About Us

How It All Started

Wild Rose Moon started in 2015 when Marcia Heintzberger, a dancer and teacher, and George Schricker, her old theater/dance partner & songwriter, cooked up an idea: Why not open a place where singers could sing, dancers dance, poets recite, actors act and musicians mingle and weave these magical threads together?

So they put their backs to it and the dream grew.

By May 2016 Wild Rose Moon had become a member-run, not-for-profit that promotes the performing arts and brings them to our center in Historic Downtown Plymouth.

Today, Wild Rose Moon is a growing, thriving, and expanding community of members, volunteers, and artists.

Our Wild Rose Moon Radio Hour is on the air on WVPE FM.

Our featured performance series (of artists who are actively touring) has hosted artists from all over the world.

From its inception, Wild Rose Moon has hosted workshops and public meetings in the interest of fostering the growth of a creative community—a community dedicated to bringing entertaining and thought-provoking artists together with gracious audiences in a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

If you want to learn more about our history, please arrange a tour of Wild Rose Moon and experience a brief presentation by one of our staff or docents. Pick up the brochure on the history of Wild Rose Moon.

Wild Rose Moon thrives on a generous network of members, helping to sustain us financially. We invite you to invest in the further development of the performing arts in your town, county, and region. Click here to support the Wild Rose Moon.

Listening Room

Listening Room: An Origin Story

Wild Rose Moon proudly defines itself as a "Listening Room." Even some of our performers are new to that term. The idea for a listening room comes from a set of seminal experiences George Schricker had many years ago in a small room that unknowingly transformed the way he thought about performance. Here George shares the origin of the idea of creating a "Listening Room" at Wild Rose Moon:

"I first started attending concerts at Amazing Grace Coffee House, as a student, in 1972, when it had moved to a Quonset hut on Northwestern University grounds. The experience for the evening was basic: one bought a ticket, walked inside, ordered a muffin, a bowl of lentil soup, and some tea, found a place on the floor (for me, usually directly in front of the stage), and settled in for the performance. Although informal, the shows in that room were extraordinary. They featured acoustic musicians like David Bromberg, Vassar Clements, Doc Watson, John Hartford, Bonnie Koloc, and the amazing gospel singer, Odetta. Equally incredible were the audiences, which sat enraptured by the quality of the performances and the amazing sound engineering that made it all sound so blessedly natural. These were intimate performances filled with virtuosity and conveyed an enormous amount of emotional content. One could experience the best of human emotions in just one evening. Joy, sadness, despair, and love emanated from the songs and the stories that introduced them. All through the performances, the audience sat spellbound, knowing they were somehow contributing to something wonderful. This was my first experience of a listening room. Many years later, when we had the chance to open Wild Rose Moon, I realized I very much wanted to translate that experience here."

As you sit in Wild Rose Moon's Performance Hall we hope you will be experiencing much of this same feeling - an experience of intimacy with the performer and full attention to the performance. Since opening the Wild Rose Moon, we have come to realize that the art of listening isn’t easy, but it’s crucial, both to the performer and to oneself, as it is the listening that allows the performance to lift and soar . . . to move us deeply -- working through co-creation toward a stronger and more heartfelt community.