Memphis has been hosting a music festival on its riverbanks in May since 1977. In October of 2023, the city’s longstanding festival presenter—Memphis in May International Festival—put its 47-year-old Beale Street Music Festival on hiatus. Beale Street Music Festival is not the only multi-day music festival to hit pause on 2024. McEniry’s company began producing Mempho Music Festival, a smaller, more rock-focused autumn festival in 2017. Gone, too, are Beale Street Music Festival’s trio of hulking main stages that often bled sound atop one another.

Source: Forbes May 07, 2024 21:10 UTC