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/.
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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
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.
Neosoulville artist Juju Bushman wows the crowd at Melrose Stadium during the Pop-Up Arts Festival in Orange Mound, Memphis, 4/29/12. He performs regularly at The Word every Monday night at the Rumba Room on South Main in Memphis. #MemphisRising
The Bo-Keys are a living repository of Memphis soul. Unlike many other bands that attempt to recreate the classic sounds of soul, the Bo-Keys involve Memphis soul legends like Howard Grimes, Nokie Taylor and Archie Mitchell, and back soul greats like Percy Wiggins and William Bell. They were the final act at the Stax to the Max Soulsville festival in South Memphis on Saturday, 4/28/12. Learn more about the Bo-Keys here: http://www.thebokeys.com/. Like them on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/thebokeys. Follow their Electrophonic label on Twitter @electrophonic. Learn more about the genius behind the Bo-Keys at http://www.scottbomar.com.
Memphis Jones (@theMemphisJones) performs Memphis standards for the crowd at Soulsville for the Stax to the Max street party in South Memphis, 4/28/12
At the Stax to the Max Soulsville Street Festival, Memphis TN, 4/28/12