Tagged: live music

A hometown holiday

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff

There is an energy in live music that seems impossible to capture on a record. When a musician truly connects with an audience, a conversation …

Good faith guitar

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff

Parallel to the seasons shifting in the American West, musicians often experience seasonal shifts of their own. 

For singer-songwriter Jonathon Foster, the songwriting and recording …

Emptying the bucket

By Ben Olson
Reader Staff

Genres are helpful to narrow down music styles into convenient buckets. But what happens when those buckets are flipped over, emptied of their contents, placed …

A storied love

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff

Separately, Phil Hamilton and Erica Perry blazed their own trails on the Texas music scene, offering up musical flavors of country and rock, and finding …

Striking a musical match

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff

It’s been a musical summer so far at Matchwood Brewing Company.

Owner Andrea Marcoccio told the Reader that the brewery’s free, outdoor concert series — …

‘One heck of a party’

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff

Mattox Farm Productions is now officially managing Sandpoint’s Heartwood Center, and is launching into this new era the best way founder Robb Talbott knows how: …

Living ‘all in’

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff

Those in North Idaho who love country music benefit from one of the genre’s most beloved subcategories: songs about being on the water. 

Whether it’s …

A love for loud

By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff

When Celeste “CC” Spina posted a video of herself drumming in Craigslist’s “Musician’s Wanted” section over a decade ago, it is safe to say that …

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