The cover presents the 44th Rendezvous in the Park Music & Arts Festival, July 17–18, 2026, in East City Park, Moscow, Idaho. University of Idaho is named as the proud community partner. The cover’s sponsor names are included in Sponsors & donors.
Welcome
The concert site was on Third Street between Monroe and Hayes Streets. The program listed gates at 4:30 p.m. and concerts beginning at 5:30 p.m. on both evenings.
All seating was on the lawn. Visitors were invited to bring a blanket or chair; only blankets were permitted in front of the stage and sound booth.
2026 concert prices
Individual entry was $40 per night. A two-night Rendezvous Festival Pass button was $70. Children 12 years and under were free when accompanied by an adult festival ticket holder.
The cover advertised entry at the door, online, and at Hunga Dunga and One World Cafe. Its QR code was for online tickets. Those sales have closed.
Policies printed in the 2026 program
Alcohol: outside alcohol was prohibited. Hunga Dunga Brewing Company sold beer and wine in the evenings, with valid identification required. Beer and wine could be taken into the concert seating areas.
Pets: the program asked visitors not to bring dogs or other pets, noting that many people sat directly on the grass and dogs could disrupt other attendees.
Weather: concerts were advertised to take place in East City Park, rain or shine.
Recording: performers requested no audio, video or photography recordings of their concerts.
The 2026 program advertised food and drink vendors from 4:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Vendor descriptions below are reproduced from that program.
Battleground
We are a locally focused food truck with big ambitions. We source our produce, meats, and dry goods locally and we pride ourselves cooking from scratch. Our menu reflects different regional cuisine, from Burgers to BBQ and Tacos.
Dom’s Donuts
Pullman’s only fresh, made-to-order donuts! Light cake donuts with a variety of toppings. Every bite is a burst of happiness! With a delectable array of flavors and freshly baked goodness.
Genie’s Catering Service
Enjoy delicious Asian cuisine with Genie’s delectable combination plates featuring BBQ Chicken, Fried Rice, Lumpia, Pancit, and Egg Rolls. Bottled water and a wide range of Pepsi products make the perfect complement.
Hunga Dunga Brewing Company
Enjoy a variety of craft beers, and seltzer cocktails made locally in Moscow, ID. Hunga Dunga also features ciders and wines from the Northwest region. Valid I.D. Required.
Hunga Dunga
The Hunga Dunga food truck specializes in high quality burgers, sandwiches, tacos, and more. They are known for our Lil’ Mac smash burger, Carnitas Taco, and extra crispy French fries and house made sauces. Enjoy their playful menu and delicious food along with their refreshing beverages.
Jeremy was a cherished and central part of the RENDEZVOUS IN THE PARK family, and he is deeply missed by us and by the Moscow community he so loved.
The dedication he had for making this event a success every year was tireless, and we could always count on him for the boundless enthusiasm and joy he brought to every aspect of planning the festival.
If you’ve danced in the pretty lights at Rendezvous in recent years, you’ve directly experienced the immense impact of Jeremy’s talent and heart.
We miss and love you, Jeremy—you’ll be with us in spirit for this and every Rendezvous to come.
Artist profiles as printed in the 2026 program. References to new releases, forthcoming albums, band members and touring plans reflect the original copy.
Opening act · Printed page 4
The Whags
Photo: Courtesy The Whags
Whatever ambitions The Whags have as a band are poured directly into their music, nowhere more evident than on their acclaimed second LP, All Along the Water There’s a Mountain Song. Recorded at Woodinville’s legendary Bear Creek Studios, the album showcases the band’s expansive approach to Americana, weaving together southern rock guitar work, bluegrass-inspired vocal harmonies, and the adventurous spirit of classic jam bands. Fleet Foxes-inspired textures surface in the compositional matryoshka of “Summer,” while Porter’s and Tevlin’s soaring guitar interplay on “Pink” recalls the Allman Brothers. Elsewhere, the late-night warmth of “Little Stick” evokes the Exile-era Rolling Stones, and Jordan Tan’s buoyant piano shines on “High Resolution.”
Although The Whags officially formed in 2017, their musical roots extend back to childhood friendships in the greater Seattle area, where keyboardist Jordan Tan and guitarist Chris Porter first played bluegrass together.
They were later joined by guitarist Liam Tevlin, drummer Cam Hancock, and bassist Charles Wicklander, forming a quintet united by a shared love of roots rock, masterful musicianship, and the creative connection that develops through countless hours of improvisation.
Since then, The Whags have become known for captivating live performances and an ever-growing fan base drawn to their authenticity. Rather than chasing image or expectation, the band embraces an approach grounded in genuine collaboration and musical exploration. Wherever they perform, they bring a refreshing lack of pretense—a group of lifelong friends fully immersed in the moment, creating music together and preserving it on tape.
Often transcending genres, Bywater Call is known for its dynamic, emotionally charged live performances, featuring powerful vocals and compelling interplay among all seven band members.
A powerhouse Southern soul and roots rock outfit from Toronto, Canada, Bywater Call is comprised of Meghan Parnell (vocals), Dave Barnes (guitar), Bruce McCarthy (drums), Mike Meusel (bass), newest member John Kervin (keys), Stephen Dyte (trumpet), and Julian Nalli (tenor sax).
In Feb, 2025 Bywater Call was nominated for the 2025 UK Blues Award for International Blues Artist of the year for the second straight year, alongside artists such as Beth Hart and Walter Trout. Shows have been praised by European media for years, with references to lead singer Meghan Parnell as one of the best female voices in blues and roots today.
The band has also received multiple Independent Blues and Canadian Maple Blues Award nominations including Entertainer, Electric Act and Best Female Vocalist for the 2024 Awards Season.
In March, Bywater Call played their second Joe Bonamassa Keeping the Blues Alive (KTBA) cruise, featuring headliners Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Larkin Poe. Also in 2025, they will play the Netherland’s BOSPOP festival alongside the likes of the Black Keys, Snow Patrol, Beth Hart and Melissa Ethridge.
The band has opened for Canadian award-winning musicians Whitehorse and Tom Cochrane and singer Meghan has joined renowned pedal-steel guitarist Robert Randolph on stage at his request.
About The Album Shepherd (Released 8/9/24)
Their newest album Shepherd has garnered rave reviews from fans and media alike, and was selected as the Blues Album of the Year by UK’s Classic Rock Magazine. Band leaders Meghan Parnell and Dave Barnes were featured on the cover of Blues in Britain in January of 2025.
The band’s music is an exploration of life’s highs and lows. From intimate ballads that lay bare the complexities of human emotion to electrifying anthems that demand to be played at full volume, their catalogue is a journey through the human experience, featuring influences from the likes of The Band, The Wood Brothers, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Otis Redding, Little Feat, Sly and the Family Stone, and many others.
The printed page also promoted pre-orders for Broken Souvenirs, a new 2026 album. This is an archived promotion.
Few bands stick around for thirty-five years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon.
Since their earliest days as a forward thinking, progressive bluegrass band who had the guts to add drums to the mix and who was unafraid to stir in any number of highly combustible styles into their ever evolving sound, to their role as a pioneer of the modern jamband scene, to their current status as elder-statesmen of the scene who cast a huge influential shadow over every festival they play, Leftover Salmon has been a crucial link in keeping alive the traditional music of the past while at the same time pushing that sound forward with their own weirdly, unique style.
The band now features a lineup that has been together longer than any other in Salmon history and is one of the strongest the legendary band has ever assembled. Built around the core of founding members Drew Emmitt and Vince Herman, the band is now powered by banjo-wiz Andy Thorn and driven by the steady rhythm section of bassist Greg Garrison, drummer Alwyn Robinson, and dobro player & keyboardist Jay Starling.
The current lineup is continuing the long, storied history of Salmon which found them first emerging from the progressive bluegrass world and coming of age as one the original jambands, before rising to become architects of what has become known as Jamgrass and helping to create a landscape where bands schooled in the traditional rules of bluegrass can break free of those bonds through nontraditional instrumentation and an innate ability to push songs in new psychedelic directions live.
Salmon is a band who for more than thirty-five years has never stood still; they are constantly changing, evolving, and inspiring. If someone wanted to understand what Americana music is they could do no better than to go to a Leftover Salmon show, where they effortlessly glide from a bluegrass number born on the front porch, to the down-and-dirty Cajun swamps with a stop on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, to the hallowed halls of the Ryman in Nashville, before firing one up in the mountains of Colorado.
Artist profiles as printed in the 2026 program. References to new releases, forthcoming albums, band members and touring plans reflect the original copy.
Opening act · Printed page 7
Bart Budwig
Photo: Matt Kennely / Courtesy Bart Budwig
Archive note: this profile describes a January 24, 2020 album as “forthcoming.” That wording appeared in the printed 2026 program and is retained here.
Bart Budwig, a son of Idaho and former Moscow resident, is a cosmic country crooner, a rousing trumpet player, and cryin’-style soul singer. His music is blend of thrum & strum country rhythms, jazz guitar melodies, R&B vocals. When Bart sings he draws out words into meditative mantras, whole note neologisms that keep you hanging on until his raspy voice trails off in a ragged edge. His forthcoming album, Another Burn On The AstroTurf (January 24, 2020, Fluff and Gravy Records) was recorded over five days by a seven-piece band inside the OK Theater. It’s a melancholy rhapsody that recalls the uncorked rock n’ roll spirituality of king mystic Van Morrison, the gloomy nostalgia of dark prince Nick Drake and the songcraft sans self-seriousness of 70s Muscle Shoals.
Like those psycho-spiritual song crafters, his power comes from vocal idiosyncrasies – intonations of love, impermanence, hope, humor. The album opens with Budwig originals “Time For Two”, “First To Go”, and “Strong Coffee”– originally presented with just solo guitar (and crackling wood stove) on the album Sabai. The songs are recorded here live, full band, in medley, with hot electric guitar, woody double bass, and drums. The band electrifies and scourges the flesh of the songs into fully formed folk rock stunners.
There is what the Romans called a “divine lustre” about Bart Budwig. His blonde hair and beard wrap around his collar, and frame his smile in a nimbus of gold. His radiance belies the loyalty he commands of an army of talent. He’d sooner tell you a joke than reveal to you he’s recorded dozens of albums and hundreds of songs in the last few years. Bart’s mastery of dramatic irony turns his work with complex emotional states of being into comforting, uplifting, relatable music.
It’s this ability to combine tragedy and comedy in his humanist hallelujahs that makes Budwig a gravitational force and industry chimera. The studio general, the clown prince, the sensitive songwriter with a rugged voice. The soul singer with a cosmic country band. The creator of a folk universe drawing musicians from everywhere to the middle of nowhere. It’s this juxtaposition that makes Another Burn On The AstroTurf another success for Bart Budwig, and a must listen for you.
With two songwriters, six albums, and more than a thousand shows under their belt, The Coffis Brothers have earned their reputation as modern-day torchbearers of all-American rock & roll. It’s a sound caught halfway between amplified Americana, acoustic folk, roadhouse R&B, and electrifying roots music, crafted by a pair of California-born siblings who’ve been sharing the stage since childhood, and the five piece band filled out by their childhood friend, Kyle Poppen on lead guitar, and the rhythm section of Aidan Collins (bass), and Cory Graves (drums).
That sound reaches a new peak with Kaw-fis Bruth-urs. The band’s third collaboration with Bay Area legend (and longtime Mother Hips frontman) Tim Bluhm, who serves as the album’s producer, Kaw-fis Bruth-urs finds Jamie and Kellen Coffis letting their guard down, enjoying the creative ride as much as the destination itself. For every signature-sounding song like “Cut Right Through” — a heartland rock anthem built for highway drives and long horizons, as sunny as the band’s Golden State homeland and as hook-driven as a Tom Petty classic — there’s another track that stretches the band’s sound into new territory. The result is The Coffis Brothers’ widest-ranging album yet, running the gamut from bluesy, blue-eyed soul (“Face the Music”) to jangling, harmony-heavy power pop (“Do You Want To”).
“This is what we do, and we’re giving ourselves license to evolve and get better at it, too” says Jamie, who was raised in the Santa Cruz Mountains of northern California alongside his mother — a children’s musician — and his younger brother. Decades after Jamie and Kellen made their stage debut alongside their mom, singing three-part blood harmonies at a young age, their musical bond has only grown stronger, sharpened by hundreds of live shows as much as their shared DNA. “It’s the natural evolution of us performing together and spending so much of our lives together,” Kellen adds. “We didn’t set out to make anything in one particular direction — we just wanted to make a batch of really great songs.”
For over a decade, John Craigie has made music that brings people in, not with spectacle but with sincerity and songs that feel like conversations.
About The Album I Swam Here (Released 2/6/26)
His new album I Swam Here, out February 6, 2026 on Zabriskie Point Records, was written and produced by Craigie and recorded between New Orleans and Astoria. Seven tracks were cut at Deslonde St Studios with musicians handpicked by Sam Doores of The Deslondes, including Howe Pearson, Max Bien Khan, Jonny Campos, and a guest appearance from Desiree Cannon. Longtime collaborator Anna Moss appears across much of the record. The remaining tracks were finished at the Rope Room in Astoria, carrying over the same spirit and palette. The cover art, painted by Brittany Schall, nods to the design of mid century samba and jazz records.
The album’s singles trace the path of its making. “Fire Season,” engineered by Bart Budwig, was one of the first songs written and features Cooper Trail, Nevada Sowle, Luke Ydstie, and Jamie Greenan. “Dry Land” was reworked in Astoria after early New Orleans sessions didn’t feel right. “Edna Strange,” inspired by Marty Robbins, is the only track where Craigie plays steel string acoustic, with Max Bien Khan on nylon string leads and a trio vocal arrangement in place of Moss’s harmonies.
Following 2024’s Pagan Church with TK & The Holy Know-Nothings, which spent six weeks at #1 on the Americana Albums chart, I Swam Here feels both expansive and intimate, shaped by the musical history of the Gulf Coast and the stillness of the Pacific Northwest.
Craigie remains a tireless live performer, touring throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia, appearing at festivals like Newport Folk, Pickathon, Edmonton Folk Festival, and High Sierra, and sharing the stage with artists such as Langhorne Slim, Sierra Hull, Gregory Alan Isakov, Brett Dennen, and Jack Johnson. His annual #KeepItWarm Tour donates $1 from every ticket sold to regional nonprofits, and his John Craigie On The River trips on the Tuolumne and Rogue rivers have become cherished gatherings for fans.
I Swam Here is a grounded, collaborative step forward, blending New Orleans grit with Pacific Northwest quiet, and showing a songwriter still widening the world of his music.
Items and prices advertised in the 2026 program. This archive does not offer merchandise for sale.
2026 merchandise
Rendezvous in the Park crew-neck T-shirt — $25.
Rendezvous in the Park V-neck T-shirt — $25.
Branded 16 oz plastic reusable cups with dome lids, blue or black — $5.
Individual 3-inch circular stickers — $5 each.
Vintage posters from past years, while supplies lasted — $5.
2026 poster, designed by University of Idaho BFA graduate Brooke Cendejas — $10.
Artwork in the printed program
The pale-blue cover and repeated page banners use angular orange guitar and microphone illustrations, a green wind instrument, a blue-and-white keyboard, and scattered green, orange and blue shapes around the festival lettering. Page 4 shows pale-blue crew-neck and V-neck shirts carrying the festival artwork. Page 7 shows blue and black branded cups with clear dome lids, plus three circular stickers with festival lettering and radiating or sunflower designs.
Poster design and illustration credits are preserved in Acknowledgements.
Names, categories and contribution ranges below are those printed in the 2026 program.
Proud community partner
University of Idaho
Gold sponsors ($10,000+)
My Radio 102.5 FM (Inland NW Broadcasting)
Pullman Radio
Silver sponsors ($5,000+)
Inland North Waste
Mick McClure Honda
Major sponsors ($2,500–$4,999)
Daily News / Inland 360
C&T Used Cars
Hunga Dunga Brewing Co.
Ziply Fiber
Benefactors ($1,000–$2,499)
Amz Design
Avista
Best Western PLUS University Inn
DKMullin Architects
Fairfield Inn & Suites
Gritman Medical Center
Gropp Heating, Air & Electric
Hattabaugh Hotel
Hayden Ross
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
Monarch Motel
Moscow Chamber of Commerce
Moscow Food Co-op
Tri-State Outfitters
Zips
Business supporters ($500–$999)
Furniture Center
Gambino’s
Hello Everything
Idaho Ice
Kingfisher Planning and Insurance
Moscow Building Supply
Paradise Lodge No. 17
Pickard Orthodontics
Short’s Funeral Chapel
Schweitzer Engineering
Subway Sandwiches
Investors ($200–$499)
SkyGlow Solar
Rendezvous Platinum Booster ($1,000+)
Jim & Celia Boland
Donna Parks — in memory of Terry Grebielski
Joanne Reece & Bill Voxman
Prescilla Wegars — in memory of Terry Abraham
Rendezvous Gold Booster ($500–$999)
Phil & Kim Cook
Scott & Karrolyn Fedale
Joan Hofmann
Linn Hower
Bill & Frances Thompson
Rendezvous Silver Booster ($250–$499)
Kenton Bird & Gerri Sayler
Courtney Vomund — in memory of Steve Brunsfeld
Daryle & Cyndi Faircloth
Kathy Lafortune
Jerry & Carrie Lee
Aaron Schab
John & Brandy Sullivan
Martin and Julie Trail
Barbara Wells
Rendezvous Bronze Booster ($150–$249)
Harriet Fellman & John Hughes
Ian Von Lindern
Marci Stephens
Individual supporters (up to $100)
Nancy Chaney
Amy Garwood
Steve and Dianne Laursen
Tammy Miller
Eric Stuen
Memorial gifts & bequests
The 2026 program invited memorial gifts, with the honoree listed in that year’s festival program. It also described endowments and personal gifts through estate planning, and directed readers to their attorney for guidance or to the festival for more information.
Stock gifts
The printed 2026 appeal described potential tax advantages of donating appreciated stock to a nonprofit, including a deduction for fair market value without paying capital gains tax. It directed readers to their financial advisor for specific tax guidance and to Rendezvous for transfer information.
The kids director, volunteers and participating artists/vendors are listed under Rendezvous for Kids.
2026 board officers
President: Graham Lilly
Secretary: Sarah Hudnall
Treasurer: Emily Hurley
2026 board members
Julia Ames
John Brunsfeld
Sarah Hudnall
Sara Hume
Sarah Leibbrandt
Chuck McDonald
Tyler Palmer
Madilyn Sleight
“Join us!” — the 2026 booster appeal
The program described Rendezvous as a community-based, all-volunteer nonprofit, dependent on local community donations to make the event possible each year. It invited readers to become part of the Rendezvous family and listed the following donation levels to help support and preserve the festival:
The back cover advertised Dustin Lynch, Adrien Nunez — Country Night, plus a Dustin Lynch DJ club set to close. It listed Friday, August 28 at ICCU Arena, doors at 6 p.m., and UITickets.com. “Welcome Back” and University of Idaho branding appear below a portrait of Dustin Lynch in a cowboy hat against an orange background.
This is an advertisement reproduced from the 2026 program, not an upcoming Rendezvous event or an active ticket offer. The advertisement prints the month and day without a year.
Major sponsors & benefactors — donated $1,000+
The accompanying logo panel identifies the following organizations, in reading order. The category wording is reproduced from the back cover; page 10’s individual contribution categories are retained above.
Organizations shown in the logo panel
University of Idaho
My Radio 102.5 FM
Pullman Radio
Mick McClure Honda
Inland North Waste
C&T Used Cars (Chuck McDonald / Bob Schetzle logo)
Hunga Dunga Brewing Company
Moscow-Pullman Daily News — Independent Local Journalism
