Beale Street Music Festival 2024
2024 Festival Dates Announced
The 2024 Festival dates have been announced.
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Memphis in May International Festival has released the dates and venues of its 2024 festival events.
The 2024 Beale Street Music Festival has been paused. It will not be held. World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest at Liberty Park, May 15-18 2024. Great American River Run in Downtown Memphis on May 25, 2024.
The 2023 Beale St. Music Festival saw a decline in attendance, and the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest also suffered. The organization suffered a financial loss of 3,48 million dollars in 2023 due to a number of factors including the decline in attendance.
The significant financial loss of 2023, the challenges in producing the festival at the new Tom Lee Park and the uncertainty around a lawsuit filed by the Memphis River Parks Partnership against the festival were the reasons for the programming changes.
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Memphis in May, a civic and cultural festival run by a non-profit organization for the benefit Memphis residents, is an annual event. Since nearly 50 years it has brought millions of people to Memphis, generating over one billion dollars of economic impact, and tens millions of dollars of tax dollars for Memphis.
Al Gossett said that the 2024 Board Chair, Al Gossett stated, "We are proud to present Beale St Music Festival as an entertainment event of world-class quality for almost half a century." The board decided to meet the high expectations and standards of supporters and fans of the city's signature music festival and largest annual event.
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