The Beale Street Music Festival is a three day music festival that has both a mix of big-name stars performing side by side with local musical acts. Held during the first weekend of May in the city’s Tom Lee Park at the foot of Beale Street, it is considered to be the kick-off event of the entire Memphis in May celebration. It typically hosts 100,000+ people for each of the first two nights of the event, and usually quite large crowds for the ending big-name finales on Sunday night.
Headliners
Festival lineup
- 3 Doors Down
- 30 Seconds to Mars
- Al Kapone
- Alice in Chains
- Alison Krauss & Union Station (feat. Jerry Douglas)
- Alvin Youngblood Hart
- Band of Horses
- Blind Mississippi Morris
- Blues Traveler
- Boys Like Girls
- Chevelle
- Coco Montoya
- Colbie Caillat
- Colbie Caillat
- Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band
- Dragon Batli
- Drive-By Truckers
- Earth Wind & Fire
- Elmwood
- Five Finger Death Punch
- Goo Goo Dolls
- Gov't Mule
- Hall & Oates
- Hubert Sumlin
- Janiva Magness
- Jeff Beck
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jimmy Thackery
- Joan Red
- Joanne Shaw Taylor
- John Hiatt
- Kenny Neal Band
- Leon Russell
- Limp Bizkit
- Michael McDonald
- Mute Math
- Neon Trees
- North Mississippi Allstars
- Puddle of Mudd
- Puddle of Mudd
- Robert Wolfman Belfour
- Rock Sugar
- Ruthie Foster
- Savoy Brown
- Seether
- Sonny Landreth
- Sour Eyes
- The B-52s
- The Constellations
- Truth & Salvage Co.
- Vince Neil
- Walter Trout & Band
- Walter Trout & The Radicals
- Widespread Panic
- Yo Gotti
Festival News and Rumors
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