Woodpecker Multimedia

We (Harvey Reid & Joyce Andersen) decided in 2014 to create a high-quality live music experience in our 1888 carriage house in York, Maine. This grew out of quite a number of factors and observations: * The music business is changing rapidly, and one consequence is that many people no longer spend money on music, especially recordings, which have been a big part of our income for decades. * Travel keeps getting more difficult and expensive. Out-of-town concerts either with our kids or without them has become very hard for us. * Now that we have children, we want them to learn about music, and having them and their friends see us play is a big part of that. Most of our concerts are too far away or too late at night for them to attend. Our kids are leatning our new guitar method, and will now perform a song at all our shows. * We are now getting deeply involved in music education, and want to start locally. We realized that we can't reasonably teach our neighbors about music if they aren't more familiar with it. How can you hope to give meaningful violin lessons to a child who hasn't been enraptured by seeing someone play the fiddle? We are troubadours, very skilled musicians, and we want families in our town to have a chance to see real, home-made, hand-crafted music up-close. We don't believe that pop music and American Idol-type performing are the kinds of things you do in your home with your friends and family, and want to present another model of what a musician is. * It's interesting that this "new model" we have arrived at is basically the "old model" of how music was played for centuries before there was a centralized music business or broadcast & recording industries. * It's also interesting that our old wood building has better ambience, better acoustics, more comfortable seating, and a nicer stage than almost any of the thousands of gigs we have ever played in our careers. We'd rather play here than anywhere we can think of, and we can bring all our instruments. * We may be inviting you to our private parties, and we may also encourage you to bring or share food, and to bring your children of any age. * We offer for sale at our concerts the 35 critically-acclaimed recordings and 20+ instruction books we have created, and we accept donations and contributions from audience to support the project. (Contributions from the audience will increase the chances that we will keep doing this.) We have now added heaters to the building for at least 3-season comfort, and we are also installing cameras to possibly film what we are doing, for those of you who don't live nearby but would like to watch online.