Around the Wood Stove

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. You can now hear Around the Wood Stove while on the go with Stitcher SmartRadio. Stitcher is a free news and talk mobile app available for your iPad or smart phone with access to 1000s of programs without syncing or downloading. Click here and enter the promo code WOODSTOVE to have a download link for the app sent directly to your email inbox. Plus, you’ll be automatically entered to win $100. Stitcher is the smart way to listen to radio!

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. You can now hear Around the Wood Stove while on the go with Stitcher SmartRadio. Stitcher is a free news and talk mobile app available for your iPad or smart phone with access to 1000s of programs without syncing or downloading. Click here and enter the promo code WOODSTOVE to have a download link for the app sent directly to your email inbox. Plus, you’ll be automatically entered to win $100. Stitcher is the smart way to listen to radio!

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. You can now hear Around the Wood Stove while on the go with Stitcher SmartRadio. Stitcher is a free news and talk mobile app available for your iPad or smart phone with access to 1000s of programs without syncing or downloading. Click here and enter the promo code WOODSTOVE to have a download link for the app sent directly to your email inbox. Plus, you’ll be automatically entered to win $100. Stitcher is the smart way to listen to radio!

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. You can now hear Around the Wood Stove while on the go with Stitcher SmartRadio. Stitcher is a free news and talk mobile app available for your iPad or smart phone with access to 1000s of programs without syncing or downloading. Click here and enter the promo code WOODSTOVE to have a download link for the app sent directly to your email inbox. Plus, you’ll be automatically entered to win $100. Stitcher is the smart way to listen to radio!

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. You can now hear Around the Wood Stove while on the go with Stitcher SmartRadio. Stitcher is a free news and talk mobile app available for your iPad or smart phone with access to 1000s of programs without syncing or downloading. Click here and enter the promo code WOODSTOVE to have a download link for the app sent directly to your email inbox. Plus, you’ll be automatically entered to win $100. Stitcher is the smart way to listen to radio!

The Kilmaine Saints have been bringing Superior Celtic Rock to Central Pennsylvania and beyond since 2009. A year later they released their first full-length CD, The Good, The Plaid, and The Ugly and have since performed on some big stages with some of the biggest bands in the Celtic music world. They’ve played hundreds of shows in pubs and venues in the northeast and midwest including several large Irish festivals like Pipes in the Valley, Celtic Fling, ShamrockFest, Annapolis Irish Festival and the Wildwood Irish Weekend. Lead vocalist Brendan Power and fiddler Liz Mallin joined me for a chat at the Candy Factory in downtown Lancaster during March Madness 2012. In other news from around the wood stove, Philadelphia songwriter Geron Hoy released a full length album last week called Lunatic, which is now available online right here! The Wood Stove House is cookin' up a new theatre project for the weekend of May 5 & 6 (Art Walk Weekend in Lancaster, PA). Details will be announced next week! Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok. You can now hear Around the Wood Stove while on the go with Stitcher SmartRadio. Stitcher is a free news and talk mobile app available for your iPad or smart phone with access to 1000s of programs without syncing or downloading. Click here and enter the promo code WOODSTOVE to have a download link for the app sent directly to your email inbox. Plus, you’ll be automatically entered to win $100. Stitcher is the smart way to listen to radio!

Mosaic is a collaborative network of volunteers with a passion for the arts, who come together to put on some amazing events in the city of Lancaster, PA. On today's program, we bring you conversations from the Mosaic February 2012 concert featuring Oceans in Love, SisterBrother, and Saint Elouise. I checked in with the bands before the show and caught up with Mosaic founder Nick Francis to chat about the vision of organization. In other news from around the wood stove, Boston’s Sarah Blacker has a brand new record out called Perfectly Imperfect which is now available on her website. Hear Sarah on Around the Wood Stove talking about her 2011 release Come What May. New York’s Barnaby Bright are putting the final touches on a brand new full-length record. You can grab a free download of the song “Made Up Of” from the new album at MisharaMusic.com. Barnaby Bright performed a Wood Stove House concert back in 2010 and were some of our first guests on Around the Wood Stove. Our buddy Jonathan Burns and his pal Mark Hayward bring you Stunt Lab. From March 10 to April 1 these comedians/jugglers/contortionists/yo-yo champions will be at Canal Park Playhouse, 508 Canal Street, New York, NY on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm. Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House and is hosted by Jason Mundok. You can now hear Around the Wood Stove while on the go with Stitcher SmartRadio. Stitcher is a free news and talk mobile app available for your iPad or smart phone with access to 1000s of programs without syncing or downloading. Click here and enter the promo code WOODSTOVE to have a download link for the app sent directly to your email inbox. Plus, you’ll be automatically entered to win $100. Stitcher is the smart way to listen to radio!

Mark DeRose is the featured artist on Around the Wood Stove (podcast), talking about his new album Carolina Smile. Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House in Lancaster, PA.

Andrew Zahn is the featured artist on Around the Wood Stove (podcast), talking about his life as a professional actor and his blog for other creatives. Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House in Lancaster, PA.

Peter Mayer is the featured artist on Around the Wood Stove (podcast), talking about his new album Heaven Below. Around the Wood Stove is a production of the Wood Stove House in Lancaster, PA.