Music

Homegrown Music Festival 2024 Day 8

The North 103.3 | By Christine Dean

Published May 6, 2024 at 2:00 PM CDT

A woman with one arm raised is clog dancing on a board in front of a stage. Part of a seated audience member is seen on the right side and a man playing stand-up bass and the arm of someone playing guitar can be seen on the stage behind her.

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Four Mile Portage performing at Canal Park Brewing

Billie Jo Laitinine

A man seen from the waist up playing guitar and looking to his right

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Tom Maloney of Four Mile Portage performs at Canal Park Brewing

Billie Jo Laitinen

A man plays guitar and sings into a microphone on a stage with large windows behind it

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Bill Bastien performs at Canal Park Brewing

Billie Joe Laitinen

A woman seen from behind holding a phone sideways. Framed on the phone's screen is a band performing on a stage

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At Canal Park Brewing for Day 8 of Homegrown

Billie Jo Laitinen

After a mostly dreary week, on Day 8 of the 2024 Duluth Homegrown Music Festival the sun shone, robins were singing, dandelions were in bloom, and music fans and their dogs and kids enjoyed a beautiful spring day inside and outside on the patio of Canal Park Brewing next to Lake Superior.

Homegrown committee members in their distinctive red jackets mingled, swapping stories of the week gone by and taking time to relax and enjoy the final music sets of the festival.

A woman on the patio of a brewery drinking a beverage and wearing a purse shaped like a chicken. — Homegrown attendees on the Canal Park Brewing patio

Four Mile Portage opened the festivities with a folk set that included a clog dancer, close harmonies, and a cover of Neil Young's "After the Gold Rush."

An acoustic band performs in a brewery in front of a large window — Four Mile Portage performs at Canal Park Brewing

Up next, Bill Bastien, well-known locally for his opera skills, started his solo singer/songwriter set with a version of "O Solo Mio" and put his own spin on "After the Gold Rush."

A man playing guitar and singing into a microphone seen from the side of the stage with a table of people in the background looking on — Bill Bastien performs at Canal Park Brewing

The afternoon of music concluded with the laid-back rock groove of Stardust Collective.

A man playing guitar and singing into a microphone — Eric Bong of Startdust Collective performs at Canal Park Brewing

A woman seen from the chest up singing into a microphone. She's wearing a sweatshirt with a chicken on it. — Shawna Weaver of Stardust Collective performs at Canal Park Brewing

A woman playing drums, seen from her left side. She is looking to her right. — Amy Ugstad of Stardust Collective performs at Canal Park Brewing