The long-running Locust Street Festival of Music and Art has been absent from Milwaukee’s summer festival calendar since 2019. Happily, on Sunday, June 11, 2023, Locust Street Festival will make its official return to Riverwest. Live music, oodles of vendors, and, yes, the 1.6-mile Beer Run will all be featured in the 44th installment, which will run from noon to 8 p.m. (The Beer Run kicks off at 11:30 a.m.) Want to know who’s playing? Of course you. Here’s the musical lineup!

Black Husky Rockhaus Stage

12 p.m. — Freddy LaForce Poetry Reading
1 p.m. — Funeral Mountain
2 p.m. — Mortgage Freeman
3 p.m. — Bluegrass All-Stars
5 p.m. — The MilBillies
6:30 p.m. — Chicken Wire Empire

Guitars for Vets Stage

11 a.m. — G4V artists
11:30 a.m. — Beer Run Kickoff
12 p.m. — Bend & Break
1 p.m. — Element
2 p.m. — Group Therapy
3 p.m. — Kharma Shotgun
4 p.m. — Guilty
5 p.m. — Robot Witch
6 p.m. — Paulette D’Amour
7 p.m. — Bellends

KRS Hair & Wax Studio / Lush Popcorn Stage

DJ L-Boogie
Buddy Love
Motown Music
Mighty Ms. Erica and the Sound Production
Blues and Soul
Telle Jenee
R&B
DJ Cheerio

(Exact times TBA)  

Lakefront Brewery Stage

12:30 p.m. — Lovanova
1:45 p.m. — Bone Thief
3 p.m. — Ladybird
4:30 p.m. — Garden Home
5:45 p.m. — Doubter
7 p.m. — Funk Summit Bass Team

Linneman’s Indoor Stage

12 p.m. — Birdbrain
1:30 p.m. — Conscious Congress
3 p.m. — The Rock-A-Dials
4:30 p.m. — Rainbow Cobra
6 p.m. — Modern Joey
8:15 p.m. — The Erotic Adventures Of The Static Chicken