Beet Street 2024 ~ Habibi • Graham Hunt Band • Good Vibes Only Medley • Participants• Milwaz Talleres + more!

Sat 10/05/24
1:00PM
All Ages
music
Free

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This year’s Beet Street is happening on Saturday, October 5th!

The annual, family-friendly celebration takes over the 2400 block of S. Wentworth Avenue between Cactus Club (Russell Ave) and Goodkind (Potter Ave) to celebrate music, food, art, and community. Our quiet tree-lined street will transform into a bustling array of artists and small, independent businesses. The block is bookended with local food trucks and a large stage showcasing local, national, and international musicians. Between the music and the food, find:

  • A music video showcase that screens inside Cactus Club
  • A juried pie contest, “The Great Midwestern Pie Championship” at Palomino
  • the following vendors:
    • Aura Iris Portrait Photography
    • Beehive Alchemy
    • DK Nutz Community Art
    • Every1 is Your Valentine (Rae’s airbrushed tees)
    • La Revo Books
    • Living Loaded
    • Punk Rock Rummage
    • Riverwest Grown
    • Sevan Mercy tarot & oracle reading
    • Sturgeon’s Designs
    • Ugly Worldwide
    • Winterspring Farm
    • Zelda Raygun/Doom Town & Country
  • and the following community organizations:
    • 16th Street Clinic – Dept of Environmental Health & Community Wellness
    • AART (African American Round Table)
    • ACLU – Table & Sponsor invite
    • Bay View Historical Society
    • Cathedral Center
    • Community Medical Services (CMS)
    • Girls Rock
    • LIT (Leaders Igniting Transformation)
    • Literacy Services of Wisconsin
    • LSS: Refugee Resettlement
    • Milwaukee Freedom Fund
    • Milwaukee Trans & Queer Depot
    • Milwaukee Public Library
    • Milwaukee Riverkeeper
    • Party for Socialism & Liberation (PSL)
    • The Phoenix (sober activity group)
    • Planned Parenthood
    • Wisconsin Bike Federation
    • Women’s Medical Fund Abortion Fund

 

This year’s main stage will feature memorable sets from Habibi, Graham Hunt, T!ny, MoCity, Phif, Eli $tones, Dejah’E, Participants and more.

Bringing together over 3,000 attendees from Milwaukee and beyond, Beet Street is the celebratory culmination of our year-round Cactus+ programming: uplifting the intersections of intergenerational art and community building.

 

Show Lineup

Habibi

(Brooklyn)
Genre: Garage Rock

Habibi is an American rock band from Brooklyn, New York. They are a blend of psychedelic rock and sixties girl-group harmonies. The name Habibi means “my love,” an Arabic word vocalist Rahill Jamalifard grew up using despite her Iranian origin.

Graham Hunt

(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Alternative Rock, Power Pop
If you know how to work the angles, you can fit a lot into the container of a three- or four-minute pop song. Graham Hunt understands this. Since he was a teenager, he’s been working at perfecting the form, writing songs that get to the heart of what makes Midwestern guitar pop so essential, and doing it while sidestepping any of the dead-end creative moves that weigh down many in the genre.
Nowhere is this balancing act as clear as on the Madison-based artist’s new LP, Try Not To Laugh. It’s a record where breakbeats coexist with anthemic choruses and synth runs go toe-to-toe with acoustic guitars. From start to finish, the song stays at the forefront.
It’s been the throughline for Hunt, who has played in street punk bands and power pop bands and hardcore bands and the underrated Midnight Reruns, who pushed a distinctively Upper Heartland kind of songcraft, one that led to opening slots for The Replacements and a diehard following of Wisconsin alcoholics.
Do you want some reference points? Well, you don’t need them to enjoy this music, but here goes: this music sounds like the Dust Brothers, if they produced an album for Paul Westerberg; this music sounds like Guided By Voices, if Robert Pollard was more influenced by Happy Mondays than British prog-rock; this music sounds like whatever mildly funky Zoomer indie rock band you want it to sound like, if any of those kids knew how to write a chorus.
Speaking of choruses, the record’s lead single “Emergency Contact” has one so big and satisfying that, in a different era, it would’ve knocked on the door of the Top 40—or at least the CMJ charts. The song’s lyrics, like many of the lyrics on this record, are a collaged rendering of the quotidian Midwest experience, made triumphant through the force of the music. With Try Not To Laugh, Hunt has made an album that is made for living inside of.
“Driving down 94/The power grid’s on fire/Don’t get out of the car until the song is over.”

Participants

(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Art-Rock, Post-Punk, Rock & Roll

Participants are a post-punk trio from Milwaukee, whose sound consists of tightly crafted, mechanical drum patterns, euphoric yet minimalistic guitar work, and melodic, driving bass lines. Participants’ debut EP ‘Heavy’ is out now.

T!ny

(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Hip-Hop

Hi I’m Tiny, here to give you music from my heart that I hope you enjoy!! My Instagram is @extravagantlyunusual and you can find my music on SoundCloud @tinytinytee. Don’t be a stranger!

Eli $tones

(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Hip-Hop

Consistency, grit, and his self established style has granted Eli $tones a gradual rise to having a notable name in music. Following the drop of his debut EP, “Elsewhere” in 2016, $tones has proved himself to be Milwaukee’s golden child. His genius in the use of melody, lyrical transparency, and ear for instrumentation shows his passion for the craft, and determination to not be left out of the conversation when discussing great musical artists of this generation.

What is it like to grow up in search of identity while learning to love yourself and others? $tones conquers just that through torturous ballads of day-to-day life’s endless turmoil and the solace of love.

Phif

(Milwaukee)
Genre: Hip-Hop

Dejah’E

(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Hip-Hop, R&B

Independent R&B artist from Wisconsin 💜

Milwaz Talleres

Strings, zapateado (percussive dancing) and syncopated singing are some of the sounds you’ll hear in the Afro-Mexican tradition of Son Jarocho.  Milwaz Talleres, from the 414, brings you this lively tradition that hails from Veracruz, Mexico.