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16148818)Join us for a talk and a presentation with writer and leading authority on John Lennon and the Beatles\, Jude Southe rland Kessler\, and with Roxbury audiobook narrator and voice actor\, Scot t R. McKinley. \; The author talk will cover &lsquo\;The Beatles in Am erica&rsquo\;\, the beginning of which will have its 60th anniversary in F ebruary 2024. \;
\nKessler tells the story of The Beatles throug h John Lennon&rsquo\;s eyes\, using dialog and scenes backed by research\, interviews\, and quoted sources to take the reader back in time to 1963 a nd 1964\, when the longest-lasting popular music created&hellip\;to date!. ..spread to the world.
\nMcKinley narrates the multi-media presentat ion portion of the talk\, giving a &lsquo\;lively character read&rsquo\; o f The Beatles and those who interacted with them. This portion of the talk also includes images\, music and film of the events being \;described . Mr. McKinley will discuss narrating the presentation with the author\, a nd on recording voice work from a home studio.
\nThere will be a Q&a mp\;A session following the presentation\, as well as a trivia contest (wi th prizes to be mailed to the winners)!
\nThis program will be prese nted in-person and virtually.
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About the Presenter: Jude Southerla nd Kessler is the leading authority on John Lennon\, having spent the last 34 years researching and writing the first five books in the anticipated nine-volume John Lennon Series. Jude attended Northwestern State Universit y of Louisiana\, garnering two degrees in three years. She did her master& rsquo\;s work at the University of Maryland and taught English and Busines s Communication at Troy State University in Alabama. As part of Kessler&rs quo\;s research for The John Lennon Series\, she traveled to London and Li verpool 7 times from 1993-2000\, interviewing over 100 Beatles friends\, r elatives\, band members\, and business partners including Julia Baird\, Bo b Wooler\, Richard Langham\, Rod Murray\, Allan Williams\, Bill Harry\, Ch as Newby\, Helen Anderson\, Roag and Pete Best\, and many more. In the Uni ted States\, she has interviewed Ken Mansfield\, Ivor Davis\, Gary Van Scy oc\, Larry Kane\, and other noted Beatles associates. Five volumes in the nine-book John Lennon Series are currently on the market\, and Kessler is researching/writing about the latter part of 1965 in her historical narrat ive collection. Kessler hosted &ldquo\;The John Lennon Hour&rdquo\; on Bea tlesARama radio for five years. She is now the co-host of the monthly Beat les podcast &ldquo\;She Said She Said&rdquo\; with Recipe Records Series a uthor\, Lanea Stagg and host of the bi-monthly podcast &ldquo\;Focal Point s: A Lennon Perspective.&rdquo\; A monthly guest on BBC Radio with Martin Kelner and ABC Radio Australia with Rod Quinn\, Kessler has also been feat ured on Radio Merseyside\, &ldquo\;Up All Night&rdquo\; with George Noory\ , and numerous Beatles podcasts. She writes a monthly column for Culture S onar entitled &ldquo\;Lennon Matters\,&rdquo\; and pens articles for Beatl efan and Octopus&rsquo\; Garden. For the last 10 years\, Kessler has been the official blogger for The Fest for Beatles Fans and for 16 years has se rved as a Guest Speaker at the Fest in Chicago\, New York\, Las Vegas\, an d Los Angeles. In 2016\, Kessler chaired the GRAMMY Museum of Mississippi Beatles Symposium and from 2012-2019\, she was also &ldquo\;The Authors an d Artists Beatles Symposium&rdquo\; Chair for Beatles at the Ridge in Arka nsas. Kessler was a co-author in Ken Womack&rsquo\;s collection of Beatles essays\, Things We Said Today: New Perspectives on The Beatles and his la ter collection\, The Beatles in Context. The first five books in The John Lennon Series &ndash\; Shoulda Been There\, Shivering Inside\, She Loves Y ou\, Should Have Known Better\, and Shades of Life\, Part 1 &ndash\; were recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland\, OH\, and Kessler was selected to join the Author&rsquo\;s Guild\, with Professi onal Author status. Her books are available on her website www.johnlennons eries.com\, on all e-book formats\, and in all online booksellers.
\nAbout the Presenter: Scott R. McKinley is a Narrator\, V oice Actor and Teaching Consultant\, and has been a resident of \;Land ing\, in Roxbury Township for 28 years\, along with his wife\, Jeanne and two sons\, Richard and Kevin. \; \;He narrates both the audiobook of\, and this presentation from\, She Loves You by Jude Southerla nd \;Kessler. \; \;Prior to narrating\, Scott spent 15 years i n the book industry as a bookstore manager\, and 19 years in the \;wor kforce management industry doing such services as tech support\, training\ , and eLearning. \; \;He currently enjoys narrating and doing char acter voices for audiobooks\, of which She Loves You was his four th book\, and second on John Lennon\, (of which the first was Lennon\, The Mobster\, and the Lawyer \;by Jay Bergen). As a voice actor he has performed in several different productions of &lsquo\;Old Time Radi o&rsquo\; \;shows such as the Jack Benny Program and Madison on the Ai r\, and in Audio Dramas such as &lsquo\;You Can&rsquo\;t \;Take it Wit h You&rsquo\;\, and a new podcast series called Peculiar Springs. \;&n bsp\;An avid history reader\, he hosts and reads from previously unseen Ci vil War Letters in Spared Shared \;Audio\, a non-profit organization r un by William Griffing\, who transcribes these diaries and letters from&nb sp\;private collections. Scott&rsquo\;s next audiobook is to be Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder \;Conspiracy by Andrew Noone\, a true- crime history that took place in Massachusetts during the \;Revolution . He may be reached through his website at https://mckinleyco.com or at So undcloud.com \;under Spared &\; Shared Audio.
\nRegister onli ne or by calling the library at (973) 584-2400. \; This presentation\, and all our events\, are made possible through the generosity of The Frie nds of the Roxbury Public Library.
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