Fire in the Village brings music festival to downtown Bemidji Tuesday
Downtown Bemidji’s Headwaters Music & Arts will host a frybread-and-printmaking festival Tuesday, led by Annie Humphrey and Fire in the Village.
Headwaters Music & Arts will host Fire in the Village’s Magical Frybread Drive-In music festival Tuesday, June 30, at 519 Minnesota Ave. NW in downtown Bemidji. The event turns the longtime arts space into a gathering point for Indigenous music, poetry and community activity, rather than a standard summer concert.
The Bemidji program is listed from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. It is set up as a mobile mini music festival that begins with social time centered on frybread and printmaking, then moves into a concert built around music, poetry and spoken word. Fire in the Village says the format is meant to bring together food, art, storytelling and connection.
The reported lineup for the Bemidji stop includes Brian Babb, Annie Humphrey and Jeremy Ylvisaker. Event listings also point to local beadwork, baked goods, fry bread, s’mores, wild rice soup, coffee and a raffle drawing, giving the downtown event a broader community-market feel alongside the performances.
Fire in the Village is led by Anishinaabe artist and musician Annie Humphrey, and the Bemidji stop is being presented as a partnership with Headwaters Music & Arts. That pairing puts one of downtown Bemidji’s best-known arts venues at the center of an event built around Indigenous creativity and shared space.
Headwaters Music & Arts says it began as a nonprofit in Bemidji more than 30 years ago and moved to its current downtown location in 1997. That history makes 519 Minnesota Ave. NW a familiar arts address for the city, and on Tuesday it will serve as the base for a festival Fire in the Village says is intended to inspire, feed and empower attendees through art, music and community connection.
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