Festival at Sandpoint feat. Emmylou Harris, The Bros. Landreth, the Powers

This year’s Festival at Sandpoint kicks off Thursday with Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, but the big excitement comes when Emmylou Harris takes to the stage Saturday. The Country Music Hall of Fame singer-songwriter never ceases to impress with her wide catalogue of originals, covers and collaborations (with artists as diverse as Beck, Dolly Parton and Elvis Costello). The 69-year-old Alabama native started out singing folk music in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, and soon fell into duet work with country crooner Gram Parsons, but she’s always been a bit rock ’n’ roll as well. Expect her set to end the first weekend of the Sandpoint festival on a high note.