Holiday Sing-a-long Schedule

Hi everybody,
Here's what's happening with all my regular sing-a-longs:

TUESDAYS at Nunu Chocolates Cafe & Tap Room in Park Slope - On holiday hiatus. Next sing-a-long is Tuesday, Jan 9th at 10am.

WEDNESDAYS at Knitting Factory, Brooklyn - discontinued for the time being. Might come back on Mondays.

THURSDAYS at Dean Street in Prospect Heights - Ongoing. I'll be back January 11th but until then go sing with one of the many great performers in the Dean Street family. Events for families every weekday at 10:30am!

FRIDAYS at Lark in Ditmas Park - On holiday hiatus. Next sing-a-long is Friday, January 12th. 10 and 11am. Check Lark website for schedule of other family events.

See you soon!
Lloyd

Sing therapy: office hours Tues - Fri

Listen to me and the Deedle Deedle Dees on the radio this weekend

Two of my favorite family radio shows are featuring my music this weekend. Tune in if you can!

Saturday morning at 9am EST I'm guest deejaying the Hilltown Family Variety Show and spinning tunes on the theme of "playing a character." I'll be playing a few songs from the new Deedle Deedle Dees record as well as a lot of other great stuff. The show is on WXOJ 103.3 if you live in Western MA, but anywhere else you can hear it online at valleyfreeradio.org.

Then Sunday at 6pm Central, Bill Childs is going to include a few Deedle Deedle Dees tracks in his Halloween installment of Spare the Rock Spoil the Child. He's going to play songs related to his daughter Ella's many amazing costumes over the years. She's dressed as a wide range of progressive, world-changing and I have songs about many of them! Emma Goldman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Susan B. Anthony are among those who will make musical appearances. You can hear Spare the Rock on KUTX 98.9 at 6pm Central if you're in Austin, TX. This is a syndicated show so there are also many other stations and times across the country. Check their website, sparetherock.com, for more info.

L

The Deedle Deedle Dees' new album comes out TODAY!

The Deedle Deedle Dees' first album in five years comes out TODAY, September 29th. The Deedle Deedle Dees are my long-running educational rock band. 

The album is called Sing-a-long History, Vol II: The Rocket Went Up! It's the second installment in my Sing-a-long History series, a collection of albums that tell stories from history using music. The first volume, Sing-a-long History, Vol I: Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!, came out last year. It's an introduction to the Civil War era featuring me backed up by a raucous jazz band performing songs from the 1800s as well as original tunes inspired by stories of the time. 

Sing-a-long History, Vol II: The Rocket Went Up! is a record of all original songs drawn from the history of science, discovery, and magic. The title track celebrates female astronauts. There are songs about marathon swimmer Diana Nyad, computer programmer Ada Lovelace, Charles Darwin, and Harry Houdini. And all sorts of other stories in song that we can't wait for you to hear. 

You can buy the album right now here. You can also find it on iTunes and other download services. 

Brooklyn CD release concert: October 22nd at Jalopy Theatre and School of Music at 3pm.

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thedeedledeedledees3

Fall concerts with Lloyd & the Deedle Deedle Dees

Sing-a-longs in Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Ditmas Park this week

My long-running sing-a-longs at Nunu Chocolates Cafe & Tap Room, Dean Street, and Lark are all back in action this week. Check the schedule on the right sidebar for times and locations.

Daily videos + streaming sing-a-longs this summer

Today, I posted video #7 of my Summer of Song. Every day I'm going to put up a different song every day until Labor Day on this YouTube playlist. Thanks, everybody, who's been watching and commenting! 

I'm also going to be doing live streaming sing-a-longs. I did a bunch of test ones this past week and this upcoming one I'm going to try to do some regularly scheduled live sing-a-longs. Here are the times:

Tuesdays at ~ 10:30 / 11

Fridays at ~ 10 / 10:30

Why are the times not exact? Well, my schedule and wireless connections aren't consistent this summer so I have to keep my start times approximate due to all the variables related to these things. 

You can find the sing-a-longs on my Facebook page. Give my page a "Like" and you'll be notified every time I go live (in addition to the scheduled sing-a-longs, sometimes I go live impromptu). 

Please spread the word about all of this and send me your requests! You can e-mail me at lloydhmiller AT gmail, comment or DM me on FB, or shout at me on Twitter. 

Lloyd

Stream the new Deedle Deedle Dees album two months before everyone else

Details here.

March Madness! Shows upon shows in my new newsletter

Sing-a-longs resume the week of January 4th

I'm taking my regular holiday break from all my Brooklyn sing-a-longs. See you the week of January 4th. I'll be at all the same locations as in the fall.

Lloyd

Only one sing-a-long this Thanksgiving week

Tuesday's 10am sing at Nunu Chocolates Cafe & Tap Room is my only one this week. Wednesday at Elk, Thursday at Dean Street, and Friday at Lark are all canceled due to the Thanksgiving break.

I'll be back at all my regular sing-a-longs next week. And Saturday, December 5th, is my next Sing-a-long History event at Brooklyn Historical Society. It's a holiday sing-a-long featuring Christmas carols, Hanukkah songs, tunes from Lebanon, Kenya, and France, and new songs inspired by your holiday stories. Go to my PERFORMANCES page for more details on this show.

Lloyd

BAD NEWS (and a lot of good news) in the new Flying Newspaper

Three weekends of family concerts in a row... Read about them all in the Flying Newspaper

WANTED: Your stories of activism

Flying Newspaper Issue 28 needs your artwork

This year in the Flying Newspaper I'm going to be asking you to draw pictures of cool things that you see. You can draw them right onto the newsletter. 

I want to see what you draw! Send your pictures to lloydhmiller AT gmail DOT com. Here are some good ways to capture your drawings digitally:

- in an iPhone picture OR

- even better in an iPad picture OR

- if your drawing is plain black and white, use CamScanner or another scanning app to make a nice clean copy

Lloyd is back... and so is his newsletter, the Flying Newspaper

My newsletter returns this week. Here's issue 27 of the Flying Newsletter: 

Fall Sing-a-long Schedule

My Brooklyn sing-a-longs start up again on Tuesday, September 1st, at 10am at Nunu Chocolates on Fifth Avenue. Full weekly schedule below.

TUESDAYS AT 10
Nunu Chocolates and Tap Room in Park Slope

WEDNESDAYS AT 11
Elk Cafe in Windsor Terrace

THURSDAYS AT 10:30
Dean Street Restaurant in Prospect Heights

THURSDAYS AT 4pm (through the end of October)
Norman and Jules Toy Shop in Park Slope

FRIDAYS AT 10 and 11
Lark Cafe in Ditmas Park

New concert dates... and many more to come

Just put two August dates on the calendar. And fall dates for solo events and full band shows by the Deedle Deedle Dees are on their way (including my first-ever Kansas-Missouri tour!)

http://lloydhmiller.com/calendar/

No Knitting Factory Sing-a-long Weds, July 15

No sing-a-long tomorrow, Weds, July 15. The sing on Friday, July 17th will happen as usual. Wednesday sings will resume Weds, July 22.

In case you didn't know: all my sing-a-longs are being covered by wonderful friends of mine during July and August. I'll return to all / most of my regular events in September. I always add or subtract an event or two each fall.

Missing me?

- Check out my YouTube channel. I'm always putting new videos up there.

- Set up a live video singalong with me via FaceTime, Tango, Skype, or another medium of futuristic communication. Only $25 for a 25-minute sing-a-long. Invite some friends over for an all-request Lloyd show.

- Listen to my new podcast. Sing-a-long History with Lloyd H. Miller is on iTunes as of last week. It's mostly for older kids (elementary and up), parents, and educators, but I know kids of all ages are already listening. I think you'll like it. I play songs from songs from my albums, play other songs live, and get deep into the stories behind the songs I sing.

See you soon!

Lloyd

My Sing-a-long History Podcast is now on iTunes

I'm gonna be making new episodes all the time now. I have three up there now and more on the way. Subscribe now! Sing-a-long History with Lloyd H. Miller