Tunesmith Night

Tunesmith Night is held every second Saturday, October through May, this monthly showcase of original music is an opportunity for songwriters to present their work to a supportive listening audience, sharing insights with the listeners and camaraderie with their fellow tunesmiths. The show is presented in a round-robin format, with each musician playing a song, then the next taking a turn, creating an interesting and varied performance. Doors open at 6pm, music at 7pm, all ages welcome. Saturday’s songwriters are Tom Drake, Bart Budwig and Andrew Esquibel.

From Moscow, Idaho, Tom Drake was born in the ancestral stomping grounds of Merle Haggard, John Steinbeck 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.
 
The music of Bart Budwig bridges the gap between the wide-open sprawl of classic Americana, the insightful observations of folk and the grit and honesty of authentic country. Recently relocating to Enterprise from the Palouse country of Idaho, Budwig brings songs that are highly evolved, utterly natural and unwaveringly human.
 
Wallowa County musician Andrew Esquibel, whose skill as a guitarist has been well known locally, now makes his Tunesmith debut with recently penned songs inspired by “Emily Bronte, Eva Cassidy, and 100.7 FM The Bull."