Music
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Roll Night
Select Instagram images from day seven of the Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
Rollers win Homegrown kickball, knotting series at 11
The chant is heard sporadically throughout the annual Homegrown Music Festival Kickball Classic. “MVP. MVP. MVP.” (more…)
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Rawk Night
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21 likes, 1 comments - ambersimpressionsphotography on May 7, 2022: "Lyla Abukhodair performed at Pizza Lucé on Day 6 of Duluth Homegrown Music Festival!! #dhgmf #dhgmf22
#livemusic #lylaabukhodair #destinationduluth #perfectduluthday".
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Select Instagram images from day six of the Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
MN Moder – “One Minute Murder”
New single by Duluth-based hip-hop artist Zachary Moder, aka MN Moder. Video by Montclair Media.
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Soup Town Night
Select Instagram images from day five of the Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
I love you Homegrown but I can’t do this anymore!
I played my first Homegrown when I was seventeen. My high school band opened for Coyote at Teatro Zuccone. It was the first sold out show of my music career. I got to share a green room with THE Jerree Small. I got an artist pass on a cool lanyard that let me into any all-ages show (and a few 21+ shows too). I felt like I was on the edge of something. I felt grown up and I felt seen. At the time, it seemed like that feeling was coming from my artist pass, free T-shirt, and (maybe) $50 cheque. Looking back, I understand that what I actually experienced was membership and pride in a community of practice for the first time in my young life. Homegrown gave me an invaluable jumping off point as an artist in this city. It made me proud to be from Duluth and proud of my peers and mentors for choosing to make music here. It opened Duluth to me and deepened my relationship to community and to music. That experience kept me coming back through the years and and through my development as an artist. I’m grateful for it and I always will be, but like many artists in this town my relationship to the festival has become a bit complicated. (more…)
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Westside Wednesday
Select Instagram images from day four of the Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Canal Park Night
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13 likes, 0 comments - ambersimpressionsphotography on May 3, 2022: "Day 3 of @dhgmf at the Decc tonight. Ambers Impressions #hgmf22 #dhgmf22 #dhgmf #duluth #onlyinmn #visitduluth #destinationduluth #minnesotaexposure #AuthenticDuluth #duluthmn #perfectduluthday You can find my most current work at https://m.facebook.com/ambersimpressions/ Prints are available upon request! Enjoy!".
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Select Instagram images from day three of the Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Craft District Night
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25 likes, 1 comments - ambersimpressionsphotography on May 2, 2022: "God’s Holy Blood @caddyshackduluth for Day 2 of @dhgmf! Ambers Impressions #hgmf22 #dhgmf22 #dhgmf #duluth #onlyinmn #visitduluth #destinationduluth #minnesotaexposure #AuthenticDuluth #duluthmn #perfectduluthday You can find my most current work at https://m.facebook.com/ambersimpressions/ Prints are available upon request! Enjoy!".
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Select Instagram images from day two of the Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Opening Ceremonies
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13 likes, 2 comments - ambersimpressionsphotography on May 1, 2022: "Duluth Homegrown Music Festival has started!!!! #dhgmf #dhgmf22 #hoopsbrewing #duluthminnesota #visitduluth #destinationduluth #livemusic".
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Select Instagram images from opening day of the Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
Homegrown Music Festival 2022 Primer
The Homegrown Music Festival is back in person, May 1-8. There’s a 100-page Field Guide available as usual, with all the specifics about the 195ish bands performing at 45 venues in the Twin Ports, but what are the hot updates? Well, that’s why PDD always kicks out a primer. (more…)
Video Archive: Homegrown 2017 Movie
Sam Tuthill put together this documentary from select performances during the 2017 Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
Homegrown on Almanac North
The Homegrown Music Festival returns to in-person concerts this year, running May 1-8. WDSE-TV‘s Almanac North program reports on what the Twin Ports has been missing the past two years. (more…)
Ian Alexy – “Teardrops in the Rain”
Ian Alexy‘s new video is for a track from the album Troubadour 21st Century. The clip uses video footage and photos that go back to his childhood in New Jersey and also documents time touring with his band the Deserters and also Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank.
LineCheck: Nat Harvie
Duluth native Nat Harvie recently performed for the Current’s video series LineCheck. Above is “Waiting Song” and below is “No Ash.” Both tracks are from Harvie’s new EP, Married in Song. (more…)
Trampled by Turtles and Elizabeth Cook – “Old Shoes”
Trampled by Turtles were joined by country singer Elizabeth Cook for a cover of Tom Waits‘ “Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)” on March 26 during a concert at GLC Live at 20 Monroe, a concert hall in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The video was shot by Justin Razmus, Heather Kanig and Cooper Baumgartner, and edited by 616 Media. The sound was mixed by Adam Krinsky.
Nelson Family Music
This documentary about the musical Nelson family was produced at the end of 2021 as part of the North by North Film School‘s Documentary Film Production class. It was directed by Carolyn Nelson-Kavajecz (more…)
Seeking information on late local musician Lew Orsoni
I recently opened up an old binder of burned CDs and came across a much loved recording I had forgotten about attributed to Lew Orsoni. It sounds like a live recording. Wonderful ballad about Lake Superior, among other great tunes. I believe I got it from Lew’s son, who used to bartend at the old Twin Ports Brewing Company (predecessor of Thirty Pagan) 20 years ago. I recall Lew had passed away recently at that time. Just looking for info on the CD, Lew Orsoni’s music, and if others have memories of his performances around here.
Sydney Hansen – “Somebody’s Nobody”
Duluth’s Sydney Hansen released this music video today, shot at Spurs on First and directed by Bo Allen of Bopro Video. Hansen cowrote the song with Nashville’s Bill DiLuigi.
Cry on Cue – “Sweetheart Like You”
The video for the first release from the fifth album in the Duluth Does Dylan series — Free Wheelin’ Duluth Does Dylan — is by Cry on Cue, featuring Bernie Larsen on vocals and various instruments, Alan Sparhawk on “big guitar” and Erik Koskinen on drums. The video is directed by Larsen and features Cassidy Linder.
Freewheelin’ Duluth Does Dylan will be released by Spinout Records on May 26 during the Duluth Dylan Fest.
PDD Quiz: Homegrown 2022
Grab your field guide and start getting (cautiously) excited about the return of the Duluth Homegrown Music Festival with this week’s quiz!
The next PDD quiz rolls your way on April 24; it will cover this month’s headlines. Submit question suggestions to Alison Moffat at aklawite@d.umn.edu by April 21. (more…)
Homegrown Music Festival Field Guide 2022 has arrived
The 24th annual Homegrown Music Festival is less than a month away. The 100-page Field Guide is off the presses and will be available at Duluth-area bars, restaurants and other businesses over the course of the next few days. (more…)
Ingeborg von Agassiz – “Winter Dreaming”
Duluth-based electro-folk artist Ingeborg von Agassiz performs a new original song. Catch her at Clyde Iron Works on May 4 during the Homegrown Music Festival.
Mary Bue – “Bones and the Marrow”
Former Duluthian Mary Bue released “Bones and the Marrow” today, a track that will appear on her forthcoming full-length album The Wildness of Living and Dying. Bue is marking the song release with a livestream on Sunday at 3 p.m. CDT on YouTube and Facebook!
Quoth the artist: “The song is a reflection on the quest for finding love not only in a pandemic, but also in a wild and brutal post-divorce dating jungle. Ultimately it’s a healing journey of the broken heart — to slowly, gingerly allow the light to stream in.”
Cloud Cult – “When You Reach the End”
The new music video from Cloud Cult was made by artist Annabelle Popa. It features sped up footage of handwritten lyrics and accompanying drawings — with band leader Craig Minowa faded into the background. (more…)