Enjoy an evening of original music
Published 3:00 am Tuesday, January 9, 2024
- Lee Penn Sky
ENTERPRISE — The next gathering of Tunesmith Night features Lee Penn Sky, Heidi Muller and Gregory Rawlins on Saturday, Jan. 13 at the Odd Fellows Hall, 105 NE First St.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the music starts at 7 p.m. Admission is $10. Drink service is provided.
Tunesmith Night, a program of the Wallowa Valley Music Alliance, is a showcase of original music featuring three songwriters who share their work in a round-robin format.
The musicians
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.” His work is described as rootsy, direct, powerful and often melancholic. He has shared the stage with 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 Cowboy Junkies, Son Volt, the Seldom Scene and many more.
Heidi Muller is an award-winning songwriter who lives in Joseph. 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.” She has nine CDs, including four with her partner, multi-instrumentalist Bob Webb. For more information, visit www.heidimuller.com.
Born and raised on the 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 that has spanned more than two decades of recordings in genres ranging from folk, blues, psychedelic rock and ambient soundscapes.
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.