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Beale Street Music Fest: Lips, Wilco, Avett, Mumford, MGMT

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GREGG ALLMAN, MELLENCAMP, MRAZ, MARLEY, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, & MORE

Memphis in May is pleased to announce the lineup for the 2011 Beale Street Music Festival. The thirty-fifth annual three day music festival will be held April 29—May 1 in Tom Lee Park along the banks of the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. A full list of artists follows and totals 65 acts performing on 4 stages and the SoCo Blues Shack over three days. Twenty-five of the acts forthis year's event will be making their Beale Street Music Festival debut. Tickets are on sale now exclusively at TicketMaster.

This year Memphis' largest musical event welcomes The Flaming Lips, Wilco, The Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons, John Mellencamp, MGMT, Jason Mraz, Ziggy Marley, Cee Lo, Stone Temple Pilots, Cake, Gregg Allman and more as an example of the deep lineup. Memphis in May President and CEO Jim Holt, producers of the Beale Street Music Festival says, “This year's music festival is clearly our biggest ever and patrons can expect to enjoy more diversity than ever before. We have assembled a line-up of artists that are relevant, credible and filled withgreat musical integrity."

Three-day passes are on sale at TicketMaster and can be purchased on line at www.ticketmaster.com. This three day pass is available for $69 only through April 18. Daily tickets are $30 in advance and $37 day of show.

FRIDAY, APRIL 29
Stone Temple Pilots
Jason Mraz
Flaming Lips
Jimmie Vaughn with Lou Ann Barton
B.O.B.
MGMT
Slightly Stoopid
Tommy Castro
Cake
Cage the Elephant
Everclear
Big Bill Morganfield
Free Sol
Manchester Orchestra
Egypt Central
Will Tucker Band
Kenny Brown
Grady Champion

SATURDAY, APRIL 30
John Mellencamp
Ke$ha
Cee Lo
Jerry Lee Lewis
Lucinda Williams
Macy Gray
Kirk Whalum
Otis Clay
The New Pornographers
Hinder
Magic Slim and the Teardrops
Charlie Wilson
Mumford & Sons
8Ball & MJG
Paul Thorn
Amy LaVere
Reba Russell Band
Devon Allman's Honeytribe
Sick Puppies
The Experimental Tropic Blues Band
Jimbo Mathus & The Tristate Coalition
One Less Reason
Lotus
Travis Wammack
Blind “Mississippi" Morris
Brad Webb

SUNDAY, MAY 1
Wilco
Godsmack
Ludacris
Gregg Allman
Ziggy Marley
Sublime with Rome
The Avett Brothers
Lucero
Amos Lee
Al Kapone
Buckcherry
Saving Abel
Drowning Pool
J.J. Grey and Mofro
The Lee Boys
Hubert Sumlin
John Hammond
Preston Shannon
Bettye LaVette
Robert “Wolfman" Belfour
Eric Hughes
The Experimental Tropic Blues Band

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