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Marah Evans
Friday of Homegrown Week saw another night of live performances at Earth Rider Brewery festival grounds for their Starfire Unofficial Birthday Bash, and it was Duluth Homegrown Music Festival founder Scott “Starfire” Lunt’s actual birthday, which made everything even more festive. If it seemed as if more people than usual were clad in flannel, blame item #31 from the Unofficial Homegrown Scavenger Hunt task list, “Flannel Day!” The hunt continues through Sunday at 4pm.
The food truck of the day, Oasis del Norte, was on hand and the sun was shining as Kyle Ollah started the evening off with his rootsy folk trio, featuring Clancy Ward on fiddle and Jen Krussow on upright bass. Meanwhile, inside the Cedar Lounge, Ingeborg van Aggasiz was performing for her regular Friday residency, sharing a mix of originals and covers of tunes including Bob Dylan’s “Abandoned Love” and The Replacements’ “Swingin’ Party.”
Black-eyed Snakes ‘grind it out until the end’ during festival week show at Earth Rider
The long-time blues rockers played the finale at Thursday night s Starfire Unofficial Birthday Bash, a Homegrown Music Festival-adjacent event. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
Alan Sparhawk leans into the microphone while performing with the Black-eyed Snakes during the Starfire Unofficial Birthday Bash, a Homegrown Music Festival-adjacent event at the Earth Rider Festival Grounds on Thursday, May 6, 2021, in Superior. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Around the 45-minute mark of the Black-eyed Snakes set on Thursday night at Earth Rider Festival Grounds in Superior, Alan Sparhawk, dressed in a work jumpsuit, a mustache wrapped from one side of his chin to the other, his stocking cap long since fallen from his curtain of curls, admitted to a tent s worth of fans: