Everyone knows about the terrific nightlife on Beale Street, one of the nation’s premier entertainment districts with great music, dancing, food and drinks.
But Beale Street is also a family- friendly, student-friendly, group tour-friendly destination offering history, arts, music, and culture. From our daily WC Handy Historic Home tours to the …

Last week’s KIX on Beale kickoff concert with JoDee Messina and The Band Perry was smashing successful with quite possibly the largest crowd to attend a concert in the history of the series.
The 6/24 show in Handy Park promises to be a big one also with regional hero Steve Azar …

No one does a show quite like George Clinton.  It’s just plain and simple: he’s funkadelic! On Friday night Clinton and P-Funk will play Handy Park on Beale Street in what is surely to be one of the most memorable performances in the park’s recent history. A great piece on …

Come to Beale Street for our special Independence Day celebration in Handy Park including a fireworks grand finale! A free concert in Handy Park with three bands begins at 6:00 pm and the fireworks light up the sky at 10:00 pm. Bring your blankets and lawn chairs (but no coolers) …

Volunteers from Carnival Memphis spent the day painting the W.C. Handy Historic Home at 352 Beale Street. The two-room, shotgun house was originally on Jeanette Place in South Memphis when Handy there in the early 1900s. He wrote many of him famous songs at a modest desk which now sits …

When you think of Beale Street, you think of country music. Oh wait, no , that’s Nashville! And yet, Beale, as the cultural crossroads of America, has a little bit of everything including country music. You’ll see boots and cowboy hats out in force for the annual KIX on Beale …

While the grand opening will not be until October of this year, on Friday of this week (5/28) there will be an opportunity for the public to see the new gallery space at 333 Beale Street and 60 of the iconic civil rights images of the late photographer Ernest Withers. …

In a tribute concert Saturday night at the Levitt Shell in Overton Park, Dean Deyo, executive director of the Memphis Music Foundation and member of the Brass Note Nominations Committee, announced the the committee had approved for note in the Beale Street Brass Note Walk for fame for legendary Memphis …

In conjunction with the multi-day activities of The Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Awards, Gus Cannon’s legacy as a jug band master will be celebrated this week on Beale Street.
A note will be dedicated in the Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame on Friday, May 7, at 2:15 pm near …

Carol Coletta
The grand re-opening of the east end of Beale Street last week brought to mind the story of the redevelopment of  an area which very nearly ceased to exist altogether. After the urban renewal programs saw every building on Beale Street except Schwab’s boarded up or razed, John Elkington’s …