Tunesmith Night returns Saturday

Published 7:00 am Wednesday, January 10, 2024

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ENTERPRISE — The January edition of Tunesmith Night will showcase the original music of three songwriters — Lee Penn Sky, Heidi Muller and Gregory Rawlins.

Tunesmith Night, a production of the Wallowa Valley Music Alliance, is scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Odd Fellows Hall, 105 NE First St. in Enterprise. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $10. Drink service is available.

The three songwriters will perform their work in a round-robin format. Here’s more information about the performers:

• Lee Penn Sky’s songwriting is unadorned. As a solo artist, he has a rootsy, direct, powerful and melancholic style.

He’s shared the stage with artists such as Glen Phillips from Toad the Wet Sprocket, the Black Lillies and the Barefoot Movement, among others, and has been billed with acts such as The Cowboy Junkies, Son Volt, the Old 97’s, The Seldom Scene and more.

• Heidi Mulleris an award-winning songwriter who lives in Joseph. She writes story songs steeped in the folk tradition with a modern touch. 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, she has opened for Nanci Griffith, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Garnet Rogers and many others and performed nationwide at venues from small concerts to the Kerrville Folk Festival and Mountain Stage. She’s released nine CDs, including four with her partner, partner, multi-instrumentalist Bob Webb.

• Gregory Rawlins was born in the Kitsap Peninsula of Western Washington; exploring the natural world through music has been a theme of his work, which now spans over two decades and includes recordings ranging from folk, blues and psychedelic rock ‘n’ roll.

Exploring the mystery of the natural world in the medium of music has been a source of fulfillment for Rawlins and a journey which has spanned over two decades of recordings in genres ranging from folk, blues and psychedelic rock.

Rawlins recently earned a master of fine arts degree in creative writing at Eastern Oregon University, with an emphasis in poetry, and hopes to publish his first book later this year.

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