There are 7 article(s) tagged Memphis Slim House:

• March 2022

  • YouTube partners with Slim House, Unapologetic

    In partnership with Unapologetic and Memphis Slim Collaboratory, the company is offering a free, four-day virtual course for young adults to learn hands-on skills from the perspective of music industry experts.

    By Jasmine McCraven March 21, 2022

• March 2021

  • Beale Street Brewing’s new beer, Slim House to make beautiful music together

    “The Brews Every Which Way” pays tribute to the 1960 blues collaboration between Peter “Memphis Slim” Chatman and Willie Dixon.

    By Elle Perry March 23, 2021

• January 2021

  • Next step for Memphis Slim Collaboratory is out in the backyard

    The music nonprofit is expanding performance opportunities for musicians. The new space is a vacant half-acre lot behind the site of the renowned blues musician’s family home.

    By Linda A. Moore January 08, 2021

• March 2020

  • Memphis Tourism to host virtual music festival to aid local musicians

    The free event will include headlining performances from Southern Avenue, MonoNeon and Ben Nichols of Lucero.

    By Jared Boyd March 25, 2020

• February 2019

  • Director Tonya Dyson wants Slim House brand to be global

    Memphis Slim House is officially its own nonprofit, after starting off as a program of Community LIFT. Its new director, Tonya Dyson, is thinking globally about the Memphis Slim Collaboratory. 

    By Elle Perry February 07, 2019

• November 2018

  • Brooks Museum’s mural project takes classic art to the streets of Memphis

    When Tonya Dyson was little, she recalls, grandmothers were the protectors of the neighborhood. They would be there when the school bus pulled up at the end of the day and would keep a watchful eye until suppertime, making sure all the little ones were safe and cared for.

    By Mark Jordan November 09, 2018

• October 2018

  • What could happen to Aretha Franklin’s birthplace based on Memphis precedents

    A small house with boarded-up windows and a metal fence around the yard sits on Lucy Avenue off of Wellington Street.

    By Elle Perry October 19, 2018