The Monday of the Duluth Homegrown Music Festival traditionally features the Ancillary Arts: poetry, photography, and video.
Cory Coffman performs at 2104
Music was the main event, however, at the first event of the evening, another set of live-streamed performances from 2104. Grains of Stars opened the evening, with Kristy Marie and Charlie Parr seated barefoot on the floor, creating droning soundscapes on harmonium and steel guitar for a small in-person audience and the internet.
Singer/songwriter Cory Coffman was next, making his second Homegrown appearance of the week. He performed songs from his debut album
Canvas and Color with playful banter from the audience between songs. One audience member was polling people in person and on the livestream as to what their one survival item would be if they were on TV s
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Artist Tom Moriarty is projecting Looking Up From Below on the side of Zenith Bookstore from 9-11 p.m. this week. (Image courtesy of Moriarty)
It s been nearly a year since artist Tom Moriarty began considering the potential of the city s blank spaces. Or, as he described it on Instagram, walls itching for some vibrancy and life breathed back into them.
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When University of Minnesota Duluth senior Stine Myrah needs a break from working on behalf of people, the Earth, and the climate, she goes down to Gitchigumi. Myrah has a symbiotic relationship with her surroundings. She advocates for people and planet tirelessly, and simultaneously she takes sustenance from them.
In her poem, “Cradled by Gaia,” she rhapsodizes about how our seasons and scenery inspire her: