Mayor Young describes art as ‘need to have’ at meeting to discuss music report
“We want to present a future that we have never seen before. We want to create something that city has never seen — that the world has never seen,” Memphis Mayor Paul Young said at Minglewood Hall Wednesday night. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
A gathering at Minglewood Hall drew more than 100 people in the first session to gauge reaction to a new report on the Memphis music ecosystem.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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