The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center is pleased to present performing songwriters
Anthony da Costa
Emilyn Brodsky
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008, 7:30 pm
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The
Hudson Valley Writers' Center is pleased to present performing songwriters
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008, 7:30 pm |
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Our 2008 Summer Sunset Series has a musical kick-off with local performing songwriters Anthony da Costa and Emilyn Brodsky.
The reading will include a question & answer period and a reception with CDs by the artists for sale.
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Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government. |
2008
is off to a great start for Anthony da Costa. Now 17, the self-taught
multi-instrumentalist and prolific songwriter from Pleasantville released
his sixth record, Typical American Tragedy, in January. In February,
he was a nominee for the Memphis-based Folk Alliance’s Emerging Artist
of the Year award, and was profiled in The New York Times. Since
the beginning of the year he has also opened for Livingston Taylor and
Susan Werner, been a guest artist on Amy Speace’s upcoming CD, and recorded
his seventh record (Bad Nights, Better Days)—a duo project with
Abbie Gardner of Red Molly—in three days. The youngest winner ever of
the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival’s
Emerging Artist competitions in 2007, Anthony showcased at the Tin Pan
South Songwriters Festival in Nashville, America’s largest music festival
dedicated to songs and songwriters, and he was a Mountain Stage New Song
Contest finalist. His writing and performing draw from a deep well of
rich musical influences—from Bob Dylan and Dan Bern, to Gillian Welch
and Dave Rawlings, to Ryan Adams and Johnny Cash. 
Emilyn
Brodsky is 22 year old singersongwriter who couldn’t bring herself
to learn how to play the guitar, so instead plays the ukulele. A big fan
of tight harmonies and aggressive charm, she writes simple songs about
complex feelings. Emilyn has played with an impressive list of musicians
including The Dresden Dolls, The Gossip, The Magnetic Fields, The Decemberists,
The Hold Steady, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Langhorne Slim,
Kimya Dawson, Ani Difranco, and Pete Seeger. She has a self-released album
of home recordings, a split 7-inch with indie artist Mirah on Third Story
Records, and in July 2008, Third Story will be releasing her first full-length
studio album, on which she plays with a band including Anthony da Costa.
Emilyn has a B. A. in Poetry from The New School University. She grew
up in Westchester and now lives in Manhattan in what she describes as
“a lovely and strange house.”