The Frosty Badger

11/15/2024

You know The Frosty Badger as a great place to see music - but we're also a great place to get together with your colleagues, friends and family for a holiday celebration! We will have the event space decorated for the Holidays starting December 6th. Book your date now! [email protected]

11/11/2024

Grateful to Brad Parsons Nick Delffs and Freeman Dejongh for another special evening of songs, stories and community. Just a bunch of friends around a proverbial campfire enjoying music and each others company. See you in January for an evening with Bill Coffey!

11/07/2024

If you're new to following The Frosty Badger, I'd like to introduce you to what we're trying to do... We exist to be a gathering place for our Community and to be A Hub for Creativity in the Western Treasure Valley.
In case you haven't heard - this Saturday we have three great songwriters that are going to get on stage and share their craft with us - and its an opportunity for all singers, songwriters, music lovers and creatives to gather with your people. Call it networking, call it support, call it the sheer enjoyment of celebrating the practitioners of art - whatever you want, but this is the first of what we hope to be many such gatherings that are centered around songwriting and songwriters. If you're looking for a place and time to come and be inspired by your fellow creative soldiers - now is the time to report to The Frosty Badger and join the fun.

See you Saturday night. Doors at 6P Music at 7P
Curb Appétit will be serving food. BYOB.

All Ages.

Tickets https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1048826005817?aff=oddtdtcreator $17 in Advance, $20 at the Door

PS. If you've read this far, you are the kind of person we would love to have on our email list. The dream is to have a group of folks that love music and want to be part of a select group that has access to curated monthly concerts at The Frosty Badger. DM with your email address and I'll add you to the list of those that are the first to know. We have a great lineup of artists that will sell out already committed for shows in 2025.

11/04/2024

The upcoming Brad Parsons, Nick Delffs, Jake Freeman DeJongh concert this coming Saturday, November 9th is a stop on the road to the Sawtooth Valley Gathering! Going to be another great evening of music!

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1048826005817?aff=oddtdtcreator

The "Road to Sawtooth Valley Gathering 2025" tour just added another stop this weekend in Ontario, OR, at The Frosty Badger! This show is an once in a lifetime "in-the-round" featuring 3 amazing songwriters, Brad Parsons, Nick Delffs, and Freeman DeJongh.

A sign-up sheet will be available at the merch stand, and one lucky attendee will win a Festival Pass to the 10th annual Sawtooth Valley Gathering in Stanley, Idaho. See you Saturday!

🎟️ link in comments.

Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/share/1AeLMha7tQ/

11/04/2024

Three great PNW songwriters - live on Saturday, November 9th!

Spotlight on Freeman Dejongh!

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1048826005817?aff=oddtdtcreator

Freeman DeJongh is a folk and western songwriter who lives in the mountains of Idaho. The sounds and stories he arranges into harmonies and songs are reflections of the natural spaces within and around him. Freeman is a multi-instrumentalist whose curiosities are focused on interweaving the eerie silver sounds of his pedal steel guitar, the electric sparkles of telecasters, the wooden hums of old-time acoustics with the atmospheric drones of organs and synthesizers. Freeman’s voice comes softly from the heart and he sings to share all of his love and sadness with you. The music he creates roams freely between many traditions of American music including folk, jazz, psychedelic, and country and western…

This is going to be one of those evenings where you'll look back someday and say, "I saw them back in the day, in a great little venue in Ontario!"

11/01/2024

Three of the Pacific Northwest's finest songwriters together for the first time! Brad Parsons Nick Delffs& Freeman DeJongh

Spotlight on 📣Nick Delffs 📣

Doors at 6P. Music at 7P. Food will be available from Curb Appetite.

Nick Delffs is not a protest singer. He’s not a gospel singer. But, the product of musical and personal growth that coincided with widespread social upheaval and a global pandemic – just as Delffs navigated first-time fatherhood, losing friends, and approaching his 40s; this all weaves into his songs.
Now Boise-based, Nick Delffs has been a beloved staple of Pacific Northwest music since emerging with his Portland-based band The Shaky Hands in the mid-2000s. It was clear then, as it is now, that he possessed an authentic—maybe ancient—voice.
When writing, Delffs spends as much time as possible not listening to music. “That’s really helpful for me,” he says, “because then it becomes this thing where I need music, I need songs—so I have to make them.” Delffs spent as much time thinking about cows—yes, cows, like the John Gnorski-illustrated one on an album’s cover—in the recording process as he did about any particular musical inspirations.
Still, the memory of music sneaks into the process, as Delffs found himself thinking about Tom Petty and Talking Heads, two artists he loved in childhood. One can hear echoes of David Byrne as well as nods to some other of Nick’s favorite artists (including Alice Coltrane, George Harrison, Yamuna Devi) where they naturally arrive into the sonic landscape of his albums.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1048826005817?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/30/2024

Upcoming Songwriters in the round! Brad Parsons, Nick Delffs & Freeman DeJongh - Today's spotlight is on📣Brad Parsons!📣

Nov. 9th Doors at 6P Music at 7P

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1048826005817?aff=oddtdtcreator

Brad was born in the low desert of the Lewis Clark valley tucked in between the border of Washington and Idaho. He grew up, in church where Parsons also learned the power of communicating with others through music. He went faithfully each Sunday and sang to his fathers congregation from the old hymns and gospel standards.

Growing up and away from the music of the old gospel and diving into the secular classics forbidden to him in his youth, Parsons left the church to pursue music free from the boundaries his religion put on him. In 2008 he moved to Portland, OR and entrenched himself in the burgeoning Americana scene expanding his roots to rock, bluegrass and country music.

The next few were years spent traveling, busking on street corners and playing in dive bars.

In 2016, he compiled songs he had written in vans, spare bedrooms and on front porches and enlisted co producer and engineer Tyler Thompson(Fruition, TK & The Holy Know Nothings) to make his first full length record. He recorded with various musicians in studios in Colorado and Oregon to make “Hold True”. The album mixed heartbreak and haunting social commentary with Parsons’s wry sense of humor. He toured throughout the country and became a yearly mainstay at festivals like Northwest String Summit and Sawtooth Valley Gathering.

Parsons has collaborated with Bart Budwig, John Craigie, Fruition, Cabinet and numerous others throughout his career. He has written, co-written and produced dozens of tracks while earning a reputation as a talented songwriter and dynamic live performer.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1048826005817?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/23/2024

Coming soon! Brad Parsons, Nick Delffs and Freeman DeJongh! Three great singer/songwriters in the round! Nov. 9th at The Frosty Badger

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1048826005817?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/19/2024

Curb Appétit serving the goods at Hillfolk Noir tonight! Come and get it - going to be a treat - both sonically and gastronomically! 😍😋😎 Doors at 6P Music at 7P. Water and Soft Drinks available, BYOB.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/993896139107?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/16/2024

Saturday Night! Not to be missed - Hillfolk Noir at The Frosty Badger! Groovin’ Rockin’ Swingin’ In a word - FUN!

Doors at 6P Music at 7P. BYOB

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/993896139107?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/15/2024

10/12/2024

You can't go back in time - but if you miss Hillfolk Noir at The Frosty Badger on October 19th - you'll be wishing you could time-travel even more than wishing you could stock up on these double-knit flares for $7.77!
Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/993896139107?aff=oddtdtcreator

Curb Appétit will be providing a limited menu - come and get it!

PS. If you show up in Double-Knit Flares, you'll get in for free! (first 20 people)
PPS. This is an Idaho Statesman KMart ad from April 23rd, 1975. It will be available for viewing at the concert. Note the address at the bottom - can you believe it?
PPPS. Too many Easter Eggs in this to mention - post your favorites in the comments and let us know which one of these bargains you would time-travel for???
PPPPS. If you need some liquid refreshment besides, pop and water - better bring your own. 😉

10/08/2024

Loving the support! This will be a fun one…

Hey don’t miss our friends and local heroes ( with EJ drummer ) at in Ontario on Saturday, October 19th!

09/30/2024

Hillfolk Noir coming soon to The Frosty Badger! October 19th. Doors at 5:30, Music at 630!

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/993896139107?aff=oddtdtcreator

Jason Beek

09/26/2024

Heartwarming. Our world is an order of magnitude larger now!

09/24/2024

It happened. It was everything we hoped it would be and more. Folks who know, drove from as far away as Walla Walla and Joseph to catch the great David Francey, with Christopher Murphy and Linda Yapp. It was superb, and lasting friendships were made that will be cherished for the rest of life. Of course, Darren Reynolds of Square Productions dialed the sound in perfectly, so much so that the quality of the audio was still a topic of discussion over coffee this morning!

09/21/2024

This looks like COMMUNITY in Ontario, Oregon. It feels good to The Frosty Badger to be a part of it!