How to listen to live music
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If you’ve read the headline and thought, “Duh, you just listen to it, bro,” you’re missing the point. Furthermore, this article is probably going to be particularly beneficial to...
Category: Music
Sounds of the East: Sandpoint Curry brings world-class Indian music to the Panida
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Most North Idahoans know local restaurateur Pete Hicks for his deliciously warm and filling meals at Sandpoint Curry. Fewer know that Hicks’ ties to India go all the way...
A festive fall week
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Fall is a festive time in North Idaho. Here are a few worthy events to put on your calendar as those pages turn ever-nearer winter. Oktoberfest at Beet and...
Festival Board addresses season of challenges
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff It’s safe to say 2019 has been the most challenging in the Festival at Sandpoint’s history. A beloved local institution for 37 years, it has drawn iconic acts like...
Bound for big shoulders
By Ben Olson Reader Staff It’s tough saying goodbye to good people, especially when they leave Sandpoint’s tight-knit music community. When local musician and award-winning beertender Samantha Carston announced she was moving to Chicago,...
A second life on Second Avenue
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff For Scott Wilburn, music is a family matter. From his childhood as the son of a church organist to the way he’s raised his kids to understand guitar workmanship,...
Music Conservatory finds a permanent home
By Katherine Greenland Reader Contributor The Music Conservatory of Sandpoint recently completed the purchase of the building at 110 Main St. After 10 years of occupying the nearly 12,000-square-foot building as rental tenants, the...
Sounds from outside
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Summer is typically tour season for traveling bands, and a handful of out-of-towners are swinging through the 219 Lounge in the days immediately before the calendar flips to fall. ...
The roaring now
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Most people would place classic swing tunes a good distance from electronic beats on the musical genre spectrum. Not Carey Rayburn. The classically trained trumpeter always had a love...
Brothers in harps
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Tonedevil Brothers — David and Anthony Powell — don’t just play their instruments. In a lot of cases, they’ve been familiar with their guitar’s wood grain since it...
