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
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
North Mississippi All-Stars, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/4/12
Beale Street Music Festival, 5/4/12
The Beale Street Music Festival is the opening event of Memphis In May each year, and currently Memphis’ largest outdoor music festival, involving three stages, a tent and a small mini-stage, and three full days of music in Tom Lee Park. There are also all kinds of merchandise tents, and plenty of good food and drink. Although the event is usually harassed by rain, this year the gates opened on Friday May 4 to plenty of sunshine and an unseasonable 90 degrees.
