A band-by-band guide to this year’s Mempho Music Festival

By , Daily Memphian Published: September 29, 2021 4:00 AM CT
<strong>Black Pumas, which&nbsp;blends soul, blues and rock into a sound both traditional and contemporary takes the stage at Mempho Music Festival on Sunday, Oct. 3.</strong> (Lyza Renee/Courtesy of Mempho Music Festival)

Black Pumas, which blends soul, blues and rock into a sound both traditional and contemporary takes the stage at Mempho Music Festival on Sunday, Oct. 3. (Lyza Renee/Courtesy of Mempho Music Festival)

From jam bands to blues upstarts to singer-songwriters both rootsy and rockin’, the return of the Mempho Music Festival showcases a cross-section of contemporary Southern sounds. 

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Chris Herrington

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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