Tunesmith Night

The Wallowa Valley Music Alliance continues the 18th season of Tunesmith Night, a showcase of original music. The concert features three songwriters sharing their original work in a round-robin format, at the historic Enterprise Odd Fellows Hall. The unique listening space provides an up-close and intimate experience for both audience and performers.
 
The Saturday, January 13 concert features Lee Penn Sky, Heidi Muller and Gregory Rawlins. Doors open at 6:30pm with music starting at 7pm. Admission is $10. Drink service provided.
 
Lee Penn Sky‘s songwriting is unadorned, the nature of his writing makes the songs all the more powerful – his metaphorical, vulnerable and often ironic lyrics have a way of getting to the heart of a matter and his presentation is often compared to Colin Hay’s solo work. As a solo artist he has a rootsy, direct, powerful and often melancholic style of conveying his lyrics which lends to a very dynamic and intimate feel. Lee Penn Sky has shared the stage with some amazing artists such as Glen Phillips from Toad the Wet Sprocket, Rhett Miller of Old 97’s, the Black Lillies, the Barefoot Movement, John Craigie, Mipso, Tony Furtado, Pual Cauthern, and Allie Kral from Yonder Mountain String Band. He has been billed with acts such as the CowboyJunkies, Son Volt, the Old 97’s, the Seldom Scene and many more.
 
Heidi Muller is an award-winning songwriter who lives in Joseph, OR. A guitarist and mountain dulcimer player, she writes songs of place and story songs, steeped in the folk tradition but informed by the present day. She was a mainstay of the Seattle folk scene, then lived for a time in West Virginia before returning to the Northwest. With a career spanning four decades, Heidi’s song “Good Road” was the long-running theme song of Northwest Public Radio’s Inland Folk show. She has opened for Nanci Griffith, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Garnet Rogers, Jean Ritchie, and many others, and performed nationwide at venues from small concerts to the Kerrville Folk Festival and Mountain Stage. Her songs “Cassiopeia” and “Sacred Ground” were published in Rise Again, sequel to the legendary songbook, Rise Up Singing. Heidi has nine CDs, including four with her partner, multi-instrumentalist Bob Webb. For more info, please visit www.heidimuller.com.

Born and raised in lush, rain-sopped Kitsap Peninsula of Western Washington, Gregory Rawlins has always had an intense love of nature. Exploring the mystery and majesty of the natural world– both physically, and in the medium of music– has been a constant source of fulfillment for the artist, and a journey which has spanned over two decades of recordings– in genres ranging from folk, blues, psychedelic rock and ambient soundscapes. If moss could speak, what would it say, and how? Such are questions pondered by Mr. Rawlins, and explored through a rat’s nest of patchwork electronics, battered instruments and homespun inventions. Most recently, Rawlins earned his MFA in Creative Writing at Eastern Oregon University, with an emphasis in poetry, and hopes to publish his first book later this year. He loves crabbing, kayaking, running, foraging, collage work, the DADA art movement, and spending time with his family. His search for the Big Rock Candy Mountain continues…