A newcomer’s guide to the Festival
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Whether you’ve seen every Festival at Sandpoint show since the ‘80s or this is your first time, there’s always room to make the experience more …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Whether you’ve seen every Festival at Sandpoint show since the ‘80s or this is your first time, there’s always room to make the experience more …
By Jane Fritz
Reader Contributor
Thirty years ago a wellspring of music culture existed in Sandpoint. On the mountain, Gunther Schuller’s Festival at Sandpoint chamber musicians amazed audiences in the …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Florida band JJ Grey & Mofro are not new to the funky soul-rock scene, and they’re certainly not new to Sandpoint, having opened at the …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
If you’ve kept current with Sandpoint music in the last couple of years, one performer has left an indelible mark on the scene: Kevin Dorin.…
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When it comes to variety of live music in Sandpoint, there’s a little slice of heaven for everyone, it seems. No matter what your proclivities, …
By Jodi Rawson
Reader Contributor
She is a leader, visionary, artist, scientist, wife, mother and she is directing an upcoming opera. She loves Janice Joplin, and she hopes to be …
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
It’s hard to imagine a funkier place to be than The Hive this weekend when Turkuaz returns to Sandpoint.
The colorful nine-piece band from Brooklyn, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
When Jason Spooner mentions his touring adventures in the Pacific Northwest, he doesn’t just say he likes Sandpoint. He recounts playing gigs on the shores …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
When I was in college in Colorado around the year 2000, there was this new band starting to break into the music scene. Filled with …
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
The Portland-based seven-piece Dirty Revival will bring it to The Hive on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 8 p.m.
Led by soulful vocals of Sarah Clarke, …
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