Festival kicks off with Neon Trees
Bonner County Daily Bee | UPDATED 4 months, 3 weeks AGO
Neon Trees will headline the Festival at Sandpoint stage this summer as the pop-rock band is set to perform July 24.
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It's summertime and the sun is shining.
That means it's time to head to War Memorial Field as the Festival at Sandpoint kicks off its 2025 summer performance series today, July 24 with the pop-rock band, Neon Trees.
Emerging pop-rock artist kylekelly will open for the band.
Since releasing their debut album, “Habits,” in 2010, Neon Trees has become renowned as a dynamic, engaging band who has consistently put in the work for over a decade. They’ve performed at major festivals like Coachella, Bonnaroo Life Is Beautiful and Bottle Rock; opened for genre-spanning artists like My Chemical Romance, Maroon 5, and Taylor Swift; and headlined sold-out tours of their own.
On the band’s latest album, “Sink Your Teeth,” released in 2024, Tyler Glenn (lead vocals, piano, keys) approaches everything, from making music to living authentically to creating welcoming spaces for those around him. It’s also a sensibility that’s evident in the pop-rock band’s fifth studio album.
For Glenn, the new album reflects a state of mind felt by many during the pandemic, but it’s not necessarily specific to the past few years. Like all of Neon Trees’ work, the album reveals a balance between the dark and the light.
The album’s debut single, “Favorite Daze,” acts as a bridge between what Neon Trees has done on past albums and how they’ve since evolved. The track, which started as a poem, was a collaboration between Tyler and Joe Janiak. The song has a frenetic, fast-paced rock vibe with an anthemic chorus.
“It was a perfect entry point because it sounds like something classic you would hear from us, but then the chorus explodes into a more modern, slicker vibe that we haven't always played with,” Tyler explains. “It feels like something new. But I’m also being really specific and explicit in the lyrics. I’m speaking honestly and directly to the listener, and I want them to feel that — not just on this song, but on the entire album.”
The concert is a standard show, meaning that the area in front of the stage is a general admission dancing and standing area.
General admission tickets are $55.50 (before taxes and fees). General admission gates open at 6 p.m. with music starting at 7:30.
Information: festivalatsandpoint.com