Days and days of frozen festivities
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Idaho’s snowy weather and freezing temperatures are back just in time for the return of Sandpoint’s Winter Carnival. This year, the celebrations will continue from …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Idaho’s snowy weather and freezing temperatures are back just in time for the return of Sandpoint’s Winter Carnival. This year, the celebrations will continue from …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
There’s something for fans of every genre at the Winter Carnival’s six days of music. Here’s a run-down of each performance.
Friday, Feb. 14:
John …
By Reader Staff
Tickets for An Evening with Jim Messina go on sale Friday, Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. at panida.org. The concert will take place on May 1 at …
By Reader Staff
The Festival at Sandpoint dropped a handful of artist announcements for the 2025 summer concert series, with advance notice that Dispatch, John Butler (with Band), G. Love …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
With New Year’s Eve falling midweek this year, The Hive is hosting “Nearly New Years,” a double-header music extravaganza featuring two nights of great regional …
By Soncirey Mitchell
Reader Staff
Get ready to dress your worst to celebrate the holidays with Royale, a Pacific Northwest cover band that infuses pop culture into every performance. The …
By Reader Staff
Fans of the band Kansas will be treated to classics, such as “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the Wind” when the legendary group performs at …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
Tony Furtado isn’t one to write a setlist. When the banjo-slaying singer-songwriter looks forward to his live performances, he knows there’s an essential element he …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
There will be ripping guitars, soaring horns, thumping bass, polished three-part vocal harmonies, some of the most versatile, swinging drums on the West Coast and, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert-Carey
Reader Staff
In the five years since its inception, Jack Frost Fest has grown from a modest, ticketed concert event to a free, all-day celebration of music, …
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