Woodstock MusicWorks:
Keeping it Local,
Taking it Global
by Peter Aaron
The company’s follow-up release is
Light & Blood, the debut by singer-songwriter
Bret Mosley, which came out just last month. A native Texan
now based in Brooklyn, Mosley has in recent years become a
de facto Woodstock artist, making frequent trips to the area
to perform locally and record the album. “Everything
really took hold for me very positively pretty much as soon
as I started coming up to Woodstock to play,” Mosley
says. “Since then it’s really been just one angel
after another coming to help me out. And [Woodstock MusicWorks]
is a big part of that.” To celebrate the delivery of
Light & Blood, Mosley headlined record release
parties in December at the Bearsville Theater and at a packed
Living Room in Manhattan.
In addition to putting out and promoting
records, the label has also taken to sponsoring semi-regular
live events at Woodstock venues the Colony Cafe and the afore-mentioned
Bearsville Theater, which Schiano explains are designed to
showcase WMW acts as well as give him and Schiavo another
means of scouting potential signings. Recently, the pair opened
an office in the backspace of the Woodstock Mothership art
gallery on Hillcrest Avenue, from where they plan to oversee
the label’s day-to-day operations and occasionally present
intimate performances and private parties.
“Even though with the Internet so many
artists are able to ‘do it themselves’ these days,
most of them don’t have the financial resources we have
to help them do it,” says Schiano. “We’re
able to give our bands the backing of very strong public relations
and lots of tour support.” CONTINUE....
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