We live for our rescued furkids Kiley and Simmy, enjoy finding cool hidden niches, gardens, strange museums and historic places only a nurse or a urban planner could love. We pine for the far off hills of home... upstate NY (Go Orange!)
To adopt a beautiful Siberian Husky like our Simcha go to:
www.southernsiberian.com
Music
Swing and Blues DJ Resume:
<2008> Blues Muse Workshops (Philadelphia - October 3-5) Richmond Blues Fix (Richmond - June 28) Blues n Soul Experience (Orlando - June 20-22) Big Big Event Sunday K2 dance (DC - June 8) Philly Lindy Love (Philadelphia - June 6-8) Count Basie Orch. Weekend Bash (Williamsburg May 23-25) CHEX 2 (Charleston - May 15-18) BABBLE Exchange- (NYC- May 2-4) Yehoodi Radio Guest Swing DJ for March LAB Late Night Blues Parties-Philly (Jan and March) Lindy Focus-Asheville Williamsburg Late Night Blues
<2007> Las Vegas Exchange National Battle of the Swing DJ's (2nd Prize) Albany Chill LX VBLX (Head DJ/Musical director) Swing Dance USA Mid-Atlantic Regional Qualifier Dirt Cheap Blues Exchange RVA Blues Richmond's Second Saturday Dance
<2005-2008>
Fall Fling Fundraising Swing Dance (organizer) Swing Virginia weekly and monthly dances (resident DJ)
Movies
"there are many girls who want to get carnal with me because I am such a premium dancer"
- 'Everything is Illuminated'
"As you wish"
- The Princess Bride
Vegan and raw cookbooks, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Jew in the Lotus, The Teachings of Don Juan, The Book of Rings, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Jivamukti Yoga, and L.A.R.E. study guides (eww!)
Heroes
- Karen from Wacky Cats in Chicago who sold me my magic vintage dance shoes
- My instructors at My yoga Spirit
- Doggie foster parents and animal rescue peeps.
- Count Basie, Sidney Bechet, Gunhild Carling
- Frank Gehry, Dan Kiley, Gustav Stickley
About me: Growing up in the suburbs of New York City, Bill was raised on big band swing and Rat Pack crooners. He first discovered dancing at YMCA summer camp, got his BA in music composition and spent most of the 90’s blowing his paychecks in lower Manhattan's seedy blues bars and jazz clubs.
Bill has been the swing/blues dancer's DJ of choice throughout eastern Virginia since 2005 and is rapidly becoming known throughout the country for his uncanny ability to consistantly blend hard driving swing and slow simmering blues sets that keeps dance floors hopping.
The lovely Patty is the tireless saint who tries to keep all the balls in the air while simultaneously saving the world on a daily basis and trying to keep Bill humble and grounded (a herculean task on its own).
Together, we're just a pair of liberal 'Jewbu' vegetarian NY'ers momentarily lost in the lunatic fringe of the Bible Belt and struggling to pay the mortgage and find time to take the pooches to the dog park.
Who I'd like to meet: A good house cleaner who LOVES getting up stubborn dog hair.
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Pattybear & Bill the Blues DJ's Friend Space (Top 6)
Tickets for the Dances of Vice Festival II in New York are now available through the website! Featuring Voltaire and his skeletal orchestra, The Deadfly Ensemble, Fern Knight, Desert Sin, live harpsichord, Steampunk - Rococo - Victorian - 1920-30s fashion shows, art, vendors, and more! Event is all ages and 19+.
Tickets will also be on sale at the next Dances of Vice "Shanghai Vice" in Brooklyn on July 5th!
Not sure which song you are referring to because I have several songs (not all country) that play on my profile. But I did get a chuckle from your comment.
Wonder if it was the Carrie Underwood song "So Small"?
Happy Valentines day.
We have a new record and a new band member and there are three chances this week to hear the band live in Virginia and West Virginia!
Come celebrate life alone or with your lover... we promise to play some really sweet lovesongs and some really great jaded songs of separation, all guaranteed to put a smile on your face!
Best,
joebass, michael, parrish, teddy
Thursday feb 14
Ashland Coffee and Tea
Ashland, VA
Friday feb 15
Gravity Lounge
Charlottesville, VA
Sat feb 16
The Purple Fiddle
Thomas, WV
Sun feb 17
Iota
Arlington, VA
Studies are inconclusive as to whether washboard/kazoo music improves, harms or otherwise impacts your health.
Thanks for taking a chance and making space for some vaudevillian ragtime/jugband blues and hillbilly swing!
Best,
joebass, michael, parrish
No problem, any time. Glad you had fun and tons of compliments at Lindy Focus! Sounds like a wonderful time and opportunity to swap ideas with fellow dj's. See you out dancing! Oh, and I want to hear about this terrible demise of the ice cream.
OK the latest. He pushed aside a desk chair then stood up on the computer desk to grab a box off a upper shelf. This box was what my brand PC game came in, he shredded the box, and cracked the cd case that was inside. Lucky the DVD was in the computer. Its his way of telling me I have been spending way too many hours playing games and not with him.
hey guys! haven't checked out myspace in a while but I saw you were online and wanted to drop you a note to say hello. i hope all is going well. i think i'll have to start checking out your myspace page atleast once a day now just to hear your song again (and again and again). I love it!
Studies are inconclusive as to whether washboard/kazoo music improves, harms or otherwise impacts your health.
Thanks for taking a chance and making space for some vaudevillian ragtime/jugband blues and hillbilly swing!
Best,
joebass, michael, parrish
