Iron Ranger Thor Leseman might be a Homegrown rookie on stage, but he played in the festival’s kickball game last year and that’s enough to earn him Chicken Club status. “I started writing music at 15 years old,” he said, “surrounded by family members in bands such as Good Colonels, Big Into, and Rich Mattson and the North Stars, giving me a steampunk rock ’n’ roll background.” Leseman’s neo-traditional galactic folk music did hit two festival stages north of Duluth in 2022 — Pierce Plaza Palooza and Libbfest.