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 can’t yet consider: the...
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 for one of the...
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 the country music scene. ...
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 our society and her...
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 two decades, Brown has...
The Lark and the Loon has a sound planted securely in the past, but with songwriting that propels the band into the present. The Arkansa-based husband-and-wife duo is known to roll into gigs with...
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 in Pleasanton, Calif., and...
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 bathtub,” Webb said. “During...
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 and emotion while remaining...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Here at the Reader, we’re constantly humbled by the support our community shows us. Whether it’s donating to our Patreon page, dropping off a check at our office, signing...
