Community Calendar

A spaghetti dinner fundraiser featuring live music by Denfeld students and alumni will be held on Friday, October 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Denfeld High School. Performances by Denfeld students will include choral, strings and band. Denfeld High School alumni and current Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra members violinist Laurie Bastian, violist Ron Kari and cellist Byron Klimek, will also be featured. Proceeds will benefit Denfeld music programs and restoration of the Denfeld auditorium pipe organ.Tickets are available online at dhorpa.org or at the door. Student/youth ticket $5; adult ticket $10. A gluten-free meal option is available.

Denfeld High School offers a comprehensive range of musical programs,including concert band, string orchestra, jazz band, pep band, and marching band, alongside a choir program and annual theater productions
that showcase musical talent. Students can also participate in smaller ensembles like jazz combos, as well as pit orchestras for shows. The school is known for its vibrant music scene, including traditional events like
the annual lip-sync video and contributions to community performances,such as the Christmas City of the North Parade.

Fully restored in 2007, Denfeld’s 1,940-seat auditorium was designed as a municipal gathering space with a formal entrance and box office accessible from the street for the public. In the 1920s, area merchants and Denfeld High School students and staff worked together to raise money to buy a George Kilgen and Son pipe organ with percussion to be installed as the crowning jewel for this public community space. It was dedicated on June 14, 1927, in the newly completed school by the “spirited merchants and residents of Duluth” with a celebratory concert.

For more than seventy years, this grand organ was used for concerts and accompanied choirs and public events, but now its voice is silent. For years, Denfeld seniors marched to the music of the organ at graduation time. The organ is historically significant because it is one of only two pipe organs installed in Minnesota high schools--Duluth Denfeld and HibbingHigh School--for both school and community use.

7PM Doors | 8PM Show
MOJOHAND || New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based band Mojohand have been writing rockin, country-soul-soaked songs and playing them in every bar, backyard, and basement willing to have them for the past seven years. Their energetic and melodic brand of rock & roll, ginger soul, and Jersey twang has won over crowds from coast to coast.
|| GRAND HOLLER || Stomping out country-rock ballads since 2022, Grand Holler’s gritty sound is one to take the backroads to. The roots-rock band features Mark Erickson on bass, Jesse Annala on drums, and Travis Farleigh on keys, with Andy Spaeth thundering on vocals and guitar. Grand Holler released the single, “Riverboat Queen,” just prior to last year’s Homegrown. It captures the band’s thrumming “dirt road rock” sound and soulful lyrics.

THE GEMSTONES + FRESH BEER
Come on down weekly in October and enjoy some good 'ol Twin Ports funky jams with The Gemstones

SCHEDULE

6:30 Doors

7:00 PM The Gemstones

TICKETS

$5.00 Advance Geneeral Admission

$5.00 Day of Show GA (If Available)

$50.00 Reserved Table for Four (4)

THE GEMSTONES

Duluth’s most determined purveyors of rhythm and blues, funk, and jazz are back at Homegrown after a hectic 2024. The Gemstones bring powerhouse soundscapes and all-around funk/rock sex-suasion to the stage. With Courtney Ellian’s smooth and sultry keyboard stylings, Manny Eisele’s low-end on bass, Josh Nickila’s vintage sound on guitar, Ian Hopp’s “madman on funk-ahol” drumming — and all four on vocals — the band is ready for an even bigger 2025. Work on a new album began in February with Ryan Rusch at the Weight Room Recording Studio in Ashland.

8PM Doors || 9PM Show

BOOG3YM3N is a hip-hop collaboration featuring music producer Nick Pawlenty, aka MidiEvil, organizing the beats. The emcees include Willie Winklesky aka Willie Diction, Chad Brown aka C-Silence, and Scott Vezina aka NonFic. Together they form an exciting showcase of wordsmiths and hard-hitting instrumentals. Each emcee has his own style, and together they blend a variety of hip-hop genres, from LoFi to Vaportrap and more, to bring a party and full-force energy to every show. BIG INTO and Jantzonia North Dakota open the show.

7PM Doors || 8:00PM Show
The Stress Of Her Regard pen sharp-hooked indie rock lavished with squealing guitar feedback, burly riffs, thick rubbery basslines, and crisply driving drums. The group counts the work of The Jesus & Mary Chain, the Dandy Warhols, Johnny Cash, and Jim Jarmusch as foundational influences. The trio also includes Ciaran’s brother, Criostoir Daly, on bass, and drummer and vocalist Eric Wilson. The band came together after the demise of the Daly brother’s former band, The Idle Hands. The pair found their drummer while Ciaran was complaining to Eric, a bar regular, about the duo’s drummer situation. Eric volunteered to play for them—he had learned to play drums for his solo record—and the pair found in him a gifted multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. Together, the band issued its debut EP, Sport Marriage, in 2015. || ENTHEOS ENCLAVE is a full band presenting the songwriting of lead singer Inga Weis. Accompanied by Richard Weis, Saul Myhre, Ben Pichler and Bella Hanson, Inga pulls together sounds of classical guitar, keyboard, bass and drums to create a fusion of epic Nordic rock. As a group, Inga Entheos strives to encourage creativity across artist mediums. Inga is known to articulate their music visually by painting on canvas during shows. The lyrics often speak of unifying concepts, creating a fun-loving and heart-felt musical landscape.

6:30PM Doors | 7PM Show

Come on down and catch Twin Ports songwriter Marc Gartman every Wednesday in November, with a rotating cast of musical guests this week featuring Jacob Mahon, member and band leader of the Twin Ports hottest new bands, Saltydog.

Fifty years after the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Superior native and Stevens Point–based singer/songwriter John Harry returns home for a special afternoon of music at Earth Rider’s Cedar Lounge Taproom. The tribute will feature multiple performances of Gordon Lightfoot’s The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, alongside other Lightfoot favorites, spirited seafaring and swashbuckling tunes, and a few of John’s own originals.

This free show honors the legacy of the Great Lakes’ most famous shipwreck while celebrating the power of song and storytelling. Performance tips from the event will benefit Friends of the Fitz, a local effort to erect a historical marker on the shore where the Fitzgerald began its final voyage.

No Cover

6:30PM Doors | 7PM Show

Come on down and catch Twin Ports songwriter Marc Gartman every Wednesday in November, with a rotating cast of musical guests this week featuring David Carroll of Trampled By Turtles.

Welcome to Jumpsuit Tuesdays! Join us every Tuesday for our Weekly Residency at the Cedar Lounge Earth Rider Brewery taproom. Come rock your favorite jumpsuit and enjoy a night of great music and good vibes. Get ready to dance the night away with our talented DJs spinning the latest hits. And the best part? Free Tickets! Don't miss out on this epic weekly event - mark your calendars now!

Welcome to Jumpsuit Tuesdays! Join us every Tuesday for our Weekly Residency at the Cedar Lounge Earth Rider Brewery taproom. Come rock your favorite jumpsuit and enjoy a night of great music and good vibes. Get ready to dance the night away with our talented DJs spinning the latest hits. And the best part? Free Tickets! Don't miss out on this epic weekly event - mark your calendars now!