By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Portland, Ore., band Pink Martini has carved out a unique space for itself in popular music. Blending multiple genres together, including Latin, classical, jazz and more, the band has...
Seven years ago, I was managing a bar in Sandpoint called the Downtown Crossing. Kaylee Cole, a regular act I booked, recommended I check out a little-known Seattle band called The Head and the...
By McCalee Cain Reader Staff Writer For over two decades, the Sandpoint Summerfest has been an intimate celebration of community and culture. This year marks the festival’s last, and the nostalgic end of a...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Writer The stereotypes that accompany contemporary rap music are not the same stereotypes that accompany being a 21-year-old college-educated white female in North Idaho. Thanks to this unlikely pairing,...
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor A few years ago I took a handful of private voice lessons from Karin Wedemeyer (founder/director of the Music Conservatory). It was one of the most challenging and rewarding...
By Ed Ohlweiler Reader Contributor There are questions we will never know the answers to: Why is there suffering in the world, why does Hawaii have interstate highways, and what would chairs look like...
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint is extending the application deadline for the first ever Charley Packard Memorial Songwriting Scholarship. The new deadline is Friday, June 30. This dedicated scholarship is open to...
By Tom Carty Reader Contributor My name is Tom Carty, and I’m a student at Sandpoint Waldorf School. For my eighth-grade project I have chosen to work with the local radio station KRFY 88.5...
While Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte both faced the institutionalized prejudice of the time, Belafonte in many ways escaped much of the persecution that fell on Makeba, possibly because of his elegant speech and...
