The Brady Street Music Festival has been going strong since its return in 2007 — and has another return in store for 2025: It’s back on the last Saturday in July after moving things around last year to accommodate the Harley-Davidson Homecoming.
That means from noon to 11 p.m. this Saturday, July 26, you’ll be able to head over to the eponymous street on the East Side between Van Buren Street and Farwell Avenue for four stages of music, plus all kinds of food and drink and goodness knows how many vendor tents filled with everything from candles to crystals.
Seriously, we don’t know how many because there isn’t a vendor list, which makes sense considering how many local businesses and craftspeople show up to the festival every year.
We can tell you the three bars will be run by local nonprofits that will receive 100% of your tips, so make sure to give generously. BEST’D Clinic will be behind the East Bar, Tamarack Waldorf School gets the Center Bar, and the combined efforts of the Brady Street Area Association and Cass Street School will run the West Bar.
We can also tell you that 26 acts will play across the festival’s four stages, the full lineups for which you can find below.
Brady Street Festival 2025 schedule
Captain Morgan Stage (center stage)
- Noon — School of Rock
- 1:30 p.m. — Dennis Caravello
- 3 p.m. — Ur Mom
- 4:30 p.m. — Ben Mulwana
- 6:30 p.m. — El Sebas
- 8 p.m. — Tae & The Neighborly
- 9:30 p.m. — Millbillies
North Shore Bank Stage (west stage)
- Noon — Soul Collective (including yoga class)
- 1:30 p.m. — dak duBois
- 3 p.m. — Lost Orange Cat
- 4:30 p.m. — NilexNile
- 6 p.m. — Modern Joey
- 7:30 p.m. — Hot and Dirty Brass Band
- 9 p.m. — Brew City Belly Dancers
- 9:30 p.m. — Brady Street Babes
Bud Light Stage (east stage)
- Noon — Bee The Change
- 1:30 p.m. — Trio Elegancia
- 3 p.m. — Meg & The Wheelers
- 4:30 p.m. — Allison Mahal
- 6 p.m. — Genevieve Hayward
- 7:30 p.m. — Wire & Nail
- 9 p.m. — Diet Lite
Lilliput Stage
- 2:30 p.m. — Leah Jean
- 4 p.m. — Tom West
- 5:30 p.m. — Brontë Fall
- 7 p.m. — Tori MF Zo
