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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

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.