According to sources, KORN and SHINEDOWN, the lead the lineup for the 2009 Beale Street Music Festival, scheduled for May 1-3 in Memphis, Tennessee, joining them as part of the bill's modern rock contingent will be:

RISE AGAINST, 311, HINDER, FALL OUT BOY and THEORY OF A DEADMAN.

The lineup will also feature KATY PERRY, AL GREEN, GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC, SNOOP DOGG, JAMES TAYLOR, ELVIS COSTELLO and others.

The Beale Street Music Festival--2008 featured over 60 acts on 4 stages in scenic Tom Lee Park where Beale Street meets the Mississippi. This, in addition to the artists who performed in the clubs along Beale Street, offered music lovers an opportunity to immerse themselves in the art form they love best. And the 2009 festival promises to be bigger than ever!

The Beale Street Music Festival has been nominated for a Concert Industry Award for the Music Festival of The Year, and was named by Playboy Magazine as one of the Fun 2000 events - a "must-do list" for the new millennium. The Beale Street Music Festival also hosted media such as VH1, Rolling Stone, MTV, Billboard, Cashbox, Pollstar, National Geographic, the BBC and dozens of other national publications, international television networks and blues publications.

It's the Mardi Gras of the Mid-South!

Past performers include these legends: Iggy & The Stooges, Jerry Lee Lewis, Daughtry, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ray Charles, Beck, Van Morrison, ZZ Top, Al Green, Dave Matthew's Band, John Lee Hooker, Sammy Haggar, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Styx, Charlie Daniels, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Kansas, Cheap Trick, Creed, Collective Soul, Peter Frampton, Sheryl Crow, Booker T & the MG's, Ablert King, Widespread Panic, Etta James, Bob Dylan, James Brown, Bonnie Raitt, Wilson Pickett, Hootie and the Blowfish, James Cotton, Blues Traveler, Bobby Blue Bland, Black Crowes, Ziggy Marley, the Allman Brothers Band, The Offspring, Saliva, Puddle Of Mud, Tom Petty and many more.

The Beale Street Music Festival has grown into one of the largest parties in the United States, drawing people from all over the country to come experience a celebration of the birth of an expressive art form that materialised as the music known as the Blues. Gritty, raw, and full of emotion; Beale Street symbolises everything that the Blues was born from. Like a mother rearing its young, the Blues took shape from its surroundings and became one of the most expressive musical outlets today. You cannot appreciate music without understanding the roots of the Blues, and you cannot appreciate the Blues without visiting the place where it was born: Beale Street, Memphis, Tn. where (almost) anything goes!

This official line-up for Beale Street Music Festival

May 1, 2, 3rd - 2009

Friday, May 1 - 5:00 pm - 12:30 am

The All-American Rejects

Steve Miller Band

Ben Harper & Relentless7

Tommy Castro

Katy Perry

The Cult

G. Love & Special Sauce

Jack's Mannequin

Rise Against

Ronnie Baker Brooks

Matt Nathanson

Medeski, Martin & Wood

Lurrie Bell

Saturday, May 2 - 1:00 pm - 12:30 am Al Green Korn George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic John Lee Hooker, Jr.

Shinedown

Elvis Costello

The Roots

Curtis Salgado

Saving Abel

Los Lobos

Michael Burks

The Bar-Kays

Thriving Ivory

Susan Tedeschi

Julian Marley

Cedric Burnside & Lightin' Malcolm

Chancho En Piedra (from Chile)

Muck Sticky

Green Rive Ordinance

Hubert Sumlin

Shane Dwight

Jump Back Jake

Sunday, May 3 - 1:00 pm - 10:30 pm James Taylor 311 Fall Out Boy John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers Hinder Bonnie Raitt Snoop Dogg Guitar Shorty Theory of a Deadman Jerry Lee Lewis Three 6 Mafia Sherman Robertson Chancho En Piedra (from Chile)

Amos Lee

Prosevere

Damon Fowler

Dead Confederate

Reba Russell Band

So after seeing the line up will you make it out to this year's BSM Festival? And who would you like to see the most out of this great list of performers?

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