Cost estimates total about $88 million, up from an estimate of about $84 million a year ago. It’s the first major expansion since the venue opened in 2000.

“This project is a reflection of that shared experience — two cities with so much talent and so much to say. ... Memphis and St. Louis are both places where success doesn’t come easy, but that’s exactly why it’s so worth it.”

In March, musicians performing locally are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Hall of Fame, Hollywood Walk of Fame and have earned Tiny Desk Contest, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Juno Award wins.

Sound Diplomacy counts 1,148 “music-related assets” in Memphis and within a 5½-mile buffer outside the city. The organization also made recommendations for how to grow the Memphis music industry.

Satellite Music Hall, slated to open in fall 2026, will host concerts, comedy shows, community gatherings and more.

The Recording Academy also recently announced that Cordova High School choral director Adrian L. Maclin was selected to receive the organization’s 2025 Music Educator of the Year award.

Also this month, two venues showcase local Americana and R&B musicians in new series and Stax Music Academy’s annual Black History Month show features Ant Clemons, Evvie McKinney and Corey Lou & DaVillage.

The three-day festival was “paused” in 2024, Memphis in May officials said at the time, largely due to issues regarding the reconfigured Tom Lee Park that led to a less-than-successful 2023 installment of the event.

Several acts either were nominated for and/or performed at the 2025 Grammy Awards, including Khruangbin and Benson Boone.

The venue’s outdoor space overlooks the Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid and the Mississippi River. 

Kirk Whalum was stunned to receive a call from Cheryl McNair, the widow of astronaut Ron McNair who was killed in the Challenger disaster. The favor she asked of him still affects him today.

Several suburban officials have found a way to escape the pressures of day-to-day government by taking to the stage to perform.

“Life’s a gift, open it,” says Slowdown Dry Goods founder Eli Berry, who recently released a merch line for Grammy-winning artists Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus.

Organizers of a new event touted hundreds of celebrity appearances, a significant boost to Memphis tourism and local businesses and an estimated economic impact between $30 million and $50 million.

The lineup also includes Benson Boone, Cage the Elephant, Khruangbin, Ludacris, Public Enemy, Busta Rhymes, Flo Milli, Tokimonsta, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, and DJ Jazzy Jeff. 

The criminal case against the woman accused of trying to sell Graceland in a fraudulent auction could end in April.

“The Best of Sam & Dave” is the sound of singers, musicians, songwriters and producers finding a special chemistry.

Sam Moore, one half of the legendary duo Sam & Dave, died Friday at age 89. Memphis musicians and fellow Stax alumni eulogized Moore on Saturday.

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At Stax Records, Sam Moore and Dave Prater — as Sam & Dave — transformed the “call and response” of gospel music into a frenzied stage show and recorded some of soul music’s most enduring hits.

The Memphis rapper, whose real name is Gloria Woods, will be the musical guest on the Jan. 18 episode of “Saturday Night Live.” 

The event included a cake cutting and the annual proclamation of Elvis Presley Day.

Elvis’ Sun Records sessions might be his deepest music, but 2002’s “30 #1 Hits” may actually be a truer testament to Presley’s legacy. 

Lafayette’s Music Room plans to continue its legacy of live music in Overton Square, but with shortened hours.