John Hiatt, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Month: May 2012
Barbara & The Browns – I’m Gonna Start A War (by SimplyGrandMusic)
Memphis’ soul legends Barbara and the Browns are a great way to start the week! Originally recording at Stax, by the late 1960’s they were recording at MGM Sounds of Memphis with Dan Greer over on Rayner Street in South Memphis. As you may have guessed, Sounds of Memphis is now the House of Blues Recording Studio after a brief stint as Kiva.
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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
Billboard Advertising @DrummaBoyFRESH at Beale Street Music Festival, 2012
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.
Dancin’ Jimmy’s is a new club on Beale Street occupying the building that formerly housed Pat O’Brien’s and later the Memphis version of Ground Zero Blues Club. So far there has been no live music, but the atmosphere is nice, particularly in the New Orleans-style back courtyard.
@DevilDownRecords artist Kenny Brown and Duwayne Burnside at the Southern Comfort Blues Shack, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/6/12 (Taken with Instagram at Southern Comfort Stage)
David Evans and Elmo Lee at the Southern Comfort Blues Shack, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/6/12 (Taken with Instagram at Southern Comfort Stage)