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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

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. 

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)