Rob Snarski is a singer, a velvet-voiced troubadour.

His musical life began as a ten-year-old, playing a very heavy 120 button accordion gifted to him by his grandmother. He took up the guitar in his teens and formed Chad’s Tree in the 1980s with his singer, song-writer brother Mark. 

Chad’s Tree released two albums, Buckle in the Rail and Kerosene along with several singles before Rob left to pursue his interest in words and melodies. He found his voice and the spotlight with part-time, holiday-band The Bottomless Schooners of Old, featuring members of The Triffids, later going on to share vocal duties with David McComb in The Blackeyed Susans and singing the songs penned by McComb and founding member Phil Kakulas. Later, he took on the craft of song-writing himself. He has written and co-written songs on The Blackeyed Susans releases Mouth to Mouth, Spin The Bottle, La Mascara, Shangri-La and Close Your Eyes and See and has released several solo CDs and duo recordings – There Is Nothing Here That Belongs To You with Dan Luscombe, his acclaimed solo debut Wounded Bird, Low Fidelity (Songs By Request), an album of cover versions recorded at home in the hills of Tecoma on a trusty iPhone, and 2019’s Sparrow & Swan, his second solo release of original material. 

2020 saw the release of Song Gifts, a double album written and recorded during Covid lockdown in Melbourne over autumn, winter and spring with ‘Evil’ Graham Lee and Shane O’Mara. Finessed and tweaked in home studios, separated by distance and a virus. Most songs were presents for a loved one ~ deeply personal, light hearted, happy~sad, funny and in most cases a joy to write.

Rob cast the net far and wide to create Searching For The Heart Of It All in 2022. Featuring a stellar cast of musicians and singers [Romy Vager, Gareth Liddiard, Peter Milton Walsh, Rebecca Barnard & Kelly Day], creating an album mimicking our listening habits ~ a playlist of sorts, sonic surprises, strings and horns ~ his most ambitious work to date.

Rob formed SnarskiCircusLindyBand with Lindy Morrison [Go-Betweens], ‘Evil’ Graham Lee [Triffids], long time collaborator Shane O’Mara [Silversound] and part-timer Dan Kelly [nephew of Paul] to record and tour after initial shows with Lindy. Their debut mini-album Someone Said That Someone Said was released in May 2023. The follow up mini-album I Know I Know is released in May 2024.

Rob has toured the globe with The Blackeyed Susans and as a guest vocalist with The Triffids and The Go-Betweens, and has graced the same stage as Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and Nico amongst others not quite as popular.