Monthly Archives: April 2008

If you’re gunna bring the Homegrown to the friendly West End… What better way than to bring it with "Experimental Tuesday". This is the night where nearly everything seems out of place. When I first approached the Blue Crab, the … Continue reading →

Ronald Mr. Donald performs

No one was wearing a lab coat or eye protection, but there was definitely an experiment going on. For the Blue Crab Bar in Duluth‘s friendly West End to host music at all was out of the norm enough. The … Continue reading →

An homage to poetry night at Carmody:If a footstomping avatar of Francois Villon didn’t swing his head like a skinny elephant,the weight of its contents drivinghis pondering words If Paul didn’t pick his dandy’s way through the ordinary debris of … Continue reading →

That heading is dual-purpose. It was an evening of short films, and the event itself was also short. We were at Carmody’s by 8:30. Crystal Pelkey and Mike Scholtz were smart to put together a tidy collection of films with … Continue reading →

Highlights from New Band Night at Pizza Luce: Ive been excited to see Coyote ever since hearing their new album. Marc Gartman and Jerree Small harmonize their way through a great batch of songs, Marc on banjo, Jerree on guitar. … Continue reading →

Perfect Duluth Day is, of course, essential reading during Homegrown as in other seasons. This was posted today by "cork1" on Perfect Duluth Day’s Homegrown section: Once again, in an effort to reduce acute alcohol poisonings by encouraging physical activity … Continue reading →

I hurried in to Carmody at 9:15 on Sunday, and found that Todd Gremmel’s 51st Birthday Bash was well under way–in fact, the first band, the occasionally rounded up Rocket Ship to Nowhere, had already performed its signature anthem ("the … Continue reading →

The Pizza Luce square footage will go for ten-fold this weekend, but we were the Homegrown sooners on Sunday. On New Band Night, Sarah and I caught some fresh sounds – Coyote and Soft Spot — and had the space to dance (or the gyrations I call such movement) and could … Continue reading →