With one of the most diverse lineups around, the Beale Street Music Festival has announced the following headliners: Kid Rock, Alabama Shakes, Foster the People, Avenged Sevenfold, and Pretty Lights.
Sometimes poppy, sometimes emo, sometimes electronica… and the farther one goes down the list, the more wild this Memphis-based festival becomes. Motorhead and String Cheese Incident are playing on the same day. Big Gigantic appears next to Dickey Betts. Blues Traveler next to Bone Thugs N Harmony.
And, only towards the bottom of the lineup do we see the local-blues musicians that give Memphis its distinguishing character.
But I’m not complaining, it’s nice to see diversity in a festival lineup. Don’t want to see the same type of music over and over again, right? The Beale Street Music Festival is held from May 2-4, in Memphis, TN. Here’s the full lineup:
Kid Rock, Alabama Shakes, Foster the People, Avenged Sevenfold, Pretty Lights, Snoop Dogg aka Snoop Lion, The String Cheese Incident, Patti LaBelle, STS9, 311, Juicy J, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Chick Corea and the Vigil, Fitz & the Tantrums, Motorhead, Buddy Guy, Jerry Lee Lewis, Grouplove, Third Eye Blind, Seether, Blues Traveler, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony,Dropkick Murphys, Wolfmother, Twenty One Pilots, Big Gigantic, Dickey Betts, Bootsy Collins, Beats Antique, Jason Isbell, MS MR, Canned Heat, Project Pat, Leftover Salmon, North Mississippi Allstars, Los Rabanes , The Dandy Warhols, Tommy Castro, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Eric Gales, Ana Popovic, AER, Black Stone Cherry, Black Joe Lewis, Roy Rogers & the Delta Rhythm Kings, Surrender the Fall, Tony Joe White, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, Kenny Neal, Reba Russell, Memphis Dawls, Will Tucker, Blind Mississippi Morris, Brandon Bailey, Daddy Mack Blues Band, David Evans, FreeWorld, Fuzzy Jeffries, Ghost Town Blues Band, Herman Green, Sonny Burgess & the Legendary Pacers, Kenny Brown, Leo Bud Welch, Lord T & Eloise, Lucky Peterson, Quinn Sullivan
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-David Melamed (@DMelamz)