Lonesome Leash will open both shows.

ASTORIA and SEAVIEW, Wash. — Portland musician, composer and author Nick Jaina will perform twice this coming weekend on both sides of the Columbia River.

First he’ll play at 8:30 p.m. Friday, July 8 at KALA, 1017 Marine Drive in Astoria. Then he’ll travel across the Columbia and perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 3728 J Place.

Indie-folk musician Lonesome Leash will open both shows, which are open to the public. KALA has an $8 cover charge.

Jaina’s live performance is like an engaging audio scrapbook. He loops together guitar melodies and found sounds and reads passages of his book “Get It While You Can” over them. The format is almost like a podcast, reaching the listener on many different emotional and intellectual levels.

A musician and writer, Jaina has toured the world during the last decade, releasing several albums on HUSH Records and Fluff & Gravy Records. His first book, “Get It While You Can,” is a memoir about a love of music and the world. The book was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Award for creative nonfiction.

Jaina has composed soundtracks for feature films, plays and ballets. He is co-founder and musical director of the Satellite Ballet and Collective in New York City, which has collaborated with dancers from the New York City Ballet and Julliard.

Lonesome Leash is the solo moniker of Los Angeles-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Walt McClements. Known for previous involvement in the bands Dark Dark Dark, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and Why Are We Building Such A Big Ship?, McClements, as Lonesome Leash, channels all of his musical experiences into a solo affair with accordion and drum set. Born in Durham, North Carolina, McClements settled in New Oreleans in 2004 for almost a decade before traveling for two years and winding up in Los Angeles. The journey spawned his latest solo album “Precious Futures,” which was released in November 2015.