A genuine good time
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 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.…
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
If you asked a room full of musicians what inspired them to learn an instrument, some would probably say their love was awakened by a …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Every year, as the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve, a familiar song is often heard crooned by half-drunk party goers as they ring …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Conductor Jan Pellant has traveled a long way in his musical career to arrive in Sandpoint. Born in Prague, Czech Republic, and the son of …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Parents, by and large, want their kids to be better than them in all the ways that they lack; and, already, mine are my betters …
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