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www.duluthhomegrown.com · Duluth, MN · Sunday, April 27 – Sunday, May 4, 2014 · The 16th Annual Homegrown Music Festival · 3 1. Have fun without wreck- ing things. That means no punching, kicking, com- plaining, crybabying or otherwise pants pissing — unless it is done in a par- ticularly artsy and creative way that amuses people. Under no circumstances should you drink and drive during Homegrown or any other time. Find an old on- the-wagon musician to drive you around. There is also a free trolley on the weekends, sponsored by the Greater Downtown Council and Duluth Transit Authority to get you from venue to venue. 2. Be grateful. In addition to Starfire and the legions of organizers and volun- teers who have followed nual Homegrown. It has him and kept this festival th been a nonprofit for the just structured enough Happy 46 past eight years. A guy we to comprehend, there are call Dizzo (birth name: Wal- numerous other individu- ter Raschick) has been the Birthday, als and entities worthy of festival director for three mucho respect, such as years. Gobs of volunteers Starfire the musicians, the sound NOTES FROM THE 2014 HOMe- help make everything hap- engineers, the bartenders GROWN STEERING COMMITTEE pen; some of them are named in the box to the left, and everyone who is danc- Homegrown Music Festival many more go unsung. ing or otherwise gyrating. committee members faced And hey, we know you The Homegrown concept is a tough decision in 2006 are inherently skeptical of — whether the number of simple: We haul out a butt- load of bands of all genres, authority, but the Duluth bands should be capped Economic Development at 100 or not. Here we stuff them into theaters, Authority made arrange- are eight years later with bars, coffee shops and the ments to locate Home- 200 bands in the festival. occasional pipe shop so grown’s temporary head- Enough already, right? the whole town can shake its naughty bits for eight quarters — “The Chicken Well, the spirit of rawk solid days. There will be Shack” — in the Temple and/or roll just keeps surg- rock, country, hip-hop, Opera Building, so tip your ing in Duluth, and our an- blues, jazz and even an 18- hat to DEDA. The city gov- nual festival keeps getting member flute choir. There ernments of Duluth and more out of control as a will be a music-video show- Superior have also been result. There are 100 pages case, a photography exhib- cooperative, which should of intricate details in this it, a two-hour-long poetry additionally please you snappy Field Guide to help reading, belly dancing, fire while confounding your sort it all out. The page spinning, kickball playing punk sensibilities. you are looking at is where and numerous unplanned we boil down the critical shenanigans. Other than those two sim- background. Read slowly There are only two things ple guidelines, all that’s for best comprehension. asked of everyone during asked is that you enjoy the A guy we call Starfire (birth Homegrown: Have fun with- music and have a happy name: Scott Lunt) started out wrecking things, and be Homegrown! We supply this festival in 1999. The grateful. Allow us to break the rock and roll; the sex 2014 edition is the 16th an- that down into more detail. and drugs are up to you. DAY One · “NEW BAnd” NIGHT Sunday, April 27 DAY-TO-DAY STORIES BY EMILY HAAVIK All right, friends — you can 8:30PM stop Homegroaning about your Mayor’s Proclamation and humdrum existence. The annual Homegrown Hempen Ale Cask Release eight-day musical freak out is TYCOONS ALEHOUSE back to test your physical endur- Free · 21+ ance and desire to be weird. 8:30PM Sunday starts with the band Coy- Lee Lah Sohn TEatrO ZUccONE ote performing at Teatro Zuc- Free · All ages cone before festivities are even 8:45PM officially declared open with the Starling of Athens Mayor’s Proclamation and the TYCOONS ALEHOUSE Free · 21+ Homegrown Hempen Ale Cask 9PM Release at Tycoons. Immediately Homegrown Pub Quiz after this near-religious experi- CarmODY IriSH PUB ence is a set entirely devoted Free · 21+ to debunking religious experi- 9:30PM ences. Toby Thomas Churchill’s Déjà vu Drifters TEatrO ZUccONE atheism-themed side project is Free · All ages called Starling of Athens. 9:45PM “I looked around and saw that Borderstone TYCOONS ALEHOUSE nobody was doing it that I could Free · 21+ see,” Churchill says. “So I thought, 10PM ‘I’ll do that.’” Beachfight Churchill says his goal is not Pizza LUCÉ Free · 21+ to ruffle feathers. At least, not primarily. 10:15PM Current Administration “It’s not in-your-face dickish or CarmODY IriSH PUB Free · 21+ anything,” he says. “I try to incor- porate some humor and some 10:30PM irony and some catchy turns of Vivielle TEatrO ZUccONE phrase to try to get my point Free · All ages across. Which is, religion’s just 10:45PM baloney, I guess.” Saint Anyway TYCOONS ALEHOUSE Once you’re in an existential cri- Free · 21+ sis heightened by a Hempen Ale 11PM haze, try your luck at the Car- Sordes mody pub quiz. No one knows Pizza LUCÉ Free · 21+ who’s hosting this year but re- cords show prize expenditures 11:15PM total approximately $6. Breanne Marie & the Front Porch Sinners CarmODY IriSH PUB Music continues at Teatro, Ty- Free · 21+ coons and Carmody, and the 11:45PM traditional new band showcase Frances Lee Williams Band at Lucé begins at 10 p.m. with TYCOONS ALEHOUSE Beachfight, followed by Sordes. Free · 21+ The Social Disaster, the next 12AM big thing for Duluth riot grrrls, The Social Disaster Pizza LUCÉ wraps up the night. Free · 21+ 7:30PM 12:15AM Coyote Teague Alexy Band TEatrO ZUccONE CarmODY IriSH PUB Free · All ages Free · 21+ www.duluthhomegrown.com · Duluth, MN · Sunday, April 27 – Sunday, May 4, 2014 · The 16th Annual Homegrown Music Festival · 5 PHOTO BY bill schwalbe DAY TWo · ARTS NIGHT Monday, April 28 Monday starts out in Teatro Zucco- 8:30PM ne’s lobby with the Homegrown Fearless Moral Inventory Sir BENEDict’S TavERN ON thE LakE Photo Show, coordinated by Lara- Free · All ages mie Carlson. He takes the pictures with the squiggly lights in them. 9:30PM The Adjustments “Vintage Val” Turcotte and Tom CarmODY IriSH PUB Wristband required · 21+ O’Keefe play in the Zeitgeist Arts Steve Johnson Atrium, just through the double Sir BENEDict’S TavERN ON thE LakE doors. At 7 p.m. head down the Free · All ages Zeitgeist stairs to Zinema 2 for 9:45PM the first screening of the Home- Lion or Gazelle THE REX grown Music Video Festival. Wristband required · 21+ Don’t miss it! You won’t have an- 10PM other chance to see these videos DJ J. J. Lawrence … other than two more times RED Star LOUNGE during Homegrown and any Free · 21+ time, once they hit the Internet. 10:15PM The Ball Slashers The Homegrown Poetry Show- DUBH LiNN IriSH PUB case, which at last check was Free · 21+ 30 poets strong, starts at 8 p.m. 10:30PM at the Underground. Jesse Ho- Dedric Clark & the heisel, Kathy McTavish and Rich- Social Animals CarmODY IriSH PUB ie Townsend will provide mood Wristband required · 21+ music. Mary Bue and Kyle Elden Robi Meyerson organized the showcase. FitGER’S BrEwhOUSE Free · 21+ Downtown Duluth will be filled 10:45PM with music for the rest of the night. Paper Parlor The Red Star is a weird but awe- THE REX some mix of hip hop and folk roots, Wristband required · 21+ Dubh Linn is ball-slashin’-raunch- 11PM n-roll with melodic psychedelia in Legitimit RED Star LOUNGE between, and the Brewhouse is a Free · 21+ rest for your ears with bands that 11:15PM are a bit more quiet and pretty. The Formal Age DUBH LiNN IriSH PUB 5PM Free · 21+ Homegrown Photo Show 11:30PM TEatrO ZUccONE LOBBY Free · All ages Wes Hadrich & Greg Tiburzi CarmODY IriSH PUB 5:30PM Wristband required · 21+ Val Turcotte & Tom O’Keefe De Se ZEitGEIST ArtS BUILDING AtriUM FitGER’S BrEwhOUSE Free · All ages Free · 21+ 7PM 11:45PM Homegrown Music Man on the Moon THE REX Video Festival Wristband required · 21+ ZINEma 2 Wristband required · All ages 12AM 7:30PM The Hobo Nephews Tony Derrick of Uncle Frank Sir BENEDict’S TavERN ON thE LakE RED Star LOUNGE Free · All ages Free · 21+ 8PM 12:15AM Homegrown Poetry Showcase The Acceleratii THE UNDERGROUND DUBH LiNN IriSH PUB Free · All ages Free · 21+ 6 · The 16th Annual Homegrown Music Festival · Sunday, April 27 – Sunday, May 4, 2014 · Duluth, MN · www.duluthhomegrown.com PHOTO BY jason kokal DAY THREe · CANAL PARK NIGHT Tuesday, April 29 If you’re already slacking (It’s only 7PM Tuesday! Get it together!) and you Co¢ky Da$h missed the Music Video Festival, THE UNDERGROUND Wristband required · All ages the first encore is at Zinema 2 at 5:30 p.m. After that, head over 7:30PM to the Underground to catch the Kristy Marie & Jim Hall AmaziNG GracE BakERY & CafÉ Music Resource Center showcase, Free · All ages made up of four talented young 8PM bands from the Armory’s after- Transparency school music program. THE UNDERGROUND Wristband required · All ages Tuesday is, of course, the behe- 8:30PM moth Grandma’s Sports Garden The 13th Choir night. This year’s lineup is Red AmaziNG GracE BakERY & CafÉ Mountain, Cars & Trucks, Toby Free · All ages Thomas Churchill and Retribu- 8:45PM tion Gospel Choir.