Festival welcomes Grammer, Walk off the Earth

Andy Grammer, along with Walk off the Earth, are slated to perform at the Festival at Sandpoint’s 2026 summer concert series.

The concert will be held Thursday, July 30. Gates will open at 6 p.m. with the concert starting at 7:30 p.m. This will be a standard show, meaning that the area in front of the stage is a general admission dancing and standing area. 

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.  

In the half-decade since 2019’s "Naive", Grammer lived a lot of life. There were heart-bursting highs, like welcoming his second child, and harrowing trials, including the rupture of an important relationship. During the bleak pandemic years, he sought therapy for the first time and began realizing there were all kinds of emotions he was just beginning to process for the first time. Originally, Grammer experimented with capturing an era dynamic with both struggle and growth in smaller snapshots: A host of steady singles across 2020-2023, as well as 2022’s "The Art Of Joy EP". Back then, Grammer planned to collect the singles alongside a few new songs for his fifth album. Instead, he picked up a mandolin.  

Grammer wasn’t intending to make an album built around mandolin, but it happened. He wrote one song called “Bigger Man,” the genesis and skeleton key to what became "Monster". It was an uncustomary track for him: grappling with anger, but striving to remain bigger than the darker sides of that emotion. Suddenly, a new album began pouring out of Grammer. The folk pedigree of the mandolin proved inspiring. 

“There’s something about Americana and the twang that felt real to me when singing about struggle,” he said.  

Soon, Grammer had a whole batch of songs, but he knew he had to bring this new sound into the studio and meld it with his anthemic pop sensibilities. As the music came tumbling out of Grammer, so too did a lot of emotional reckoning in the wake of his therapy. 

“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. 

Since the group’s inception, WOTE has continued to push the boundaries of what an artist can do. Their YouTube covers have won them Streamy Awards – the highest accolade in the online space – their renditions of the national anthem have been performed at major sporting events such as the NBA Finals, and their original songs have earned numerous high-profile accolades (“Red Hands” achieved #1 at AAA radio while “Rule The World,” “Fire In My Soul” and “I’ll Be There” have all been certified multi-platinum).

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