Tunesmith Night

The Wallowa Valley Music Alliance continues the 20th 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, February 14 concert features songwriters Gregory Rawlins, Bill LaVoie, and James Dean Kindle. Doors open at 6:30pm with music starting at 7pm. Admission is $10. Beverage service available.
Sometime in the early 1980s, Gregory Rawlins tumbled out of an old growth Douglas Fir, draped in moss and ancient beach detritus.  A natural hunter/gatherer, he began to collect abandoned and discarded trinkets to assist in his aimless pilgrimage to the promised land. As it turns out, the creation of music and words would prove to serve as his greatest guiding light, and, after twenty years of composition and nearly as many albums (spanning genres of rock, folk, blues, and experimental), he has, at long last, returned to the very trunk of his origins. There his offerings disperse and take root among the abundant quietude of the rainforest. 
Bill LaVoie is a Moscow, ID-based singer songwriter who’s been performing in the PNW for the last 25 years either solo or with his band Corn Mash. His originals and choice of covers span a pretty broad range of styles – rock, blues, country, folk, funky, melodic, ditties - whatever is fun to play. Some obscure music and some known music all mixed together. Shoots for good lyrics and an energetic emotional delivery whether heavy or pretty. Over the years, his Corn Mash band lineup has undergone several makeovers moving from Seattle to Missoula to Moscow, and now seems to be an instrumentally diverse collective of great regional musicians who randomly join Bill on stage when and where they can.
James Dean Kindle is a singer, songwriter, and composer based in Pendleton, Oregon, whose work is rooted in the contemporary American West while moving fluidly across genre boundaries. Blending country and folk traditions with experimental, ambient, and composed music, his performances balance narrative songwriting with rich textural exploration shaped by landscape and collaboration.

A solo artist, former bandleader of The Eastern Oregon Playboys, and member of the noise collective Swäwm Pass, Kindle has released multiple albums and performed widely throughout the Pacific Northwest and internationally in Japan and Germany. His most recent album, Trail Mix, explores romantic love through western swing and cowboy song forms, pairing lyrical intimacy with a cinematic sense of place.

In 2025, Kindle premiered The River Walk Soundtrack, a free, site-specific public art installation created in collaboration with the Pendleton Public Library. He also serves as Executive Director of the Oregon East Symphony.