The spirit of song
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
It is a warm, bright September evening, the kind that gives no hint of the cold and dark that will inevitably come. Sweaterless, I toss …
Category: Music
A captivating collaboration
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Two organizations dedicated to helping local youth develop skills in the arts — Allegro Dance Studio and Suzuki String Academy — have discovered that, in …
Feeling thankful for the Fall Folk Festival
By Ed Ohlweiler
Reader Contributor
My wife Pam and I have been attending the Fall Folk Festival for 15-20 years now (let’s just say “umpteen” years for argument’s sake); and, …
A hometown holiday
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
There is an energy in live music that seems impossible to capture on a record. When a musician truly connects with an audience, a conversation …
A little grunge, a lot of growth
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Sarah Vos, vocalist and guitarist for the Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Dead Horses, describes the folk band’s 2022 album Brady Street as a “coming-of-age” work. It’s a …
The official winter welcome
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In the five years since its inception, Jack Frost Fest has grown from a modest, ticketed concert event to a free, all-day celebration of music, …
Good faith guitar
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Parallel to the seasons shifting in the American West, musicians often experience seasonal shifts of their own.
For singer-songwriter Jonathon Foster, the songwriting and recording …
Emptying the bucket
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Genres are helpful to narrow down music styles into convenient buckets. But what happens when those buckets are flipped over, emptied of their contents, placed …
A genuine good time
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
When Heartwood Center manager and Mattox Farm Productions founder Robb Talbott told the Reader that he would be striving to bring variety to the newly …
Conservatory Concert Series coming to Little Carnegie Concert Hall
By Reader Staff
With the launch of the Conservatory Concert Series, the newly redesigned Little Carnegie Concert Hall at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint is poised to share music with …
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 