A shindig for the season
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff When Robb Talbott and his wife, Tasha, lived in West Virginia, they frequented an annual event at a ski touring center meant to celebrate the changing of the seasons...
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What goes around comes around
By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Recording Industry Association of America noted in its mid-year 2019 report that vinyl records earned $224.1 million in the first half of the year, which is closing in...
Folk-grass album release concert Saturday
By Ben Olson Reader Staff For the past 18 years, singer-songwriter Kevin Brown has hosted a bluegrass radio show on Spokane Public Radio called Front Porch Bluegrass. In those almost two decades, Brown has...
Blues on the mountain
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Nothing says North Idaho like an off-grid hootenanny celebrating music and community. Even better if it happens every year, and Billy Mullaley has accomplished just that with Panhandle Bluesfest,...
Going back to The Garden
By Jim Healey Reader Contributor This month marks the 50th anniversary of a musical, cultural, social and political event that has acquired mythic status over time. Nearly two generations have passed since those three...
Reader staff picks for the Festival at Sandpoint
Lyndsie’s pick: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats’ 2018 release “Tearing at the Seams” opens with driving drums followed by a layer of groovy bass guitar, then horns, an organ...
Spreading hope through the power of music
By Kathi Samuels Reader Contributor For nearly a decade, Sandpoint resident and former Director of Asia ICN Heather Mehra-Pedersen traveled the globe as part of the team that hand selects children to join the...
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...
Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs to play KLT benefit
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Fans of high energy folk-rock/bluegrass will not be sorry they checked out Laney Lou and the Bird Dogs at the 219 Lounge tonight — Thursday, May 23 — from...
The Wow Wows release first album
By Ben Olson Reader Staff With the release of their first album, “River Dolphin,” last week, Sandpoint band The Wow Wows have established themselves firmly as a musical force to be reckoned with. The...
