After 10 years and 500 shows, Levitt Shell executive director Anne Pitts is stepping down.

The second annual Mempho Music Festival at Shelby Farms Park was so successful that organizers say they expect to expand the event in 2019. “Memphis deserves a world-class music festival,” Mempho founder Diego Winegardner said Sunday. 

The idea of Mempho Music Festival stems from a bike ride founder Diego Winegardner took with friends a couple of summers ago on the Shelby Farms Greenline to Shelby Farms Park itself.

Last month, Memphian and Grammy-winning saxophonist Kirk Whalum received a note on the Beale Street Brass Note Walk of Fame.

Dhoad Gypsies of Rajasthan, Indian folk-music performers, are bringing their vocals, poetry, dancing and acrobats to the Germantown Performing Arts Center on Friday, Oct. 5.

Acclaimed violinist Tai Murray will be featured at the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s opening weekend concerts for its 2018-19 season Sept. 29-30.

Seven bands will come together Saturday night for a concert at Lafayette’s Music Room benefitting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The end of September is approaching rapidly, but there are still several opportunities to catch an Opera Memphis 30 Days of Opera performance.

Nearly two decades ago, the South Main Association in Downtown Memphis decided that the last Friday of every month would be ideal to celebrate South Main art, culture and community. 

The main artifact for a new exhibition at Crosstown Arts is Isaac Hayes' 14-foot-long, custom-made, red velvet office desk complete with white Formica top. Previously, the desk had been in storage for more than a year, after the Stax Museum of American Soul Music recovered it from the owner of East Nashville vintage boutique, The Hip Zipper.

Among IRIS Orchestra’s latest class of artist fellows is a native Memphian, a first for the young program.

The Barry Jenkins-directed adaptation of the James Baldwin novel “If Beale Street Could Talk” will screen as the centerpiece presentation of this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival.

Ballet Memphis has been chosen to participate in a national, three-year partnership program designed to “support the advancement of racial equity in professional ballet companies.”

On Saturday, the Brooks Museum of Art will be active inside and out. The work of renowned Barcelona sculptor and artist Jaume Plensa will make a Memphis debut as his “Talking Continents” exhibit opens to the public. Meanwhile, a secretive, week-long “Outings" project installation from French artist Julien de Casabianca will begin at parts unknown across the city.

Kevin Box grew up folding paper airplanes and paper making and wound up studying graphic design. But he decided he wanted to do sculpture.

A “junt” could be any variety of things.

About 30 people gathered in the IHeartMedia offices on Thousand Oaks Boulevard on Thursday, Sept. 20, to meet gospel star Jonathan McReynolds, an event that was part of a new partnership between IHeartRadio and AT&T.

Since its founding four years ago the Memphis Music Initiative has led a vagabond existence: first sharing office space with ArtsMemphis in East Memphis, then with the Memphis Education Fund at the former Memphis College of Art graduate school building on South Main and finally in Crosstown Concourse.