If a Navy bassoonist stationed in Hawaii busts up his bassoon or a tuba player stationed in Seattle dents her tuba, where do you imagine those instruments end up?
The owner of Southern Grooves studio discusses how he started working at Sun Studio as a teenager then became a producer of musicians ranging from Jason Isbell to the Mountain Goats to Margo Price and more.
The summer concert series features eight dates from mid-June to late-September at the A. Keith McDonald Pavilion at W.J. Freeman Park.
Artist and curator Najee Strickland said he wants attendees to leave with a sense of what Memphis represents, through art, and what Memphis means to the artists involved.
This week, Memphis in May ends its run with a run, “P-Valley” actor Bertram Williams Jr. hosts a party and Lionel Richie joins Earth, Wind & Fire at FedExForum.
The lineup includes Queens of the Stone Age, The Roots, Sublime with Rome, Marcus King, Charles Wesley Godwin, Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors and Digable Planets.
The 2024 AAPI Month Memphis exhibition is expanded in both duration and its mission from the 2023 iteration.
“That was the rite of passage from what we call a man of Morehouse to a Morehouse Man,” said Ekundayo Bandele, founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre.
During the 2024 Cooper-Young Garden Walk, attendees toured herb gardens and backyard oases throughout the historic Midtown neighborhood.
Two days before the concert, Andrew Stine will audition for an opening in the concert band, a test of nerve before one of the biggest days of his life.
Bobby Whitlock grew up in Millington and got his start at Stax Records. He was a member of Derek and the Dominoes, the classic English band that included Eric Clapton, and also recorded with George Harrison, Dr. John, the Rolling Stones and more
Stax is more than a great story. It’s great stories within great stories, with highs and lows and lessons and complexities, with big personalities and big moments and resonance beyond the music it produced.
Bands by the Square, blues by the lake and orchestras in at a winery: Two different concert series kick off in Shelby County suburbs, and a “Night of Enchantment” will unfold in Lakeland.
This week, vegan cheese meets wine at Crosstown, a new arts fest comes to Uptown and the City of Memphis turns 205.
Andy Ashby, one of the co-founders of the oldest local breweries in Memphis, along with Maggie Emerson, co-founder of Maroon Brew Co., one the newest local breweries, join Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar.
The Metropolitan Opera tenor who stars as Rodolfo believes “La Bohème' serves as an archetype for modern TV sitcoms that also center around six friends. Like “Living Single.”
Buddy Chapman looked back on his time as MPD director from 1976 to 1983 during a book signing event for his newly published book, “Call Me Director: Memoir of a Police Reformer.”
Memphis Obstetrics & Gynecological Association has transformed the former Opera Memphis headquarters on Wolf River Boulevard from a center for performing arts into one for the healing arts.
The six-week event includes 270 gardens across 40 neighborhoods in Shelby and Fayette counties, as well as some public spaces. Vendors will also be in attendance at certain locations.
“We want to uplift all arts and culture that’s taking place in Shelby County,” Shelby County Arts and Culture Liaison Nykesha Cole said of the Art for All event at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park.
Much of the art is for sale; it will hang in baggage-claim area for one year.
The strange answer came from Angela Thomas, ex-wife of former County Commissioner Chris Thomas, who joined her former husband, daughter and two other family members as contestants on the nationally syndicated game show hosted by comedian Steve Harvey.
Lauren Ready, an Iowa native who first landed in Memphis working in television news, launched Forever Ready Productions in 2014 while still working at Action News 5 (WMC-TV). Her clientele grew from there.
This week, new art exhibitions feature work by Erin Harmon, Kong Wee Pang and Iwona Rhodes. Plus, Kevin Ford’s Tops Gallery show gets one last hurrah.
Ned Canty and Dennis Whitehead Darling joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar to talk about the production, the cast and how Darling came to love opera.