The Wallowa Valley Music Alliance Tunesmith Night, a monthly showcase of original music. This show features songwriters American Forrest, Margo Cilker and Taylor Kingman. The venue is at Sugar Time Bakery, located in the Burnaugh Building on North River Street and will provide the perfect atmosphere for our listening audience.
Forrest came to Wallowa County four years ago and hasn't been kicked out yet. He's spent that time studying horsemanship on Whiskey Creek, running sound at the OK theater, and packing in the canyon country. He's also written and recorded two albums of his own and played on albums by Bart Budwig, Catskills, and many others. Last summer he sang M.C. Horses with Corb Lund at the Chief Joseph Days Rodeo Grounds, and passed out in Wallowa Lake on the 4th of July.
Margo Cilker apprenticed herself to the songwriter’s trade the old-fashioned way: get her heart broken in South Carolina, move to Spain and busk all over Europe a la Ramblin’ Jack, sing a duet on a Spanish Honky-Tonk band’s recording of an Ernest Tubb classic (“Nails in my Coffin,” with Dead Bronco), tour Europe with a band of Flatt-and-Scruggs-obsessed Englishmen, then return to her native California and milk cows on an organic farm in Petaluma. Cilker writes songs that philosophize hard work, heartbreak, and wanderlust with the reverence of a country music obsessive and the sharp-eyed clarity of one who was not born into country music but had to find it (and live it) for herself.
Taylor Kingman makes music that resets the clocks. You know the feeling of standing beneath a trestle on a hard day, a can of cheap beer, flicking a lighter and dreaming up wild ideas until a heavy train comes thundering overhead and you scream and scream until your voice gives out and you feel lighter? That’s the thing that lives deep in Taylor’s songs. There’s something so rubbed-raw honest and drunken-truth about them. You can’t help but be transfixed and transformed. Born in Portland, OR and raised in Marion County, Taylor picked up a guitar and started writing at 12. In high school, he formed The Hill Dogs, a raucous, powerful band that hit hard beneath his explosive lyrics. After graduating, he wrote like a madman, played out heavily with the band, and taught guitar on the side.
In 2015, Taylor packed up and headed to Portland where he played anywhere and everywhere with The Hill Dogs until he blew out his voice and had to halt the band. The restrictions of his healing vocal chords gave way to a deluge of new writing. Taylor joined multiple projects around the city with some of Portland’s finest and recorded his debut solo album Wannabe at the great Mike Coykendall’s studio, out now on Mama Bird Recording Co. He recently formed ‘TK and the Holy Know Nothings’ with Lewi Longmire, Jay Cobb Anderson, Tyler Thompson, and Josh Simon as a vehicle for a growing ocean of new material.
Tunesmith Night is presented in a round-robin format, with each musician playing a song, then the next taking a turn, creating an interesting and varied performance. Admission is $10 at the door or by season pass. Doors open at 6pm (SEATING IS LIMITED), music at 7pm, all ages welcome. Sugar Time will have the kitchen open for soups and sandwiches, in addition to their usual yummy sweet treats (BYO adult beverages).
Saturday Dec 8, 2018
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PST
Saturday, December 8, 2018
Doors Open at 6:00 pm
Music begins at 7:00 pm
Sugar Time Bakery will have the kitchen open for soups and sandwiches - (BYO Adult Beverages)
Sugar Time Bakery, 107 N. River St., Enterprise
Admission is $10 at the door or by season pass. Season Passes will be available for purchase at this performance. That covers all eight shows of the 2017-18 season (second Saturday, October through May).
Janice Carper; 541-426-3390
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101 W Main Street / PO Box 427, Enterprise, OR 97828 – (541) 426-4622 – info@wallowacounty.org