Rock And Roll Will Save Your Life: The Musical
A multimedia reading and performance by Steve Almond

Friday, April 23, 8 PM
$5/Free for members

Hartford, Connecticut – Real Art Ways presents Rock And Roll Will Save Your Life: The Musical, a multimedia performance, reading, dance party, and geek out fest by self-proclaimed “drooling fanatic” of rock ‘n’ roll, Steve Almond. Almond’s new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, traces a lifelong obsession with rock music and reflects upon the power of song in everyday life. Rock And Roll Will Save Your Life: The Musical is Friday, April 23 at 8 PM. Admission is $5/free for members. Real Art Ways is located at 56 Arbor Street in Hartford's Parkville neighborhood. For more information, contact Real Art Ways: 860.232.1006 or realartways.org
 
In Rock And Roll Will Save Your Life: The Musical, Steve Almond will read from Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, play clips from his top drool-worthy moments, and present selections from "Steve Almond's Museum of Bad Hair."

Drooling fanatic: (def.)
1. One who drools in the presence of beloved rock stars.
2. Any of a genus of rock-n-roll wannabes/geeks who walk around with songs ringing in their ears, own more than 3000 albums at all times, and fall in love with at least one record per week.
 
Steve Almond lives to rock but, without the musical talent to do so, is (sort of) content to live the life of a rabid fan - a drooling fanatic - who has converted his unrequited desires into a noble obsession.

Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life follows Almond’s passion from his earliest (and most wretched) rock criticism to his eventual discovery of a Drooling Fanatic soul mate and subsequent production of two little super fans. Along the way, Almond muses on the delusional power of songs, the awkward mating habits of drooling fanatics, and why Depression Songs actually make us feel so much better.

"Almond deftly straddles the line between intellectual and fan. He's canny about the ways rock stars manipulate their idolators, yet happy to be seduced by them. He veers smoothly between funny, cruel takedowns of rock fatuity while registering its emotional impact (the song 'I Bless the Rains Down in Africa' may be 'the lovechild of Muzak and imperialism,' but you can't help 'sort of digging it'). Almond's snarky, swoony counterpoint makes for a hilarious riff on the power of music." — Publishers Weekly
 
About Steve Almond
Steve Almond is the author the story collections My Life in Heavy Metal and The Evil B.B. Chow, the novel Which Brings Me to You (with Julianna Baggott), and the non-fiction books Candyfreak and (Not That You Asked). His most recent book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, came out in Spring 2010. He is also, crazily, self-publishing books. This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey , is composed of 30 very brief stories, and 30 very brief essays on the psychology and practice of writing. Letters from People Who Hate Me is just plum crazy. Both are available at readings.


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