Past Performance at Sacred Heart
Homegrown Festival
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
7:00pm
$5/at door
Tickets only available at the door the day of a concert
Sacred Heart is proud to welcome back the Homegrown Festival!
Homegrown is a showcase of the vast and diverse musical talent in Duluth and the show at Sacred Heart is no exception. The line up includes:
7 pm Tim Kaiser
8 pm The Rivulets
9 pm Sight Like December
Tim Kaiser
Tim Kaiser has been doing his part to keep Duluth weird for the past 30-odd years with his experimental art and music projects. He’s traveled the world with his video, installation and performance art. At last year’s Homegrown, Kaiser was a jump-suited wizard, coaxing atmospheric soundscapes from a bank of arcane electronic instruments, sometimes with nothing more than a wave of his hand. He builds the instruments himself, and half the fun of a performance is studying these odd, beautiful objects and trying to figure out what they do. Kaiser’s latest album, Analog, came out in 2008 and is available on the Innova label.
Rivulets
Few groups evoke the deep beauty and desolation of a Lake Superior winter quite like the Rivulets, a creation/vehicle of songwriter Nathan Amundson. A wide range of musicians have been known to accompany Amundson, including drummer Nathan Vollmar, who is expected to fly to Duluth for the Homegrown show. The Rivulets’ self-titled debut, full of stark vocals, bleak acoustic guitar and hypnotic ambiance, was released on the Chair Kickers’ Union label in 1999. The band is now with Massachusetts-based Important Records, which released the Rivulets third album You Are My Home in 2007.
Sight Like December
Sight Like December is able to mix up old-timey sounds and modern indie pop like another late-in-the-year band the Decembrists. Whereas the latter focuses on theatrics, Sight Like December holds tight to emotion. Singer/guitarist Steve Johnson and drummer John Lamar are longtime friends who, in 2002, decided to form a band. Eventually they added Andy Bergstrom on bass and Rud Miller on piano, as well as Becky Farmer and Robb Welty on sax to fill out the arrangements. The band is looking forward to releasing its second album this year.
