The Story

Super excited to announce new guest, Jen Felty, to The Story! Jennifer, a Lancaster County native, had a love for musical theatre and sports at a very young age. She spent her childhood on the stage, the soccer field, the volleyball court, the basketball court and behind a piano or cello. Despite the pleadings of her coaches and directors, she continued playing sports and doing theatre and music....

Super excited to announce new guest, Jen Felty, to The Story! Jennifer, a Lancaster County native, had a love for musical theatre and sports at a very young age. She spent her childhood on the stage, the soccer field, the volleyball court, the basketball court and behind a piano or cello. Despite the pleadings of her coaches and directors, she continued playing sports and doing theatre and music....

Super excited to announce new guest, Jess Cannzie, to The Story! Jess Cannzie, aka Jesse Cannon, is a Live host and podcast host for U Street Media Company out of Lancaster, PA (formally TCP ENT). He signed with them in 2018. Cannzie started off as an artist performing and marketing without much return. Audio engineering can into play as an option after he realized he had to figure out how to have...

Super stoked to announce new guest, Silas Angelino, to The Story! Silas Angelino is from Lancaster, PA. He is an introvert with extroverted tendencies, and he writes music. His current project is focused more on indie, alternative, singer/songwriter-type creations. Silas loves making song-stories. Books, movies, life experiences - those are some of his biggest influences in his songwriting process...

Absolutely thrilled to announce new guest, Kristen Brewer, to The Story! Kristen lives in Lancaster, PA with her husband, kiddos and their dog. She works as a writer and director for Sight and Sound Theaters as well as an occasional adjunct professor in the Musical Theater Dept. at Lancaster Bible College. She also created a musical project called SEEN about the women of the Bible. Kristen attende...

Super excited to announce new guest, Chris Keeney, to The Story! Originally from mid-state Virginia, Chris has lived in Lancaster for most of his life. He earned a BM from Lebanon Valley College as a music and recording major, and then jumped right into teaching and performing. Over the past 18 years, Chris has taught many hundreds of guitar students, both collegiately and through private lessons....

Super stoked to announce new guest, Bradley Hawkins, to The Story! After starting a career as an actor in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1990s, Bradley Hawkins and his family moved to Lancaster in 1997 where he taught film studies, acting, and humanities courses at Lebanon High School as well as directed several stage productions there through 2012. Now retired from teaching, Hawkins made h...

Super excited to announce new guest, Brayden Krikke, to The Story! In fifth grade Brayden was hit with the acting bug. Of course, you never know how long a phase like that will last. Luckily for him, and unluckily for his parents, that phase turned into a passion and never went away. After graduating with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Lancaster Bible College in 2021, he has been fortunate enough t...

Super excited to announce new guest, Brayden Krikke, to The Story! In fifth grade Brayden was hit with the acting bug. Of course, you never know how long a phase like that will last. Luckily for him, and unluckily for his parents, that phase turned into a passion and never went away. After graduating with a BFA in Musical Theatre from Lancaster Bible College in 2021, he has been fortunate enough t...

Super excited to announce new guest, Donald Grabowski, to The Story! Don lives below Elizabethtown and has lived in Lancaster County all of his life. He has been a public school and university music educator for 33 years until 2013. Don was the Director of Bass Studies at Millersville University for 18 years, and has been an active bassist in jazz, symphonic and chamber music. As Hempfield High Sc...

Super excited to announce new guest, Donald Grabowski, to The Story! Don lives below Elizabethtown and has lived in Lancaster County all of his life. He has been a public school and university music educator for 33 years until 2013. Don was the Director of Bass Studies at Millersville University for 18 years, and has been an active bassist in jazz, symphonic and chamber music. As Hempfield High Sc...

Super excited to introduce new guest, Shawn Gallagher, to The Story! Shawn is a Lancaster County native who has been active in the music scene for over 30 years. As a member of the garage pop Modern Day Pharaohs and solo acoustic performer, he held virtual residencies at the Lancaster Dispensing Company and Quips Pub through the 1990s. After taking time to pursue a Ph. D. in Behavioral Neuroscienc...

Super excited to introduce new guest, Shawn Gallagher, to The Story! Shawn is a Lancaster County native who has been active in the music scene for over 30 years. As a member of the garage pop Modern Day Pharaohs and solo acoustic performer, he held virtual residencies at the Lancaster Dispensing Company and Quips Pub through the 1990s. After taking time to pursue a Ph. D. in Behavioral Neuroscienc...

SUPER stoked to announce new guest, Pauline Williams, to The Story! Pauline Williams lives in York County, PA with her husband, John Williams. Pauline is active in the community through private teaching, music classes and worship ministry. She is well known for her six albums, done both at Right Coast Recording Studio and in her kitchen. She invested her early married life homeschooling her two ch...

SUPER stoked to announce new guest, Pauline Williams, to The Story! Pauline Williams lives in York County, PA with her husband, John Williams. Pauline is active in the community through private teaching, music classes and worship ministry. She is well known for her six albums, done both at Right Coast Recording Studio and in her kitchen. She invested her early married life homeschooling her two ch...

Totally thrilled to announce new guest, JP Meyer, to The Story! JP Meyer has been the Resident Music Director for the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre since 2014, with responsibilities including rehearsing and conducting all musical performances, contracting the orchestra, and completing any orchestration or musical needs of the production. In conjunction with his residency, JP is also the Music Supervi...

Totally thrilled to announce new guest, JP Meyer, to The Story! JP Meyer has been the Resident Music Director for the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre since 2014, with responsibilities including rehearsing and conducting all musical performances, contracting the orchestra, and completing any orchestration or musical needs of the production. In conjunction with his residency, JP is also the Music Supervi...

Super stoked to announce new guest, Caleb Wilber, to The Story! Started playing guitar at 9 years old. He cut his teeth on multiple instruments in garage bands and around that time we began to learn the fundamentals and art of producing and arranging at a young age. In his highschool years, he was an instrumentalist in hardcore/metal bands located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. After high scho...

Super excited to announce new guest, Ethan Horning, to The Story! Ethan is a 23-year old music producer from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He has been mixing since high school and making beats since middle school. Ethan graduated from Lebanon Valley College this year with a degree in Audio and Music Production. He currently works as a freelance music producer and DJ. You can follow Ethan and his projec...

Super excited to announce new guest, The Kaleidoscope, to The Story! Ben Roth is from Nazareth PA, Jon Smith is from York PA, we've been at our current location in Lancaster for almost 8 years recording bands from in and outside the Central PA area, we've hosted bands playing live shows in the studio from all over the US and a few from outside the US. Check out their work here: Spotify pla...

Super excited to announce new guest, Nina de Vitry, to The Story! Nina de Vitry is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter with the storytelling of a folk-inspired songwriter yet the soul and allure of a voice rooted in jazz. Weaving influences ranging from Amy Winehouse and Stan Getz to the modern Lake Street Dive, she manages to create a sound that is both soulful and refreshin...

Super excited to announce new guest, Nina de Vitry, to The Story! Nina de Vitry is a versatile multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter with the storytelling of a folk-inspired songwriter yet the soul and allure of a voice rooted in jazz. Weaving influences ranging from Amy Winehouse and Stan Getz to the modern Lake Street Dive, she manages to create a sound that is both soulful and refreshin...

Absolutely thrilled to announce new guest, Kieran 'K' Benton, to The Story! Born and raised in Harrisburg Pennsylvania, Kieran started playing drums at the age of 11 and took lessons for 2 years. Kieran has played drums at Beulah Baptist Church of Steelton Pennsylvania from 2000 to 2006, and graduated from Bishop Mcdevitt Highschool 2006. While at Bishop Mcdevitt Kieran played in the march...

Super excited to announce new guest, Alyssa Crook, to The Story! Alyssa got her start in the EPAC Kids for Kids production "The Jungle Book" as Kaa the Snake at the age of 8, so you could say she caught the bug early. She grew up performing on the stages of EPAC, Rainbow Dinner Theatre, American Music Theatre, and the Dutch Apple. Recently graduated from Muhlenberg College with a double ma...

Super excited to announce new guest, Alyssa Crook, to The Story! Alyssa got her start in the EPAC Kids for Kids production "The Jungle Book" as Kaa the Snake at the age of 8, so you could say she caught the bug early. She grew up performing on the stages of EPAC, Rainbow Dinner Theatre, American Music Theatre, and the Dutch Apple. Recently graduated from Muhlenberg College with a double ma...