Foo Fighters, Lil Wayne, The Smashing Pumpkins and Three 6 Mafia are announced headliners for the 2022 Beale Street Music Festival.
Memphis in May officials made the announcement on Monday as part of a partial list of artists confirmed to appear at the regional festival.
The Beale Street Music Festival returns after a record-setting festival in 2019 but was not presented in 2020 or 2021 due to the pandemic.
The 2022 edition of the festival will be presented at the Memphis Fairgrounds to make way for the construction of the redesigned Tom Lee Park. The 2023 Beale Street Music Festival will return to Tom Lee Park when park construction is completed in April 2023.
Artists announced in the 2022 ‘Round One’ line-up release include DaBaby, Modest Mouse, Lindsey Buckingham, Moneybagg Yo, The Glorious Sons, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Sarkodie, Dirty Honey, Soccer Mommy, Trigger Hippy, Sue Foley and Kenny Brown.
The festival’s entire 60-plus artist lineup will be revealed in early February.
For the Foo Fighters, the 2022 appearance will be their third headline appearance at the Beale Street Music Festival. They previously headlined the festival in 2000 and 2004. Members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, they last played Memphis in 2018 to a sold-out crowd at the FedEx Forum.
A limited number of three-day passes are on sale at the discounted price of $155. Tickets are available at www.memphisinmay.org/bsmftickets through Front Gate Tickets.
VIP passes are also available. They offer exclusive seating on raised, covered platforms with unobstructed views of each stage, VIP-only bars with beer, food, wine, and convenient VIP-only air-conditioned restrooms.
Parking options are also available.
Three-day VIP passes are $809 and are available at www.memphisinmay.org/bsmftickets.
(For more information, visit www.memphisinmay.org.)
