Mempho Music Festival sees capacity crowds, mostly clear skies, good tunes in concert return
Audience members sing along to Moon Taxi’s performance at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Shawn Eckles of Andy Frasco & The U.N. performs at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Trevor Terndrup of Moon Taxi sings at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Audience members scream during Moon Taxi’s performance at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Katie McCoy hula hoops at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Andy Frasco takes off his sock mid-set during the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Audience members take pictures of Widespread Panic at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Trevor Terndrup of Moon Taxi performs at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Audience members sing along to Widespread Panic at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
John Bell of Widespread Panic performs at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Trevor Terndrup of Moon Taxi sings at the Mempho Music Festival at the Memphis Botanic Garden’s Radians Amphitheater Oct. 2, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Mempho Music Festival’s return came at a new location, on the grounds of the Radians Amphitheater at the Memphis Botanic Garden.
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Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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