Volume 13, Issue 1 A quarterly newsletter published by the Wallowa Valley Music Alliance Winter 2017 Upcoming Music Events (More details inside...) Old-Time Community Dance January 21 Join us for the Old-Time Community Dance on Saturday, Friday, Jan 20, 5:30-7:30pm January 21, 7:00 to 9:00 PM at the Hurricane Creek Grange Jezebel’s Mother Hall. Dance squares, circles, reels, contras, waltzes, polkas with Silver Lake Bistro a caller and live string band. Beginners welcome, all dances will be taught, and no partner or special clothing required. Saturday, Jan 21, 7PM Admission $5/person, children under 12 FREE. Old-Time Community Dance Hurricane Creek Grange For more info or to volunteer at our monthly dances please call Laura Skovlin, 541-398-0800. Dances are generally be held every 3rd Saturday of the month, September through April, Tuesday, Jan 31, 7pm Joseph Jammers location varies. Watch for posters and Facebook notices. Stockman’s Lounge Tunesmith Night February 11 Saturday, Feb 4, 6pm Our monthly songwriter showcase continues Winter Blues Party w/Darrell Brann & Friends its tenth season on Saturday, February 11 Lostine Tavern with Elwood, Gregory Rawlins and Travis Ward. Join us every second Saturday for Saturday, Feb 11, 7PM Tunesmith Night at Stockman’s Lounge Tunesmith Night: Elwood, (formerly Lear’s) at 111 W. Main in Enterprise. Gregory Rawlins, Travis What is it that moves your soul? For Elwood, it has always been Ward the ever awe-inspiring serenity and sheer power of Mother Stockman’s Lounge Nature and you can feel it in his music. The trickle of a small stream, the roar of a thunder cloud, the pure silence of meadow lit by the coming of the Friday, Feb 17, 5:30-7:30pm sun....it's these things that sit at the very core of Elwood's music. Elwood has had the Jezebel’s Mother Silver Lake Bistro honor of sharing the stage with bands such as Simon Tucker, Tim Snider, Michael Continued... Kirkpatrick, Kory Quinn, Left Coast Country, many more. Saturday, Feb. 18, 7pm Shook Twins / Billy Strings OK Theatre presents: SHOOK TWINS Feb. 18 OK Theatre The OK Theatre is pleased to Saturday, Mar 11, 7pm announce the return of the Shook Tunesmith Night: Ashleigh Twins on Saturday, February 18. Flynn, Willie Carmichael, Born and raised in Sandpoint Dennis McGregor Stockman’s Lounge Idaho, the Shook Twins are an Indie folk-pop band hailing from Portland, Oregon. Identical twins, Tuesday, Mar 14, 6:30pm Quebe Sisters / Dan Maher Katelyn and Laurie are the main OK Theatre songwriters, but they also back up their band member Niko Slice Please visit our website for the most (electric guitar, mandolin and current events listings, as change vocals) adding his uniquely compelling songs to the mix. Barra Brown is on drums, vocals happens! You can also sign up for our and drum pad, and Josh Simon is on bass, vocals, electric guitar, and synth. Central to the e-news, which is distributed via email Shook Twins’ sound is their wide range of instrumentation: banjo, acoustic and electric whenever something new is added to our music calendar. guitars, electric bass, mandolin, electronic drums, face drum (beat-box), glockenspiel, www.wvmusicalliance.org ukulele, banjo-head drumming and their signature Golden Egg. Beautiful twin harmonies, layered upon acoustic and electric instrumentation, coupled with Laurie’s inventive use of If you have a musical event you’d like percussive and ambient vocal loops, and Katelyn’s re-purposed telephone microphone, set listed here please send it to: [email protected] Deadline for their sound apart, creating a unique and eccentric blend of folk, roots, groove and soul. next issue of the QuarterNote is Mar. 31. Continued... PAGE 2 THE QUARTER NOTE VOLUME 13, ISSUE 1 Tunesmith Night (Continued from page 1) Shook Twins (Continued from page 1) Beginning in 2006, Gregory Rawlins began releasing Opening the show albums. First with Seattle-based Sons of Guns, then self- On February 18 recorded solo material, and eventually among the La Grande will be Billy psychedelic rock quartet, Catskills. Strings, a 24 year All told, Rawlins has had his hand old, tattoo-covered in ten full-length albums in the last guitar picker/singer decade, ranging from pensive and that you surely will minimalist folk tunes, to driving, be hearing about amped-up Americana, to all out for years to come. mind-bending 17-minute “Blessed with the compositions alongside bandmates voice of an old soul from the mountains, a Wayne Marvin Callahan, Andy Steele, and Jeff Grammer. gentlemanly air, and the ability to sling hundreds of Though known for his penchant to depart from mainstream notes with razor-crisp precision at the speed of a music entirely, the keen and incisive lyricism is perhaps machine gun, Strings’ flat-picking talent seems Rawlins' best attribute-- as it always manages to present an almost beyond comprehension to veterans of the local old idea through a fresh, poetic lens-- unabashedly unrefined bluegrass scene, especially given his youth.” Northern and wild. If these songs belong at the Express Publications. Smithsonian, they'd most likely reside out front on a stand where an old sailor Details about the show: Doors 6pm, Billy Strings vends apple pie, baseballs and hatchets. 7pm , Shook Twins 8:30pm. All Ages. Travis Ward’s music is influenced by Advance tickets are $25, available old time hillbilly music--blues, at http://bit.ly/2hQEXhU or at local ticket outlets. Appalachian, dustbowl—and his original and traditional songs cross those boundaries often. With steel guitars and Joseph Jammers Go Public banjos in tow, Ward, based in Boise, has January 31 traveled the U.S. and Great Britain spreading his version of folk music to any open ears, as a solo A Joseph based living room jam group, so far without artist and with the band Hillfolk Noir. The Idaho Statesman a name they all agree on, will be playing on Tuesday, says “Too authentic to be considered alt anything. Ward is an January 31 from 7-10pm in the Tunesmith area of evocative, charismatic singer-songwriter who embraces diverse Stockman's for free and for fun. Jammer Mike Straw shards of Americana. Time-warped kaleidoscopes —sparse, says, “We sometimes think we sound pretty good to historically reverent and pretty terrific.” ourselves, this is to check out if there is any actual Tunesmith Night is presented in a round-robin format, with validity to that when performed for an audience each musician playing a song, then the next taking a turn, including actual spectators and dancers.” The genre is creating an interesting and varied performance. Admission is a mix of classic rock, blues, and soul, mostly suitable $10 at the door or by season pass. Doors open at 6pm, music at for kicking up your heels and having a good time. Its a 7pm, all ages welcome. big-ish band with a big-ish sound—come check it out! Upcoming Tunesmith Night Artists: THANK YOU to all who contributed to our year-end Mar 11—Ashleigh Flynn, Willie Carmichael, Dennis McGregor fundraising campaign! We are thrilled to report that Apr 8—Carl Solomon, Ivy Ross Ricci, Malachi Graham our total donations broke the $5000 mark, proving May 13—Tracy Spring, Matt Cadenelli, Lewi Longmire that YOU SUPPORT MUSIC in Wallowa County. Every gift means a great deal to us, and if you didn’t get a chance to donate before year-end, we always Music on Tap at Terminal Gravity welcome your contributions online at wvmusicalliance.org or by mail at WVMA, PO Box Upcoming live music at Terminal Gravity Brewing Co., 803 SE 148, Enterprise, OR 97828. School St., Enterprise. Music usually starts at 7PM. Jan. 21—Joseph Hein Band Open Mics are FUN! Jan. 27—An American Forrest Here are a few opportunities to share your Feb. 2—Brad Parsons talents—monthly open mics are held at Feb. 3—Open Mic w/ Joey Carper Terminal Gravity every first Friday, 7pm; Feb. 22—Moonshine Mountain Stockmans Lounge (formerly Lear’s) every Feb. 23—Tom Bennett last Friday, 7pm; and Josephy Center for Arts and Mar. 3—Open Mic Culture every second Sunday, 4-6pm. There is no Mar. 12—Jacob Cummings cover charge for these events, and signup is typically Mar. 30—The American West open in the hour leading up to the show. VOLUME 13, ISSUE 1 THE QUARTER NOTE PAGE 3 Quebe Sisters play OK Theatre March 14 Mark your calendars for March 14 when the OK Theatre presents the Quebe Sisters in concert. When the Quebe Sisters from Texas take a stage, and the triple-threat fiddle champions start playing and singing in multi-part close harmony, audiences are usually transfixed, then blown away. It’s partly because the trio’s vocal and instrumental performances are authentic all-Americana, all the time, respectful of the artists that inspired them the most. Not surprisingly, the Quebe Sisters win standing ovations at just about every show. It’s been that way since 2000, when they started fiddling together as pre-teens. Today, after more than a decade of travelling the U.S. and the world, and recording three acclaimed albums, Grace, Sophia and Hulda Quebe are pros in a variety of genres and have an unbridled passion for American music. The March 15 show will also feature an opening set by Northwest Public Radio legend Dan Maher (host of Inland Folk) Doors open at 6pm, Dan Maher at 6:30, Quebe Sisters at 8pm. Tickets are $20, available in local outlets and online. (Visit theoldok.com). Winter Blues Party at the LT School of Rock! The Wallowa Land Trust invites you to lose your winter Back by popular demand this blues at the Lostine Tavern on Saturday, February 4 from spring: School of Rock, with bandleaders Matt Harshman and 6-9pm.