Making music, making magic
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
For Joel Shoemaker, the combination of his two passions — woodworking and playing music — seemed a natural fit: building guitars.
Shoemaker delved into luthiery …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
For Joel Shoemaker, the combination of his two passions — woodworking and playing music — seemed a natural fit: building guitars.
Shoemaker delved into luthiery …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
A year ago, on Aug. 12, the staff at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint took the first step of many toward establishing itself as an …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Passersby at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint’s building at 110 Main St. may have noticed the two public pianos on the sidewalk have received an …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Last week, Reader Publisher Ben Olson and Editor-in-Chief Zach Hagadone shared their “dream” Festival at Sandpoint lineup in lieu of a real 2020 schedule, since …
Full circle at The Festival
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Though I’ve lived in Bonner County all my life, I’d attended The Festival maybe once before I was asked to …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Little girls who grew up listening to country music in the late 1990s became deeply familiar with the three-part harmony and soaring fiddle sounds of …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
I’m a pragmatic man, so when the Reader editorial staff came up with the idea of conjuring a “Dream Festival” lineup, my mind first flew …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
For the past 38 years, music lovers from around the region have marked early August on their entertainment calendars in anticipation of The Festival at …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The average album runs a gamut of pre-release rituals. There are promo appearances, strategically released singles and pre-sale hype. Artists share countdowns across platforms, gaining …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
In early times, songs were passed down by generations like oral histories. Even two or three generations back, songs had to be experienced either in …
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