Rick Springfield to take the Festival stage on Aug. 8
April 29, 2026
By Reader Staff
Tickets are on sale now for the most recently announced performance at the 2026 Festival at Sandpoint Summer Series: Rick Springfield, who will take the stage Saturday, Aug. 8 at War Memorial Field.
Presale tickets will be available until 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, then go on sale to the public Friday, April 24 at 10 a.m. — both with a price of $78.82 and available at festivalatsandpoint.com.
Springfield has worn many hats as an entertainer and performer over the course of his 40-year career. As the creator of some of the finest power-pop of the ’80s, Springfield is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and artist with 25 million albums sold, including 17 U.S. Top 40 hits.
Rick Springfield will play the Festival at Sandpoint Saturday, Aug. 8. Courtesy photo
Some of his iconic songs include “Jessie’s Girl,” “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” “An Affair of the Heart,” “I’ve Done Everything for You,” “Love Somebody” and “Human Touch,” while he’s also an accomplished actor who starred opposite Meryl Streep in Ricki and the Flash. Springfield’s other on-screen credits include his portrayal of Dr. Irving Pitlor in HBO’s prestige drama True Detective, a turn as Lucifer on the CW hit Supernatural and the insane Pastor Charles on FX’s worldwide hit series American Horror Story.
As if chart-topping music and acclaimed acting chops weren’t enough, Springfield is also an author, with his candid 2010 memoir Late, Late at Night named as one of the 25 greatest rock memoirs of all time by Rolling Stone and his 2014 comedic novel Magnificent Vibration earning spots on the New York Times Best Seller list.
The same year as Magnificent Vibration hit the shelves, Springfield’s star hit the streets on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — coincidentally located around the corner from the first apartment he lived in when he arrived in the U.S. from Australia in 1971.
Never slowing down, Springfield’s popular SiriusXM radio show, Working Class DJ, airs weekly on the 80s on 8 channel. Finally, his new album, Automatic, is out now, representing his first album of all new original material in five years.
The Aug. 8 performance in Sandpoint will be a standard show, meaning that the area in front of the stage is a general admission dancing and standing area.
Right: Rick Springfield will play the Festival at Sandpoint Saturday, Aug. 8. Courtesy photo
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