POAC presents: DakhaBrakha
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Every once in awhile, I’ll hear someone say, “I wish we had some different types of cultural music come through Sandpoint.” For Pend Oreille Arts Council’s last show of...
Category: Music
‘Live @ the Office’ returns to the Reader
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff After a few months’ hiatus, ‘Live @ the Office’ returns next week with some of the best independent music Missoula, Mont., has to offer. Nate Hegyi, also known as...
Music, poetry offerings by husband wife duo
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Rob and Amy Kincaid are musicians and writers whose desire is to imbue a bit of fun and thoughtfulness into their creative output. They have chosen a unique location...
When we swung and swayed
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor A recent New York Times carried the obituary of former big band vocalist Kitty Kallen. This, in part, is what it said: “Kitty Kallen, her voice sweet and clear,...
Miles and Me:
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie blew America’s musical roof off with bebop jazz in the late 1940’s. Softer, conventional jazz—my kind—languished. Their feverish screeching eventually wore out their...
An evening with the Bel Canto Opera Trio
By Dion Nizzi Reader Contributor A few times a year, the opportunity arises for multiple Sandpoint gems to shine simultaneously. Next Thursday, Jan. 28, the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint (MCS) gets it’s opportunity, in...
New Year’s Bash showcases rockers The London Souls
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Rock is not dead, and neither is London Souls’ front man Tash Neal. But it could’ve gone much differently. The rock duo, featuring Tash Neal on the vocals and...
Christmas Carols:
By Melannie Wurm Reader Contributor In honor of the Christmas Carols you are by this time of year, undoubtedly unable to escape (does every store really have to be playing “Jingle Bell Rock”?), here...
Bluegrass band descends upon the Hive
By Dustin Hoffman Reader Staff Heard The Lil’ Smokies from Missoula, Montana? Yeah, they’re coming to town. Seriously, if you haven’t heard them, you should. The acoustic sextet will be playing The Hive on...
A phalanx of voices:
By Melannie Wurm Reader Contributor In our modern world of pop rock and Justin Bieber, of repetitive lyrics and commercialization and Spotify, it is easy to forget that music can also be complex and...
