Soul Stock 2024: Night 1

Janice Schatz had a vision of a Christian music festival in our rural city. Since 2020, during the heart of the pandemic, this festival has reached the lonely and hurting offering a better way.

Magdelene Rose, an up and coming Christian artist with a sound like that of Rob Zombie and Korn. Just like in the secular world, there is a flavor of music for every kind.

Soul Stock is Shawmut Park on Depot Street in St Marys next to the parking garage., where it is held every year. The event was started on very small budget during the pandemic she 2020. It was held in an empty factory lot and there were more people on stage than in the audience. There were not any vendors or food, local Christian bands came to preform on a old flatbed trailer. Members of the band A Day Awaits, from Dubois in neighboring Clearfield county, nearly fell off the stage back then. Every year, Janice is nervously making preparations, fear that it won’t come together. To launch a festival like this requires her to make split second decisions. What make look like organization is her juggling the needs of the artists, vendors and the audience. She does her best to anticipate what might happen next…