Tunesmith Night, Saturday, March 12, 2022, 7pm PST
Enterprise Odd Fellows Hall
And Streaming live on wvmusicalliance.org
The Wallowa Valley Music Alliance continues their 16th season of Tunesmith Night – a showcase of original music on Saturday, March 12 at 7pm in the historic Odd Fellows Hall in Enterprise, Oregon. The unique appeal of presenting three songwriters, sharing their original work in an intimate a round-robin format is core to the program, and the Music Alliance is happy to announce this program will be open to a live, in-person audience once again. The show will also be streamed live to WVMA’s YouTube channel and the Music Alliance website. (http://wvmusicalliance.org). Admission to the concert is $10 at the door.
The March 12 show features songwriters Forrest VanTuyl, Jeremy Ferrara and Erisy Watt
More on the songwriters below:
Forrest VanTuyl writes songs, cowboys, and counts Wallowa County among the many places he’s called home. Forrest has performed at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, written music for the US Forest Service, and had lyrics published in the New York Times.
There is an innate tenderness about Jeremy Ferrara. His good nature is inescapable, and anyone within earshot of his quavering voice and quiet guitar is likely to swoon in sympathetic reaction. He’s a folksinger, and a song-diviner. His music is as fun as it is finely detailed. His new album Everything I Hold (out now on American Standard Time Records) is exemplary of this style. Produced by Mike Coykendall, the LP features just Jeremy, his guitar, and voice, on eight songs that fill the listener with wonder, empathy, and joy.
Portland-based Erisy Watt makes music that beautifully alludes to iconic vocalists of the 1960s but finds a more fitting home in the vintage-tinged indie ether of Bedouine, Haley Heynderickx, or Julie Byrne. Her vocals are intimate and alluring, an artful alternation between soothing whispers and gentle howls, backed by an instrumental bigness that evokes windy mountainscapes and piercing blue skies. On her highly anticipated sophomore album Eyes like the Ocean, (out April 1 via American Standard Time Records) Erisy calls upon the expanse of earth and sky to navigate life as an adult woman—satiating restlessness, finding connection, and fostering that ever-elusive sense of self that allows one peace. She invokes nature as a guide, taking tips from the cosmos, a naturalist with a knapsack of sonic stardust, making luminescent the dark parts of her path, finding a way forward.
