Now in its fifth year, Hamtramck Music Fest returns in 2018 to fill Hamtramck with four nights of local music starting Thursday, March 1. For one weekend bands from all over Michigan will take over the town and perform in Hamtramck’s dive bars, music venues, and PLAV halls.
The 2018 artist lineup was announced on Sunday, Jan. 14 in a post on the HMF Facebook page. More than 200 Michigan-based bands applied but these names made the cut, including Craig Brown Band, Drinkard Sisters, Mango Lane, and Mexican Knives.
For the price of a $10 wristband, guests can roam Hamtramck for three days and nights of live music. If you’re in need of a new favorite local band, this is your festival to find them.
Here is the lineup for this year’s festival with venues and set times to be announced later. Did your favorite local artist make the list?
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Abul on Fire
Act Casual
Alise King
All the Wild Children
Ancient Language
Anthony Retka
Asklepius
Bad Medicine
Bangla School of Music
Banjolectric
BAVE
Ben Keeler Band
Betsy Soukup
Bevlove
Bison Machine
Black Shampoo
Black Tie Circus
The Blueflowers
Blue Pontiac
Bogart
Border Patrol
Brian McCarty & the Big Bad Beat
Brother Son
Bruce Farrell
Bubak
Carmel Liburdi
Cash O’Riley
The Cheetahs
Cosmic Light Shapes
Craig Brown Band
Crashing Cairo
The Creepos
Crune
Cye Pie & Ya Homies
Dear Darkness
Detroit 442
Discipline
Doctor Pizza
Doctor Wolf
Drinkard Sisters
Dr Mindbender
The Dropout
Dude
Duende!
Earth Engine
Electric Huldra
Emilie Rivard
Emma Guzman
Eroders
Ex American
Five Pound Snap
Fizzbang
The Flipsters
Francis DeCarlo
Frank Woodman
Funkwagon
Futile Empire
The Garden Party
Girl Fight
Glasfabrik
Golden Torso
Go Tiger Go
The Gruesome Twosome
Hala
Heartbreak Dallas & the Unfaithfuls
High Totals
Honeybabe
The Idiot Kids
The Imaginatron
Jenny & Jackie
Jheremie Jacque
Jibs Brown & the Jambros
Johnny Salvage & the Dregs
Josef Coney Island
Jo Serrapere & John Devine
JP from the HP
J. Walker & the Crossguards
Kate Hinote
Kelly Zullo & the Invisible Circus
Krillin
Kubat, Finlay & Rose
Ladyship Warship
Lagerheads
Large Extra Large
Little Traps
Lizerrd
Mango Lane
Matt Jones
Mexican Knives
Mike Galbraith
Minihorse
Moonwalks
The My Ways
Nadir Omowale
Nick Schillace
Nina & the Buffalo Riders
Nique Love Rhodes & the NLR Experience
Old Man
Pet Psychic
Pewter Cub
Picnic
Piffle
The Pontiac Stags
Post Imperial Jazz Band
Primitiv Parts
Prude Boys
Rabbit Ears
Rachel Brooke
Raven Love & the 27’s
Remnose
Rocky & the Underbellies
Rogue Satellites
Ryan Dillaha
The Savage Seven
Sax & Violence
School of Rock Rochester
The Scrappers
Shallow Stairs
Siamese
Sidewatcher
The Sillies
Slob
Soul Pepper
SSM
Stefanie Cox & the Blox
Steve Harvey Oswald
The Stools
The Strangers
The Sugar Clouds
Suitcase Boozers
Summer Like the Season
TART
The Thin Man
Anthony Spak is an editorial intern with Metro Times and a recent graduate of Oakland University’s journalism program. Spak spends most of his time in Detroit playing music or eating gyros at Golden Fleece.
