Sign of the Wagon

Sign of the Wagon Sometimes Public House of Entertainment Hi, we're Pete and Lindsey. We use our home to showcase and document local and national artists and musical acts.

Being artists ourselves in the creative and historic city of Downtown York PA, we've turned the first floor of the house into an art gallery and intimate music venue. We host a few house concerts a month, and the walls are the home gallery for the art of Lindsey Keeney Richards as well rotating array of other artists. Sign of the Wagon also has an eclectic musical instrument/gear collection and is

setup to record local and touring acts. This is the home base studio space of Free Breakfast (the band) in its various incarnations. You can often find our actual wagon being pulled around or parked at other downtown York city venues where we're gigging. "Sign of the Wagon", is a reused (with modernized spelling) name from a business in 18th century York. It was suggested to us by local historian, Michael Helfrich as it had caught his eye during his research through old newspapers. See this announcement taken from Die York Gazette printed in 1796:

SIGN OF THE WAGGON. John Liebhart,
Respectfully informs the Public and his Friends in particular, that he now lives in the House lately occupied by ROBERT WILSON, in the Borough of YORK, on the North fide of High Street, nearly oppofite the German Prefbyterian CHURCH: where he keeps a Public HOUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT for travelling Gentlemen and others. Thofe who favor him with their CUSTOM may reft upon that every exertion fhall be made to give general fatisfaction. May 27, 1796

Are your jingles starting to tingle, local friends? They should be, because after a juicy hiatus, Sign of the Wagon is b...
11/19/2024

Are your jingles starting to tingle, local friends? They should be, because after a juicy hiatus, Sign of the Wagon is back with their Elves of the Wagon holiday gift market!

Go ahead, wait till the last minute to do your shopping, because the Elves have you covered! Join us for a weekend of locally made gifts & artwork & vintage items that will be sure to delight everyone on your list!

The details:

Saturday December 14 - Sunday December 15

11am - 5pm

154 E Philadelphia St York, PA 17401

Parking is available on the street, or at any of the city garages downtown

Cash, card, and Venmo accepted

We'll be updating the upcoming event page with a full list of vendors soon, and spotlighting each so you can do a little pre-event perusing. But for now, share this far & wide!

Checking out resident artist, Josh Johnson Creative Studio new spot. Corner of Duke and king in
10/06/2023

Checking out resident artist, Josh Johnson Creative Studio new spot. Corner of Duke and king in

08/22/2023

My good friend Josh Johnson from Indiana has been doing an Artist Residency at Sign Of The Wagon here in York and will be having an Open House this Saturday from 12-6 as part of York Arts Week to showcase what he has been working on. You will even have an opportunity to make a print yourself on his cool printing press! This event is open to the public & free to attend. I hope you will come check it out!

All the deets: 👇👇👇

Josh Johnson Art Open House
Saturday, August 26th, 12-6pm
at Sign of the Wagon
(154 E Philadelphia St, York, PA)

In celebration of York Arts Week, you are invited to visit the creative space of Josh Johnson at Sign Of The Wagon where he has been doing an artist residency for the last several months.

What's in store:
- View artwork created during his residency at SOTW
- Special pricing on all artworks by Josh Johnson
- Printing demos
- Make a print to take home
- Light refreshments
- and a special announcement!

PARKING:
Street parking is available. There is also a large parking lot on the corner of E King St & S Queen St just 2 blocks away, free on Saturdays.

Hey all ye wagoneers. Been a bit. Hope you are well. Have you met our current artist-in-residence, Josh Johnson? He'...
06/09/2023

Hey all ye wagoneers. Been a bit. Hope you are well. Have you met our current artist-in-residence, Josh Johnson? He's most recently from Louisville, KY and has been making his letter-press art and playing his bass at Sign of the Wagon lately. He's hosting a concert at Sign of the Wagon next Tuesday. Link in the comments.

Oddisee & Good Company did a Live from Home KEXP session right here! Check it:
11/13/2020

Oddisee & Good Company did a Live from Home KEXP session right here! Check it:

http://KEXP.ORG presents Oddisee sharing a live performance recorded exclusively for KEXP and talking to Gabriel Teodros. Recorded October 21, 2020. Songs: T...

What's been your favorite Sign of the Wagon experience?
03/27/2020

What's been your favorite Sign of the Wagon experience?

03/12/2020

Some great york sounds coming out of the third floor the past week and a half. Stay tuned. Kickstart if you desire!

We brought Melissa Carper's old band The Carper Family to several years ago. Maybe you caught them? She's a great wr...
02/25/2020

We brought Melissa Carper's old band The Carper Family to several years ago. Maybe you caught them? She's a great writer, help her make he next album!

12 original songs, Country and Western Swing. Recorded in Nashville, TN with full band.

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154 E Philadelphia Street
York, PA
17401

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