History
The Remainders was founded by Kathi Kamen Goldmark in 1992. Kathi was then a musician whose day job was in book publicity. Through this, she met many prolific authors. One day while driving one of the authors around she came upon the idea of making a band of them. It stuck. The Remainders' first performance was in 1992 at the American Booksellers Association convention in Anaheim, California. A review of the concert, appearing in The Washington Post, claimed it was "the most heavily promoted musical debut since The Monkees."
The Remainders also played at the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio in 1995.
In April 2010, they began the Wordstock Tour presented by the Pearson Foundation and We Give Books, benefiting the children and schools of Haiti.
The Remainders gave their last concert on June 23, 2012 at the annual conference of the American Library Association in Anaheim, where they played their first concert 20 years before. The event, cosponsored by ProQuest, raised money for library and information science scholarships.
The Remainders performed together for the last time on the August 6, 2012 episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, on which both Stephen King and Dave Barry were guests.
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