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The ''Homegrown Music Festival'' is Duluth, Minnesota's annual showcase of local music from the Duluth/Superior area and Minnesota's Iron Range. The event has grown from featuring 10 local acts in 1999 to 200 in 2015. It happens every year during the first week of May. The 18th annual Homegrown is scheduled for May 1–8, 2016. Notable acts that have performed in the festival include: Low, Trampled By Turtles, Charlie Parr, Retribution Gospel Choir, the Keep Aways, Giljunko, Puddle Wonderful, the Black Eyed Snakes and Haley Bonar. The event was originally a for-profit venture, but became a nonprofit in 2006. Walter Raschick is the festival director. == Pre-history == Duluthian Scott Lunt, known as "DJ Starfire" or simply "Starfire," became a prominent figure in the Duluth music scene in 1997 when he founded Random Radio, an unlicensed low-power station. With about 40 friends volunteering to broadcast shows from his basement in Duluth's East Hillside neighborhood, Lunt became well acquainted with Duluth musicians and traveling musicians, who would perform live on random broadcasts. For Lunt's 30th birthday, he invited five acts to play at a private party at Lafayette Square in Duluth's Park Point neighborhood. One of those bands was his own, Father Hennepin, performing for the first time. That event is considered the precursor of the Homegrown Music Festival. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Homegrown Music Festival」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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