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Musicians and Writers, Adam Snyder and Robert Burke Warren present excerpts from their respective books Kingston 76 and Lazar Rising, plus live music performance, in the Great Room.This event is complimentary. Please email the Emerson Activities Team at [email protected] if you need to cancel your participation.
Adam Snyder is a writer/musician from Kingston, NY and currently lives up the road in Woodstock.
Adam's first solo album, Across The Pond, came out on David Gray's HTI label. Its debut single "Two Moons" was a BBC favorite and hit the top 40 in the UK.
His second album, This Town Will Get Its Due, was inspired by life in Kingston, NY. The album was released to a standing-room only crowd in Council Chamber at Kingston City Hall. Songs have been featured on XM satellite, NPR, and elsewhere. A third solo album is in the works.
Adam is perhaps most widely-known as a member of Mercury Rev during the Deserters Songs period. Other bands he’s played or recorded with include The Waterboys, New Order, Mark Mulcahy, and his new band, Elephant Rex.
As a writer, Adam has written for magazines including Interview, Mojo, and Upstate Diary. Currently he writes arts and music features regionally for HVI.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Adam’s first published novel, Kingston 76, a cross-genre mystery loosely based on his childhood in Kingston.
Robert Burke Warren is a writer, performer, teacher, and musician, author of novel Perfectly Broken and one-man show Redheaded Friend, and editor of Cash on Cash: Interviews & Encounters with Johnny Cash. His work appears in Salon, Longreads, AARP, Texas Music, Brooklyn Parent, The Woodstock Times, Paste, The Rumpus, The Bitter Southerner, Oldster, Chronogram, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, among others. You can find his music on albums by RuPaul, Rosanne Cash, and rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson; The Roots used his tune "The Elephant In the Room" as John McCain's entrance theme on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In the 90s, he performed the lead in the West End musical Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Prior to that he was a globetrotting bass player. He lives in Phoenicia, NY.
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Emerson Resort & Spa, 5340 RT-28, Mt Tremper, NY 12457-5335, United States, Mount Tremper
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