Adam Stemple

Adam Stemple
Stemple at Cats Laughing reunion concert, April 2015
Background information
Genres	Folk rock, Celtic music
Occupation(s)	Musician, writer
Instruments	guitar, vocals
Years active	1988–present
Associated acts	Cats Laughing, Boiled in Lead, The Tim Malloys
Website	www.adamstemple.com

Adam Stemple is a Celtic-influenced American folk rock musician, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also the author of several fantasy short stories and novels, including two series of novels co-written with his mother, writer Jane Yolen.

Stemple played guitar and sang as a member of the folk rock "rock-and-reel" band Cats Laughing from 1988 to 1996, while the band was active. The band also included notable fantasy/science fiction authors Steven Brust and Emma Bull.

For twelve years, he was lead singer/guitarist for the band Boiled in Lead. Stemple first appeared on Boiled in Lead's 1994 album Antler Dance. He co-wrote nine songs with science fiction and fantasy author Steven Brust on the 1995 album Songs from The Gypsy, released as an enhanced CD. The CD has the distinction of including the full text of the novel The Gypsy, which Brust co-authored with Megan Lindholm and upon which the songs were based.

Stemple also produced and performed on Steven Brust's solo album A Rose for Iconoclastes.

Stemple currently is with the Tim Malloys, an Irish band. Like Cats Laughing and Boiled in Lead, Stemple's current group shares musical roots that incorporate Celtic and rock styles.

In April 2015, Stemple reunited with Cats Laughing in a concert at the Minicon science fiction convention. A live CD and DVD of the concert is expected to be released in late 2015.

Stemple's first novel, for Tor Books, was Singer of Souls. A sequel, Steward of Song, was published in 2008.