It's noise-polluting pretty much the entire city. Some people work nights and sleep during the day. Music and teen events are great, but seriously... When people miles away are sick and trying to rest (me specifically) and said music is literally shaking their house for like eight straight hours, that's a bit much.

It's both. I could hear it at my house up by UMD, so I went for a walk.

Thought at first it was coming from Chester Bowl, but then the echo led me more DT. There were events both at Leif Erikson Park (someone said for Earth Day - which was over a week ago...) and Spring Fling at Bayfront - Graduating Seniors rented the park and most I saw were pretty thrashed - the bus drivers on the way home said so as well. 

Many of them said they were going to Canal Park for the rest of the night...*heads up* run awayyyyyyyyyyy

There was also a pretty loud crowd cheering in/at/or behind the Kitch as well on my way down. Then again, that could've come from Leif too. But lotsa formally dressed people were heading into/hanging around the club - damn upper crust loud rowdies! See how they are.

Nice evening for a walk.

Weather can play a huge part when it comes to sound distribution. I used to live up the hill from Bayfront - some concerts were barley audible, others sounded like they were right in my back yard. It all depends on how it bounces off of the clouds.

We could hear it during Kooser's poetry reading at Scholastica. It really distracted the college kids there, who looked out of Somers apparently thinking it was someone's car.

damn hippies.

My friend who lives in Lakeside heard it too. Same thing. It's funny because I've lived here for years and have never been bothered by anything like this before. The weather must have been just right.

To those who can't help but complain about other people's merriment making (on one helluva soggy day): 

1) I'd be surprised if it was the Respect Your Mother Earth Day Celebration at Leif Erikson. The music there was strictly folky (and over by 10pm -- well within reason, don't you think?)

2) Seriously people, what's the big deal about a little loud music? Caution! Outdoor concert season has officially started! A decent pair of noise canceling headphones would nip your problem in the bud.

3) Take some Metamucil. Tomorrow will be better.

It seems most of you are either old or republican, which I can understand the strange sounds of fun bothering you a bit, BUT I would recommend making room for us, the next generation, and our "techno rap crap".  Try to see it from our perspective.  We brought together over 1000 young people for the sake of having a great time and enjoying life.  There was no violence that I know of, yes kids were trashed, yes the music was modern, people danced, I banged my head.  I don't see where the problem is. The city, the p.d., Famous Daves, and all the bars made a lot of money and everyone had fun.  40,000 kids come register for class in Duluth and while we're not studying we'd like to party just like everyone and their mother did when they were young.  
We're bringing money and people to Duluth and guess what, we're not leaving.  Maybe put on your dancing shoes and come out with us.  That way we can all have fun.

Just because a person spends a lot of money doesn't mean they have the right to break the rules of society. You're assuming that everyone played loud music and bothered their neighbors when they were young ..and that it is a birthright. ..... "we'd like to party just like everyone and their mother did when they were young." some people were respectful of others around them.
No it wasn't the worse thing in the world. But just listening, a person wondered if it was going to get louder. I like to choose my own music and I am sure you like to choose your own too.

Meanwhile, concurrent with the complainers: I agree. It was annoying. Life is gray, so seldom black and white.

Get over it.  It was fun and we actually did it right.

I understand that it may have been very loud. However just because we had fun with loud music yesterday does not mean we are a detriment to society. In fact we are the doctors, lawyers, business people, teachers, artists, and police officers of tomorrow. No, not ten years into the future, more like two weeks into the future! Hence the graduation celebration. The music was probably too loud, but shouldn't the citizens of Duluth be happy that we spent four years educating ourselves in order to better the Duluth of tomorrow? Gandhi said to be the change you wish to see. Well we've spent four years getting the education it will take to get us there, and we deserve the right to party! You can argue all you want but we already did it so what's the point in getting mad? Being angry will do nothing to change your yesterday, and will only take years off your life.

Eh? What?

Whoops.

Lives are on sale "oldish, whitish people" of Duluth; get one.

Please rephrase spy1, over.

I can't stop, partyin' partyin', gotta have Patron, gotta have the beat, gotta have all the pretty girls around me.

It's all relative, you hate our music all night, I hate how loud you are during the day after a 12-hour nightshift stocking boxes in a freezer.  I don't sit here and complain about my neighbor practicing drums all day, my upstairs neighbor playing middle school dance music all day, or my roommate in the next room making music. Unless it breaks laws then STFU and stop bitching, you're making us look bad, but yourselves worse.  Duluth old people are cranky and hate when people don't have fun they way they want?  Great way to stimulate one of the fastest dying cities in the United States.  Have you ever gotten hit by a 110 dBSPL sine wave at 30 Hz?  Heaven.  P.S. Have fun selling your house when sh*t hits the fan.

Turn bass down? I don't get it.

Anyway, I think we all get the point.  I'll make sure we consider our options for bass cannon placement at the next event.  Thanks for supporting an environment where everyone can be heard.

It saddens me to see the level of hate/confrontation going 'round here. What is the point of that? I read all the comments hoping to get a sense of resolution and nothing. Bummer, y'all. We are a community. Tolerance is more precious than previously thought. C'mon people, I implore you to be a little less confrontational, even on this anonymous blog. Peace!

"Loud music is great if it's the right music." Blahahahahaha. What a hypocrite. BTW, I'm 29, "old" in respect to this conversation, and I think it's great they held this event for the graduating seniors! Think of it this way, naysayers ... which would you prefer, a party at Bayfront monitored by the cops, or a dozen house parties going until 4 a.m. right next door to your precious box of solitude (i.e., your home)? Also, one final thing ... if you don't like noise, move out of the city. Because in town there's going to be music, construction, traffic, hospital, etc. noise 24-7. Every time the St. Luke's helicopter flies over my house, should I shake my fist at the heavens and curse the injured person inside? No. It's just a part of living in the thick of it all, and I love it.

I am a 42-year-old nurse working at St. Mary's hospital and I can say that I heard no complaints from ill patients receiving care in the hospital about the noise level -- people much sicker than a 102 degree fever. 

Also, if you were so deathly ill and miserable maybe you should have taken a Nyquil. Noise happens throughout this city every day, maybe you have not been on I-35 lately, driven down Fourth Street? 

A. These kids have worked their asses off to graduate and improve themselves over the past four years and I can only imagine this will not be the only party to happen in the next couple weeks, and in honesty if they do it in the privacies of their homes, at a bar, or at an organized event, they deserve it! 

B. Personally I believe it was very responsible of these seniors to organize an event in an area designated for events like this one. I can imagine they paid good money for the venue, monitored and organized with the police department, and obviously the city of Duluth. Also, obviously if the noise was that loud they spent significant time finding and renting the sound system they had, and I'm sure they had a kick ass D.J. to provide the beats, no one wants to hire someone to throw out crappy beats.

C. Get over yourself, shut your window, and try to appreciate a culture you truly do not understand. You live in a college town in which the economy and general atmosphere is stimulated by those "teens" and if they are not breaking laws, which I am assuming they did not considering the lack of news coverage or the fact that this event didn't even make the newspaper for Duluth to view how "horrible the noise was, or how rowdy these 'teens' were." 

D. I walked my dog through Bayfront Park at 8am the next morning, it was practically spotless, meaning these kids partied and took the responsibility to clean up after themselves. It sounds like a successful event, maybe next time you should take a moment to appreciate the things these students do, their taste in music, and generally the amount of energy and time that they must have put in to an event of this proportion.

Did you miss the part where I said the windows WERE closed? Meh. Whatever. No getting through. Forget it. I'm pretty much over repeating myself.

Also omg 26 is so old. Once I was grilling corn in my yard at 8:45 and we went in the house at ten and my neighbors called the police because apparently the five of us were being too loud. The cops showed up and saw us playing poker on the livingroom floor. They apologized for bothering us. We apologized to our neighbor the next morning for bugging them. The end.

Party on kids.

Excuse me for misidentifying this college event as a "teen event," but the general level of arrogance, thoughtlessness and general assholery from UMDers and their supporters on display here makes me think this was more of a junior high school event.

Let's throw those ungrateful, premarital sex having, booze guzzling teens out of this city.

I had a blast and came across an older couple out on the lake walk who asked us what was going on in BayFront Park and that it sounded like people were having a fun time. Not everyone who isn't a college student up here is a crabass, which is nice to know, and we should all remember that. Sure there are bad apples on both sides, residents and students, but they don't need to spoil the whole relationship in this town! Curtis was careful to make sure the police were involved, the park was respected, and made the bars a lot of money! Obviously the phone calls to the police were ignored because it wasn't a big a deal as a lot of folks were making it out to be.

Apparently those hardworking UMD students are so busy that they forgot to take a comparative literature class in irony.  

It's not just an Alanis Moriessete song.  

For my two cents I was out of town so I have no clue how bad it was.  However I can hear the Bluesfest and just about every other dang thing from my front porch and often through closed windows.  Usually I am totally fine with it, but if I happen to get a little annoyed and bitch about it, it doesn't mean I don't want the event to happen, it is just that I am a little annoyed at the time.  

I certainly can't speak for everyone who's commented, but I think that saying something is annoying and you don't really like the kind of music that it is does not equal hating college students or generational warfare.  On the other hand, yes college students deserve a pat on the back and we are all proud of you. No I'm not being ironic there, I am proud of your accomplishments. But we are not your parents, here to indulge you, we're your neighbors, here to share the community with you.  Part of "commencement" is a beginning, that is the beginning of your professional life.  In my opinion, part of that life is good citizenship, which includes the maturity of being able to tolerate some criticism and razzing when your celebration affects other people.