Has anyone heard anything about this years line up?

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/musi...46,00.html

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Steely Dan, Jerry Lee, Three 6 sign on for Beale Fest
By Bob Mehr
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March 8, 2007

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Steely Dan, alternative-pop hitmakers Counting Crows and R&B legend Bobby "Blue" Bland are among the more than 60 acts that will perform at the 31st annual Beale Street Music Festival May 4-6.

The music fest, the first major event of the monthlong Memphis in May International Festival, historically has featured talent across a wide array of genres. This year's event will include sets by Grammy-winning Australian hard-rock band Wolfmother, contemporary soul man John Legend, British singer-songwriter Corrine Bailey Rae, and "American Idol" alum Chris Daughtry's group DAUGHTRY, among others.


The lineup will be announced during a news conference today at the Hard Rock Cafe on Beale Street. A full list of artists scheduled for the three-day event will be available at memphisinmay.org and at commercialappeal.com after 2 p.m.

The roster of talent for the 2007 festival will feature numerous Memphis-connected performers, including rappers Three 6 Mafia with Project Pat, who will also perform a solo set. Sun Records perennials Jerry Lee Lewis and Billy Lee Riley will appear, as will modern roots eclectics North Mississippi Allstars and guitar great Alvin Youngblood Hart.

The festival's Blues Tent this year will feature veterans David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Koko Taylor and Hubert Sumlin, and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith. Relative newcomer Watermelon Slim, who is up for six Blues Music Awards, will also appear.

The festival began on Beale in 1977 and moved to Tom Lee Park in 1990.

Music festival organizers say attendance for last year's event hovered around the 118,000 mark, down from an all-time high of 165,000 in 2002.

The Memphis in May International Festival -- which also includes the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, the Sunset Symphony, and an international cultural exchange -- this year honors Spain.

Ticket info

Tickets for the 2007 Beale Street Music Festival May 4-6 go on sale at 3 p.m. today at all Ticketmaster outlets.

Three-day passes cost $59.50; single-day admission costs $25 in advance.

The concerts will take place among three outdoor stages and a blues music tent. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. on May 4 and 1 p.m. May 5 and 6.

Hasn't been announced or really even hinted at yet. I've worked the Budweiser or Cellular South stage for the past 10 years. The lineups are either really really good, or really really bad. I hope this is a good year, and that we don't have anymore a-holes like Bryan Adams who refused to go onstage unless he had an electric tea kettle in his trailer or Cake, who's lead singer threw a bag of coffee at my fiancee's head and generally acted like an idiot backstage.

a couple of us at work were wondering if anything has leaked out yet. thanks for the link.

Now why do they ask us to keep stuff like that quiet, and then let the Appeal run that story.....guess it's ultimately run like everything else in Memphis...

There are some up and coming acts on the list, like Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, that should appeal to the younger demographic. One thing I've been critical of the past is it has tended to be too much classical rock. Even though the site says this is a complete lineup, hopefully we'll see more acts like John Legend on the list . . .


Friday, May 4

The Allman Brothers Band

Three 6 Mafia

Koko Taylor

Gym Class Heroes

Gov

looks like the same ol' same ol' yet again this year....

Sunday may be the only day I go, if I go at all.

Allmans...thank God!

I think it is a pretty good lineup. My speed is John Legend, Corrine Bailey Rae, and Steely Dan. Add that with Barenaked Ladies and Daughtry (not my speed but I realize they are fairly popular) and it looks like a good lineup. I'm sure there are a couple of other great acts with whom I'm not familiar.

i wish pearl jam would come to memphis in may

MotherSuperior Wrote:i wish pearl jam would come to memphis in may

why? :sylviaplath:

northmsheadhnter Wrote:

MotherSuperior Wrote:i wish pearl jam would come to memphis in may

why? :sylviaplath:

because i'm a fan