Memphis knows that it loves it’s music and food festivals! With Labor Day weekend coming up, you know there had to be at least one festival that you could attend, and that’s the 23rd annual Memphis Music and Heritage Festival! The festival takes place this Saturday and Sunday, September 4 and 5, at The Center for Southern Folklore.

The Memphis Music and Heritage Festival is a prime event for music aficionado’s around the world. Memphis is sharing it’s gift of music, so it’s only right that you take advantage of this FREE offer. There are 30 + performers performing on the three outside stages and two stages inside the Center for Southern Folklore over the two days of the festival. So that means none stop music!

Every year, the Center for Southern Folklore salutes a musician at the Festival whose life and work have left their mark not only on the music of Memphis, but on the Center itself. This year, the festival celebrates Jim Dickinson. Jim Dickinson was a good friend of the Center for Southern Folklore and a perennial performer at the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival.

The great thing about Memphis music is that it’s so diverse. On the five stages at the festivals, you’ll bear witness to blues, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, soul and much more.  You’ll also be privy to cooking demonstrations, dance performances, storytellers, quilters, baseball players, musicians and more talking about their crafts in a relaxing setting, and a host of other activities.

Make sure that you come out! The festival is about 30 minutes from the Madison at Schilling Farms Apartments, so if you’re in the downtown Memphis area this weekend, you may want to check it out!

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