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ATWS Podcast #59: Ducky & the Vintage

Jason Mundok — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:00:09 +0000

Ducky and the Vintage is a Harrisburg based rock band with a brand album called Flowers. Frontman Ducky Duke made a big splash earlier this year with an appearance on the NBC television program called The Voice. Although he didn’t make it through the first on screen audition, he caught ear of the show’s host Carson Daly and was invited to make an appearance on Last Call. Aside from music, Ducky keeps busy with his visual art. Keep up with Ducky on Facebook and ReverbNation.

We recently partnered with our friends at Tri State Indie to bring you a new Wood Stove House Artist Spotlight series. We’ll be periodically posting 5 to 10 minute podcast episodes on Tri State’s website highlighting some of our favorite independent music from around the country. Tri State Indie is your online source for independent music news covering local, regional, and national acts every day, and live at over 40 festivals a year.

Stephanie Carlin (NYC) will be releasing a new album this summer called Tree of Series. Here’s the first single from the record called “Mother and God”:

Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok.

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ATWS Podcast #58: Launch Music Conference Part 2

Jason Mundok — Mon, 07 May 2012 05:00:18 +0000

Darling Parade @ Launch (Photo: Karlo Gesner)

This is part two in a two-part series dedicated to the Launch Music Conference. On April 26th, 27th, and 28th, hundreds of bands performed on 20 stages across the city of Lancaster. During the day music industry professionals held workshops and sessions at the convention center and vendors filled the trade show floor. The Wood Stove House was there with our good friends from Tri State Indie, your local, regional and national online independent music news source. We had an opportunity to chat with a handful of bands from across the country, four of which are featured on today’s program. Complementary video versions of these interviews will be posted at TriStateIndie.com in the coming weeks. Be sure to follow Wood Stove House and Tri State Indie on Facebook and Twitter to stay in the loop.

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In this episode, conversations with…

Darling Parade (Nashville)
Lunic (NYC)
Chip Greene (Nashville)
Tarra Layne (Pittsburgh)

Videos from today’s guests:

Never Wrong by Darling Parade

Far Away by Lunic

Moving On by Lunic

Self Destruct by Lunic

Beautiful Day by Tarra Layne

Lunic Interview @ Launch (Photo: Karlo Gesner)

Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok.

Photos by Karlo Gesner @ Karlo Photography

ATWS Podcast #57: Launch Music Conference Part 1

Jason Mundok — Thu, 03 May 2012 05:00:57 +0000

Photo: Karlo Gesner

It’s the first in a two-part series dedicated to the Launch Music Conference. On April 26th, 27th, and 28th, hundreds of bands performed on 20 stages across the city of Lancaster. During the day music industry professionals held workshops and sessions at the convention center and vendors filled the trade show floor. The Wood Stove House was there with our good friends from Tri State Indie, your local, regional and national online independent music news source. We had an opportunity to chat with a handful of bands from across the country, four of which will be featured on today’s program. Complementary video versions of these interviews will be featured at TriStateIndie.com in the coming weeks. Be sure to follow Wood Stove House and Tri State Indie on Facebook and Twitter to stay in the loop.

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In this episode, conversations with…

My Pet Dragon (NYC)
The Ballroom Thieves (Boston)
Laura Stevenson and the Cans (NYC)
Pete Bush and the Hoi Polloi (Pittsburgh)

ATWS #56: Hope For Agoldensummer and CODPIECE

Jason Mundok — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:00:52 +0000

Hope For Agoldensummer is an Athens, GA based trio that has been built up over the last ten years around the beautiful harmonies of sisters Claire and Page Campbell. They have a brand new album called Life Inside the Body that will be available for everyone on May 1st. Hope visited Lancaster last week to perform at a Wood Stove House concert while on a tour of the Northeast to support the new album. The band is made up of sisters Claire and Page Campbell along with multi-instrumentalist Patrick Morales from the Athens band Viking Progress. We sat down before the show to chat about the new album and what has inspired the sisters over the years.

Our good friend Chet Williamson from Creative Works of Lancaster returns this week with another installment of CODPIECE, Chet’s look at classic and sleeper films that you really need to check out…or re-check out, as it were. In this episode Chet sheds some light on screwball comedies. The classic film is Bringing Up Baby (1938) starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and the sleeper is the 1988 baseball comedy Bull Durham starring Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon.

Hope For Agoldensummer Live at Wood Stove House

Thank you for supporting Play Grounds, the next Wood Stove House public theater production. Our Kickstarter campaign was fully funded! Play Grounds is a set of three short plays that will be performed at three outdoor sites in Lancaster City during Lancaster ArtWalk weekend on May 5 & 6. The performances are free and open to the public. Visit the website for locations.

Show times below:

Saturday 5/5 @ 3:45 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 1:15 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 3:45 pm

Look for interviews with bands from around the country from the 2012 LAUNCH Music Conference coming soon on Around the Wood Stove and Tri State Indie.

Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok.

ATWS #55: Keith Wilson @ Mosaic

Jason Mundok — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 05:00:31 +0000

Keith Wilson (L) and Nick Francis at Mosaic (Photo: Stephanie Todoroff)

Keith Wilson (aka Saint Narcissus) is an author, songwriter, and former front man for the Lancaster area indie rock band, Movies With Heroes. Keith’s first novel, Geillan: A Prisoner’s Tale will be officially released on May 1 by Ecco Qua Press in Boston, Massachusetts.

I caught up with Keith just before his performance at a Mosaic event in downtown Lancaster to celebrate the release of the novel. You can find the book on Facebook or Amazon, among many other online retailers.

Thank you for supporting Play Grounds, the next Wood Stove House public theater production. Our Kickstarter campaign was fully funded!

Play Grounds is a set of three short plays that will be performed at three outdoor sites in Lancaster City during Lancaster ArtWalk weekend on May 5 & 6. The performances are free and open to the public. Visit the website for locations. Show times below:

Saturday 5/5 @ 3:45 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 1:15 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 3:45 pm

The LAUNCH Music Conference is right around the corner. On April 26, 27 and 28, over 300 bands will be performing in downtown Lancaster on 20 stages in 11 venues. During the day, musicians and other music industry professionals can attend the conference workshops at the Lancaster convention center and then starting in early evening hit the streets to catch all of the showcases all over town. This year Wood Stove House is excited to partner with TriState Indie, your source for daily local and independent music news covering the MidAtlantic region and far beyond. Look for several interviews with bands from around the country on Around the Wood Stove and TriState Indie during the weeks following the conference.

Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok.

House Concert: Hope For Agoldensummer 4/20/12

Jason Mundok — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:40:07 +0000

Hope For Agoldensummer is a family band from the fine town of Athens, GA consisting of sisters (and songwriters) Claire and Paige Campbell who are joined by Suny Lyons. For nearly 9 years they’ve traveled the USA creating rusty, angelic melodies with slide guitar, banjo, jangly percussion, glockenspiel, and a bowed handsaw, and overlaid with the sibling-soul-choir harmonies of Claire & Page.

“Oh, sometime ago there was a rut in the Winter. A lull in melody. Guitars were getting dusty. Claire called to her tiny-footed sister, ‘I’ve writ some songs. Won’t you come back South and sing with me?’ A season passed. Sister returned to the bawdy Southern heat, and thus was born Hope For Agoldensummer.”

Hope‘s upcoming album, Life Inside the Body, will be released on May 1, 2012 under Mazarine Records. Don’t miss this rare Lancaster PA live performance here at the Wood Stove House.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Doors at 7:00 pm – Music at 8:00 pm
Light refreshments
Bring a snack to share (optional)
BYOB for alcohol (optional)
Age 14+
Directions will be sent with reservation confirmation
$15-$20 suggested donation per seat
Advanced reservations REQUIRED

We have a full house for this concert!

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ATWS #54: Adam Lauver

Jason Mundok — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 05:00:33 +0000

Adam Lauver is an actor and a writer. His resume is filled with projects in both theater and film. From 2007 to 2009 Adam was part of the sketch comedy troupe Happy Time Explosion Show before relocating to Boston where he acted in his first feature film, Heavy Times. Later this month on April 27-29, Happy Time Explosion Show is back with a new show at the Ware Center in downtown Lancaster that is being produced by Creative Work of Lancaster. I caught up with Adam to learn more about Happy Time and his work both in Boston and here in Lancaster.

You have less than a week to support Play Grounds, our next Wood Stove House public theater production, through our Kickstarter campaign. Play Grounds is a set of three short plays that will be performed at three outdoor sites in Lancaster City during Lancaster ArtWalk weekend on May 5 & 6. The performances are free and open to the public, but you can be a part of the show by financially supporting the many folks involved in making these plays a reality. Click the Play Grounds Kickstarter banner at the top of the page. A huge thanks to everyone who has contributed so far and if you haven’t, please consider joining us in bringing locally written and produced theater to the streets of Lancaster. Visit the website for locations. Show times below:

Saturday 5/5 @ 3:45 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 1:15 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 3:45 pm

Broken Fences, a Pittsburgh duo featuring Guy Russo and Morgan Erina will be releasing their debut full-length album on June 1 at a release party at Club Cafe in Pittsburgh. The Fences were featured on Around the Wood Stove episode #30 back in May 2011. Visit their website for details about the new album or to check out their Broken Apartment video series, that’s a series live recordings they’ve been releasing on YouTube since February.

Our next Wood Stove House concert is scheduled for this Friday evening, April 20 with Athens, GA based band Hope For Agoldensummer. There are still a few seats left and you can reserve them right now here. For nearly 9 years Hope For Agoldensummer has traveled the USA creating rusty, angelic melodies with slide guitar, banjo, jangly percussion, glockenspiel, and a bowed handsaw, and sibling-soul-choir harmonies of sisters Claire & Page Campbell.

Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok.

ATWS #53: Dave Lefever

Jason Mundok — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:00:29 +0000

Singer-songwriter, Dave Lefever joins me today on Around the Wood Stove for a sneak preview of his upcoming album, Everywhere You Come From. Dave has been a big part of the Lancaster, PA music scene for years as a member of The Cultivators and as a solo artist. The album was produced by Chad Kinsey at The Glittering Cave in Lancaster and will be available in late May. No official release date has been set but we’ll keep you posted with details.

You have less than two weeks to support Play Grounds, our next Wood Stove House public theater production, through our Kickstarter campaign. Play Grounds is a set of three short plays that will be performed at three outdoor sites in Lancaster City during Lancaster ArtWalk weekend on May 5 & 6. The performances are free and open to the public, but you can be a part of the show by financially supporting the many folks involved in making these plays a reality. Click the Play Grounds Kickstarter banner at the top of the page. A huge thanks to everyone who has contributed so far and if you haven’t, please consider joining us in bringing locally written and produced theater to the streets of Lancaster. Visit the website for locations. Show times below:

Saturday 5/5 @ 3:45 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 1:15 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 3:45 pm

Wood Stove House favorites Kingsfoil, the Central PA pop-rock band announced last week that long time drummer Joe Cipollini has decided to step down. They also announced that Joe will be replaced by Frankie Muniz, best known as “Malcolm” from the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle that ran for seven seasons until 2006. The band recently completely recording a new album, their second with Nashville producer Dustin Burnett. No word yet on when that record will be available. You can hear a full interview with Kingsfoil’s Jordan Davis and Tristan Martin on Around the Wood Stove episode #23 from February 2011.

In more music news, congratulations to Dana Alexandra and our friends in Toy Soldiers for being featured on Paste Magazine’s “List of the Day” in an article called 11 Pennsylvania Bands You Should Listen to Now. According to the article, “Singer/songwriter Dana Alexandra is a Top 40 secret weapon waiting to explode.” Check out Dana’s interview on Around the Wood Stove from earlier this year on episode #42. And look for a full length interview with Toy Soldiers in the months to come.

Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok.

ATWS #52: Ben Rothermel

Jason Mundok — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:00:58 +0000

Ben Rothermel is a young hard-working singer-songwriter from right here in Lancaster, PA who pours his whole heart and soul into his music. He released his first full length album, Blue or Green, during the summer of 2011.

Ben will soon be releasing a digital pay-what-you-will album called Basement Sessions. The songs were recorded in his basement during many midnight hours while his family slept overhead. According to Ben, “the songs on the record were burning a hole in me trying to escape and this album is them escaping in the rawest form. It’s an extremely personal lo-fi album with most of the songs precluded by personal anecdotes. To me, Basement Sessions is four things: Personal, Simple, Lo-Fi, and Perseverance.” Starting next week, he’ll be releasing one song per day online with the full project available on April 14. Check out this website for details.

A big thanks to everyone who has already kicked in to help fund the upcoming Wood Stove House theater production called Play Grounds: Theater on Site. Play Grounds consists of three short plays written specifically for three sites in Lancaster that will be performed a total of three times over Lancaster ArtWalk weekend on May 5 & 6. These performances are free and open to the public, but you can help make them happen by clicking the Play Grounds banner at the top of the page.

Saturday 5/5 @ 3:45 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 1:15 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 3:45 pm

It’s almost time for the fourth annual LAUNCH Music Conference right here in Lancaster, PA. By day LAUNCH is a music conference for artists and music industry professionals to network and attend workshops about all aspects of working in the music business. By night Lancaster becomes home for performances by over 200 bands in just three nights. Visit LaunchMusicConference.com for details on attending the conference workshops or just grabbing a wristband for the weekend and getting access to all of the shows.

Last year LAUNCH introduced the Wood Stove House to some of our favorite national artists including New York’s Stephanie Carlin, Pittsburgh’s Brook Annibale, and the Winter Sounds, from Nashville, TN. Look for more LAUNCH interviews with bands from all around the country on Around the Wood Stove after this year’s conference.

Coming up this Friday, April 6 is a new play reading brought to you by the Lancaster Dramatists’ Platform. The play is called Cherubs Need Love Too by James Craig and will be read by a handful of local actors at the Fulton Theatre’s Education Building at 24 N. Prince St. in Lancaster at 9:00pm. This reading is free and open to the public.

Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok.

ATWS #51: Hart Heiden and CODPIECE

Jason Mundok — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:00:05 +0000

Hart Heiden is an actor and writer who’s originally from Lancaster, but has been living and working in Los Angeles for the past couple years. I caught up with Hart over the holidays while he was in town visiting family to chat about his transition from a Lancaster to the University of Pittsburgh, to following his dreams out to LA. Since this interview Hart has been working the pilot for a new television series called The Dark Son.

We’re introducing a new segment to the program called CODPIECE featuring our good friend Chet Williamson from Creative Works of Lancaster. Chet takes a look at two films, one classic and one sleeper, that you really need to check out…or re-check out, as it were. In this episode Chet features Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and the 1986 Michael Mann film, Manhunter. Chet will be checking in from time-to-time bringing you a fresh look at various rare and classic films.

The Wood Stove House is proud to announce Play Grounds: Theater on Site, our latest public theater event scheduled for the weekend of May 5th and 6th. Three short plays have been written by area playwrights Nick Lantz, Erich Goldstein and Kevin Ressler and the directors, Vicky Lantz, Nelly Torres, and Lydia Brubaker are busy casting.

The plays were written specifically for three locations in Lancaster City. The audience will gather at the first site, Lemon Street Market, take in the first play and then walk to the next site, Shreiner-Concord Cemetery, just in time for the next play. The final of the three plays will be held in front of Fulton Elementary School. All three plays will be performed a few times over that weekend as part of Lancaster’s ArtWalk:

Saturday 5/5 @ 3:45 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 1:15 pm
Sunday 5/6 @ 3:45 pm

The performances are free and open to the public, but we need your help to make this happen. Click the Play Grounds banner at the top of this page to visit our Kickstarter page where you can help support the many artists that are involved in creating this event. We couldn’t be more excited to bring this project to the streets of Lancaster. Thank you very much for supporting the performing arts!

Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok.