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Help Us Make “Around the Wood Stove” Better!

February 11, 2012
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Help Us Make “Around the Wood Stove” Better!

If you’ve listened to our podcast, Around the Wood Stove, please take this very short survey to help us make the show better. Enter your email address at the end of the survey to be registered to win a $15 iTunes gift card. We’ll select two random participants and notify the winners on Saturday, February...

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Free Download from Phoebe Radcliffe and Jordan Rast

February 9, 2012
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In an impromptu performance recorded live at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster, Phoebe Radcliffe is joined by Jordan Rast in the playing of her original song Tetris. It’s a hauntingly beautiful homage to the highly addictive iPhone app. Both are young musicians hailing from the Lancaster, PA region. You can check out more of...

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New Song and Video – Indian Summer Jars

February 2, 2012
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Wood Stove House had the pleasure of recording Indian Summer Jars in a day-long session at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster. The result of that session was this amazing track called Over the Garden Walls. The song is available for download on bandcamp: Check out some video of the recording session on YouTube:

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Creative Inspiration with Theatre for Transformation

January 5, 2012
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Creative Inspiration with Theatre for Transformation

In 2007, Dr. Amanda Kemp was a resident artist at a spiritual center working on a play. She was stuck, but neither her own determination nor the input of others seemed to move her work in satisfying directions. Finally, she prayed. From that moment of prayer and the poem that came from it, Dr....

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Seasons Greetings!

December 26, 2011
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Seasons Greetings!

Seasons Greetings to you all from the Wood Stove House! 2011 has been the year of change, and that will continue into 2012. We have many new and exciting projects on the horizon that will be keeping us very busy next year. We hope you will continue to help us promote and support creativity...

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Setting the Stage for Experiencing FLOW

December 22, 2011
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I was recently turned onto the psychology term “flow”. It’s a mental state where a person is so completely immersed in an activity, they enter into a state of pure focus and concentration where time has no meaning and bodily needs (rest, food, etc.) are essentially ignored. I’m familiar with the concept from the...

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Creative Works presents: Christmas on Mars

December 14, 2011
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Creative Works presents: Christmas on Mars

Creative Works of Lancaster has done some amazing things over the past couple years. They hit the streets to bring Lancaster mobile art galleries on select First Fridays, they transformed classic movies (Psycho and The Godfather) into sock puppet extravaganzas in one of our favorite local bars, and they made me laugh so hard...

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Go Blow Your Horn

December 8, 2011
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Go Blow Your Horn

Editor’s Note: this is a guest post by Marshall Michaels. “So what do I write about?” I asked the owner of this site, Jason. “Something creative,” he replied, handing me my login credentials. Creative? Creative he wants? Creativity is dead in this country. Or it’s dying. And, if you’ll kindly put another log into the...

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New Song from Kingsfoil

December 5, 2011
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Central PA pop/rock band Kingsfoil, a Wood Stove House favorite, released a brand new single this week exclusively on YouTube. The new track, Won’t Let Go, was written and produced by the band and Nashville producer Dustin Burnett, who also took the helm on the band’s latest full-length album, On Our Own Together.

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Jordan Rast – Fractured Love

November 22, 2011
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Jordan Rast – Fractured Love

I had the pleasure of working with Lancaster’s Jordan Rast on his new album Fractured Love this past summer and fall. The album features ten new Jordan Rast originals. Half of the tracks are performed by a full rock band featuring Robbie Grote (The Districts) on electric guitar and harmony vocals by Phoebe Radcliffe. The other...

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