Add Some Memphis Mojo To Your Event

Backbeat Tours is a five star receptive tour operator ready to assist you with all of your group planning needs. We provide step-on guide service, bus tours, and walking tours customized to your group's specifications. Our staff of trained professionals knows Memphis like no one else and is happy to arrange dining, hotels, transportation, and admissions for your group. All of our guides are tour professionals who use music, story, and song to create a one-of-a-kind tour experience. We are proud members of the NTA, ABA, and the Tennessee Motorcoach Association, and have been featured in Southern Living, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and on the BBC, Irish TV, and Fox 13 News.

Don't know where to start? Our PLAN page offers restaurant, hotel, and multi-day itinerary suggestions for your trip. Just looking to fill a few hours? You can't go wrong with our highly acclaimed Memphis Mojo, Hound Dog, and Ghost Tours, but you might also want to consider any of our Custom Group Itineraries and Add-Ons below.

Custom Group Tours

Downtown Walking History Tour - Learn the history of this colorful town, as you visit Civil War sights, Cotton Row, the Magevney House (oldest house in Memphis), Court Square, and the old Shelby County Jail.
Recommended time: 1 to 2 hours

Beale Street Walking Tour - Our tour guides will delight you with stories of bootleggers, bluesmen, and bawds as we visit Pee Wee's Saloon, the Monarch Club, the W.C. Handy House, and the Palace and Daisy Theaters.
Recommended time: 30 minutes

Memphis History Bus Tour - Let us show your group the historic side of our beautiful city. Visit Court Square, Victorian Village, Overton Park, Central Gardens, the Pinch District, and the DeSoto Park Indian Mounds.
Recommended time: 90 minutes

Garden Tour - Visit the Dixon Garden and Gallery and the Memphis Botanic Gardens.
Recommended time: 3 to 4 hours

Soulsville Tour - “Soul Man”, “R-e-s-p-e-c-t”, “Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight Hour” are just a few of the hits created at legendary Stax Studio. See where it all began and learn about the neighborhood that came to be known as Soulsville USA.
Recommended time: 2 ½ to 3 hours

Sunset Tour - Let our musicians serenade you on this abbreviated tour of Memphis' most important sights. A great pre-dinner activity.
Recommended time: 1 hour

Pub Crawl - There's nothing like a night on the town with your own personal entertainer. Beware, though; with food, drinks, and music on the bus, your group may not want to get off!
Recommended time : 3 hours to All Night Long

Rockabilly Tour - Similar to the Memphis Mojo Tour, but emphasixing Memphis history and the early days of rock and roll.
Recommended time: 1 to 2 hours

Progressive Lunch/Dinner - For the gourmands in your group, try three different restaurants' tastiest delicacies. Choose between Southern roots cooking or connoisseur options.
Recommended time: 3 to 4 hours

Christmas Lights - A tour through Starry Nights light show at Shelby Farms Park.
Recommended time: 60 to 90 minutes

Tunica, MS - Get your group in the mood for a little gambling with an hour of entertainment on your way there and back. We'll provide the designated driver, so drink all you want!
Recommended time: 4 hours +

Scavenger Hunt - A great way to get to know your group. Solve the clues and find the hidden objects.
Recommended time: 2 to 3 hours

Amazing Memphis Race - Just like the TV show, we'll run your teams through a series of Memphis challenges geared for fun and conversation.
Recommended time: 3 to 4 hours.

Viking Cooking School - You'll be surprised at how much fun you'll have preparing a delicious meal – everything from soul food to French cuisine under the guidance of a friendly, professionally trained chef. Dedicated to wine? Try a food and wine pairing.
Recommended time: 4 to 5 hours.

Oxford, MS - Travel to Oxford, Mississippi, to visit Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's stately home, the University of Mississippi, and Square Books, frequented by popular mystery writer John Grisham.
Recommended time: 5 to 6 hours

Holly Springs, MS - Looking for charming antebellum homes? You'll find them here.
Recommended time: 4 ro 5 hours

Shiloh, TN - The most famous Civil War battlefield south of Richmond.
Recommended time: 7 hours

Tupelo, MS - Elvis' birthplace has great sights for the Elvis fan, as well as an excellent auto museum and a Civil War battlefield.
Recommended time: 7 to 8 hours.

Clarksdale, MS - A must for the serious blues fan.
Recommended time: 5 hours

Indianola, MS - See the new B.B. King Museum.
Recommended time: 8 hours

Tour Add-Ons

Memphis Zoo - The most popular zoo in the country.
Recommended time: 2 to 3 hours

National Civil Rights Museum - An unforgettable experience and a great way for kids to learn about the Civil Rights Movement.
Recommended time: 2 to 3 hours

Rock and Soul Museum - A museum covering the history of Memphis music.
Recommended time: 1 hour

Gibson Guitar Factory - See how the world's greatest guitars are made.
Recommended time: 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Cotton Museum - A real cotton trading floor.
Recommended time: Less than 30 minutes

Pink Palace Museum - A small museum with interactive exhibits illustrating the region's natural science and Memphis cultural history.
Recommended time: 1 to 2 hours

Mississippi River Museum - Take a tram across the “Big Muddy” to see the story of the Mississippi.
Recommended time: 1 hour

Fire Museum - Let the kids play fireman at this interactive museum.
Recommended time: 30 minutes

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art - The city's oldest art museum, with works from antiquity to the present.
Recommended time: 1 to 2 hours

Dixon Gallery & Gardens - Impressionist and Post-impressionist paintings, and 17 acres of gardens.
Recommended time: 1 to 2 hours

W.C. Handy House - The Memphis home of the "Father of the Blues."
Recommended time: less than 30 minutes

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum - The 19th century house of Jacob Burkle, said to be a hideout for slaves escaping to the north.
Recommended time: 30 minutes to 1 hour

Blues City Café - Lunch or dinner with great food, great music, and great atmosphere.

Gary Hardy Show - Two-time "Beale Street Entertainer fo the Year," featuring a tribute to Johnny Cash and other Sun Records artists.
Recommended time: 1 to 2 hours

Memphis by Memphis: The Memphis Jones Show - A one-of-a-kind comedy and musical review by a true Memphis original.
Recommended time: 1 to 2 hours

How much time do you have?

Bold activities are the most popular;
(C) denotes a good activity for children

30 minutes to 1 hour

Beale Street Walking Tour
Fire Museum (C)
Cotton Museum
Mississippi River Museum (C)
Sunset Tour
Gibson Guitar Factory (C)
WC Handy House

1 to 2 hours

Memphis Mojo Tour (C)
Downtown Walking History Tour
Memphis History Bus Tour
Memphis Ghost Tour (C)
Scavenger Hunt
Hound Dog Tour
Pink Palace Museum (C)
Rockabilly Tour (C)
Brooks Museum
Dixon Gallery & Gardens
Sun Studio
Christmas Lights (C)
Rock and Soul Museum

2 to 4 hours

Graceland
Soulsville
Pub Crawl
Progressive Lunch/Dinner
Garden Tour
Amazing Memphis Race
National Civil Rights Museum (C)
Memphis Zoo (C)

4 to 6 hours

Clarksdale
Holly Springs
Oxford
Tunica
Viking Cooking School

6 to 8 hours

Indianola
Shiloh (C)
Tupelo

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