Festival welcomes Grammer, Walk off the Earth

SANDPOINT — Ready for some music?

Andy Grammer, along with Walk off the Earth, will kick off the 2026 iteration of the Festival at Sandpoint as the annual summer concert series begins today.

Headlining the show is Andy Grammer, who recently released his new album, "Monster."

Long known as one of the most optimistic bright lights in the pop singer-songwriter sphere, Andy Grammer found himself fighting demons and finding new corners of himself, places he hadn’t wanted to venture before. 

“Being happy, anger is my vulnerability,” he said. “I didn’t know how to deal with getting in touch with anger. I just pretended it wasn’t there.”

Grammer embarked on a long mental health journey that mirrored an exploratory five-year interim between albums, which, of course, happened to coincide with a particularly tumultuous five years for all of us. After everything, "Monster" became a document of someone walking through a fire they never wanted to even look at, and what happens when they emerge on the other side.  

“The word ‘monster’ has some bite to it,” he says of the moment when he realized it had to be the album’s title. “I began to realize getting in touch with my anger was essential. I began to make peace with it, and the monster got less scary.”  

Grammer struck a careful balance on Monster: He laid it all out there lyrically, but it’s not as if Monster is uncharacteristically heavy in aesthetic. Complex feelings were filtered through rousing instrumentals, reflective ballads, and rejuvenating jams alike. Across the album, Grammer takes on a spectrum of human experience — the mandolin rippling alongside him, like old wisdom surfacing to lead him to some kind of answer.  

Joining Grammer is Walk off the Earth, a JUNO Award-winning multi-platinum musical phenomenon. In the past few years alone, they have headlined Red Rocks Amphitheater and Wembley Arena, sold out the historic Sydney Opera House, notched a top-10 single in Canada for 30 straight weeks and made it all the way to the top of the Pop Albums chart in the U.S. 

They’ve collaborated with artists from all genres including Snoop Dogg, Sarah Silverman, Keith Urban, Steve Aoki, Lukas Graham, Lauv, Lindsey Stirling and many more; sold millions of copies of their recordings and racked up billions of streams along the way. 

Tickets to the opening concert are $80.35, including all fees and taxes. Gates open at 6 p.m. with the concert starting at 7:30. This will be a standard show, meaning that the area in front of the stage is a general admission dancing and standing area.

The Festival at Sandpoint will host its annual summer performance series at War Memorial Field in Sandpoint from July 30 through Aug. 9 at War Memorial Field. 

For more information, go on online to festivalatsandpoint.com.

    Walk off the Earth is joining Andy Grammer at a July 30 Festival at Sandpoint concert.