The spirit of song
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
It is a warm, bright September evening, the kind that gives no hint of the cold and dark that will inevitably come. Sweaterless, I toss …
By Cate Huisman
Reader Contributor
It is a warm, bright September evening, the kind that gives no hint of the cold and dark that will inevitably come. Sweaterless, I toss …
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, …
By Adrian Murillo
Reader Contributor
The time has come to praise our own unique Sandpoint sound of democracy and equality throwing it down every Monday night. I’m talking about the …
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 …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
When Heartwood Center manager and Mattox Farm Productions founder Robb Talbott told the Reader that he would be striving to bring variety to the newly …
By Reader Staff
Variety is certainly the spice of life for the Pend Oreille Arts Council, as evidenced by the recent announcement of the local nonprofit’s 2022-’23 performing arts series, …
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 …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In life, some seasons feel like a relaunch, a new beginning, a brand new chapter. For Seattle-based musician Kate Dinsmore, that season is now.
From …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Another week, another trio of stellar acts announced for the 2022 Festival at Sandpoint concert series.
The nonprofit announced Lindsey Stirling would be performing Saturday, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
A single conversation with Portland musician Scott Pemberton makes one thing clear: The line between living everyday life and being a song-writing creative is blurred.…
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