By Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer Published Jun 02, 2006 at 9:41 AM
Julie Moffitt, who celebrated the release of her "The Stolen EP" earlier this week at Centanni in the Third Ward announced today in an e-mail that she has been invited to join The Hit and Run Tour.

Moffitt describes the tour as, "a month-long national tour featuring two other amazing singer/songwriters!"

She adds, "This is a dream come true for me. I've been imagining my first real tour since i was a little girl, and suddenly, with no warning and no planning on my part aside from a plane ticket and a new ATA-approved case for my keyboard, I'm on the road! I'm in heaven!  Well, actually, I'm in the international terminal at the San Francisco airport, waiting with my luggage for Martha Berner and Arrica Rose to arrive from L.A. with Adam Levy for our first show."

The tour, which runs through the end of June stops in San Francisco, Fresno, Berkeley, Tucson, Albuquerque, Denver, Davenport, Iowa, Lake Geneva, Madison, Milwaukee (at the Art Bar on June 16), Chicago, Indianapolis, Nashville, Columbus, Ga., Charlotte, NC, Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York and Boston.

Moffitt's Web site is http://www.julielle.com and her My Space site is
http://www.myspace.com/juliemoffitt.
Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.

He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.

With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.

He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.

In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.

He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.