One of the most iconic streets in the United States, Beale Street is a legendary Memphis entertainment destination. It's filled to the brim with great choices for live music, Memphis-style barbecue, ...

Back in 1984, it began rather humbly as “The Blues Amateur Contest,” a small free showcase held at the New Daisy theater, part of an ongoing series of concerts called The Beale Street Rambles. But 40 ...

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Memphis in May has announced that its Beale Street Music Festival will return in 2026. Memphis in May officials are still trying to decide where the festival will take place, as its former home of Tom ...

Memphis in May announced that the Blues Tent, a popular site of the Beale Street Music Festival will be available on Beale Street. "Blues Stage on Beale" will be open to the public and offered free of ...

A centre of celebration last week was Memphis’ Beale Street, the garish Negro thoroughfare with its assortment of poolrooms and pawnshops, its gin parlors and its hot-fish restaurants. While Memphis ...

In its heyday, Beale Street had rooms to rent for the musicians, gamblers and prostitutes working the strip, and the remnants of what was called the Clark Hotel are still evident in the small rooms, ...

Few civic reforms has hoary Memphis seen under the rule of the “Red Snapper,” Boss Crump. One was to make all east-west streets avenues. Caught in that genteeling was the street of dance halls, voodoo ...

W. C. Handy wrote a little song named Beale Street Blues that set artists like B. B. King, Rufus Thomas, and even Elvis ...