2024 Sandpoint Summerfest
Mattox Farm Productions is excited to play a role The Eureka Institute’s 30th anniversary 2024 Sandpoint SummerFest!
Below is the lineup for Friday and Saturday June 28th and 29th.
Tickets will be required again this year and can be purchased by clicking the Buy Ticket link below. The earlier you buy a ticket, the cheaper the ticket will be. And remember, tickets are ALL INCLUSIVE, which means they include entertainment, camping, food (dinner and brunch Friday night through Sunday morning), and beverages on us!
With the desire to include everyone in our community that wants to join, we have a volunteer program that makes the weekend even more affordable! Check out the Volunteer Information link below.
2024 SummerFest Lineup
The Two Tracks
Friday
American Songwriter has this to say about The Two Tracks: "They avoid many of the cliches and gimmicks that have grown common in the Americana world while still championing a natural, Earth-grown sound. To hear an acoustic quartet reach a level of dynamic and thematic intensity like The Two Tracks do is an immeasurably rewarding experience. It’s pure musicianship, it’s pure excellence, it’s pure Americana."
Husband and wife Julie and Dave Huebner write songs that traverse the male and female perspective with emotional and natural images of rural American life. The band cares about lyrics, story, and the power of the song, and every arrangement is designed to fully highlight that direct connection between the song and the listener. Hailing from the eastern side of the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming, the band has traversed the country bringing their joyful, unique sound to stages big and small, including NewWestFest (CO), Deadwood Jam (SD), Kate Wolf Memorial Music Festival (CA), MeadowGrass (CO), Albino Skunk Music Festival (SC), Red Ants Pants Music Festival (MT), Levitt Sioux Falls (SD), LevittAMP Green Bay (WI), Ashley for the Arts (WI), Beartrap Summer Festival (WY), Sioux River Folk Festival (SD), Music on the Mothership (NM), Oystergrass (WY), and The LAWN (CO), to name a few, and opened for artists such as Orville Peck, Eilen Jewell, Kitchen Dwellers, Black Lillies, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades and more. They recently completed their first international trip, traveling to Dubai for performances at the World Expo.
Outer Orbit
Saturday
Outer Orbit is a funk soul collective led by Galen Clark (Subtonic, Anna Tivel, Sleater-Kinney) and fronted by vocalist Sarah Clarke (The Motet, Dirty Revival, Portugal, The Man). The band features an all-star lineup of PDX musicians including members of Ghost-Note, Allen Stone, Portland Cello Project, Mono Neon and more. Outer Orbit brings original soul and pocket heavy funk while drawing on a range of influences from Sly Stone and The Meters to Aretha Franklin and Emily King.
Do not miss either of their performances, this will be one of those bandd everyone leaves SummerFest talking about!!!
Banshee Tree
Friday
Banshee Tree is a high energy quartet that blends modern indie, trance and psychedelic rock with old school Django inspired jazz. Using traditional instruments through a range of pedals, Banshee Tree ties the styles and sounds of modern music to the earthy roots of acoustic music in a whole new way. Their live show is a wild dance party with a great deal of improvisation while remaining grounded in indie style songwriting. There is nothing quite like it on the scene.
Hillstomp
Friday
Portland Oregon junkbox blues duo HILLSTOMP is infamous for digging through the dumps and forgotten backwoods of American music, recycling traditional elements into a refreshing and distinctive brand of do-it-yourself hill country blues stomp. North Mississippi trance blues, a bit of Appalachia, and a dash of punkabilly come clanging and tumbling from assorted buckets, cans and BBQ lids, all drenched in rambunctious slide guitar. Somehow it works.
Despite their homemade instruments and novel approach, Hillstomp is no novelty act.
Hillstomp’s memorable live performances tap into a magic that cannot be rehearsed, converting outlaws and traditionalists alike from skeptics into preachers.
DJ Coral
Saturday
In 1999 Coral began her DJing journey when introduced to the irresistible sounds of Psytrance. Her insatiable appetite, energy and joy of the music has naturally evolved into the world of production. For this summer festival, she will take you on a sonic journey with a rare house and techno set guaranteed to get you moving.
Coral's energy and enthusiasm behind the decks, coupled with the full power energy her music selection brings, has made her a consistent favorite time and time again. If you've seen her before this is all very familiar, and if you haven't, be certain to come experience the excitement and smiles of a Coral created dance floor!
Heat Speak
Saturday
Heat Speak is an indie folk group led by singer-songwriter Dario Ré. His impassioned poetics sung in English and French are supported by dynamic musicianship and intricate arrangements to create a unique blend of indie folk, chamber pop and world fusion.
The founding collaborations with violinist Phil Pintor began in 2014 in the budding music city of Spokane, Washington. They began collecting musicians to record what became the 2017 record, Aspen Artichoke released independently under the eponymous band name Dario Ré. Following its release, a rotating cast of musicians banded around Ré to perform throughout the Pacific Northwest many of whom formally united as Heat Speak in 2018.
In 2019, Heat Speak played approximately 60 live shows in the Pacific Northwest and were nominated for a Bartlett Award as Best Local Folk Band/Artist. Their debut album, To Love Wind was released independently September 2020.
Heat Speak features: Dario Ré (guitars, piano, ukulele, vocals), Andie Daisley (vocals), Phil Pintor (violins, mandolin, piano), Michael Starry (upright bass), Tim Gales (mandocello, cello, vocals), Caroline Bickford (cello), Keith Morris (drum kit and auxiliary percussion) and Zack Zuniga (djembe and congas).
Headwaters
Friday
Headwaters flows down from the mountains and valleys of North Idaho pulling listeners and dancers into a multi-genre musical experience. Upright bass, two acoustic guitars, three-part harmony and unique and captivating beats create music that captivates and invites the audience into a circular flow of rhythm, three-part harmony and improvisation. The band consists of John Firshi on guitar and vocals, Jared Johnston on guitar and vocals, John Edwards on upright bass and vocals, and Mick Taylor on drums. Jared, John and John all front originals as well as unique covers offering a variety of styles and sounds that keep the audience engaged. Don’t miss your next chance to jump into the ever-evolving flow of Headwaters.
Biobeat
Saturday
Sandpoint native Biobeat will return to the SummerFest stage for two performances. Be prepaired to be blown away by the organic sounds that can come from the human mouth.
Spokane is Dead
Saturday
“Spokane is Dead” - the inland northwest’s premier Grateful Dead/JGB tribute band led by SummerFest perrenial alumni Lucas Brookbank Brown. Deep cuts and classic hits from all across the years. The band featuers some ZOLA all-stars including Jerry Lee Rains + Lucas Brookbank Brown.
Brendan Kelty & Friends
Friday
With roots in Rustbelt sensibilities, Western North Carolina tradition, and the Pacific Northwest wilderness spectacular, Brendan Kelty has cultivated a soulful sound drawn from gritty travel, wilderness living, and personal relationships; simple real and honest.
Julie Wise Belly Dance
Saturday
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Matt Mitchell Music Co
Saturday
Matt Mitchell Music Company is an original Americana project hailing from the Pacific Northwest. Centered around the old-soul, observational storytelling of Mitchell, who lives full time out of an imported Japanese bus, MMMC brings Mitchell’s tunes to life in solo, acoustic duo/trio and full on, electrified band configurations. Mitchell's songs are equal parts clever, quick-witted and heartbreakingly confessional, (oftentimes all at once) translating well both in attentive listening rooms and rowdy rock halls. If ‘The Band’ took a road trip to Laurel Canyon and pulled their tour bus over to pick up John Prine hitching his way down the pacific coastline, their rolling jam sessions might sound a little like Matt Mitchell Music Co.
Open Mic with John Firshi
Saturday John has been performing his unique style of eclectic music around the Northwest for 14 years and has a very wide range of influences. He has been part of many diverse projects and has provided guitar accompaniment and production assistance for other northwest recording artists. John has drawn from his experience as a supporting musician to develop his own style of original music.
Cole & the Thornes
Friday
Mountain-Island, gypsy-jazz, reggae infused SOUL band, Cole & The Thornes of Bozeman Montana are an eclectic, funky 7 piece group with an infectious uplifting energy.
Led by ukulelist Miss Colita Thorne, her powerful sultry vocals and empowering lyrics are accompanied by Jordan Rodenbiker on Bass, Jacob Rountree on guitar, Alex Platt on drums, Adam Burke on auxiliary percussion and playful horn melodies by Daniel Wood on trumpet and Matthew Powell-palm on saxophone.
Their award winning album "Map Maker" was released in 2018 and was voted as Bozemans best album of the year in 2019. The Thornes have just released their second album "Unbound" in November 2023.
The Thornes have been featured on Montana PBS and have performed at many music festivals such as Summer fest, Reggae in the Rockies, Groovin on, Montana State Hemp fest, and Big Sky Brew Fest alongside artists such as The Movement, Hirie, Donavan Frankenreiter, Satsang, Mike Love and many more.
Their sound will get you moving and leave you searching for that groovy signature "Moonshine Soulshine" they indefinitely radiate.
