Homegrown Music Festival
Every Single Homegrown 1999 Photo Available
Members of Ballyhoo performing at the inaugural Homegrown Music Festival in 1999. (Photo courtesy Leon Rohrbaugh; photographer unknown)
On the eve of the 25th annual Homegrown Music Festival we take a look at every single locatable image from the first Homegrown in 1999. It was a few years before digital photography became a common thing, a few years before social media existed, and a few years before Homegrown became one of the most photographed events in Duluth. (more…)
Homegrown Music Festival Field Guide 2023 has arrived
The 2023 Homegrown Music Festival runs April 30 to May 7, and the annual Field Guide for the event was trucked into Duluth this morning. Piles of them will be available at local music venues within the coming days.
This year’s festival features 171 acts at 36 venues over the course of eight days. (more…)
Duluth Homegrown Kickball Classic 2022: A Short Film
Photographer Kip Praslowicz gets all artsy with this video showcasing Homegrown Music Festival kickball athleticism.
Homegrown Music Festival 2022 Photo Slideshow
Rock and roll is complicated. But the Homegrown Music Festival made it back after two years of online events during the pandemic. I took a bunch of photos and tossed the best of them into a slideshow. I made it to 58 acts, but that means I missed 131.
The song featured here is by Cars & Trucks from the 2013 album Theatre Stardusk. The band returned from a lengthy hiatus to perform a surprise popup at this year’s festival.
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Recovery and Smelt Parade
Instagram
200 likes, 2 comments - perfectduluthday on May 8, 2022: "Gaelynn Lea closes out the eight-day Homegrown Music Festival. #hgmf22".
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Select Instagram images from day eight of the Homegrown Music Festival and the annual Run, Smelt, Run! Parade and Party. (more…)
Selective Focus: Homegrown 2022 Roll Night
Select Instagram images from day seven of the Homegrown Music Festival. (more…)
Homegrown Photo Banners
In an Instagram and TikTok world, it’s hard to ask anyone to edit and crop their photos during the hubbub of Homegrown. But now that things are winding down, if you’ve got any great shots that would fit that weird horizontal space at the top of PDD, send ’em our way, we’ll add them to the collection for next year. (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
Instagram
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…)
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
Instagram
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
Instagram
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
Instagram
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…)
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…)
Superior Siren – “Alive” (Live at Sacred Heart Music Center)
Eerie folk band Superior Siren performed a livestream from Sacred Heart Music Center on May 2. Wherehouse Productions has now released this video single from the show, featuring the song “Alive” from the band’s self-titled 2018 release.
The performance was part of the Minnesota Music Coalition‘s Minnesota Music Summit and also was integrated into the Homegrown Music Festival.
The Slice: Looking Up from Below
“Looking Up from Below” was a video mural designed by Tom Moriarty and Daniel Benoit that was projected onto the side of Zenith Bookstore in West Duluth during the Homegrown Music Festival. The temporary art installation was meant to showcase whimsy in times of troubles.
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.
Homegrown 2021 Unofficially Unofficial Recap Video
The pandemic put the kibosh on official in-person events during the Homegrown Music Festival, but with restrictions easing up a bit there were numerous unofficial events accompanying the hours upon hours of online video content put out to avoid a superspreader.
In addition to the slaptogether kickball game, outdoor video art installation in West Duluth and the scavenger hunt, there were little bits of actual live music happening with limited attendance. The video above captures clips of some of the unofficial activities, with a note that nothing is officially unofficial, it’s all unofficially unofficial, really. (more…)
Videos: Homegrown 2021 Day Seven
Saturday’s online Homegrown Music Festival content begins with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra‘s season-ending show, From Beethoven to Milhaud. At the 2:18:43 mark a big blawk of local rawk begins. (more…)
Art outside Wussow’s Concert Cafe and Zenith Bookstore
I parked to watch the new media installation by Daniel Benoit and Tom Moriarty. Below is the description from Facebook:
This installation is a pilot project initiated by the Duluth Public Arts Commission, with plans on the horizon for more rad art like this to be shown around Duluth (more…)