Live music returns to Di Luna’s
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Tony Furtado isn’t one to write a setlist. When the banjo-slaying singer-songwriter looks forward to his live performances, he knows there’s an essential element he …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Tony Furtado isn’t one to write a setlist. When the banjo-slaying singer-songwriter looks forward to his live performances, he knows there’s an essential element he …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Country singer-songwriter duo Thom & Coley — made up of husband and wife team Thom and Coley Shepherd — is returning to Di Luna’s Cafe …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
From writing No. 1 radio hits to earning recognition as performers in their own right, Thom Shepherd and Coley McCabe have seen every side of …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Isabelle Stillman’s sound is described as “a tapestry of her love of family, the confusion of growing up, the reality of being a woman in …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
For the past 18 years, singer-songwriter Kevin Brown has hosted a bluegrass radio show on Spokane Public Radio called Front Porch Bluegrass. In those almost …
Tony Furtado’s meticulous, high-speed banjo and guitar work immediately evokes images of rolling through a red-clay country landscape somewhere in the South, but he’s 100% a Westerner: born and raised …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When Sandpoint musician Patrice Webb was growing up, her father played piano in speakeasies during the Prohibition.
“My grandma used to make moonshine in the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Music is often meant to tell a story.
Regardless of genre, musicians are storytellers in their own right, taking listeners on a journey through time …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
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