Mystics set to wrap up concert series

The Mountain Home Summer Concert Series concludes this Friday, August 9, at Carl Miller Park, with the The Mystics, Boise area’s longest-running classic rock group featuring Tim Woodward, Lawson Hill, Rico Weisman, and Don Cunningham. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and enjoy an evening of live music for all ages, art & vendor booths, and food & beverage. The concerts, offered free to the public, will be from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Booths will open at 6 pm.

The Mystics were Boise’s top band during the mid-1960s, one of rock and roll’s most influential eras. They are the only Idaho Sixties band still with an original member and feature some of the valley’s best rock musicians playing classic rock by classic artists—the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Everly Brothers, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neil Young, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and many more. The band has spent nearly three decades of playing at festivals, private and company parties, reunions, wedding receptions, cruise nights, fundraisers, benefits, the governor’s ball, Alive After Five, Nampa Nights, the Western Idaho Fair, Boise River Festival, Boise’s Fourth of July Celebration, the Idaho Botanical Garden’s summer concert series, and other events, and has opened for the Guess Who, Rick Nelson, Chad and Jeremy and many others. Players have come and gone during their tenure, with most of the early members being replaced by some of the area’s best professional musicians. Current members include Mystics co-founder and longtime Statesman columnist Tim Woodward, Lawson Hill (28 years), Rico Weisman (18 years) and Don Cunningham (11 years). The group recorded a full-length CD of original material in 2015 (copies available onstage), but play mainly covers that audiences are familiar with at their gigs.

The band says, “If you haven’t heard The Mystics lately, you haven’t heard The Mystics.”