Beale Street Music Festival ‘paused,’ barbecue contest moves to Liberty Park

By , Daily Memphian Updated: October 12, 2023 5:13 PM CT | Published: October 12, 2023 1:56 PM CT

Memphis in May confirmed in a Thursday, Oct. 12, press release that, at least for next year, the music festival would be “paused” and the barbecue fest would move to Liberty Park.

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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