Each September, Cazateatro Bilingual Theatre Group celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with family-friendly music, dance, food and cultural activities.

The Central High band was banned from a football game Friday night. So how did they respond? With kazoos! A protest story for our time. 

A Memphis festival this week includes ‘70s Zambian psychedelic rock, early ‘80s Georgia post-punk, Moroccan “desert blues,” Rhode Island noise-rock, Chicago power-pop, soulful New Orleans garage-rock, U.K. and Australian singer-songwriters and Pacific Northwest indie mainstays. 

When Robert Moody joined the Memphis Symphony in 2016, the orchestra was in danger of collapsing due to financial challenges. But Moody believed the MSO could survive. 

John Mellencamp, Martina McBride and Eric Gales will honor inductees at the Memphis Music Hall of Fame ceremony on Sept. 25.

While the 2025-26 season is a pilot there is opportunity for it to grow as the suburb has added emphasis to expanding its arts offerings.

Marching bands, drumlines, street flippers and more took to Beale Street to celebrate what would be B.B. King’s 100th birthday.

Memphis is going bard-core on Shakespeare-inspired productions. 

“Not everything that we have is a household name. And a lot of things we have are things that will be a household name one day,” the Buckman Arts Center director said about the new season. 

There’s a new way to sample the food and music of Soulsville in Memphis. 

With tribute bands, family-friendly productions and stars like T. Graham Brown, Booker T. Jones and Wendy Moten, the BPACC presents a diverse lineup for the coming season.

A rock star hits Graceland Soundstage, four soul and funk legends play FedExForum, a Broadway star comes to the Germantown Performing Arts Center and Southern Heritage Classic brings an award-winning jazz quartet to the Orpheum.

Welcome to Neosoulville: Live at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts is a concert-and-conversation series set to launch Saturday.

“We’re expanding the free daytime programming to two stages inside Crosstown Concourse, which means even more chances to catch incredible live music and explore the building throughout the day,” said Liv Cohen, WYXR’s community engagement and events lead.

“Everyone’s having a moment to showcase and share their thing that makes them a special artist, and Memphis is here to eat it up.”

The Connells bring their jangle-pop sound back to Memphis for the first time in 23 years as part of the Memphis Power Pop Festival Saturday at the Overton Park Shell.

How do Memphis’ outdoor live-music venues decide when the weather is bad enough to cancel events?

Local lovers of the genre are once again staging the Memphis Power Pop Festival. But what is power pop, anyway?

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Discover new Memphis music with the Arts Beat’s latest playlist, here just in time for 901 Day. 

Work begins on the Southaven arena’s $85 million project, starting a new chapter with an economic impact that will benefit the community for generations.

The Memphis Symphony Chorus is about to hold auditions for its upcoming season, continuing a 60-year tradition of high-level choral arrangements with no financial incentive.

At the 50th Stone Soul Picnic, gospel singers and R&B performers will blend as the owner of Memphis’ first Black-owned radio station is honored. 

A new season of Opera Memphis starts at libraries, farmers markets and festivals.

The album is a “familial” record, KIRBY says, based on her “Mississippi Black American experience.”

The Beatles stopped in Memphis during their August 1966 tour amid a backdrop of protest. The supergroup never toured again, and Memphis could have been a factor in the decision.