Photo by Evan Myers – KEYS TO SUCCESS: Boston Fan Pier developer Joe Fallon plays a holiday tune with members of Thirteen Yards to Victory at One Marina Place.

The Who frontman Roger Daltry dining with a pal at Via Matta – then returning the next night to do it again . . . “60 Minutes” gal Lesley Stahl taking mom out for a bite at the G Bar and Kitchen in Swampscott . . . Boston Fan Pier developer Joe Fallon getting his rock ’n’ roll on with local band Thirteen Yards to Victory at his new One Marina Place . . . Local football hero Doug Flutie Christmas shopping at Roster, the sports apparel boutique at the Natick Collection . . . Boston Bruins [team stats] legend Ray Bourque and his fellow teammates Bob Sweeney, Don Sweeney, Cleon Daskalakis and Rick Middleton warming up at Game On! after checking out the ice at Fenway ( Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey stopped by to say hey) . . . New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, Boston screenwriters Billy Dufresne and John Anderson, the Funky Bunch’s Terry Yancey bonding in the VIP section at producer Jimmy Marsh’s holiday bash at Vintage . . . House Speaker Bob DeLeo, gubernatorial candidates Charlie Baker and Tim Cahill, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, BRA Director John Palmieri, Massport head Tom Kinton, Red Sox [team stats] spouse Stacy Lucchino, BRA Board member Paul Foster and Boston City Councilors Sal LaMattina, Mike Ross, Steve Murphy, Maureen Feeney and Bill Linehan toasting the hols with Suffolk University veep John Nucci and his band of merry Eastie pols who lunch at Rino’s . . . Boston Blazers stars Gary Bining and Daryl Veltman dropping by the Home for Little Wanderers to help unload trucks full of toys donated for the annual Big Wishes for Little Wanderers Gift Drive .

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Admission to the event is an unwrapped, new toy with a minimum $5 value, which will be distributed by the Sanford Stud Farm to needy families in Amsterdam.
 
WHERE: The Riverfront Center, Amsterdam, N.Y.
 
WHEN:  Saturday, December 5, 2009, between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. LIVE performance at 1:30 p.m.

About Thirteen Yards to Victory
Thirteen Yards to Victory (13 YTV) is Anthony DiPerri (20, Vocals, Keys), Vinny Prezioso (20, Guitar, Vocals), Thomas Iannello (21, Guitar, Vocals), Ryan Passariello (18, Drums) and Dave Rossi (22, Bass) of Saugus, Mass., and was formed in late 2005. During its brief time on the music scene, the band has performed during the Boston date of the internationally acclaimed Vans Warped Tour in 2007, has covered 29 states via three independent national tours and has recorded under the auspices of acclaimed drummer Kenny Aronoff (Melissa Etheridge, John Fogerty and Smashing Pumpkins).
 
Most recently, 13 YTV approached music industry powerhouse Ken Lewis (Usher, Kanye West, Fall Out Boy, Mariah Carey, Jay-Z) to produce and mix their latest EP, American Dreamers recognized by The White House. Congress and others for its community service associations.
 
Through the massive popularity of its social media sites, myspace.com/thirteenyardstovictory, Facebook.com/thirteenyardstovictory and Twitter, 13 YTV continues to amass thousands of fans spanning the globe.
 
EDITORS NOTE: Broadcast producers please contact Gina DeRossi at: 518-332-4988 for one-on-one scheduling and logistics. The concert will be broadcast LIVE on WCSS 1490 AM.
 
CONTACT: Gina DeRossi                                   Fred Balboni
                       gderossi@balbonicg.com         fbalboni@balbonicg.com
                       518-332-4988                                978-535-5079

Who needs a Grammy when you have a pizza named after your band? Boston emo rockers Thirteen Yards to Victory had their own Dreamer Pizza created for them by Rustic Kitchen executive chef Tom Holloway. The pie, named for the band’s EP, ‘American Dreamers,’ is topped with 13 ingredients (natch), including the Kowloon’s trademarked Saugus Wing Sauce, and is only available at Nicks Place, in Saugus Center and Winthrop.

A culinary victory? We’ll let you decide . . .

From left are the Nick’s Place co-owner Costa Alexandrou, Holloway and Thirteen Yards band members Dave Rossi, Vinny Prezioso (front), Anthony DiPerri, Thomas Iannello and Ryan Passariello.

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Photo caption: Thirteen Yards to Victory, including singer Anthony DiPerri and Dave Rossi, right, on bass, took to the stage of the Bert DeRose Theater at Amsterdam High School on Wednesday to bring their message of community service.

The performances at Amsterdam High School that kicked off a tour for Boston-based band Thirteen Yards to Victory on Wednesday were not exactly what band members had expected.

“I thought it might have be an awkward situation,” said guitar player Vinny Prezioso. “But it exceeded our expectations. There was a lot of energy for 9:30 in the morning.”

Four hours later when 13 YTV played its second show of the day for the 11th- and 12th-graders, the energy, momentum, and screams had only gained. By the time the band ripped into its fifth song off its new EP, “American Dreamers,” the hundreds of students in the Bert DeRose Theater were on their feet.

“This is all new to us,” said Prezioso. “Hopefully we can inspire someone about something.”

The band’s performances at AHS will serve as the prototype for an upcoming tour of high schools across the nation, as part of a community service initiative the band has dedicated itself to, an initiative that has brought the band recognition from the White House and the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

“We want to be a band that does more than music,” said Prezioso. “This is a mission.”

Before 13 YTV took to the stage, the band was introduced by AHS Principal David Ziskin, who said that he hopes to be able to provide more assemblies that embrace different types of learning and advocate the positive message of community service. He also praised Gina DeRossi, Greater Amsterdam School District board of education president and 3rd Ward candidate for alderman, who does public relations work for the band and was instrumental in bringing the group to AHS.

And then Ziskin asked the students to do something he’d never before requested of them. He asked them to take out their cell phones and turn them on, which, as students readied themselves to capture the moment, became the only light in the theater.

Student Sicily Bernardo was excited to see the show for a couple of reasons.

“We actually get to do something,” she said. “And the boys are really cute.”

Chelsey Crosby said she’d heard the band before and liked its pop punk/alternative rock sounds, but Gabriella Mercado said she hadn’t heard of 13 YTV until it was announced they’d be visiting the school.

“We looked them up online and I liked their music,” said Mercado.

Eleventh-graders Maria Mosso and Angela Damiano hadn’t heard any of 13 YTV’s music before seeing the band on stage, but both said they liked the songs and high-energy performance.

“They’ll be on my iPod,” said Damiano.

The band members will return to AHS today without their instruments and amplifiers, as they participate in peer education sessions during regularly scheduled music classes.

“It’s really good for us because we have such a strong music program,” said Superintendent Thomas Perillo. “It’s going to send the kids a nice message of what they can do with music.”

The peer education sessions are planned to be an important piece of the band’s upcoming tour of high schools, which also includes a contest where the band will donate proceeds from its EP to music education in school districts.

“For me personally, I was in the high school band and the arts and music and theater is all so important,” said bass player Dave Rossi. “This just feels like a really good thing.”

The group, which recently received a proclamation from Mayor Ann Thane and the Common Council and on Wednesday was presented with a proclamation from Assemblyman George Amedore, R-Rotterdam, said the possibility of returning to AHS on the full tour hasn’t been ruled out.

“The response we’ve gotten so far is so good that I can definitely see that we’d come back to Amsterdam,” said Rossi.

For more information on 13 YTV, visit www.13ytv.com.

Photo caption: ABOVE: Amsterdam High School 11th- and 12th-grade students watch a performance by Thirteen Yards to Victory in the Bert DeRose Theater on Wednesday afternoon. BELOW: Anthony DiPerri,
singer of band, gestures to the crowd while entertaining.

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