ATWS #41: 2011 Recap

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2011 has been a year of change and experimentation for the Wood Stove House. We produced our first experimental theater event called Lancaster’s 24 Hour Plays. We promoted a series of house concerts outside of the Wood Stove House in homes around Lancaster County. We began to expand woodstovehouse.com beyond a podcast site, offering a forum for blog posts and guest writers from around the country to chime in on their creative inspiration and experiences. We also expanded the format of Around the Wood Stove. We experimented with three threads for the show. There’s the standard music interview where we focus on the creative process behind an artist’s recent album. There’s also an open conversation format talking with people from all performing arts disciplines about their projects and inspiration. And we introduced the brand new Artist Spotlight, a quick snapshot of a recent album that we’d love to share with the world.
2012 will continue to be a year of change, but will also be a year of FOCUS as we move toward what works and abandon what doesn’t. One thing is for certain, we will continue to support and promote independent performing artists and their creative projects. We’re planning to produce and promote more theater events in the Lancaster area, house concerts and public listening room concerts, and plenty of podcasts so you can get to know the amazing artists that are from Central Pennsylvania or those who travel through on their adventures. We’re also teaming up with other performing arts organizations in the area, like Creative Works of Lancaster, Series 42, and Mosaic Presents to help make our performing arts community even stronger. If you’re not from Central Pennsylvania, we hope you’ll find inspiration in what we’re doing around here, and we hope you’ll share ideas about things happening in your area.
We thank each and everyone one of you who have checked out the Wood Stove House over the past couple years and we welcome your opinions as we move forward. Please leave feedback in the comments, or contact us here. We’d love to hear from you about what you want to see the Wood Stove House become. In the meantime, enjoy this tiny slice of the incredible independent music that crossed paths with the Wood Stove House in 2011.
Links:

• The Beggar Folk
• Indian Summer Jars
• Brooke Annibale
• Sarah Blacker

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