Homegrown Music Festival Posts

Rawkers win unsanctioned Homegrown slap-together kickball

May 08, 2021 No Comments

Scott “Starfire” Lunt surveys the kickball field in his Homegown jumpsuit.

Ryan Nelson was barking all game from his first base post for the Friday Rawkers. In the eighth inning, he actually uttered something that had a grain of truth: “It almost feels like Homegrown.”

He and 50 other people were in synch Saturday afternoon as an unsanctioned Homegrown Music Festival Kickball Classic broke out at the field in the back of Chester Park. Those who were there will call it good, and witnessed a win by the Rawkers over the Saturday Rollers that now puts Friday ahead in the all-time series, 11 wins to 10.

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Videos: Homegrown 2021 Day Six

May 08, 2021 No Comments

A bit more than two hours of local rawk and/or roll comprise the Homegrown Music Festival‘s Friday content.

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Video Archive: The Black-eyed Snakes – “Chickenbone George”

May 08, 2021 No Comments

From the days when digital video quality was horrific, we present the Black-eyed Snakes at the Red Lion Lounge during the Homegrown Music Festival … two amazing decades ago.

Shot by Chris Bacigalupo on May 4, 2001.


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Videos: Homegrown 2021 Day Five

May 07, 2021 No Comments

Thursday’s Homegrown Music Festival content is three and a half hours of livestreamed music from 2104.

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Video Archive: Fred Tyson & the Tysonettes – “Pop that Thang!”

May 07, 2021 No Comments

May 7, 2011 — Freddie Tyson and his beautiful backup singers perform “Pop that Thang” at Pizza Lucé during the Homegrown Music Festival.


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Videos: Homegrown 2021 Day Four

May 06, 2021 No Comments

The stream of video goods from the Homegrown Music Festival continued on Wednesday with an encore presentation of the Winter Fiasco, originally released in January. This version is about half the length of the original, eliminating the interview segments to make it a full two-hours-plus of music.

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Videos: Homegrown 2021 Day Three

May 05, 2021 No Comments

Video of the Homegrown Music Festival‘s DJ livestream from the Embassy does not appear to be available in an embeddable format to show here, but it can be viewed on twitch.tv.

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Videos: Homegrown 2021 Day Two

May 04, 2021 No Comments

Monday’s Homegrown Music Festival video content includes the annual showcases of poetry, photos and music videos … along with a short movie starring Teague Alexy.

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Videos: Homegrown 2021 Day One

May 03, 2021 No Comments

The Homegrown Music Festival is underway, with video releases and livestreams throughout the week.

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Homegrown Music Festival 2021 Primer

May 02, 2021 No Comments

The Homegrown Music Festival is pretty much all online again this year, but things are a bit more organized this time around, with planned video releases and livestreams every day, May 2-9.

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The Slice: Homegrown Music Festival 2021

Apr 27, 2021 No Comments

Duluth’s Homegrown Music Festival will be online again in 2021, due to COVID-19. In the clip above, festival director Melissa La Tour explains that musicians have submitted pre-recorded material that will be curated into daily releases on the festival’s YouTube channel.

In its series The Slice, WDSE-TV presents short “slices of life” that capture the events and experiences that bring people together and speak to what it means to live up north.


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Homegrown Music Festival Field Guide 2021 out this weekend

Apr 10, 2021 No Comments

The 23rd annual Homegrown Music Festival is less than a month away. A 60-page Field Guide is off the presses and will be available at local bars, restaurants and other businesses over the course of the next few days.

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Call for Performers: Welcome Home {Grown} | Live {Stream}

Mar 16, 2021 2 Comments

We miss live music! We all miss live music … right?

This will be the 11th year of 2104’s Soup Social, dubbed #SoupB4Supe. Last year we were forced into the Live Stream gig … and now Bryce Kastning and I, also with support from a few others, have been producing Music Live Stream’s since April 2020. If you haven’t listened to our streams … you can pick them up as often as you want, they are at youtube.com/duluthiscool or 2104.us. As of this writing, we have created 22 streams from 2104.

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Homegrown Winter Fiasco 2021

Jan 22, 2021 No Comments

The Homegrown Music Festival’s annual Winter Fiasco is digital this year. The four hourlong videos feature performances, interviews and archival footage of more than 30 local artists. Episode one features music by Mary Bue, Shadows of Me, the Slamming Doors, Dog Talk, Moriah Skye, Boogeymen, WNDY, and Isolation Band. It also includes words from festival director Melissa La Tour and an interview with Kala Moira about her unofficial 2020 Homegrown Scavenger Hunt.

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This Week in Social Distancing: May 7

May 07, 2020 No Comments

A special Homegrown edition.


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