By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint recently announced Caroline Hawkins would serve as the nonprofit arts organization’s new director of Community and Strategy, which was created in February to partially replace the executive...
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint Board of Directors announced Nov. 7 that Executive Director Ali Baranski will step down from her role to focus on personal and family health. “We would like...
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint is honoring four outgoing members of its board of directors: Amy Bistline, Cari House, Eric Paull and Kendon Perry. According to FAS, the majority of the departures...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint recently released its annual report for 2024, providing an overview of the fiscal year’s accomplishments and economic data on revenues and expenses. According to the...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff With a flash of fireworks and a crescendo from the Festival at Sandpoint Orchestra, the popular summer concert series wrapped its 41st season on Aug. 4. The Reader tracked...
By Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint is welcoming some new faces while saying goodbye to another, with the announcement Jan. 9 that Patrick Hoffman would join the full-time staff of the arts nonprofit...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Of all the words to describe the 2021 Festival at Sandpoint, “transition” seems to be the most appropriate. Between the global pandemic, a major change from natural grass to...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Citing the global coronavirus pandemic that has forced the closure of countless businesses and public gatherings, Festival at Sandpoint organizers announced May 4 that there would be no 2020...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint hosted its annual membership meeting Dec. 10, drawing a modest crowd to MickDuff’s Beer Hall. “I thought we’d have a record turnout for our annual...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The first time Ali Baranski experienced The Festival at Sandpoint, much less Sandpoint itself, she was crossing the Long Bridge to attend a Michael Franti show in 2010. She’d...
