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: $32.50 (Single Day); $75 (3-Day)
Headliners
Festival lineup
- Prosevere
- Al Green
- Alison Krauss and Union Station
- Anthony Hamilton
- Bernard Allison
- Big K.R.I.T.
- Bil Abel
- Black Lips
- Black Stone Cherry
- Blind Mississippi Morris
- Brad Webb
- Breathe Carolina
- Buddy Guy
- Bush
- Charlie Musselwhite
- Childish Gambino
- Chris Robinson Brotherhood
- Coheed and Cambria
- Cold War Kids
- David Evans with Elmo Lee Thomas
- Dr. Dog
- Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors
- Duke Robillard
- Evanescence
- Florence and the Machine
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Girl Talk
- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
- Herbie Hancock
- Jane's Addiction
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition
- John Hiatt
- Johnny Winter
- Kenny Brown
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd
- Larry McCray
- Lupe Fiasco
- Megadeth
- Michael Franti and Spearhead
- My Morning Jacket
- NeedToBreathe
- North Mississippi Allstars
- Old 97's
- Pitbull
- Primus
- Robert "Wolfman" Belfour
- Robert Randolph and the Family Band
- Son Volt
- Sponge Cola
- T-Model Ford
- The Alexis P. Suter Band
- The Bo-Keys
- The Civil Wars
- The Cult
- The Head and the Heart
- The Nighthawks
- Three 6 Mafia
- Valerie June
- Victor Wainwright and the Wildroots
- Volbeat
- Will Tucker
- Wiz Khalifa
- Yo Gotti
- Zoogma
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