The 31st Annual Memphis Music & Heritage Festival presented by The Center for Southern Folklore will take over two blocks of downtown Memphis on Labor Day weekend.

The free and family-friendly festival offers two days packed with arts, music, dance, and food. More than 100 performers of everything from Latin to folk, hip hop, R&B, rock, soul, blues, zydeco, gospel, will be on multiple stages along Main Street, in celebration of the city’s musical roots.

The lineup includes performances by Luther Dickinson, Chinese Connection Dub Embassy, Marcella Simien, Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage, Opera Memphis, Memphis Ukulele Band, Andrew Cabigao, and lots more.

What: Memphis Music & Heritage Festival

Memphis Music & Heritage Festival When: Saturday, 9/2 & Sunday 9/3, 11am-11pm

Saturday, 9/2 & Sunday 9/3, 11am-11pm Where: Main Street between Peabody Place and Union Ave.

Main Street between Peabody Place and Union Ave. Cost: Free!

Festival Lineup

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND

UNION STAGE

Noon Mariachi Group – Latin/Mariachi

1:00 Germantown School of Rock – Rock

2:00 Leneal & The Blues Bandits – Blues

3:00 Last Chance Jug Band Jug Band

4:00 Rice Drewry Collective – Americana/singer-songwriter

5:00 Randal Morton – Former National Banjo Champion – Bluegrass

6:00 Lil’ Black & The Jookin’ Community – Dance

7:00 Chinese Connection Dub Embassy – Reggae

8:30 – Hope Clayburn’s Soul Scrimmage – Soul

GAYOSO STAGE​

12:30 D&G Boogie Band – Blues

1:30 Phil Joy Experience – Jazz

3:30 Ladia and the LYE Academy – Dance

4:30 Shufflegrit – Folkabilly Americana ​

5:30 Joyce “She Wolf” Jones – Soul/Blues

6:30 FreeWorld – R&B Jam Band

7:30 Bluff City Backsliders -Jug Band

8:30 Sweet Angel – R&B/Soul

HERITAGE HALL STAGE – 119 S. Main

1:00 Zeke Johnson & Jimmy Crosthwait -Folk/Blues

2:00 Sanctuary Jazz Orchestra – Jazz

3:00 Zigadoo Moneyclips – Modern Pop

4:00 Barbara Blue – Blues

5:00 Sidney, Sidney, and Cidney – Jazz

6:00 Kattawar Brothers – Boogie Rock

7:00 Four Stars – Gospel

8:00 Marcella Simien – Zydeco

9:00 Joyce Cobb – Jazz/R&B

FOLKLORE STORE STAGE – 119 S. Main

12:15 Mulberry Jam – Old-School Jazz String Band

1:15 R.L. Boyce – Blues

2:15 Dan Montgomery – Americana/Singer-Songwriter

3:15 Cam Kimbrough & The Mississippi Sound – Blues

4:15 The Rusty Pieces – Americana/Singer-Songwriter

5:15 Jonatan Gomes Derbaq – Drumming

6:15 Nancy Apple – Americana/Singer-Songwriter

7:15 Grassfire – Bluegrass

8:15 Low Society -Old-School Blues

PEABODY PLACE STAGE

12:30 Memphis Ukelele Flash Mob – Ukelele Music

​ 2:30 30 Days of Opera – Opera Memphis

3:30 Mario Monterosso – Rockabilly

4:30 Brother Gabe – Classic soul, rock, reggae + blues

5:30 Sharde Thomas and The Rising Star Fife & Drum Band – Fife and Drum

6:30 Los Cantadores – Latin

7:30 Kickman Teddy – Hip Hop/R&B/Soul

8:30 Luther Dickinson – Blues/Folk

9:30 Rev. John Wilkins – Gospel

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD

UNION STAGE

Noon OZZLEE- Electronica

1:00 Singa Bromfield – R&B / Soul

2:00 Favor – Gospel

3:00 Choctaw Native American Dancers – Dance

4:00 Muddy Rivers Band – Blues

5:00 John Nemeth and the Blue Dreamers – R&B/Soul/Blues

6:00 Smoochy Smith & Friends – Sun Records Rockabilly

7:00 J Train Blues Band – Blues

8:00 Como Mamas – Gospel

GAYOSO STAGE ​

12:30 Cedar Planks – Rock

1:30 Marty Lewis Band – Rock

2:30 LBJ with Heart & Soul – R&B/Soul

3:30 Singer-Songwriter Showcase

4:30 Tres Gatos – Rock

5:30 Tropix – Reggae

6:30 Moments of Joy – Gospel

7:30 Side Street Steppers – 20s-40s Ragtime

8:30 Daddy Mack – Blues

HERITAGE HALL STAGE – 119 S. Main

1:00 The Penny Kings

2:00 Ben Abney and the Hurts – Americana/Singer-Songwriter

4:00 Earl the Pearl and People of the Blues – Blues

5:00 Bell Singers – Gospel/R&B

6:00 Bill Hurd Trio – Jazz

7:00 Deborah Swiney – Jazz

8:00 Booker Brown – Soul Blues ​

9:00 Elmo & The Shades – Blues

FOLKLORE STORE STAGE 119 S. Main

1:15 The Ellie Badge – Americana/Singer-Songwriter

2:15 Billy Gibson & Linear Smith – Blues

3:15 Willie Firecracker – Hip Hop / Rap

4:15 Andrew Cabigao – Americana/Singer-Songwriter

5:15 McKenna Bray – Americana/Singer-Songwriter

6:15 Earl Randle – R&B/Soul

7:15 Moses Crouch – Hill Country Blues

8:15 Kate Campbell – Americana/Singer-Songwriter ​

PEABODY PLACE STAGE

1:30 Fingertrick – Rock

2:30 Memphis Jazz Workshop – Jazz

3:30 C’beyohn – R&B/Hip-Hop

4:30 Tony Manard & His Big Band – Americana/Singer-Songwriter

5:30 Gospel Jubilees – Gospel

6:30 The Legendary Pacers – Rockabilly

7:30 Ghost Town Blues Band – Blues/Rock

8:30 Exodus – Reggae

9:30 Darrel Petties – Gospel/Soul

​ Learn more about The Center for Southern Folklore or sign up to volunteer, contribute or participate in the Festival, at their website