Festival memories from the Reader staff
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 walk onto its stage...
Category: Music
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 The Dixie Chicks. Instant...
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 to impossibilities before I...
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 Sandpoint. This year, owing...
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 new listeners and teasing...
When music changed the world
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 a person’s home or...
Willie Nelson, at 87, releases 70th solo album ‘First Rose of Spring’
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Sandpoint residents in the 40-and-older age bracket might remember the curious incident of Willie Nelson’s concert in a farmer’s field south of town. My recollection is vague, but it...
‘One note at a time’
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When John Firshi performs, a conversation takes place. It’s happening between Firshi and his guitar — the rise and the fall of notes bringing to life the experiences of...
Sandpoint SummerFest cancels 2020 season
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Organizers for the annual music concert Sandpoint SummerFest confirmed July 8 that the event has been canceled for 2020 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “It comes with an...
Keepin’ time with Craigie
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff As I began writing down adjectives to describe John Craigie’s new album, Asterisk the Universe, I found myself jotting down words like “full,” “balanced” and “satisfying.” It sounded like...
