Summer 2026 Mini Mobile Music Fest
Arts and culture collective Fire in the Village, led by Anishinaabe artist and musician Annie Humphrey, is pleased to announce our Summer 2026 Mini Mobile Music Fest, the Magical Frybread Drive-in.
Frybread came from struggle and hard times for the people (Anishinaabe) who were forced off their lands and onto reservations to live on rations. Flour, lard, salt ... Frybread is a symbol of Aanishinaabe outlasting them (The industrial ruling class).
Join us at the mobile Magical Frybread Drive-in to be inspired, fed, and empowered.
There will be frybread (of course), printmaking, poets and musicians speaking and singing their truth. Thinking for themselves. Join us, let’s be coherent together!
Each Magical Frybread Drive-in is a mobile mini music festival. It starts with social time of frybread & printmaking, followed by a music / poetry / spoken word concert. The spirit of the people is what makes it magical.
“Poetry is free, as it is freeing, much like dancing.” - Brian Babb, Performer at the Magical Frybread Drive-in
“We will outlast these times we’re in… Harder times on the horizon.” - Annie Humphrey, Performer and Frybread Maker and Fire in the Village Director
Shows will take place in Minneapolis and small towns in the northland where Fire in the Village has been building relationships and real connections.
For a full schedule of these and other Fire in the Village events, click here.
Magical Frybread Drive-In
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Summer 2026
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Mini Mobile Music Fest
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Magical Frybread Drive-In ✳︎ Summer 2026 ✳︎ Mini Mobile Music Fest ✳︎
At every Magical Frybread Drive-in, Fire in the Village hosts a pre-concert gathering with food, art, storytelling, and connection!
Frybread will be made by a Rezzy Auntie who knows the secret ingredient.
Everyone is invited to make and take a unique block printed patch from our Fire in the Village print table.
Visit with family, friends, and neighbors and remember: Anywhere that people gather, change is possible!
To Feed the People
To Empower the People
Each night, Annie Humphrey & friends host an evening of storytellers, poets & musicians speaking and singing their truth. Thinking for themselves.
Doors open at 6PM; concerts begin at 7PM (Except Hook & Ladder; 7pm, and Headwaters Music & Arts event; 5:30pm).
Before the music, audiences can gather for frybread and block printing.
Concerts feature special guest musicians.
Tickets are sliding scale, with no one turned away for lack of funds (Hook & Ladder will be ticketed separately).
About the Artists:
Brian Babb is an African American poet from the unceded Land of the Kumeyaay peoples and their ancestors of San Diego, CA. Brian takes path with poetry as way of joining with others in the voicing of our shared and different imaginations, consciousnesses, identities, humanities, and spiritualities. Among many others, Brian heeds Audre Lorde; experiencing poetry as a “vital necessity of our existence” that “lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been done before.”
Justice Humphrey is a poet from the Leech Lake Reservation whose voice reflects an honesty and raw emotion born of his life experience and the power of artisitic expression.
Annie Humphrey is an Aanishinaabe grandmother, veteran, woodswoman, seamstress who writes songs and sings them in the in between.
Jeremy Ylvisaker is a multi-instrumentlist, composer, producer, teacher, and visual artist out of Minneapolis. You can also check out his group Alpha Consumer and his multi-media series Nights for All Time.