PINEDALE, Wyo. — July 14, 2025 — At a recent Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund (WCTF) board meeting, Pinedale Fine Arts Council received a $6,000 grant to assist with their 2025 Soundcheck Summer Music Series. This popular summer music series provides free concerts in Pinedale and Big Piney in July and August. The summer series in Pinedale includes five evening concerts held at American Legion Park and four Folks for Kids concerts in association with the Sublette County Library. Big Piney concerts include an evening concert and a Folks for Kids concert. This year, two additional senior concerts will be held, one in Pinedale and one in Big Piney. 

Tim Ruland, executive director of Pinedale Fine Arts Council, notes that the Soundcheck concerts bring locals and tourists alike to the downtowns of both Pinedale and Big Piney and provide a significant uptick in dining, lodging, and shopping numbers. In recent years, they have added local food trucks to their concert venues, and vendors have remarked that the evening performances provide an incredible opportunity to turn a profit based on the concerts' increasing audience numbers.

"What the Soundcheck Series brings economically to Pinedale and Big Piney is incredible," Ruland says. "It's great to present awesome bands from all over the country to our small rural communities, but it's also so rewarding to attract an audience from all over the country who, before and after the shows, head downtown and visit all the great shops and restaurants our county has to offer."  

"The Town of Pinedale funds the [Pinedale] Soundcheck Series with 10% of revenue from the Pinedale Lodging Tax," Ruland continues. "So as the concert series has grown, the more lodging tax is generated via attendees staying in local hotels." 

For more information about Pinedale Fine Arts Council and their Soundcheck music series, visit pinedalefinearts.com.

For more information about the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund and its grant programs, visit culturaltrust.wyo.gov.

Figure 1: Soundcheck Folk for Kids, Lonesome Heros performed for summer camp students, 2020. 

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