Revue
Confederacy of Dumpsters
Preacher Jack

January 29 through February 1, 2009

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.

PMN presented"Generations of Change," a concert featuring political music and spoken word from folk to hip hop, Friday January 25 at the Tower Auditorium, Mass. College of Art, 621 Huntington Avenue, Boston. The concert begins at 8 PM and admission is $20-$5, sliding scale. Tickets will be available at the door, no reservations necessary. The concert kicks off the People's Music Network's winter gathering, featuring workshops and song swaps of political music, Saturday-Sunday January 26-27 at the Edward Devotion School, 345 Harvard Street, Brookline. The People's Music Network is an organization of musicians and activists who want to further the use of music as a tool for liberation and social change.

But of course, where else would we be? Not too gold this year, and the world premier of the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Kazoo Band. Sweet.

Once again, we played the annual Holiday Tree lighting at the BCA in the South End. Lots of kids choirs and festive cheer (even more fun, a kick-ass impromptu jam of carols and klezmer in the basement of the BCA).

"Start The Music, Stop the War" in Arlington

The local AFSC and UJP hosted "an evening of culture and protest" at the Regent Theatre in Arlington. We kicked off the festivities about 6:30 pm with a parade from Arlington town square a few blocks away, right into the theater and up on stage.

29th Annual "Wake Up The Earth" Parade, Jamaica Plain, MA

Hard to believe this was our first time participating in the venerable Jamaica Plain springtime celebration. Fortunately the weather cooperated and it turned out be a nearly perfect day for a parade. Some of us stuck around to hear the return of Stick & Rag and the debut of Somerville's newest honk band, Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band, with members of The Madcap Rumpus Society. Fun, fun, fun.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Big Moves' "The Big Easy" at the Cambridge YMCA

We were delighted to play in Central Square again, this time for the opening of "The Big Easy" show by the Big Moves Dance Company, the world's only "plus-sized dance troupe." This first of three evening shows was a benefit for displaced NOLA residents. It was a predictably small turnout for a pretty Cambridge evening between semesters, but those Big Movers were a terrific second line, and we hope to do business with them again real soon. Meantime, about $250 was raised for the Southern Artists charity.

Central Square Theater Groundbreaking Ceremony

This event was a blast. After the mayor and others said some pretty words about the new permanent home for The Nora Theatre Company and the Underground Railway Theater, we led a parade of local arts enthusiasts from the Central Square Theater groundbreaking, up to our old stomping grounds in front of Durrell Hall at the YMCA. Of course, we took our sweet time (two songs) getting there, just as it should be for any self-respecting second-liners, and it brought back a lot of memories of honks past (Bread & Puppet at the Y, Molly Ivins at the YW, the first gay marriage across the street at City Hall). We ended up at the CanTab (where else?) where we played a couple of tunes in exchange for wetting our whistle (Jim's treat). It was spring honking at its best. Check us out in Tech Talk.

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.

November 10, 2006

Twisted Roots Volume 2 at the Abbey Lounge

SLSAPS performed at the Abbey Lounge (3 Beacon St. near Hampshire St. in Somerville), part of a line-up which also included The Can Kickers, Josh Lederman y Los Diablos, and hosts The Two Man Gentlemen Band.

November 4 & 8, 2006

Paul Zaloom's Beakman In Person & The Mother Of All Enemies

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.

October 14, 2006

Cambridge City Sprouts Annual Harvest Festival

CitySprouts Harvest Festival 2006 means fresh fall produce, apple cider straight from a press, kids arts & crafts, tours of the schoolyard garden, and of course, a harvest parade featuring you-know-who. This fall, it was hosted by the Morse School, 40 Granite Street on Saturday, October 14 from 11 am to 4 pm (just a few short blocks from Kemon Lemon's house!).

September 21, 2006

3rd Annual Revels River Sing on the Charles River

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.

August 7, 2006

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.

July 28, 2006

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 Mass.  Ave., corner of Hancock.  We're on at 10pm, but come early and have some tasty food and a pint to drink.

July 14, 2006

Think PINK, Drink PINK, Shop PINK, in Harvard Square

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.

June 20, 2006

Sampling The Square, Harvard Square

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!

June 17, 2006

27th Annual Cambridge River Festival

Sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Council, this festival takes place along a mile-long stretch of Memorial Drive between JFK Street (three blocks from the Harvard Square subway station) and Western Avenue.  We paraded from the pit in Harvard Square down to the river, and then led a bicycle parade along the Charles.  http://www.cambridgema.gov/deptann.cfm?story_id=1020 

June 19, 2006

Redbone's 10^th Annual Bike Party & Benefit

Chester Street in Davis Square, Somerville.  Same great party, better weather.  Party, raffle, music, food & drink all for $15.  Proceeds went to NEMBA & MassBike. 

March 31, 2006

Plough & Stars, Cambridge

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).

February 24, 2006

Mardi Gras at the Kirkland Cafe, Somerville

What more is there to say?

December 31, 2005

First Night 2006

Marching in the parade along with some large, glittery, red-and-white bird puppets.

Wednesday-Sunday, November 16-20, 2005

Bread and Puppet performances

Playing before and during several Bread and Puppet performances throughout the week. At the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, Cambridge.

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Brookline 300 Anniversary Event

Playing with the Puppet Showcase Theater, along with Bread and Puppet, at Larz Anderson Park, Brookline.

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Anti-Iraq War Rally on Boston Common.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Dorchester Open Studios

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.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

"Live at the Goodwill"

A public performance and informal recording session, at the Goodwill thrift store in Davis Square, Somerville.

Thursday, October 6, 2005

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.

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Anti-Iraq War & Rally on Boston Common.