GENERAL INFORMATION
Downtown Memphis comes alive as the
Memphis Music & Heritage Festival returns to Downtown Memphis. In the past, 30,000+ people enjoyed two days and five stages of the best music, art, crafts, cooks, heritage talkers and storytellers the Memphis/Mid-South region has to offer - and this year should be even better!
The late Jim Dickinson was a good friend of the Center for Southern Folklore and a perennial performer at the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival. With his typical naked and perceptive honesty he summed up the Festival and its executive producer, Judy Peiser, thusly: "Judy's a curious person. To her, Memphis music - whether it's blues or punk or rap or gospel - is all the same. Imagine if you took this festival to Paris. People would bow down and worship it."
- Jim Dickinson, from A World of Our Own by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer
This year’s festival will celebrate Memphis musical legend Jim Dickinson with a t-shirt and poster designed by the artist Gray and performances by Hill Country Revue (featuring son Cody Dickinson) and former bandmates Sid Selvidge & Jimmy Crosthwait. Other performers include: Bobby Rush, Kate Campbell, Sonny Burgess and the Pacers, Joyce Cobb, Smoochie Smith Trio, Hickory Withe Bluegrass, Blind Mississippi Morris, Free World, Eden Brent, Los Contadores, Star & Micey, Bluff City Backsliders, Eddie Bond and many more still to be announced!