The Homegrown Founder’s Reception is when the beer steins start swaying and the full revelry of the festival begins. It’s a slight refresh of what was in prior years known as the Homegrown Duluth Mayor’s Reception. Instead of the reading of a Mayoral Proclamation by the city’s top elected official, this year Homegrown founder Scott “Starfire” Lunt will give the toast that leads into a performance by the unhinged punk-polka band Winzige Hosen.