Alaska singer-songwriter Jonathan J. Bower holds a gallery performance 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9 at the Homer Council on the Arts. 

Tickets are
$5 youth, $10 HCOA members
 and $15 general admission. Bower also holds a songwriters workshop 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Jan. 10 at HCOA, with a fee of
$45 for HCOA members and
$55 general. From Anchorage, Bower works as a recording musician and is an adjunct faculty member in the creative writing program at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Eastern University, Saint Davids, Pa., and a master of fine arts in writing from UAA.