April 29 – May 6, 2012

The Homegrown Music Festival is Duluth’s annual showcase of rawk and/or roll devil music. It began as a simple birthday party with a handful of bands and a bunch of beer. Now it’s a complete bureaucracy, run by a volunteer steering committee and a fiscal agent, featuring about 150 musical acts, along with a few filmmakers and other artists.
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Tickets on sale now!

Tickets on sale now!

The Electric Fetus here in Duluth now has Homegrown week long passes available for purchase! Check the tickets page of our site for other ticket options and pricing. In addition to The Electric Fetus you can also buy tickets at any venue (day of the show) that requires them. If you’re planning on buying tickets at a...
Homegrown on The Current

Homegrown on The Current

This past Sunday, Homegrown Festival Director Walt Raschick and Assistant Director Jake Larson were on 89.3 The Current’s Local Show with Dave Campbell to talk about the Festival and of course… spin some Duluth made tunes. Listen to an archive of the show below: Listen on The Current’s website. Here is the playlist of Duluth...

JJ Lawrence

JJ Lawrence started spinning dance music in the late 90′s after attending his first and only rave. He found the music so addicting that he had to share it with the rest of the world. Lawrence and his wife moved up to the Twin Ports back in 2000 and started Bring the Noise Entertainment. Their...

DJ Dyami Tsunami

Dyami has spent over a decade promoting the electronic music community as well as working in film, graphic design, creative sciences, and Spiritually Oriented Electronic Dance Music. As the electronic age becomes more and more accessible and relevant to us all, DJ DYAMI aims to provide amusement, wit, intellect, and spiritual guidance through his music....

DJ Delgado

DJ Derek Delgado blends Hip-Hop, House, Booty House, Rock, Pop, and his own productions into custom live remixes. Delgado’s has been a party of a number of DJ crews including the Live Animals and most recently the Hill City Rockers. Delgado was also the long time DJ for Duluth hip hop act Kritical Kontact. Delgado got his start mixing...

The Crunchy Bunch

The Crunchy Bunch is a DJ collective composed of friends and music lovers that got its start in 2009. Personal styles complement each other while musically spanning from old & new school hip-hop and rap to funk and brand spanking new dubstep, house and electro. Their goal is to get people to dance, headbop/bang, shake,...

DJ Horsefist

Horsefist is a 400 year old shapeshifter who spends his free time feasting on the flesh of his enemies. When not vacationing in the spirit plane or chillin with his power animal he sells pizza and works at a group home. When he’s not doing these things he is playing records. In fact he has...

DJ Path Annu

Patrick Hannu has been spinning wax in the DuSu for 18 years. He has shared his knowledge and a generous mix of musical genres with the moving masses at weekly residencies for the past 7 years. Known primarily for mixing house, funk, and disco, DJ Path Annu has found fans by showcasing vinyl selections from...

Supreme Rokka Hi-Fi

Long time friends Binghi and Horsefist have been DJing together for over a decade. The the duo run dubplates, 45′s, and MP3′s to create an eclectic mix to get the party jumpin’. Together Supreme Rokka have performed at multiple venues in the Twin Cities and Duluth. Individually they have held residencies at the Red Sea...
Volunteer Appreciation Party

Volunteer Appreciation Party

Come by and say thanks to the awesome people helping to make the Homegrown Music Festival run smoothly. Local musicians Steve Isakson, Rachael Kilgour, and Abe Curran will provide the night’s musical entertainment and everyone’s favorite Friendly Old Knifey will be behind the bar pouring your drinks. This show is all-ages and free to Homegrown...

Thank you to our 2012 sponsors

PLATINUM Clyde Iron Works Grandma’s Sports Garden Dubh Linn Irish Brew Pub Lake Superior Magazine Northland News Center Shiprock Management Twin Ports Nightlife GOLD Carmody Irish Pub & Brewery Fitger’s Brewhouse Pioneer Bar Pizza Lucé R.T. Quinlan’s Rex Bar Twins Bar Tycoons Alehouse Zeitgeist Arts Greater Downtown Council Transistor The PlayList Whole Foods Co-op RED...

This is Now

Founding members Dan Holmi, Jesse Johnson and Garrett Schroeder have played the Twin Ports for over a decade with different hard rock projects. When they formed This is Now three years ago, they decided to skip over the hardcore genre’s stereotypes and fill the gaps with good ol’ fashioned head bangin’ metal music. Filling out the line-up with...