This Week in Andersonville & Uptown: Three Nights at the Aragon

Your week-ahead guide to Andersonville & Uptown — 4 picks worth planning around

By Raj Singh · Published June 28, 2026.

The Aragon Ballroom does the heavy lifting this week with three very different headliners on three straight nights, while Andersonville's market gives you a daytime reason to wander Clark Street. Heads up: Monday and Tuesday run hot and stormy (mid-90s, thunderstorms), so the 1926 ballroom's indoor cool is a feature, not a bug.

MONDAY 6/29

Madison Beer: The Locket Tour @ the Aragon Ballroom

Pop's Madison Beer brings the Locket Tour to the historic Uptown ballroom, with doors around 6:30pm. Make a night of it in Uptown — the salt-and-pepper wings at Sun Wah BBQ, a few blocks up Broadway, are a pre-show ritual.

TUESDAY 6/30

CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso: Free Spirits World Tour @ the Aragon Ballroom

The genre-blurring Argentine duo behind one of the year's most talked-about Tiny Desks bring their Free Spirits tour to Uptown, 6:30pm. Fuel up first with the kitfo at Demera Ethiopian, steps from the Lawrence Red Line.

WEDNESDAY 7/1

Andersonville Farmers Market @ 1500 W Berwyn

Andersonville's neighborhood market runs 3–8pm along Berwyn between Clark and Ashland — an easy, walkable break from the week's heat. Pair it with a cardamom bun from Lost Larson on Clark, the gold standard of the strip's Scandinavian bakeries.

THURSDAY 7/2

Buju Banton & Stephen Marley: Roots and Rhymes Tour @ the Aragon Ballroom

Reggae royalty closes out the Aragon's big week — Buju Banton and Stephen Marley co-headline the Roots and Rhymes tour, 7pm. Grab a Vietnamese coffee and a banh mi from Ba Le on Broadway in Little Saigon before the doors open.

More up north all week — see more Andersonville & Uptown events.