The Downtown Neighborhood Association (DNA) says it has a plan to ease traffic on Riverside Drive and create additional free parking next to Tom Lee Park.
Mempho organizers announced their new barbecue cooking contest, happening at Tom Lee Park in Memphis at the same time as the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, will be named SmokeSlam.
Memphis in May announced that Beale Street Music Festival will not happen in 2024. Instead, Mempho, a competing organization to Memphis in May, will bring RiverBeat Music Festivalto Memphis iconic Tom Lee Park.
For the first time ever, another organization will host BBQ contest on the same week as Memphis in May’s World Championship BBQ Contest next year at Liberty Park.