Miles and Me:
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie blew America’s musical roof off with bebop jazz in the late 1940’s. Softer, conventional jazz—my kind—languished. Their feverish screeching …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
Charlie “Yardbird” Parker and Dizzy Gillespie blew America’s musical roof off with bebop jazz in the late 1940’s. Softer, conventional jazz—my kind—languished. Their feverish screeching …
By Dion Nizzo
Reader Columnist
Minstrel: [min-struh l] – A traveling musician, singer, or poet.
Barbara Jean is a traveling minstrel in the purest and highest sense of the word. …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
There’s something liberating about a band that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
For Chris Park, John Edwards and Jared Johnston, who collectively are known as …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Bart Budwig is no stranger to collaboration.
An audio engineer who has worked with bands across the Northwest, he’s worked with many bands bring their …
By Scout Anatricia
Reader Intern
Imagine yourself on a beach, surrounded by friends, strangers, compassionate people and the sweet sound of a local band ringing through the evening air. If …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
There are some famous pairings out there in the world; Simon and Garfunkel, Sonny and Cher, peanut butter and jelly. Charley Packard and Eichardt’s. It’s …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
We’ll be hosting John Craigie in the Sandpoint Reader office for our monthly “Live @ The Office” concert this Sunday, June 28 at 6 p.m.…
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