New music festival coming to Midtown | Arts & Culture

This March, Memphis will have a new music festival. Fareveller Music Festival will take place March 24 through 26 and feature over 40 acts in five venues across Midtown.

“I hope to differentiate Fareveller completely from festivals like Memphis in May that currently take place in this city. This festival isn’t about Top 40 music. It’s not about our heritage. There are plenty of amazing people in this community taking care of those things,” said festival organizer Brandon Herrington.

For three nights, venues like the Hi-Tone and Young Avenue Deli will be filled with a mixture of local, regional and national talent.

Headliners for the festival include the “cinematic chamber pop” experts, Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s, singer/songwriter Damien Jurado, and Morning Teleportation whose debut album was produced by Isaac Brock, of Modest Mouse, and is soon to be released on his Glacial Pace Recordings. Additional acts of note include former Militia Group artist Chase Pagan, the Rocketboys from Austin, Texas, and Young Buffalo from Oxford, Miss. Booking will continue for the next month.

“Our goal is to elevate the current music scene in Memphis by creating a festival for local artists to rally around,” he said. “Nationally, I see this festival falling in line with small, boutique festivals like Pygmalion Festival in Champaign, Ill. I don’t have any visions of this becoming an industry festival like SXSW. I want it to be primarily about live shows.”

Information provided by the Fareveller Music Festival.

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