The Center for Southern Folklore's annual Memphis Music and Heritage Festival has become a destination for music aficionados from around the world, who make a pilgrimage to downtown Memphis every Labor Day Weekend. And with good reason - the Center assembles the best artists and musicians the South has to offer!

In The Commercial Appeal music critic Bill Ellis wrote, “Something special happens once a year. No, it’s not Santa Claus bearing gifts, though for music fans it might as well be. It’s the Memphis Music & Heritage Festival... a grand parade of the best Memphis has to offer, where for three days our greatest gift to the world— music— is writ symphoniously large.”

In Shangri-la Records’ Kreature Komforts Sherman Wilmott writes, “This is the real thing if you dig deep on Memphis Sounds... If you are planning your visit around a music weekend in Memphis, this would be the one to choose.”

Memphis Magazine said of the Festival, “No other gathering celebrates our own local and regional culture like the Center’s Memphis Music & Heritage Festival.”

Most importantly, the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival is free, which truly makes it a festival for everyone – young and old, rich and poor, native and foreign. So come help us celebrate the men and women whose art and music make this region so special!