A country star comes to Snowden Grove, a rock star hits Live at the Garden, a rap star celebrates 25 years of the song that brings women running to the dance floor, and an annual gathering celebrates blues.

Local preservationist Anasa Troutman purchased the house in a foreclosure sale. 

In 2013, one of Memphis’ best bassists came out with a surprising solo album, his wry humor and welcoming warmth conveyed in a pinched but homey delivery. This month, he’ll release his fifth — and perhaps best — album since then. 

The performance is a live score of William Eggleston’s “Stranded in Canton” film.

On his newest album, Whalum says he refuses to “fall prey” to a common trend in modern smooth jazz.

The rare classic car has spent the past decade on Beale Street but will return to Mississippi as part of the “Jerry Lee Lewis Ranch Experience.” 

A feasibility study for a Memphis hip-hop museum is underway.

Also in July, Texas rappers take the Minglewood Hall stage, a New Orleans jazz band comes to The Green Room at Crosstown Arts, and celebrated rockers play Minglewood and Radians Amphitheater.

The two-day festival celebrating hill country blues music will be held June 28-29 in Marshall County, between Holly Springs and Oxford.

The beloved group, known for vocal harmonies and radio hits, has sold 64 million albums. 

“The Bikeriders,” which opens in Memphis on Friday, June 21, features music from a stalwart Memphis rock and roll band that’s been a local scene staple since the late 1990s.

Soul and opera singers, civic promoters and recording-session aces are among the latest class of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, which will surpass 100 inductees this year.

Memphis-area native and Grammy Award-winning Justin Timberlake was arrested while driving on New York’s Long Island.

Horseback rides and the chance to hear live music were some of the ways attendees enjoyed themselves during the Tone Juneteenth Festival. 

Zak joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of The Sidebar along with Dr. Lynn Dobrunz, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the UT Health Science Center, where the Ozmo Institute is based.

“We want to offer a quality tour so that when people leave, they’re mesmerized by Jerry Lee’s career, his accomplishments, his home,” Todd Allen Herendeen, the property’s potential buyer, said.

One event, Tone’s music festival, features Memphis rap legend Juicy J and Memphis producer HitKidd.

The portable bookstore will have pop-ups through the rest of the year as the owners prepare to open a brick-and-mortar shop in Memphis.

Lamonte Cunningham, owner of ER Entertainment, is launching The Source 104.1 FM, a Southern soul and R & B format station, Saturday, June 1, hoping to give new talent a boost.

Photographer Karen Pulfer Focht captures photos of Memphis Symphony Orchestra at Overton Park Shell.

A celebrated saxophonist has a release show for his first album in five years at The Green Room, a Gen-Z jazz phenom comes to the Cannon Center, R&B stalwarts grace the Orpheum stage and more.

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 summer concert series features eight dates from mid-June to late-September at the A. Keith McDonald Pavilion at W.J. Freeman Park.