HomeGrown Live Music Festival

Our incredible team of volunteer venue coordinators have been hard at work putting together this year’s line up – our biggest yet! 15 venues and over 130 performances.

Check out the list and start planning!

Each year at Homegrown Live, we host roughly 90 local acts on 10 – 12 stages in the downtown area. We’ve raised over $100,000 for the Joe Chithalen Memorial Musical Instrument Library, and on Saturday, May 4, we’re going to do it again!
To apply to play at this year’s festival, please fill out an application. We’ll announce our lineup in early April.

Thank you to the 400 volunteer musicians, door people, venues, sponsors, partners, and audiences.  All the new venues worked out really well.  The street parade was a special bonus and it was great fun.  Overall we raised $12,483.00 for Joe’s MILL  just a little shy of our record revenue from last year.  Stay tuned for details regarding a special 10th Anniversary event (film screening, concerts, jams, workshops, and beerfest) Nov 8-10, 2018 called “Plant the Seeds” 

The music was fantastic.  The vibe was really good.  Stress levels of volunteers, organizers, sound techs, and venue coordinators was manageable.  Approximately 350 volunteer musicians convinced over 1100 people to come out and support live music and Joe’s M.I.I.L.  With the additional help of sponsors and partners we raised $12,700, a new revenue record.  Way to go Kingston!