By Ben Olson Reader Staff Thursday, Aug. 4 – Opening Night Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers headline this opening night to the 2016 Festival at Sandpoint. The Grammy Award-winning singer and keyboardist Bruce Hornsby...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint is just around the corner, and that means Sandpoint’s most expansive late-night concert series is right behind it. The flagship series of the Hive, Aftival...
By Drake the Dog Reader Pet Columnist Where am I taking my humans today? I’m sniffin’ out dog friendly offices, and my first stop is the office of The Festival at Sandpoint, 525 Pine...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff If time is a necessary ingredient in cooking up a legend, then the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has servings to spare. The country-folk-rock outfit marks its 50-year anniversary this...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Intern Artist Kathryn Weisberg is the kind of woman who, while having a conversation about all the interesting things she’s done in her life, forgets to mention that she lived...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint not only gives us access to some of the best musicians from around the world, but also some of the best music to come out...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The legendary Bruce Hornsby will be kicking off 2016’s Festival at Sandpoint concert series on Thursday, Aug. 4. Recently the Reader was honored to have a short conversation via...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Mary Ann Jeffres has been referred to as a “saint” by Festival at Sandpoint’s Executive Director Dyno Wahl. For this article’s purposes, we’ll call her the “Queen of Compost.”...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The first of the line-sitters have arrived outside the Festival grounds at Memorial Field. First in line is 15-year-old Burke Palmer, pictured below. This is the fourth consecutive year...
By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Staff I can’t wait for the opening performance of the Festival with Arlo Guthrie, and hopefully we’ll hear his famous anthem, “You can get anything you want from Alice’s Restaurant.” ...
