The gift of song
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Give yourself the gift of music with any of a trio of holiday performances from local artists performing Friday, Dec. 13 through Sunday, Dec. 15.…
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Give yourself the gift of music with any of a trio of holiday performances from local artists performing Friday, Dec. 13 through Sunday, Dec. 15.…
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Each year when Sandpoint natives Laurie and Katelyn Shook come home to play their annual Giving Thanks show at the Panida Theater, they put in …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Running into people at the grocery store can often be a nuisance, but for Nights of Neon, it was a stroke of good fortune.
The …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
It’s tough saying goodbye to good people, especially when they leave Sandpoint’s tight-knit music community. When local musician and award-winning beertender Samantha Carston announced she …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Most people would place classic swing tunes a good distance from electronic beats on the musical genre spectrum.
Not Carey Rayburn.
The classically trained trumpeter …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
The Tonedevil Brothers — David and Anthony Powell — don’t just play their instruments. In a lot of cases, they’ve been familiar with their guitar’s …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Origins stories are always fascinating. Martin Stamper was born with a condition that makes his heart beat so fast it doesn’t pump blood, causing him …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Next weekend marks a quarter-century of rocking out in the woods for SummerFest.
The Eureka Institute’s annual music festival — known colloquially for years as …
By Kathleen Eldred
Reader Contributor
The Members of the Pend Oreille Chorale and Orchestra are hard at work rehearsing for their upcoming Spring Concerts 2019, and are still performing uplifting …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Rarely is an artist’s origin story as unforgettable as Kaylee Cole’s.
The Seattle-based singer-songwriter experienced a brutal car wreck in college. As Jeff Buckley’s “Hallelujah” …
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