A week or so of hoodie weather notwithstanding, summer in Milwaukee is more or less here, and with it comes the buildup to the city’s countless festivals and street parties. A perennial favorite, the Locust Street Festival of Music & Art, has just released its musical lineup for 2015, and it’s really, really good.
The 39th (!) installment of the fest—which takes place on E. Locust St. between Humboldt and Holton—is scheduled for Sunday, June 14, from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. The always popular 1.8-mile Beer Run begins at 11:30 a.m. (Due to construction, the Beer Run route has been changed this year. As such, from 7 a.m.-1 p.m., there will be no parking on the east side of Bremen from Clarke to Chambers, and no parking on Clarke from Fratney to Bremen. The rest of the route will remain the same. Parking will be available on the Pierce St. School lot.)
The Tracks
11:30 a.m.: Chicken Wire Empire
2:45 p.m.: Sam Llanas
5:30 p.m.: RAS Movement
Linneman’s Riverwest Inn (outside)
1 p.m.: Great Lake Drifters
2 p.m.: Calliope
3 p.m.: Ugly Brothers
4 p.m.: Soul Low
5:30 p.m.: Surgeons In Heat
7 p.m.: The Fatty Acids
Linneman’s Riverwest Inn (inside)
3 p.m.: Ladders
4:30 p.m.: Grasping At Straws
6 p.m.: Airo Kwil
8 p.m.: The Young Revelators
Klinger’s East
11 a.m.: Sigmund Snopek’s Beer Show
2:30 p.m.: Harper Rose
4 p.m.: Matt Hendricks, Peter Roller, Joey Leal
Riverwest Public House
12 p.m.: New Boyz Club
1 p.m.: NO/NO
2 p.m.: Siren + Zed Kenzo
3 p.m.: Rio Turbo
4 p.m.: Power Wagon
5 p.m.: Midnight Reruns
6 p.m.: Platinum Boys
7 p.m.: New Age Narcissism
8 p.m. (inside): Stubby Chubbz Brass Band, Mike Regal, Reggie Bonds, Blax
Lakefront Brewery Stage
12:30 p.m.: Omar Snatch And The Phase Drifters
1:45 p.m.: The Calamity Janes And The Fratney Street Band
3 p.m.: Gnarrenschiff
4:15 p.m.: Ahab’s Ghost
5:45 p.m.: Mortgage Freeman
7 p.m.: Volcanos
Wisconsin Veteran’s Stage
11 a.m.: Extra Crispy Brass Band
1 p.m.: Copper Box
3:30 p.m.: God’s Outlaw
6 p.m.: Ruby Red