Category: Music

Dream Festival

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 …

Less Dixie, more vocal

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 …

Dream Festival

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 …

Funding The Festival

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 …

Out of nowhere

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 …

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