POST FALLS - The Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center is holding its first Indie Festival at Kiwanis Park on Aug. 10.

Local band Vinyl Instinct will be headlining with The Changing Colors from Colorado. The Changing Colors was recently awarded a touring grant from the Independent Music Tour Program out of Colorado.

The concert is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Western States Art Federation and the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

JACC executive director Shaina Nomee said several tickets have been sold for the inaugural event, but many are still available.

She said the event starts at 5 p.m. and will last until 9 p.m.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own food and chairs or blankets, but beer and wine will be available for sale as part of the event.

Nomee said Vinyl Instinct will be fronted by Ed Graves. The band is well-known in the Hayden Lake area, where they play regularly at the Hayden Country Club and the North Idaho Fair.

They have a rocking indie style that is very unique, she said.

Part of a burgeoning alternative and Americana scene, the Changing Colors stake out new ground on thematic albums that channel frontier mystics and old-world visionaries.

Frontman Conor Bourgal turns on traditional folk elements of authenticity, storytelling and the supernatural for an effect as present as it is haunting, according to his press release. His music is occasionally augmented by lap steel, string accompaniment or female harmonies.

"Bourgal's vocals and guitar form the backbone of a sound that calls up ghosts," his release said.

Their 2008 debut, Ghost of Red Mountain, garnered an enthusiastic reception from local audiences and was hailed by a Santa Barbara Independent news critic as "simultaneously stark and exquisitely expressive."

Funded in part by a grant from WESTAF's prestigious IMTour initiative, the Changing Colors' second album, Joan and the King is expected to gain wider exposure following its release on May 18. The band is currently on a summer tour with dates throughout the West Coast and Northeast.

The Aug. 10 concert will begin at 5 p.m. in the Post Falls Kiwanis Park. Admission is $10 and tickets can be purchased by calling (208) 457-8950 or online at www.thejacklincenter.org.