Back to Beale
February 26, 2016
The Beale Street Music Festival, part of Memphis in May, is a music festival that is close in distance and forgiving in price ($135 for the full weekend; $45 dollars for a single day). There is no age restriction to get into the festival, but a photo I.D. is required for Ticketmaster will-call. The festival will take place in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, in Tom Lee Park, April 29-May 1. Here are a few tips and a list of the artists who are playing.
What to bring:
Your ticket, water bottle or Camelbak, photo I.D., blankets
What not to bring:
Selfie Stick, drones, food and beverage (will be available at the park but not allowed inside), lawn chairs, oversized umbrellas, weapons, thrown objects, roller blades/skates
Friday line-up:
Neil Young + Promise of the Real
Weezer
Train
Panic! At the Disco
Grace Potter
Young the Giant
Gin Blossoms
Trampled by Turtles
The Struts
Coleman Hell
Julien Baker
Walter Trout
Doyle Bramhall
Larry McCray
Ghost Town Blues Band
Jimmy “Duck” Holmes
Terry “Harmonica” Bean
Saturday line-up:
Meghan Trainor
Jason Derulo
Modest Mouse
Yo Gotti
Cypress Hill
Barenaked Ladies
Violent Femmes
Jonny Lang
Moon Taxi
Better than Ezra
Lucinda Williams
Houndmouth
Los Lobos
The Front Bottoms
Lunchmoney Lewis
Ana Popovic
Luther Dickinson
Amasa Hines
Will Tucker
Escondido
Magic Dick and Shun Ng
Charles Wilson
Jack Semple
Duwayne Burnside
Blind Mississippi Morris
Larry Long & Reverend Robert Rev
Sunday line-up:
Beck
Paul Simon
Zedd
Cold War Kids
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
The Arcs
Bastille
Courtney Barnett
The Joy Formidable
Indigo Girls
Blackberry Smoke
The Lone Bellow
Bernard Allison
Those Pretty Wrongs
Alex Da Ponte
John Nemeth
John Primer
Brandon Santini
Barbara Blue
Leo Bud Welch
Bill Abel
For more info, visit www.memphisinmay.org