It wasn’t quite the wild and crazy return to rawk that Duluthians longed for, but 2021 did mark the transition away from livestreams to in-person concerts. Sometimes outdoors, sometimes masked, sometimes with vaccine cards required and often just with fingers crossed, music fans edged back into the concert scene in year-two of the COVID-19 pandemic. If one thing remained normal, it was that Perfect Duluth Day collected a bunch of gig-poster images to share at the end of the year.

As usual, by no means is this a comprehensive collection of local rock posters, nor is it a carefully curated archive of the best. It’s just a few of them we pulled out to mark another year in the local music scene.

Click on any thumbnail to see the full poster. Use the left or right arrow keys to browse the collection. If you are on a stupid phone, you can tap to see a full poster, but you can’t swipe to browse. That’s just how it is.