Festival at Sandpoint welcomes Neon Trees

Neon Trees will headline the Festival at Sandpoint stage this summer as the pop-rock band is set to perform July 24. 

The band joins a Festival lineup featuring Sierra Ferrell, July 25; Toad the Wet Sprocket with Semisonic & Sixpence None the Richer; July 26; Brothers Osborne, July 31; Kansas, Aug. 1; Dispatch with John Butler (with band), Aug. 3; and the Festival's Grand Finale concert: "The Sounds of Summer," Aug. 3. 

The performance by Neon Trees was announced by the Festival at Sandpoint this week. 

Tickets for Neon Trees at the Festival at Sandpoint go on sale today, March 21, on the Festival’s website, festivalatsandpoint.com. 

Neon Trees on July 24 will be 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 p.m. 

Since releasing their debut album, “Habits,” in 2010, Neon Trees have cemented themselves 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. The band has amassed one billion streams and recently logged over 40 million views on TikTok while garnering acclaim from Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and USA Today. With each subsequent release, Neon Trees have continued to push upward and onward. 

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 question was, how do I capture that energy and that feeling of anxiety, but not make it solely about a period of time in our lives or make people only reflect on that when they listen?” Tyler says of the album. “The songs do contain some of the anxiety and existential crisis I was feeling, but there’s also a thread of hope. It’s not wrapped neatly in a bow at the end, but there’s still a hopefulness.” 

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 Festival at Sandpoint’s annual summer performance series, set for July 24-Aug. 3 at War Memorial Field in Sandpoint, features a variety of genres, including pop, rock, country, folk, classical, and more.  

Information: festivalatsandpoint.com