Wallowa County Chieftain
Entertainment
wallowa.com
October 5, 2016
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Final Friday sizzles at Stockmans
New ownership
committed
to bringing
live music to
downtown
Enterprise venue
Martin Doud
was the
opening
performer for
Stockmans
Lounge’s
Final Friday
open mic
night on
Sept. 30. A
large and
enthusiastic
crowd
packed into
the venue to
peruse the
new addition
to the area’s
open mic
scene.
By Steve Tool
Wallowa County Chieftain
Steve Tool/Chieftain
Stockmans Lounge stuck
its toe into the local open mic
waters Friday night and man-
agers found it to their liking.
The restaurant and bar re-
cently opened in the space
formerly occupied by Lear’s at
111 W Main St.
The new open mic night is
called Final Friday and will
take place the last Friday of
each month through April. The
debut event introduced new
performers to the Wallowa
County music scene as well as
some tried and true local acts.
Unlike many open mics in
bar/restaurants, the evening
crowd remained engaged with
the music while they still en-
joyed the Stockmans culinary
fare.
The energetic audience
illed every seat in the joint,
and to their credit, cheered
every performance with equal
vigor, regardless of the genre
played.
Martin Doud, recently re-
turned to the Wallowa Valley
after a hiatus of several years,
served as the show’s open-
ing act. Doud reeled off four
songs to raucous audience ap-
plause.
“I really appreciate the op-
portunity to perform,” he said.
“It was my irst time in front
of an audience in about ive
years.”
Other performers includ-
ed local stalwarts Jezebel’s
Mother and Sam Warr. A sur-
prising amount of new talent
performed, including Doud,
who was followed by Lynda
Morrison, recently of Med-
ford. Morrison, accompanied
by Jay Connolly, wowed the
audience with a stunning ren-
dition of T-Bone Walker’s
“Call it Stormy Monday” and
several other blues staples.
One of the more unique
performers of the evening
was another recent Wallowa
County transplant, Nicole Mc-
Cutcheon. Her sassy brand of
originals had the audience eat-
ing from her hand. She later
said that she moved to Wal-
lowa County just for the pur-
pose of furthering her music
career.
Unlike many local open
mics that wane signiicantly
after two hours, 9 p.m. saw
still more hopefuls signing in
to perform. In all, at least a
dozen different musicians hit
the stage, likely a local open
mic record.
Stockmans owner Rachel
Esquibel gave the Final Fri-
day a two-thumbs-up endorse-
ment.
“I consider Final Friday as
an astonishing success,” she
said. “The turnout was great,
especially for our irst event.
It was beyond expectations —
we were thrilled.”
Esquibel’s sons, Andrew
Esquibel and Sam Warr, con-
spired with local musician
Jordan Maslach for the open
mic idea.
“One day I came in, and
there was a poster on the win-
dow, and I said, ‘I guess we’re
having an open mic,’” Rachel
Esquibel said with a laugh.
Maslach served as the
show’s emcee and also pro-
vided the PA equipment.
Stockmans is working to-
ward hosting live bands in the
future.
“It’s not going to happen
right away though,” Esquibel
said.
The venue also will host
the Wallowa Valley Music Al-
liance’s 10th season of Tune-
smith Night, a monthly show-
case of original music.
The series opener takes
place Saturday, Oct. 8 and
features Tara K Howe, Tom
Drake and Mike Mallory.
THE SCENE Tunesmith Night returns
Wednesday, Oct. 5
• Liz Vice, 7 p.m. at the OK
Theatre. theoldok.com
Friday, Oct. 7
• Open mic, 7 p.m. at
Terminal Gravity
Saturday, Oct. 8
• Tunesmith Night, fea-
turing Tara K Howe and Tom
Drake, and Mike Mallory, 6
p.m. at Stockman’s Lounge.
Sunday, Oct. 9
• Open mic night, 4-6 p.m.
at the Josephy Center with
emcee Ted Hays. josephy.org
• You Knew Me When, 7
p.m. at Terminal Gravity
Saturday, Oct. 15
The Wallowa Valley Mu-
sic Alliance is set to kick off
its 10th season of Tunesmith
Night, a monthly showcase
of original music.
The series opener takes
place Saturday, Oct. 8 at
Stockman’s Lounge, 111
W. Main St. Enterprise and
features Tara K Howe, Tom
Drake and Mike Mallory.
Tara K Howe is a sing-
er-songwriter living in Mos-
cow, Idaho.
Originating from folk and
crossing many genres, Tara
has a powerful voice, and
often haunting lyrics, backed
by a strong resonant and
rhythmic guitar.
Tom Drake of Moscow,
Idaho, was born in the an-
cestral stomping grounds of
Merle Haggard, John Stein-
beck and Woody Guthrie,
and raised all over the USA.
Drake crafts songs to leap the
canyon between the heart and
head, the poet and roadhouse,
the grapes of wrath, the red
mud Mississippi back roads
and the old West.
For Mike Mallory, the
song is the thing. Mallo-
ry has been playing music
professionally since age 15.
That would be since, 1968.
Early on, he discovered the
songs of Bob Dylan, Townes
Van Zandt, Mississippi John
Hurt and realized the songs
were what spoke to him. He
is comfortable strapping on
his Telecaster and turning
up to 11 or inger picking
his acoustic trying to imitate
• Bullets & Belles, 7 p.m. at
Terminal Gravity
Thursday, Oct. 20
• HoneyHoney, Wallowa
Resources fundraiser, 7 p.m. at
the OK Theatre. theoldok.com
• Old-Time Community
Dance, 7-10 p.m. at Odd
Fellows Hall
Friday, Nov. 4
• Open mic, 7 p.m. at
Terminal Gravity
Thursday, Nov. 10
• Portland Cello Project
WLT Fundraiser, 7 p.m. at the
OK Theatre. theoldok.com
Sunday, Nov. 13
• Open mic night, 4-6 p.m.
at the Josephy Center with
emcee Ted Hays. josephy.org
See Philip Ruud at
Wallowa Valley
Eye Care
(Dr. Baileys Office)
October 12th
Mississippi John.
“That is the beauty of the
players my age, we did not
realize there was a division
between acoustic and electric
music,” said Mallory, who is
a member of the La Grande
alt-country/Americana band
The Wasteland Kings, along
with son Kris Mallory, who is
lead vocalist and main song-
writer for the group. This is
Mallory’s third appearance at
Tunesmith Night.
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