A meditation on the science of musical taste
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Contributor
I recently revisited what can only be described as a cinematic and musical masterpiece of the 21st century: the 2003 film School of Rock, …
Category: Music
What do Led Zeppelin, Leonard Nimoy and Joni Mitchell have in common?
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The experienced cinephile, or anyone who was a teenage girl in 2013, will be familiar with Howard Shore’s astounding soundtracks to The Lord of the …
The Festival at Sandpoint welcomes new staff and board members
By Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint is welcoming some new faces while saying goodbye to another, with the announcement Jan. 9 that Patrick Hoffman would join the full-time staff …
Mike’s Corner: ‘Do you guys do any Willie?’
By Mike Wagoner
Reader Contributor
New Year’s Day has a kind of feeling to it doesn’t it? Sometimes, not a very good one. For me, this time around I found …
Music for the mind and the soul
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
The band Heat Speak has its roots in Spokane, where founder and lead singer-songwriter Dario Ré began collaborating with a number of area performers to …
Revel in the sound
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It’s a glorious time to be a musician. Gone is the strict adherence to genres and narrow creative lanes, replaced with the realization that performers …
Where did Christmas carols come from?
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
During the first thousand years of Christianity, Christmas played second fiddle to Easter, the most important feast and celebration of the year. That might sound …
Festival at Sandpoint Youth Orchestra to perform Winter Concert
By Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint’s Youth Orchestra will perform its Winter Concert at the Heartwood Center on Monday, Dec. 18, at 6 p.m. All ages are welcome and …
A holiday vow from a cut-rate Scrooge
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but somehow over the past dozen or so years I turned into a Scrooge on Bob Cratchit wages …
Local musician Chris Paradis releases new album Way Up Yonder
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
For such a small town, Sandpoint has always been blessed with an inordinately high number of talented musicians. One of the more prolific artists in …
Coming up this week! Don’t miss Live Music, the Summer Sampler, the Art Party, Monarch Grind, the Sandpoint Renaissance Faire, and more! See the full list of events in the 