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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:
Homegrown Music Festival, unofficially, has Lanue s summerscape, Cash-ian Sonofmel and a bejeweled Father Hennepin
On the third day of Duluth s annual music and art festival week, event creator Scott Starfire Lunt celebrated his band s 24th birthday. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
Sarah Krueger and Alan Sparhawk perform as Lanue during a house concert during Homegrown Music Festival week on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The performance was carried on Livestreams from 2104. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
On Tuesday night, at a big old house on Superior Street where people seem to come and go freely but are asked by way of signage to keep the door closed because of the cat six members of the band Father Hennepin set up in the living room between a piano decorated with records and a shelf stacked with retro board games.
Father Hennepin perform at 2104
As day three of this virtual Duluth Homegrown Music Festival dawned, the Homegrown Scavenger Hunt was heating up just in time for May the 4th, which spawned a slew of Star Wars-themed entries to fulfill item 28, Who started the whole theme night thing anyway? Tuesday. Follow along with all the fun on the Facebook event page.
Lanue performs at 2104
The evening once again started with a trio of acts live-casting from 2104. Lanue, the newest project from Sarah Krueger, was up first. “I’ve somehow managed to make it the entire pandemic without doing a livestream show, Krueger said, so I’m very happy to be here.” Alan Sparhawk of Low joined her on guitar, hunched over with his pandemic hair hiding the glorious mustache he’s cultivated recently (fans of Low’s weekly Instagram live stream, It’s Friday, I’m in Low, will already be familiar). Krueger and Sparhawk gave a shoutout to the “cute little” vaccinated audience indoors and