Look out, it’s the Flying Mammals!
By Cameron Barnes
Reader Staff
Hometown hero band Flying Mammals is certainly on the up-and-up with their soon-to-be-released album “Vier.” Meaning the number four in German, this album title marks …
By Cameron Barnes
Reader Staff
Hometown hero band Flying Mammals is certainly on the up-and-up with their soon-to-be-released album “Vier.” Meaning the number four in German, this album title marks …
By Cameron Barnes
Reader Staff
If you haven’t heard Sandpoint’s own Still Tipsy and the Hangovers you haven’t made the most of the local bar scene. Either that, or you …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
Something about Sandpoint just keeps Taylor Hicks coming back.
Maybe it’s the lake, the mountains and the lush natural scenery. Maybe it’s the friends that …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
If time is a necessary ingredient in cooking up a legend, then the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has servings to spare. The country-folk-rock outfit marks …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The legendary Bruce Hornsby will be kicking off 2016’s Festival at Sandpoint concert series on Thursday, Aug. 4. Recently the Reader was honored to have …
By Tim Henney
Reader Contributor
A recent New York Times carried the obituary of former big band vocalist Kitty Kallen. This, in part, is what it said: “Kitty Kallen, her …
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 …
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