The Soundtrack Series is a monthly storytelling event at The Gallery at LPR (Le Poisson Rouge) where five guest storytellers get on the mic to tell the hilarious or heart wrenching stories they forever associate with a song from their past. Music lovers of different ages, backgrounds, points of view, senses of humor, and of course, musical tastes have come to The Soundtrack Series to tell and listen to song fueled stories, and feel the buzz that comes with connecting music with memories. The Soundtrack Series is for anyone who has ever built an iTunes library, combed through vinyl at a flea market, used a pencil to tighten their favorite cassette; and for anyone who has a favorite song, a least favorite song, or any song that takes them back to that one time when…

IMMACULATE COLLECTION
Dan Charnas
Baby Got Back/Sir Mix A Lot

Bridget O'Neill
Stigmata/Ministry

Nat Cassidy
Yalla Yalla/Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

Amanda Duarte
Wild Horses/The Rolling Stones

Dana Rossi (Host) Dana Rossi is the creator and host of The Soundtrack Series. She is a contributor to the anthology Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop, and her writing has appeared in New York Press, Slice, Time Out New York, Broken Pencil, The Retroist, and InDigest. She is the recipient of a 2008 New York Press Association Award for a feature on understudies to celebrities on Broadway. As a storyteller, she has performed with RISK!, The Liar Show, TOLD, Ask Me, Story Collider, How I Learned, Real Characters, NY Confidential, and BTK Band, to name a few. In her lifetime, she has been the proud owner of three turntables, five Walkmans, four Discmans, three iPods, two boom boxes, countless radios, and one jukebox. She is a music nerd—proudly well versed in everything that makes music vastly uncool—from the work of cheesy 80s one hit wonders or early 90s supergroups, to the soft sounds of the late 70s, the b-sides to Carpenters 45s, and the words to Kenny Rogers songs other than “The Gambler”. It ain’t glamour knowledge, but sometimes it’s just fun to know about Michael Nesmith’s solo work.