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: $85 (3-Day)
Headliners
Festival lineup
- AWOLNATION
- Al Kapone
- Alice in Chains
- Barbara Blue
- Bassnectar
- Big Boi
- Blind Mississippi Morris
- Brandon Bailey
- Charles Bradley
- Coco Montoya
- Cracker
- Davy Knowles
- Deer Tick
- Deftones
- Don Trip
- Dwight Yoakam
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
- Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis
- Gary Clark Jr
- Gov't Mule
- Hall & Oates
- Heartless Bastards
- Jake Bugg
- James SuperChikan Johnson
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Jimbo Mathus
- Kenny Brown
- Louise Hoffsten
- Lucero
- Marcus James & Kinney Kimbrough
- Matt Isbell
- Mavis Staples
- Mimosa
- Papa Roach
- Patti Smith
- Phoenix
- Pickwick
- Porter Robinson
- Public Enemy
- River City Tanlines
- Ronnie Baker Brooks
- Royal Southern Brotherhood
- Shannon McNally
- Sheryl Crow
- Smashing Pumpkins
- Sonny Burgess and the Legendary Pacers
- Star & Micey
- The Black Crowes
- The Black Keys
- The Flaming Lips
- The Joy Formidable
- The Roots
- The Slide Brothers
- The Wallflowers
- Three Days Grace
- Vintage Trouble
- Yngwie Malmsteen
- ZZ Top
- Zac Harmon
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