The Roundtable

Erin McKeown At Iron Horse And Caffè Lena This Weekend

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Sarah LaDuke

Published October 16, 2014 at 11:35 AM EDT

Erin McKeown is a Musician, Writer, and Producer based in Western Massachusetts.With 9 full length albums, 2 EPs, and numerous soundtracks to her credit, she’s a local, national, and international artist and activist and she joins us to talk about her Summer, songwriting, and music distribution.

She performs two songs from her most recent album, Manifestra and - inspired by her current musical theater immersion (she's writing a new musical with Quiara Alegría Hudes [In The Heights]), she plays a song from Guys and Dolls - and it's awesome.

Erin will play The Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, MA on October 18th and Caffè Lena in Saratoga Springs, NY on October 19th.

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Sarah LaDuke

Sarah has worked in public radio since 2006. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing. She is on the board of WAM Theatre and lives in Albany, New York with her husband, Paul, and their dog, Doritos.

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