Tuesday, May 12, 2020 | 2 a.m.
One of the most talented individuals performing on the Strip today is not letting the pandemic shutdown stop his creativity. Vinny Adinolfi III, better known as Vin A from the family act the Bronx Wanderers, has kept busy preparing the group’s pay-per-view concert set for release this week, writing and recording new music for at least three different albums, producing new episodes of his podcast and learning to play the stock market on the side.
“I’m basically doing anything I can to keep busy, keep moving and keep my mind going,” he says on the latest episode of the Sun on the Strip podcast. “It’s funny. We did three years of performing seven nights a week and it was getting to the point that I was so burned out, I wanted everything to stop. Little did I know.”
After building a sensational throwback rock-and-roll concert production at Bally’s and the Linq, the Bronx Wanderers took their talents to the classic Harrah’s Showroom in February. It was an ideal fit as the band finally found a prime showtime.
“We were doing 8 o’clock every night and we were killing it. It felt like we turned a corner,” says Vin. “We were finally in the room we were meant to be in, at the right hotel with the right demographic, and lo and behold, COVID happens.”
One of the last performances at Harrah’s was the subject of the pay-per-view concert event, which is scheduled to be released Friday, March 15. For more information, visit thebronxwanderers.com or check out the group’s Facebook page.
With the sudden rush of free time, the group has started to work on a new album to follow up its most recent release, “Echoes of the Past,” while Vin continues to work on his solo debut and an acoustic collection.
“I’ve been working on an acoustic album called ‘Vindemic,’ which started with a parody I did of Johnny Cash’s song ‘Folsom Prison Blues.’ I rewrote the words to fit the quarantine in a funny way and that song got 9,000 views in two weeks,” he says. “That inspired me to keep going with it and I’m doing about a song a week. And when my voice gets tired, I focus on the podcast. So when you ask if it’s hard to break up my time, for me it’s not, because I’m a scatterbrain.”
Listen to this and more on the Sun on the Strip, also available at Apple Podcasts.
