They got the funk
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 band had been forming...
Tagged: local music
Bound for big shoulders
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 was moving to Chicago,...
The roaring now
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 always had a love...
Brothers in harps
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 wood grain since it...
Fast Heart Mart: Punk grass for the people
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 to pass out from...
SummerFest No. 25 on tap next weekend
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 “Jerry Fest” — is...
Chorale and Orchestra to hold spring concerts
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 classical music after 25...
Kaylee Cole: A musician and more
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” played, the car’s radio...
Little Wolf and Brenden Kelty Trio to play at Evans Bros.
By Ben Olson Reader Staff If there’s one thing about Sandpoint is that there is no shortage of awesome venues in which to watch live music. One place that sees a couple of special...
SummerFest announces 2019 lineup
By Ben Olson Reader Staff This July, SummerFest will be celebrating its 25th year (including the prior iteration known colloquially as “Jerry Fest”). Recently, the organizers announced the 2019 lineup to mark this milestone,...
