The Hive revived
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff The Hive is soon to come alive again, according to a post Nov. 30 on Facebook by Mack Diebel, who co-owns the once and future First Avenue hotspot with...
Tagged: live music
Feeling thankful for the Fall Folk Festival
By Ed Ohlweiler Reader Contributor My wife Pam and I have been attending the Fall Folk Festival for 15-20 years now (let’s just say “umpteen” years for argument’s sake); and, once again, the festival...
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 takes place without any...
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 processes — as well...
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 upside down and banged...
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 individual success in doing...
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 — dubbed Sounds Under the...
‘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: with a high-energy bluegrass...
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 the legendary Craig Morgan...
Everything you need to know about the Festival at Sandpoint
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Festival at Sandpoint’s iconic white tent will soon rise into the air at War Memorial Field, and locals and tourists alike will gather for nine exciting nights under...
