Baker City native Jeshua Marshall returns for Friday duo show downtown

Jeshua Marshall is bringing a Baker City homecoming downtown Friday, when he plays a duo show at Barley Brown’s taphouse, 2200 Main St., with Aage Birch joining him at 6 p.m. It will be Marshall’s first performance at Barley Brown’s, a detail that gives the show a fresh angle even for listeners who have seen him on Baker City stages before.

Marshall’s ties to the city run deep. He lived in Baker City off and on throughout his childhood, started playing guitar early, sang in his church choir and played trumpet in a band in Redmond before switching to electric bass at age 12. By 16, he was playing with Larry and His Flask alongside his older brother, Jamin Marshall, and the band toured from 2004 through 2019.

That long run set up a solo career that has stayed active since Larry and His Flask’s 2020 hiatus. Marshall released two full-length albums, Shoot The Moon in 2021 and The Flood in 2023, then added two EPs in 2025. His official bio says more music is coming, and he has said he hopes to release songs from an upcoming record this summer, putting the Baker City appearance squarely in the middle of an ongoing creative stretch rather than a reunion stop.

The Friday show also carries a practical local payoff. Barley Brown’s taphouse is one of Baker City’s better-known live-music rooms, with 22 beers on tap and hours listed as Monday through Saturday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For a downtown business district that depends on evening traffic, a show like Marshall’s draws people onto Main Street and puts a Baker City native back in front of a local crowd.

Marshall has already shown how much the city still means to him. When he returned to play Churchill School in 2022, it was his first concert performance in Baker City, and the building carried family history because his grandmother, father and brother attended school there. Friday’s set adds another chapter, with Marshall moving from a childhood rooted in Baker County to a downtown venue where local fans can hear how far that career has carried him.