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.
Ticket Price: $69
Headliners
Festival lineup
- 8Ball & MJG
- Al Kapone & The Band
- Amos Lee
- Amy LaVere
- B.o.B
- Betty LaVette
- Buckcherry
- Cage The Elephant
- Cee-Lo
- Charlie Wilson
- Devon Allman's Honeytribe
- Egypt Central
- Everclear
- FreeSol
- Godsmack
- Gregg Allman
- Hinder
- Hubert Sumlin
- JJ Grey & Mofro
- Jason Mraz
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition
- Jimmie Vaughan
- John Mellencamp
- Ke$ha
- Kirk Whalum
- Lucero
- Lucinda Williams
- Ludacris
- MGMT
- Manchester Orchestra
- Mumford & Sons
- One Less Reason
- Paul Thorn
- Preston Shannon
- Sick Puppies
- Slightly Stoopid
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Sublime with Rome
- The Avett Brothers
- The Experimental Tropic Blues Band
- The Flaming Lips
- The Lee Boys
- The New Pornographers
- The Reba Russell Band
- Tommy Castro
- Travis Wammack
- Wilco
- Will Tucker
- Ziggy Marley
Festival News and Rumors
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