Bill & Emily's Musical Exploits - 12/4/13

Happy Holidays everyone!

'Tis the season, and the Marching Milkman Band will be wrapping up its 10th season with two appearances this coming week. First up, we'll be indoors for a fund-raiser the night of Thursday Dec 5th at 5:30. The event is a dinner at the Italian Workingman's Club in Woonsocket RI on behalf of Woonsocket's biggest charity, the annual Milk Fund. Of course!
http://www.woonsocketcall.com/node/9972

On Saturday Dec 7th we'll be marching in the Children's Holiday Parade in Fall River MA. This is a huge 2-hour parade, complete with Santa in a helicopter and giant parade balloons.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fall-River-Holiday-Committee/331241530575

Come cheer us on!
Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com/

Thursday, Dec 5th, 5:30 PM
Fund Raiser for the 81st Milk Fund campaign
Italian Workingman's Club
947 Diamond Hill Road
Woonsocket RI 02895
401 762 9842
http://www.woonsocketcall.com/node/9972

Saturday, Dec 7th, 1:00 PM
29th Annual Children's Holiday Parade
South Main St
Fall River MA 02722
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fall-River-Holiday-Committee/331241530575

2014 Calendar

Saturday, Apr 26 2014
with the Munroe Dairy Marching Band
Rumford Little League Opening Ceremonies
Rumford RI
9 AM - 10:30 AM

Saturday, May 24 2014
with the Greenwood Fire House Marching Band
Seekonk Memorial Day Parade
Seekonk MA
10 AM - 12:30 PM

Saturday, June 14 2014
with the Munroe Dairy Marching Band
Gaspee Days Parade
Pawtuxet RI
10 AM - 1 PM

Saturday, June 22 2014
with the Greenwood Fire House Marching Band
Antique Fire Apparatus and Equipment Show
Johnston RI
10 AM - 12:30 PM

Thursday, July 4 2014
with the Munroe Dairy Marching Band
Bristol Fourth of July Parade
Bristol RI
10:30 AM - 1:30 PM

Saturday, July 19 2014
Stay Tuned Duo
Private 70th Birthday Party
N Smithfield RI
4 PM - 6 PM

Saturday, Aug 23 2014
with the Marching Milkman Band
Private Party
Warren CT
5 PM

Saturday, Aug 30 2014
with the Marching Milkman Band
Carpenters Beach Children's Light Parade
Matunuck RI
7 PM

Saturday, Sep 20 2014
Stay Tuned Duo
Arts Marketplace: Pawtucket
at the Armory Arts Center
Pawtucket RI
2 PM - 4 PM

Sunday, Oct 12 2014
with the Munroe Dairy Marching Band
Westerly/Pawcatuck Columbus Day Parade
Westerly RI, Pawcatuck CT
1 PM - 3 PM

Monday, Oct 13 2014
with the Moonlight House of Wieners Marching Band
Autumnfest Parade
Woonsocket RI
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Bill & Emily's Musical Exploits - 10/11/13

Hi everybody!

Columbus Day weekend is upon us, and that means one thing . . . Parades!!

The Marching Milkman Band will be playing in two parades this weekend. Our first appearance will be with Munroe Dairy at the 66th Westerly/Pawcatuck Columbus Day Parade on Sunday, Oct 13th, at 1 PM. The whole Munroe Dairy circus will be there - the band, the antique truck, the dancing cows, and the mini-moo. Check us out!
http://www.ColumbusDayParade.net/home.html

Our second appearance will be at the big 35th Autumnfest Parade in Woonsocket on Monday, Oct 14th, stepping off at 9:30 AM. Once again we will be representing Woonsocket's own Moonlight House of Wieners, and we've rounded up a collection of young dancing hot dogs to join us.
http://www.Autumnfest.org/

Both of these are big, colorful, three-hour parades. Come on out and cheer us on!

Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com/

Sunday, Oct 13th, 1:00 PM
66th Westerly/Pawcatuck Columbus Day Parade
Westerly RI 02895
Pawcatuck CT 06379
http://www.ColumbusDayParade.net/home.html

Monday, Oct 14th, 9:30 AM
35th Autumnfest Parade
Diamond Hill Rd and Social St
Woonsocket RI 02895
http://www.Autumnfest.org/

Bill & Emily's Media Exploits - 9/22/13

Hi everyone,

Emily will be giving a reading of her vignettes at the Woonsocket Public Library this coming Thursday, Sep 26th, at 7 PM. She'll be reading a collection of the pieces that have evolved from her daily walks through the city with her dog Lily. These walks have made her something of a celebrity in town, the dog lady everyone has seen. Here's the press release:

25 Years and Still in Love: A Celebration of Woonsocket

Emily Lisker is a writer, painter, and musician who has lived in the city of Woonsocket for 25 years. Driving through on a whim, she fell in love with the mills, and after moving here fell in love with the people and the hills. You may have seen her on the sidewalk with her big yellow long-legged Lily-dog. She gets all of her inspiration from walking around the city with Lily and then going home and writing about the people she meets and the stories they tell her. Emily's written portraits and snapshots, called vignettes, are full of loving and poignant details of Woonsocket and its people.

http://theurbanmermaid.blogspot.com/

We hope you can come!
Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com

Thursday, September 26th, 7 PM
A reading by Emily Lisker
Woonsocket Harris Public Library
303 Clinton St
Woonsocket RI 02895
http://www.woonsocketlibrary.org/

Bill & Emily's Musical Exploits - 9/6/13

Hello everyone!

We had a great Labor Day weekend with the Marching Milkman Band in Woonsocket, Matunuck and East Providence. Now it's time for one more, but this time it will be just Emily and me as the Stay Tuned Duo.

We will be performing this Sunday, September 8th, at Pawtucket's Arts Marketplace, part of the Pawtucket Arts Festival. We will perform outdoors in front of the historic Armory Arts Center from 12 noon to 3 PM. Drop by and say hi!
http://www.artsmarketplacepawtucket.com/artevents.html

We hope to see you this Sunday!
Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com

Sunday, September 8th, 12 noon to 3 PM
2nd Annual Arts Marketplace: Pawtucket
The Armory Arts Center
172 Exchange Street
Pawtucket RI 02860
http://www.artsmarketplacepawtucket.com/

Bill & Emily's Musical Exploits - 8/26/13

Hello everyone!

I hope you are all enjoying the back half of summer, and to help you celebrate these thankfully cooler days the Marching Milkman Band has a trio of events over the Labor Day weekend.

First up is Woonsocket's 125th Anniversary celebration which takes place Thursday evening, Aug 29th. The entire half-mile of the historic downtown will be one long block party featuring 12 stages of entertainment. We will be performing for the first time as a stage band on Stage 9 from 8:30 - 9 PM. The stage will be opposite the city's YMCA, near Beacon School and the Stadium Theater.
https://www.facebook.com/WoonsocketBlockParty

The second event is technically a private event. Residents of Carpenter's Beach in Matunuck RI have invited us to lead their Illuminated Parade to mark the end of summer. This will be the second time the band has led the kids around the narrow streets of this cottage community. Though a private event, if you happen to be in Matunuck on Saturday at 7 PM and hear a marching band playing, come find us in our Hawaiian shirts!

Finally, on Monday Sep 2nd the city of East Providence will have their second Labor Day Parade, starting at 10 AM at EP High School. We will be marching through downtown with Munroe Dairy, so expect the truck and the mini-moo and maybe even the dancing cows! We'll be there in force, so come and cheer us on!
http://eastprovidence.patch.com/groups/summer/p/another-labor-day-parade-coming-to-ep

We hope to see you this weekend!
Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com

Thursday, August 29th, 8:30PM
Woonsocket's 125th Anniversary Block Party
Main St
Woonsocket RI 02895
https://www.facebook.com/WoonsocketBlockParty

Saturday, August 31st, 7 PM
Carpenter's Beach Illuminated Parade
Matunuck RI 02879

Monday, September 2nd
2nd East Providence Labor Day Parade
East Providence RI 02914
http://eastprovidence.patch.com/groups/summer/p/another-labor-day-parade-coming-to-ep

Bill & Emily's Musical Exploits - 7/2/13

Happy July everyone!

The Munroe Dairy Marching Band will make its 10th appearance at the Fourth of July parade in Bristol this Thursday, July 4th! The parade runs from 10:30 AM to about 2:30 PM. We will be up front again this year, in the Chief Marshal's Division. We've got dancing cows, big & small milktrucks, milkmen playing tubas, trombones, and trumpets, and this year, adding to the circus atmosphere, Munroe Dairy has invited a dance troupe to join us. Come join the fun and cheer us on!
www.july4thbristolri.com/parade.htm

Emily has a new painting up on her website. It's called Day of the Dead, and features a couple inspired by Day of the Dead skeleton figures from this Mexican festival - a Mexican Gothic, if you will. In addition, I have created an animation of the development of this painting over the last two years which I hope you enjoy. Please check it out!
http://emilyliskerpaintings.blogspot.com/

We hope to see you on the 4th!
Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com

Thursday, July 4th, 10:30AM
The 228th Bristol Fourth of July Celebration
Bristol RI 02809
www.July4thBristolRI.com

Bill & Emily's Musical Exploits - 6/6/13

Hello everyone!

This Saturday, June 8th, the Munroe Dairy Marching Band will start its 10th parade season at the 2013 Gaspee Days Parade in Pawtuxet (Warwick/Cranston) RI. The parade steps off at 10 AM. We are usually toward the end of the parade, finishing up around 1:30 PM. It's a very cool parade, featuring groups in authentic historic costumes (and milkmen in their whites). Come out and give us a cheer!
http://www.gaspee.com/GaspeeDaysParade.html

Our 10th season!!!!
Happy Spring!

Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com/
Saturday, June 8th, 10 AM
The 48th Annual Gaspee Days Parade
Pawtuxet Village RI
http://www.gaspee.com/GaspeeDaysParade.html

Bill & Emily's Musical Exploits - 4/5/13

Happy Spring everyone!

The Munroe Dairy Marching Milkman Band will make its first appearance of the year this Saturday at a small parade in Woonsocket. We'll be helping the Bernon Little League open their season - isn't that cute? We'll parade down the street and around the ballpark and during the ceremonies. It will be a nice way to open our 10th season as a marching band. We hope you'll have a chance to catch us some time this year!
https://www.facebook.com/MarchingMilkmanBand

In more media news, the Urban Mermaid (aka Emily Lisker) has had the first publication of her writing! The online journal Scapegoat Review has a page in its Spring issue devoted to three of Emily's paintings and two of her poems. Read about it here:
http://emilyliskerpaintings.blogspot.com/2013/03/scapegoat-review.html

and check it out here:
http://scapegoatreview.com/spring-2013/emily-lisker.html

We hope to see you this season!
Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com

Saturday, April 6th, 9:00 AM
The opening ceremonies of the
Bernon Little League
from Avenue A to Providence St to Smithfield Rd
Woonsocket RI 02895

Bill & Emily's Media Exploits - 3/23/13

Happy Spring everyone!

For the past few years Emily has been corresponding and collaborating with the poet Nin Andrews. The collaboration started as a single poem inspired by a painting, and it has grown from several such poems published in literary journals to published videos of Nin reading poems against moving backdrops of Emily's paintings.

We are happy to announce that there is now a book! It's called The Circus of Lost Dreams. Thirty of Nin's poems are paired with Emily's paintings in a digital interactive chapbook published by PoetsArtists. The chapbook is available for free from iTunes, and can be played on an iPad or iPhone - poems, paintings, audio & video.

For those of you not in iLand, the text and image version of the book is available on
Scribd.

Here are the links:
- The Circus of Lost Dreams at PoetsArtists:
http://poetsandartists.com/2013/03/21/the-circus-of-lost-dreams/
- The Circus of Lost Dreams on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-circus-of-lost-dreams/id623295035?mt=11
- The Circus of Lost Dreams on Scribd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/131781623/The-Circus-of-Lost-Dreams#fullscreen
- and here:
http://www.scribd.com/embeds/131781623/content?start_page=1&view_mode=book
- 3 individual videos on Vimeo:
http://vimeo.com/search?q=nin+andrews
- Emily's painting site for more info:
http://emilyliskerpaintings.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!
Bill
http://StayTunedDuo.blogspot.com/