Gozamos is super geeked to be a media sponsor for the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival this year. If you haven’t been to this northwest-side festival, you don’t know what you’re missing. Rather than go through a long list of words trying to convince you to come out and support, I’ll just leave you with the hefty fill of bands listed just for the festival concerts. This doesn’t include the incredible galleries and oodles of other chances for good old street fair fun. For full events, check out the website. Some of this year’s curated bands were hand picked from my new faves, the hotties over at Chicago Mixtape* so pay attention the asterisk.
Festival Center Main Stage at Milwaukee & Logan
Friday July 20
9:00 – Disappears
7:45 – The Mutts
6:30 – This Is Cinema
5:15 – Shannon Hayden
Saturday July 21
9:00 – NOMO
7:45 – Loyal Divide
6:30 – Cains & Abels*
5:15 – Del Rey*
4:00 – Unicycle Loves You*
2:45 – Los Vicios De Papa*
1:30 – Rambos*
12:00 – Pinkalicious The Musical (Family)
Sunday July 22
8:00 – Ana Tijoux
6:30 – My Gold Mask
5:15 – In Tall Buildings
4:00 – Eastern Blok
2:45 – Speck Mountain *presented by saki
1:30 – Las Guitarras de Espana
12:00 – Rhythm Revolution (Family)
Cole’s Stage at Milwaukee & Belden
Friday July 20
9:00 – Yolks
8:00 – Rabble Rabble
7:00 – Big Colour
6:00 – VILLAGE
Saturday July 21
ALL FEMALE FRONTED SHOWCASE
9:00 – The Runnies
8:30 – Ruby yo
7:15 – Tyler Jon Tyler
6:45 – Trinity
5:45 – Moritat
4:45 – Blizzard Babies
3:45 – Swimsuit Addition
2:45 – Charming People
2:00 – Shugga Shug
1:00 – Squish
Sunday July 22
9:00 – Al Scorch
8:00 – Weepin Willows
7:00 – Lawrence Peters Outfit
6:00 – Mike Musikanto
5:00 – Deadbeat
Hairpin Arts Center at 2800 N. Milwaukee
presented by Tito’s Handmade Vodka
LIVE JAZZ PRESENTED BY ELASTIC ARTS AND CHICAGOMUSIC.ORG:
Friday July 20
10:00 Vocalo DJ Collective After-Party Featuring Trancid with Shazam Bangles
Saturday July 21
6:30 – 7:15 Josh Berman – cornet, Matt Schneider – guitar
7:45 – 8:30 Guillermo Gregorio – reeds, Jason Roebke – bass, Brian Labycz – electronics
9:00 – 9:45 Cameron Pfiffner – saxophone, Anton Hatwich – bass
10:00 Vocalo DJ Collective After-Party Featuring Jesse De La Pena with Charlie
Sunday July 22
4:00 – 4:45 David Hernandez & Street Sounds
6:30 – 7:15 Jason Adasiewicz – vibraphone, Nate McBride – bass
7:45 – 8:30 Jim Baker – piano, Josh Abrams – bass
9:00 – 9:45 Mars Williams – saxophone, Kent Kessler – bass