Meridian, Mississippi’s hometown hero Big K.R.I.T. takes the stage at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/5/12
Tom Lee Park
St. Louis’ Funky Butt Brass Band performs at the St. Louis Convention and Visitors’ Bureau Tent at the Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Memphis Skyline, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
Traditional bluesman Blind Mississippi Morris performs on the Southern Comfort Blues Shack stage at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, 5/5/12
John Hiatt, Beale Street Music Festival, 5/5/12
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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/.
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.
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.Â
Beale Street Music Festival, 5/4/12