Memphis’ own Victor Wainwright (@WainwrightVic) opens the second day of Beale Street Music Festival at the FedEx Blues Tent. Keep up with tourdates and more at http://www.facebook.com/victorwainwright or http://www.facebook.com/victorwainwrightfanpage or http://www.wildrootsrecords.com/.
The Beale Street Music Festival is of course a marketer’s dream, and plenty of companies take advantage of it. #BSMF12
This billboard announcing the latest mixtape from Drumma Boy (@DrummaBoyFRESH) “Welcome 2 My City 2” greets visitors to the Beale Street Music Festival #MemphisRising #BSMF12
On the stretch of Beale Street leading to the Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis Light Gas & Water set up a stage for local performers to help raise money for utility assistance, and food trucks (which are just beginning to appear in Memphis) set up to serve festival-goers.
Beale Street is crowded on most weekends, but never quite as much as it is during Music Fest weekend, 5/4/12
Memphis hometown veterans Three-6 Mafia take the Orion stage at the Beale Street Music Festival on Friday 5/4/12. Keep up with them at http://www.three6-mafia.com/us/home. Buy their merchandise at http://store.dangerusskandulus.com/.
The Tom Lee Park setting of the Beale Street Music Festival makes for a beautiful backdrop to the musical events taking place there, with the Mississippi River’s water flowing past quietly, barges and towboats drifting past, the old and new bridges, the Memphis skyline to the north, the lovely houses up on the bluff to the east, and brilliant sunsets.
North Mississippi All-Stars, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/4/12
Luther and Cody Dickinson are sons of legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson, and they are the driving force behind the North Mississippi All-Stars. The rich Hill Country Blues legacy of Junior Kimbrough and R. L. Burnside and the fife-and-drum band music of Otha Turner all have contributed heavily to the All-Stars sound, and while the band is very much a Mississippi entity, it is also a Memphis one, and there is no more appropriate act to open the Beale Street Music Festival.
Beale Street Music Festival, 5/4/12
