The best albums of 2025
A totally biased opinion from a musical office By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff This year was a horrible, no good, very bad page of the calendar; yet, despite the pain — or perhaps because of...
Category: Music
Festival at Sandpoint releases 2025 annual report
By Reader Staff Despite Fiscal Year 2025 proving to be “more complex than the recent years of notable growth,” the Festival at Sandpoint’s annual report credited “diverse revenue streams, disciplined expense management and prudent...
A totally radical Christmas
Gigawatt to play An ’80s Christmas at The Hive By Ben OlsonReader Staff “Great Scott!” The 1980s was a wild decade for music. The hair was big, the costumes were over the top, colors...
Sing, dance and be merry
Celebrate the holidays with these local parties By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff There’s no shortage of holiday cheer around Bonner County, where there are no fewer than a dozen festive parties with dancing, singing, food...
‘A journey through Ireland’
A Celtic Christmas with Everdream By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The famed trio Everdream has once again made the more than 4,000-mile journey from Ireland to the Inland Northwest for their annual performance of A...
Celebrate the season with The Gothard Sisters
By Reader Staff There are many sounds that define the Christmas season: sleigh bells, the crunch of boots on freshly fallen snow, the quiet tinkle of an old vinyl record in another room. In...
Music Conservatory presents Music Matters! Christmas Concert
By Reader Staff The Music Conservatory of Sandpoint has introduced countless students to music through its Music Matters! after-school program over the years. Now, the student performers in the youth orchestra, choir, handbell choir...
Local photographer Woods Wheatcroft to release 2026 calendar with party at IPA
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff While the phrase “it’s that time of year again” has entered cliche territory, it’s literally “that time of year again” when the calendar is nearing its annual expiration date and...
‘Our favorite time of the year’
Shook Twins, John Craigie and friends return for annual ‘Giving Thanks’ concert By Ben OlsonReader Staff Thanksgiving in Sandpoint is a time of community, togetherness and gratitude — and also some bangin’ live music....
Sandpoint reenters the jazz age
Red Roses: A Vintage Cabaret comes to the Hive By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Sandpoint will be treated to the decadence of the roaring ’20s with a performance of the original Red Roses: A Vintage...
