Sandpoint Festival concerts continuing through Sunday
This year’s Festival at Sandpoint continues with a diverse quartet of concerts tonight through Sunday at Memorial Field.
Here’s the lineup. Tickets are available through the festival office (888-265-4554, www.festivalatsandpoint.com) or TicketsWest outlets (509-325-SEAT, 800-325-SEAT, www.ticketswest.com).
•Tonight, Robert Earl Keen and Reckless Kelly – Keen is a Texas singer-songwriter with a rabid cult following for his engaging and funny live shows.
Opener Reckless Kelly is a roots-rock band originally from southern Idaho. They are now a staple of the Austin music scene, as is Keen.
Tickets are $32.25. Gates open at 6 p.m. for the complimentary microbrew tasting (ticketholders over 21 get free samples from eight Northwest breweries). Concert starts at 7:30.
•Friday, Los Lonely Boys and Jackie Greene – Greene, a cross between Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, was one of the festival’s most popular openers last year.
Los Lonely Boys, a Grammy-winning Texas group, hit the charts with the huge hit “Heaven” in 2005. Their music combines electric blues, Texas roots and Latin beats into a “Texican” style.
Tickets are $53.45. Gates open at 6 p.m., concert starts at 7.
•Saturday, Josh Ritter and Madeleine Peyroux – Ritter is a singer-songwriter from Moscow, Idaho, who moved to Boston, became a star in Ireland and is now a national act.
Peyroux is a French-American singer with a haunting voice that has been described as a blend of Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline and Edith Piaf.
Tickets are $48.15. Gates open at 4:30 p.m., concert at 6.
•Sunday, Mark O’Connor with the Spokane Symphony – O’Connor, the acknowledged master of the fiddle, has performed with the Spokane Symphony before, but never at the festival. He will perform his Fiddle Concerto, “Appalachian Waltz” and “Fanfare for the Volunteer.”
The orchestra will also play works by Ives and Copland. Fireworks will accompany the finale.
Tickets are $37.55 for adults, $12.11 for youths 18 and under. Gates open at 4:30 p.m. for the “Taste of the Stars” wine-tasting with 30 wineries, for ticketholders over 21. The concert begins at 7:30.