Festival at Sandpoint: Week 1
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint is nothing short of a two-week shindig. With shindigs come the necessary planning: How will you get there? What will you …
Category: Music
MCS Without Borders welcomes Yakima Music en Accíon and developing global talent
By Kathi Samuels
Reader Contributor
For the past seven summers, the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint has invited students from different countries to create a collaborative youth orchestra featuring talented students …
Bandwagon: Down North, July 19, The Hive
Names like James Brown, Sam Cooke and Prince come up when people talk about Down North. The Seattle-based four-piece, fronted by Anthony Briscoe, inhabits elements of all three iconic artists …
Bandwagon: Tony Furtado, July 19, Di Luna’s
Tony Furtado’s meticulous, high-speed banjo and guitar work immediately evokes images of rolling through a red-clay country landscape somewhere in the South, but he’s 100% a Westerner: born and raised …
Dock rock
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Of all the early-2000s country music hits, nothing serves as a better soundtrack to summer days on Lake Pend Oreille than Craig Morgan’s “Redneck Yacht …
Tennis, Various Times, Various Venues
Tennis doesn’t do things halfway. Not only has the three-piece band consistently earned its reputation as Sandpoint’s favorite dance band for the past 14 years, it’s done so without even …
Bandwagon: Dimestore Prophets, July 13, 219 Lounge
If the Dimestore Prophets’ online persona is any indication of how fun the band will be in a live setting, Saturday night is sure to be a good time at …
Sandpoint Summer Series: Lilla
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Some of Lilla’s earliest memories are of writing songs.
The self-taught pianist and Portland-based R&B artist said she can’t remember a time she didn’t love …
Spreading hope through the power of music
By Kathi Samuels
Reader Contributor
For nearly a decade, Sandpoint resident and former Director of Asia ICN Heather Mehra-Pedersen traveled the globe as part of the team that hand selects …
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Special Report
TIMBER WARS: Six-part series, February-November 2022.
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WHERE ARE THE WORKERS?: Five-part series, September-October 2021.
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THE AMERICAN REDOUBT: Seven-part series, November-December 2017.
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STANDOFF AT RUBY RIDGE: 25 Years Later. Five-part series, August-September 2017.
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Community Calendars
Coming up this week! Don’t miss the Sandpoint Winter Carnival, the Heart Ball, Low Bar Chorale, and more! See the full list of events in the Community Calendars:
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Sandpoint in Pictures
Filmmaker Jimmy Matlosz of the Idaho Film Company has made a series of mini documentaries about influential Sandpoint locals, including the late Dann Hall and Erik Daarstad as well as icons Diane Michaels and Dan Shook. He is currently working on a series of interviews connected to the history of the Panida Theater. Jimmy is a 30-year veteran filmmaker who’s work can be seen at dpmatlosz.com.
