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    Senate diverts $2.5M from Memphis riverfront grant to Germantown amphitheater

    The state Senate has pulled $2.5 million from Gov. Bill Lee’s planned $10 million Memphis riverfront redevelopment grant, with plans to redirect the money to a Germantown Performing Arts Center amphitheater.

    By Sam Stockard April 26, 2019
  • Music

    Memphis musician Omar Higgins’ funeral set for Clayborn Temple

    Omar Higgins, leader of reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and hardcore punk band Negro Terror, died April 18 at the age of 37.

    By Elle Perry April 25, 2019
  • City of Memphis

    Jesse Jackson and Stax: The reverend’s largely forgotten link to Memphis

    Rev. Jesse Jackson and Memphis-based Stax Records formed an alliance following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death here that allowed Jackson to use the record label as a platform to spread the spoken word.

    By Jared Boyd April 14, 2019
  • Music

    The Weekly Memphian: Lucero Family Block Party, Record Store Day, Ballet Memphis/New Ballet Ensemble and more

    The Weekly Memphian is a partial guide to things happening in Memphis, recommended by Daily Memphian staff. This guide covers April 10-16.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff April 14, 2019
  • Music

    Live at the Garden lineup spans classic rock and country-pop genres

    The Doobie Brothers returns to the Memphis Botanic Garden concert series in a lineup that also includes Lionel Richie, Toby Keith and Brett Young. 

    By Jared Boyd April 17, 2019
  • Music

    Piano recital chronicles the history of music as therapy for soldiers

    Michigan-based pianist and lecturer Dr. Garik Pederson traveled to Memphis on Saturday to tell the story of a piano made specifically for recreation during World War II.

    By Jared Boyd March 03, 2019
  • Music

    Sofar Sounds brings secret concerts to Memphis

    Would you buy tickets to a concert before you knew who is performing? Sofar Sounds, an entertainment company now in Memphis, thinks it might be the best way to fall in love with new music.

    By Jared Boyd March 01, 2019
  • Real Estate

    Country singer Dale Watson wants to bring music back to Hernando’s Hideaway

    Musician Dale Watson has purchased the historic Hernando's Hideaway and has plans to reopen it in late March as a venue for local and touring roots musicians.

    By Elle Perry February 20, 2019
  • Music

    Alumna KIRBY gives back to Stax Music Academy

    Singer, songwriter KIRBY, a Stax Music Academy alumna, is giving back to the institution, in a couple of ways. 

    By Elle Perry February 09, 2019
  • Music

    Memphis-connected Grammy nominees share their thoughts

    The 2019 Grammy Awards are full of nominees from Memphis or that are connected to the MidSouth. 

    By Elle Perry February 10, 2019
  • Music

    On the scene at the International Blues Challenge

    Bands and solo/duo acts from Memphis and Mississippi to the Mediterranean and all points in-between competed Thursday night in the quarterfinals of the annual International Blues Challenge on Beale. Competition continues through Saturday.

    By Chris Herrington January 25, 2019
  • Music

    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
  • Music

    Your new resolution: Listen to more Memphis music in 2019

    Statistically speaking, you've likely given up on your New Year's resolution. So Elizabeth Cawein of Music Export Memphis has a new one: Listen to more Memphis music in 2019 with the first of 12 playlists highlighting the best new songs by local artists.

    By Elizabeth Cawein January 23, 2019
  • Music

    International Blues Challenge showcases the genre’s youngest performers

    Blues may be thought of as a genre of older performers, but during the International Blues Challenge, young blues musicians from all over the world meet in Memphis. 

    By Elle Perry January 19, 2019
  • Music

    The Weekly Memphian: MLK Day, John Kilzer, ‘Shoplifters’ and more

    Hometown rocker John Kilzer debuts a new album, the Harlem Globetrotters hit the FedExForum hardwood, the city honors MLK on Monday and more things to do in Memphis this week.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 16, 2019
  • Music

    JCKSN Ave, composed of 5 Memphis sisters, preps for album debut

    Five Memphis sisters, all members of the band JCKSN Ave, are working on their debut album. Soon they are departing to L.A. to work on the project with two acclaimed producers from Memphis. 

    By Elle Perry January 10, 2019
  • Music

    Bobby Rush and Buddy Guy among nominees for Blues Music Awards

    The Memphis-based Blues Foundation has announced nominees for its 40th awards celebration. The winners, recognized for achievements in performances, recordings, songwriting and sustaining the blues, will be revealed in May.

    By Elle Perry January 09, 2019
  • Music

    The Weekly Memphian: ‘If Beale Street Could Talk,’ Willie Nelson, 30 First Jokes and Hybrid Filmmaking

    Elvis turns 84, Willie Nelson brings friends to town, and "If Beale Street Could Talk" takes the screen as we run down some of our favorite things happening in Memphis this week. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff January 04, 2019
  • Music

    2019 will be a ‘Year for Memphis Music’

    The Memphis music community is launching an initiative called Year for Memphis Music to align and amplify local projects being created, says Visible Music College president Ken Steorts.

    By Elle Perry December 28, 2018
  • Music

    Sam & Dave win Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

    Sam & Dave, the gospel-tinged soul duo who recorded a series of hits at Memphis’ Stax Records in the mid-1960s, is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by The Recording Academy.

    By Kate Crawford December 19, 2018
  • Music

    An introduction to contemporary Memphis Americana

    “Ain’t gonna take no mess.”

    By Elizabeth Cawein December 11, 2018
  • Music

    Visible Radio is all Memphis music, all the time

    Visible Music College president Ken Steorts has joked that the institution for higher learning has a secret FM radio station. The station, on the dial at 100.3 FM, is not a secret exactly.

    By Elle Perry December 04, 2018
  • Music

    Latest Acoustic Sunday Live features Bobby Rush, benefits Protect Our Aquifer

    Bobby Rush is playing a Memphis benefit concert in a little more than a week’s time. The beneficiary of the concert: a nonprofit with the mission to create an entity that will monitor and manage the Memphis Sand Aquifer in Shelby County. The aquifer is the source of Memphis’ drinking water.

    By Elle Perry December 08, 2018
  • Music

    Singer-songwriter Brooke Fair, 14, releases self-written EP

    Brooke Fair, a 14-year-old student at Hutchison, recently released a six-song, self-written EP, “All Queens Wear Crowns.”

    By Christin Yates November 24, 2018
  • Music

    Beale Street Music Festival passes are now on sale

    Three-day passes for the 2019 Beale Street Music Festival are now on sale. 

    By Elle Perry November 19, 2018

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