The next generation of storytellers
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
With the advent of new technology and media, the art of storytelling has changed volumes in the millenia humans have inhabited the earth but, at …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
With the advent of new technology and media, the art of storytelling has changed volumes in the millenia humans have inhabited the earth but, at …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
A year ago, on Aug. 12, the staff at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint took the first step of many toward establishing itself as an …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Passersby at the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint’s building at 110 Main St. may have noticed the two public pianos on the sidewalk have received an …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It’s been an exciting year for the Sandpoint Music Conservatory. In September 2019, MCS announced it had completed the purchase of the downtown Sandpoint building …
By Jodi Rawson
Reader Contributor
She is a leader, visionary, artist, scientist, wife, mother and she is directing an upcoming opera. She loves Janice Joplin, and she hopes to be …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It’s easy to see the sense in supporting local music for its own sake, but the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint still aims to sweeten the …
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