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MARCH 9�16, 2022
Tunesmith Night opens to audiences once again
TUNESMITH NIGHT
Sponsored by Wallowa
Valley Music Alliance,
Tunesmith Night showcases
three singers: Forrest
VanTuyl, Jeremy Ferrara and
Erisy Watt.
Saturday, March 12, 7 p.m.
$10 at the door
Odd Fellows Hall, 105 NE
First St., Enterprise
Also streamed lived on
wvmusicalliance.org and the
WVMA YouTube channel
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NTERPRISE — The monthly
Tunesmith Night, sponsored
by the Wallowa Valley Music
Alliance, is opening to a live, in-
person audience once again.
This showcase of original mu-
sic happens Saturday, March 12,
7 p.m. in the historic Odd Fellows
The March 12 Tunesmith Night features music by Forrest VanTuyl, Jeremy Ferrara and Erisy Watt.
Hall, 105 NE First St. Admission
is $10 at the door.
The show, which will also
be streamed live on wvmusi-
calliance.org and the WVMA
YouTube channel, features song-
writers Forrest VanTuyl, Jeremy
Ferrara and Erisy Watt.
FORREST VANTUYL
VanTuyl writes songs, cow-
boys and counts Wallowa County
among the many places he’s
called home. He has performed
at the National Cowboy Poetry
Gathering, written music for the
U.S. Forest Service, and had lyrics
published in the New York Times.
is out now on American Stan-
dard Time Records. Produced
by Mike Coykendall, the LP fea-
tures just Ferrara, his guitar and
voice, on eight songs intended
to fi ll the listener with wonder,
empathy and joy.
JEREMY FERRARA
ERISY WATT
Ferrara is a folksinger, and his
new album, “Everything I Hold,”
Portland-based Watt makes
music that “beautifully alludes
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to iconic vocalists of the 1960s
but fi nds a more fi tting home in
the vintage-tinged indie ether
of Bedouine, Haley Heynder-
ickx, or Julie Byrne.” On her
anticipated sophomore album,
“Eyes like the Ocean” (out April
1 via American Standard Time
Records), she calls upon the
expanse of earth and sky to
navigate life as an adult woman.