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No trip to Memphis and Tunica would be complete without a taste of the Memphis Blues and barbecue! Get a feel for the Blues in the place where it all began – the Blues Highway 61 in Tunica! The Mississippi Blues Trail begins there with tribute markers to Eddie James “Son” House and James Cotton. The trail gives enthusiasts a chance to get close to their heroes – to walk where they walked, dance where they danced, experience the Blues where they were born.
And you haven’t really experienced Memphis entertainment without a trip to Memphis’ historic Beale Street. The strip brings the Memphis Blues alive with nightly Memphis entertainment in its many clubs as well as street performers. Barbecue is abundant in Memphis, with famous names like the Rendezvous, Corky’s and Interstate Barbecue as well as lesser-known establishments scattered all across town.
And Memphis crowns the World Barbecue Champion each year at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest, held May 15-17 this year. Tunica is famous for its down-home old-fashioned Southern favorites at places like the Hollywood Café (made famous in the Marc Cohn song “Walking in Memphis”), the Blue and White diner and Café Marie. Whatever your pleasure, be it Blues or Barbecue, Memphis and Tunica deliver.
• Experience the river on a cruise in Memphis & Tunica
• Learn about “The River that Made America” through interpretive museum exhibits
• Beale Street and Graceland
• The Birth of Rock ‘n Roll at Sun Studio and Rock ‘n Soul Museum
• Mississippi Blues Trail down U.S. Highway 61
• Vegas-style action
• 14,000 slots and 400 table games
• Southern hospitality
• Museums dedicated to civil rights and the history of the Mississippi Delta
• America’s top-name performers
• Live nightly music
• Outlet, antique, vintage, high-end retail malls
• Memphis Zoo
• Children’s Museum of Memphis, Tunica RiverPark Museum, Pink Palace Museum
• 16 golf courses
• Annual Stanford St. Jude Golf Championship Event on PGA Tour
• South’s Only Indoor Clay Tennis Courts are located in Tunica
• The Capital of Southern BBQ – enough said!
• Grand buffets and elegant steak houses
• Luxurious, historic – and affordable – hotel rooms
• Sparkling pools and first-class spas
• Memphis Redbirds Baseball, NBA Memphis Grizzlies, NASCAR
• Great art collections and traveling exhibits
• Brooks Museum of Art and The Orpheum Theatre
• Peabody Place and Dixon Gallery & Gardens
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