Homegrown Music Festival Grows Music Videos

The above music video for Rise Up by the Black Eyed Snakes, directed by Brian Barber is one of the results of the Homegrown Music Festival in Duluth, Minnesota, which challenged 16 local filmmakers to each make a music video for an assortment of songs from local bands. The songs were randomly assigned, and the filmmakers had 51 hours to make a video.

It’s an interesting experiment, and the music videos are a showcase of the independent bands from Minnesota. The music videos are appearing on YouTube, and there are 13 entries in all. Our selection, after the jump:

Banjones by Crew Jones, directed by Dan Branovan is banjo-rap music video, with some added random footage, including policemen stuffing themselves at McDonalds. Homemade tastes better:

Rivalry by The Keep Aways, directed by Ryan Rapsys. Behold, crazy fast-forwarded indoor plastic gunfights:

Chicken! Farm! Ford! This is the music video for Blue Collar by Jamie Ness, directed by Annie Dugan:

The next video is for Hey Buddy by Mark Lindquist, who said that it was “the first time [the band] had played on the same song together.” The video is directed by John Sweezy. These guys basically filmed themselves selling homemade food at a drive-thru, with some randomness mixed in:

This type of “challenge” really helps spread the word about new music, and since the festival’s foundation in 1999, the music festival has grown from 10 to over 90 bands. It ends Sunday, 3 May, so you can still attend. Find more information at the Duluth Homegrown Music Festival homepage.

You can watch all of music videos entries at perfectduluthday.com. Some of the videos are pretty creative, others are hilarious, but what do you think of the bands?

Source: perfectduluthday