BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20260215T030000Z DTEND:20260215T050000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Tunesmith Night DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nThe 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. \n\nSometime 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. \n\nBill 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.\n\nJames 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.\n\n\n\nA solo artist\, former bandleader of The Eastern Oregon Playboys\, and member of the noise collective Sw wm 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.\n\n\n\nIn 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. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: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.
\nThe 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.
\nSometime 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. \;
\nBill LaVoie is a Moscow\, ID-based singer songwriter who&rsquo\;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 &ndash\; 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.
\nJames 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.
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\nA solo artist\, former bandleader of The Eastern Oregon Playboys\, and member of the noise collective Swä\;wm 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.
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\nIn 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.
\n \; LOCATION:Odd Fellows Hall\, 105 NE First Street\, Enterprise UID:e.1631.28988 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260404T074331Z URL:http://wallowacountychamber.sampleorg.com/events/details/tunesmith-night-28988 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR