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  • 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
  • Music

    Pat Mitchell-Worley talks new role as executive director of Stax Music Academy

    After serving as interim director since July, Pat Mitchell-Worley is now executive director of Stax Music Academy. Last year, Mitchell-Worley helped SMA start Stax 101, a new program offering group lessons for beginners.

    By Elle Perry November 20, 2018
  • Music

    A chat with 14-year-old Reagan Strange about ‘The Voice’

    Fourteen-year-old Reagan Strange, a Memphis native, is a top contestant on NBC's singing competion, "The Voice." The show, now its 15th season, pairs the contestants with one of four celebrity coaches.

    By Elle Perry November 20, 2018
  • Music

    Blues Foundation announces 2019 Keeping the Blues Alive award recipients

    The Blues Foundation, based in Memphis, will honor 11 people and organizations at its Keeping the Blues Alive Awards in January during the 35th annual International Blues Challenge.

    By Elle Perry November 13, 2018
  • Music

    Southern Avenue finds quick success, locally and internationally

    Named for Southern Avenue, which runs from the easternmost part of the Memphis city limits all the way to South Memphis, Southern Avenue is also the name of an up-and-coming Memphis band that embodies the city’s soul, blues and gospel traditions.

    By Christin Yates November 09, 2018
  • Music

    Jerry Lee Lewis playing NYE concert on Beale

    Jerry Lee Lewis' Cafe & Honky Tonk is hosting its 83-year-old namesake for a New Year's Eve concert.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 09, 2018
  • Music

    Local record label is run by U of M students

    Memphis is known for its music, but one record label in town isn’t run by well-known names in the industry – it’s run by students at the University of Memphis.

    By Christin Yates November 07, 2018
  • Chris Herrington

    Searching for Memphis in Justin Timberlake’s new tome

    One of the more memorable Memphis cultural moments of the past several years was Justin Timberlake’s 2015 induction speech for the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

    By Chris Herrington November 01, 2018
  • Music

    Jerry Lee Lewis, Carla Thomas surprise and thrill as Memphis Music Hall of Fame adds seven new members

    Some nights begin with a bang. The 2018 Memphis Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony started with a ball of fire.

    By Chris Herrington November 02, 2018
  • Music

    Soul music is being celebrated this weekend at 4th annual Soulsville USA Festival

    With the mission of tying Memphis’ soul music history to the city’s soul music of today, the Soulsville USA Festival is returning to College Street and McLemore Avenue.

    By Elle Perry October 19, 2018
  • Music

    University of Memphis graduate Brennan Villines is a rising star in the music industry

    Brennan Villines has been a staple in the Memphis music scene for years, playing at nearly every venue in town. However, it wasn’t until this summer when he appeared on FOX’s “The Four” that the 30-year-old artist captured the hearts of thousands around the country singing a soulful rendition of “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).”

    By Christin Yates October 13, 2018
  • Music

    Founder: 2019 Mempho Music Fest will be at least three days, double the stages

    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. 

    By Elle Perry October 08, 2018
  • Music

    Year two of Mempho adds Shelby Farms camping; Beck, Janelle Monae, Nas among performers

    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.

    By Elle Perry October 08, 2018
  • Music

    Halloran Centre kicking off Whalum’s Kafe Kirk series

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

    By Elle Perry October 03, 2018
  • Music

    St. Jude, ALSAC employees in bands team up for ‘Moonlighting for the Cure’

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

    By Elle Perry September 29, 2018
  • Music

    Tai Murray featured at Memphis Symphony Orchestra opening weekend

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

    By Elle Perry September 29, 2018
  • Music

    Memphis chosen as one of first cities for AT&T music fan initiative

    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.

    By Elle Perry September 21, 2018
  • Music

    Memphis Music Initiative finds the perfect location at the corner of Social Justice and Musical Genius

    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.

    By Elle Perry September 20, 2018

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