BY KAREN BOSSICK

Stanley’s own Potato Mountain String Band will welcome musical acts from around the West this weekend for the 10th Annual Sawtooth Valley Gathering.

The music will be held in a variety of settings, including late-night shows at Velvet Falls Dance Hall in the Mountain Village Resort and the festival main stage situated on a hilltop with a 360-degree view of the Sawtooth Valley and Sawtooth Mountains.

Acts include Cat Clyde, a Canadian who offers a blend of driven, soulful blues and folk-infused dulcet tones; Madeline Hawthorne, a Bozeman., Mont. singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist; Jay Cobb Anderson, who sings hummable, hypnotic, heartfelt anthems rooted in storytelling, and Chris Cullinan’s Sawtooth Family Jam.

The gathering kicks off at 5 p.m. today—Thursday, June 19--with High Pine Whiskey Yell. Festival days start with workshops and early sets beginning at 11 a.m. Friday, at 10:30 a.m. Saturday and at noon Sunday, June 22.

A dollar of every festival pass purchased will go to a nonprofit in Stanley. Past recipients include the Stanley School Parents Association, the Stanley Sawtooth Rural Fire Department, Sawtooth Search & Rescue and the Salmon River Clinic.

For more information, visit https://sawtoothvalleygathering.com/.

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