It’s your boy Memphis
North Mississippi All-Stars, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/4/12
Opening the Beale Street Music Fest 2012 with the North Mississippi Allstars
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
Big K.R.I.T. On stage at the Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12 #bsmf12 (Taken with Instagram at Memphis in may north stage)
Blind Mississippi Morris at the Southern Comfort Blues Shack, Beale Street Music Festival (Taken with Instagram at Beale Street Music Festival)
Probably not the message that Memphis in May intended #BSMF12 (Taken with Instagram at Beale Street Music Festival)
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.
Beale Street is pandemonium after the festival, 5/4/12 (Taken with Instagram at World Famous Beale Street)