Moorestown Music Collective

Back to September 2022 when Wesley Stace played at the Moorestown Music Collective. He’s coming back, to our “new” and fabulous space in the Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown, where the acoustics are sublime and the vibe is amazing. Don’t miss the return of Wesley Stace, (the artist formerly known as John Wesley Harding.)

Thursday October 10
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown
Doors: 6:30 pm
Show: 7:15 pm
Tickets: $30 at https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/WesleyStace

Wesley Stace at WXPN’s World Cafe in 2022. Wesley Stace will be performing at the Moorestown Music Collective on October 10! Don’t miss this extraordinary singer songwriter.

Thursday October 10
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown
Doors: 6:30 pm
Show: 7:15 pm
Tickets: $30 at https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/WesleyStace

Wesley Stace - "Do Nothing If You Can" (Free At Noon Concert) Wesley Stace performs "Do Nothing If You Can" live for an XPN Free At Noon Concert. Recorded at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia on 11/12/21.

Possibly more fun than you can handle. See the sensations of Dawson Street from last May’s Moorestown Porch Fest at a special Dias de Los Mu***os party and show!

Gr**go Motel
Ronald Reagan? The Actor?

Details to come!

Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) and Bruce Springsteen, playing a song from Nebraska.

Wesley Stace will be playing at the Moorestown Music Collective on October 10. Come hear the talent that Springsteen has long recognized, right on Main Street in Moorestown.

Wesley played at our former location in September 2022, and put on an amazing show. Catch him at our acoustically wonderful location in the Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown!

Thursday October 10
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown
Doors: 6:30 pm
Show: 7:15 pm
Tickets: $30 at https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/WesleyStace

Don’t miss either! Both shows are in the enormously cool Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown, 16 E Main Street Moorestown.

JOHN WESLEY HARDING & BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Wreck on the Highway, WAMFEST, Madison NJ 5/6/2010 https://soundcloud.com/john-wesley-harding/sets/community-coronation-covers

Wesley Stace. October 10.

See you there!

October 10. The return of Wesley Stace, the artist formerly known as John Wesley Harding.

Wesley played at our former location in September 2022, and put on an amazing show. Catch him at our acoustically wonderful location in the Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown!


Thursday October 10
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown
Doors: 6:30 pm
Show: 7:15 pm
Tickets: $30 at https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/WesleyStace

Don’t miss either! Both shows are in the enormously cool Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown, 16 E Main Street Moorestown.

Josh Rouse was just incredible last night at the Moorestown Music Collective!

What a tremendously talented musician and performer. We had huge and enthusiastic audience for Nashville-based Josh Rouse in the Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown.

Run, don’t walk, to the next Josh Rouse show near you.

As the weekend winds down, time to make plans for this Friday night. Make it a date night, make it a solo venture, bring your family or a group of friends, but definitely come to see this phenomenal talent. He claims he’ll play a Springsteen song while in NJ, but his original music is incredible. First heard “Dressed Up Like Nebraska” on WXPN years ago and was hooked. His album “1972” is a classic of Americana. Hope to see you!

Springsteen (song) too!

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Josh Rouse - "She's In L.A." (Official Music Video) Josh Rouse, "She's in L.A." from the album Going PlacesOrder here: https://ffm.to/going-places Recorded at Rio Bravo Studios and Giant Rabbit, Valencia, Spa...

Springsteen (song) too!

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Tickets are still available for September shows in NY and NJ. Springsteen song in set!
Link in the comments section.

A truly great musician, Josh Rouse, will be performing on Main Street in Moorestown on Friday September 13.

Don’t miss this highly regarded singer-songwriter.

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Josh Rouse - "She's In L.A." (Official Music Video) Josh Rouse, "She's in L.A." from the album Going PlacesOrder here: https://ffm.to/going-places Recorded at Rio Bravo Studios and Giant Rabbit, Valencia, Spa...

A week from Friday!

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Josh Rouse - "Hollow Moon" (Official Video) Josh Rouse, "Hollow Moon" from the album Going PlacesOrder here: https://ffm.to/going-places Recorded at Rio Bravo Studios and Giant Rabbit, Valencia, Spain...

We love this song and look forward to it when Josh Rouse plays the Moorestown Music Collective in just over two weeks!

In the heart of Moorestown no less!

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Josh Rouse Dress up Like Nebraska Josh Rouse performs Dress Up Like during Today in Nashville airing weekdays at 11am on WSMV-TV and streaming live at todayinnashville.com

Josh Rouse at the Moorestown Music Collective on Friday September 13!

Tickets: https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Two BIG shows with legendary artists this fall at the Moorestown Music Collective.

First, Friday September 13 with Josh Rouse

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Then Thursday October 10 with Wesley Stace.

Wesley Stace played in September 2022, and will return to our larger location, the Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown on October 10.

Thursday October 10
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown
Doors: 6:30 pm
Show: 7:15 pm
Tickets: $30 at https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/WesleyStace

Don’t miss either! Both shows are in the enormously cool Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown, 16 E Main Street Moorestown.

Three weeks from tonight! Josh Rouse!

The Moorestown Music Collective is honored to host Josh Rouse!

Friday September 13 at the Library Room of the Community House of Moorestown.

Doors at 7:00 pm
Show at 7:45 pm

Tickets $35 at: https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

“Like a baseball player who quietly hits 30 home runs every year or a golfer who regularly finishes in the Top Ten, Josh Rouse's continued streak of excellence is easy to ignore and maybe even downplay a little” -- Tim Sendra, Allmusic.com

You don’t have to work hard to enjoy Rouse’s music. His songs present themselves to you with an open heart, an innate intelligence and an absolute lack of pretension. They are clear-eyed, empathetic and penetrating. Without pandering, they seek to satisfy both your ear and your understanding. The verses draw you in with telling detail, both musical and thematic, and the choruses lift and deliver. They resolve without seeming overly tidy or pat.

Josh Rouse was born in Nebraska, and following an itinerant upbringing he eventually landed in Nashville where he recorded his debut Dressed Like Nebraska (1998). The album’s acclaim led to tours with Aimee Mann, Mark Etzel and the late Vic Chestnut. The followup- Home (2000)—yielded the song “Directions” which Cameron Crowe used in his film Vanilla Sky.
“Every time I’ve made a record, I’ve tried to make it different from the last one,” says Rouse. “I always became fascinated by a different style of music. But at the end of the day, no matter how eclectic I try to make it, it’s my voice and melodic sensibility that tie things together.”

For his breakthrough album, 1972 (2003), which happens to be the year he was born, Rouse decided to cheer up a bit. Noting that he’d earned a reputation for melancholy, he says, with a laugh, “I figured this is my career, I might as well try to enjoy it.” While the Seventies are often identified with singer-songwriters, Rouse was primarily attracted to the warmer sound of albums back then, as well as the more communal feel of the soul music of that time. The follow up, Nashville (2005) continued the hot streak and expanded his audience further.

After relocating to Valencia, Spain with his wife Paz, Rouse has released a steady stream of high quality songs and albums. Subtitulo (2006) contained the international indie folk hit "Quiet Town". On El Turista (2010) he even experimented with writing and singing some songs in Spanish. In 2014, he won a Goya Award (the Spanish equivalent of an Oscar) for best song for "Do You Really Want To Be In Love," from the film 'La Gran Familia Española.'
His latest release Going Places came together over the last two years when Josh Rouse found himself unable to tour and hunkered down with his family in Spain. Together with his Spanish band, he began workshopping new songs in a small local venue owned by a friend, resulting in ten road-ready tracks with a looser, more relaxed vibe.

A truly great musician, Josh Rouse, will be performing on Main Street in Moorestown for Friday September 13.

Don’t miss this highly regarded singer-songwriter.

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Josh Rouse - "She's In L.A." (Official Music Video) Josh Rouse, "She's in L.A." from the album Going PlacesOrder here: https://ffm.to/going-places Recorded at Rio Bravo Studios and Giant Rabbit, Valencia, Spa...

In October!

Hey - we are so happy to announce the return of Wesley Stace to the Moorestown Music Collective!

Wesley Stace played in September 2022, and will return to our larger location, the Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown on October 10. We loved him back in 2022, when he played to a full house. Wait until he plays in the historic Library Room with fantastic acoustics.

Wesley Stace was born in Hastings, Sussex, in 1965, and educated at the King’s School, Canterbury, and Jesus College, Cambridge. He released 17 albums under the name John Wesley Harding, before switching back to his birth name for more recent recordings, including 2021’s Late Style. He has also published four novels.

Wesley Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders, his variety show based at City Winery in NYC, continues to sell out. Since the Cabinet’s inception in 2009, the show has become a virtual who’s who of contemporary performers, writers, and comedians. It’s “one of the finest nights of entertainment this city has to offer” (New Yorker), “a brilliant evening of laid-back fun” (Village Voice), and “one of the most whip-smart variety shows on the market” (Portland Tribune).

Stace has been joined onstage by Lou Reed, Rosanne Cash, Iggy Pop, John Prine, and Bruce Springsteen (with whom he recorded a duet on his album Awake), among many others. He appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His songs have featured in films (including High Fidelity) and TV (Transparent) and been covered by many other artists, from Graham Parker and Josh Ritter to Kelly Hogan and Tanya Donelly.

His first novel, the international bestseller Misfortune, was published to great acclaim in 2004. It was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, listed as one of the books of the year in the Washington Post and the Boston Phoenix, and was one of Amazon’s Top Ten Novels of the Year. His second, By George, (2007) was one of the New York Public Library’s Books To Remember of 2007, and Booklist Editor’s Choice for books of the year. His third, Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer, (2010) was called “the most confident musical fiction I have read in years” (New Statesman), and an “Inventive black comedy unfolding with Nabokovian precision” (Financial Times). His most recent publication was 2019’s Out Loud, Mark Morris’ memoir, which he wrote with the choreographer.

Stace has taught at Swarthmore College (a course called “Novel Beginnings/Beginning Novels”). He has also twice taught a songwriting course (“How To Write a Song”) at Princeton University with poet Paul Muldoon. He has also taught creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Stace’s work has itself been the subject of a university course, “The Allusive John Wesley Harding/Wesley Stace,” at Central Connecticut State University. He has written and reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He is currently working on the libretto for Dido’s Ghost, the opera on which he is collaborating with Errollyn Wallen CBE, to premiere at the Barbican in 2021.
He has lived in America since 1991, and resides in Philadelphia with his wife Abbey, daughter Tilda, and son Wyn.

Wesley Stace
Thursday October 10
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown
Doors: 6:30 pm
Show: 7:15 pm
Tickets: $30 at https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/WesleyStace

A truly great musician, Josh Rouse, will be performing on Main Street in Moorestown four weeks from tonight.

Don’t miss this highly regarded singer-songwriter.

Josh Rouse at the Moorestown Music Collective.

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Josh Rouse - "Hollow Moon" (Official Video) Josh Rouse, "Hollow Moon" from the album Going PlacesOrder here: https://ffm.to/going-places Recorded at Rio Bravo Studios and Giant Rabbit, Valencia, Spain...

Josh Rouse at the Moorestown Music Collective in just over four weeks!

Friday September 13
The Library Room at the Community House of Moorestown
16 E Main Street, Moorestown

Doors: 7:15 pm
Show: 8:00 pm

Tickets:
https://www.ticketsignup.io/TicketEvent/JoshRouse

Josh Rouse - "Some Days I'm Golden All Night" (Official Video) The official video for Josh Rouse, "Some Days I'm Golden All Night" off his 2015 release, "The Embers Of Time" via Yep Roc RecordsGet The Embers Of Time now ...